<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/obituaries/charles-e-cole.html" dsn="news"><item_date>11/03/2021 11:24:00 AM</item_date><category_header>Obituary</category_header><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><firstname>Charles</firstname><middlename/><maidenname/><lastname>Cole</lastname><suffix/><graduation-Year>'57</graduation-Year><relationship-to-university>Alumni</relationship-to-university><degree-program-completed/><position-held-at-the-university/><title>Charles E. Cole</title><author/><type>obituary</type><categories/><relationships><relationship>Alumni</relationship></relationships><main-content>
    
      Charles E. Cole (’57), Santa Fe, N.M. After graduating from North Texas, he received his divinity degree from Yale and served as a pastor before spending his career as a writer and editor. He spent his life advocating for civil rights, from demonstrating in solidarity with Black student who took part in sit-ins against Woolworth's in the south in the 1950s to nuclear rights conferences in the 2010s. He enjoyed hiking, mountain climbing and the arts.
    

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