Charles W. Cole was president

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 of Amherst College

Amherst College

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 from 1946 to 1960. Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society

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, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge

Charles E. Merrill

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, Educational Testing Service

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, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Charles W. Cole attended Amherst College and was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon

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 fraternity (Sigma chapter).

Cole received his masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University

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. He was then a history professor at Columbia. From 1961-1964 he was United States Ambassador to Chile.