Robert Charles Corson ’50

Bob Corson died of a stroke on Oct. 9, 1999. He was 75.

After preparing for Princeton at Bigfork H.S. in Montana, where he was on the debating team and participated in basketball and track, Bob served in the Marine Corps for three years.

At Princeton he ran freshman cross country and track. He was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with highest honors in S.P.I.A.

Bob went into the banking business after graduation, first in the consumer credit area with Philadelphia Natl. Bank. He rose to chief lending officer on the commercial credit side. In 1982 he went with the Bank of Delaware, in Wilmington, as corporate lending manager. From 1985 until he retired in 1990, Bob was senior v.p. and chief credit policy officer at PSFS/Meritor Financial Group in Philadelphia.

Throughout his working career he was a member of the First Baptist Church of Moorestown, N.J., where he was a trustee, Sunday school teacher, and diaconate chair. He was also treas. of the American Baptist Churches of New Jersey. His interest in education led him to the Moorestown board of education, where he was v.p. for many years.

Bob is survived by his wife of 50 years, Elizabeth, two daughters, Virginia L. '74 and Nancy C. Schetter, and two grandchildren, to whom the class offers its deepest sympathies.

The Class of 1950