Cole

Mac Cole was a native of Brunswick County, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia and graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences with a degree in English in 1966. He joined the Beta Upsilon Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi on February 9, 1964. He continued his education with a Masters of Education at the College of William and Mary and with doctoral studies at the University of California (Berkeley). Mac taught school in Newport News before moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1971 to start, with his wife, Townley Cole, the Janus School in San Rafael, California. After 19 years in California, he returned to Virginia and for nine years served as the director of the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Child Care Center, which was re-named in his honor. At the time of his death, Mac was the current president of the Virginia Association for Early Childhood Education and was a past president of the Virginia School Age Child Care Association. Posthumously, he was honored by the Virginia legislature in Senate Joint Resolution No. 520 (offered January 27, 1999. Patrons-- Couric and Walker; Delegate: Van Yahres). Compiled by: Russell H. Davis, Class of '62