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The Express, Tuesday, June
9, 1981, Page B-4
John S. Cole Sr., 85, school administrator, Valley civic leader
John S. Cole., 85, superintendent of the Palmer Township schools for
29 years, died Monday in Massillon community Hospital, Massillon, Ohio,
after a brief illness. He had resided with his son and daughter-in-law,
for
the past three years.
Mr. Cole served as a director of the Easton Area School District for
eight years. He received the Distinguished Service Award in 1964 from
the Easton Area Schoolmen's Association. He was employed by the school
district for 35 years, retiring in 1956.
Born Dec. 4, 1895, in Easton, he was a son of the late Stephen and
Josephine Frankenfield Cole.
A graduate of Muhlenburg College and New York University, where he
earned a master's degree, he did graduate work at Columbia University
and Lafayette College.
Mr. Cole was a sergeant in the U.S. Army's 42nd Rainbow Division during
World war I.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Easton; the American
Legion's Freedom Foundation; Dallas Lodge No. 396, F&AM, Easton,
and the All York and Scottish Rite bodies of Free Masonry, where he
was elevated to 33rd Degree Mason in 1947.
He was a member of the Fourth Class District Teachers Association
of Northampton County; Superintendents, principals and Associate Superintendents
Association, Northampton-Lehigh Counties; former president of the state
42 Rainbow Division, Veterans Association, and the Tuberculosis and
Health Society of Northampton County, where he served on board for
30 years.
Mr. Cole was a former commander and chief of Lehigh Consistory, Allentown;
past president of Council of Social Agencies, Easton, and former chairman
of Christmas Seal sales. He served as treasurer of the Community Concert
Association for 2 years, and was former director of the Child Guidance
Clinic of Monroe and Northampton
Counties and the Volunteers of America.
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