Austin D. Lane, 79, who retired from Howard University in 1986 as dean for special student services, died Oct. 27 at a nursing home in Oxford, N.C.

He had complications from diabetes and dementia, said a nephew, Robert B. Lane Jr.

Austin David Lane was a native of Raleigh, N.C., and a 1958 business administration graduate of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He was a 1961 graduate of Howard University law school and received a master’s degree in law from Georgetown University in 1963. read more…