Dandridge M. Cole

Dandridge MacFarlan Cole was an American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author. Cole was born February 19, 1921 in Sandusky, Ohio to Robert MacFarlan Cole III and Wertha Pendleton Cole, the daughter of bishop William Frederic Pendleton. He attended the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools from 1935 to 1939 and graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in chemistry in 1943. This was followed by a year at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He received a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949. From 1949 to 1953, he taught physics and astronomy at Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire. He contended that his astronomy course was probably the first...