WILLIAM H. HEISLER III ’38

WILLIAM H. HEISLER III, the former CEO of Citizens Bank and an active community leader, died Jan. 9, 2013, at age 97. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. As a result of his service to the Rhode Island community as a volunteer leader of most of the prominent non-profits in the state during his long tenure as a resident and with Citizens Bank, The Rhode Island Foundation established the Heisler Leadership Fund in his memory. Among other accomplishments, long before it was a federal law, he initiated his own version of a Community Reinvestment Act in order to give access to diverse populations. Two wives predeceased him; two children are among those who survive.