sentences:  Fisher served as chairman on the Arlington County Board, the Washington Metropolitan Transit Area (WMATA), president and chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, and moderator for the Board of Unitarian Universalist Association.Fisher also wrote two books, including World Prospects for Natural Resources (1964) and Resources for America's Future (1963).In 1985 Fisher had back pain which was diagnosed as bone cancer and went into remission after treatments, but the cancer returned in early 1991.