Fred C. Cole

Fred Carrington Cole (April 12, 1912 – May 6, 1986)[1][2] was an American librarian and historian.

During his tenure at WLU, Cole was credited with raising educational standards and integrating libraries into the curriculum.

He oversaw the university's first self-study and the integration of the school, with the first African-American student enrolling in 1966.

[1][8] From 1954 to 1955, Cole took a leave of absence from Tulane to work for the Ford Foundation as their program officer for education.

Following his retirement from the CLR, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he died from congestive heart failure in 1986, at the age of 74.