Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Fortune was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania to Robert J. and Blanch (Rauch) Fortune, of Scottish and Dutch ancestry. He attended Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the former and an M.B.A in Industrial Management. He has worked for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company in Pennsylvania, Curtiss Wright Corporation in New jersey, A. T. Kearney and Company in Chicago, and Martin Company in Florida.