Dale Corson, Who Led Cornell Dale R. Corson, who managed Cornell University through troubled years in the early 1970s, died March 31 at age 97 from congestive heart failure in Ithaca, N.Y., where he lived with his wife of 73 years, Nellie Corson.
As Cornell's president from 1969 to 1977, Mr. Corson, a physicist, won acclaim for his steadying response to anti-Vietnam war protests and calls for greater inclusion of women and minorities in campus life. His management of the university's budget during the recession of the 1970...
