Lance Crowley, former vice president of medical affairs, died March 30 at the age of 91 after nearly half a century of service to the Stanford University Medical Center. He first came to Stanford in 1964, when surgery department chair Robert Chase recruited him to be chief of surgery at the new Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. He went on to fill other administrative roles and became the medical school?s associate dean for planning until he left in 1973 to be the dean of the University of Wisconsin medical school.