Charles R. Tyson ’37

Distinguished career man Charlie Tyson died in July 1999. He left Barbara, his wife of 63 years, son Charlie Jr. '58, daughters Barbara, Helen, and Margaret, 13 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. His daughter, Sarah, died in 1987.

After a distinguished career at Episcopal, and a member of Ivy, he left school early and went with John A. Roebling's Sons, founded by his great-great-grandfather. He traveled and worked in all manufacturing departments and administrative offices, first as secy.-treas., and then, in 1944, as pres., "being busy as the proverbial rat trying to dig a hole in a marble floor." After an acquisition by Colorado Fuel & Iron, Charlie remained as executive v.p. and director. In 1951, he became director of the Budd Company and later at CPC Intl. In 1959, he became executive v.p. of Penn Mutual Life and by 1961 pres. In 1964, he became chair of the United Fund Torch Drive. He was regional chair of the United Defense Fund-seeking funds for the USO for the then-new USO and Camp Shows-pres. of the Delaware Valley United Fund in Trenton, and a trustee of Penn Mutual and College of the Atlantic.

The Class of 1937