Harish Chandra Rastogi, former assistant director in the Provost’s Office, passed away on November 14 at the University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center. He was 87.  

Mr. Rastogi was born in India. He obtained his undergraduate degree in metallurgical sciences at the Banaras Hindu University in India and then an MBA from Drexel. He joined Penn in 1980 as an administrative assistant at the Morris Arboretum. In 1982, he became a financial administrator at the Arboretum and stayed there until 1988, when he took a position as an assistant director in the Provost’s Office. He stayed there until his retirement in 1999. 

Mr. Rastogi is survived by his wife, Sneh; daughter-in-law, Sunita Kulshrestha; brothers, Subhash Chandra Rastogi, Girish Chandra Rastogi and Sunil Kumar Rastogi; and sisters, Bala Rastogi, Sudha Rastogi and Poonam Rastogi.

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