is an Ohio man, currently living in Florida, who studied mechanical engineering at what is now Kettering University, and later received executive training at Darden Graduate School, Harvard Business School, and the University of Michigan. He spent thirty-six "wonderful, exciting, and rewarding" years working for a major automobile company, rising through the ranks to become manager of multiple plants. We talked with him during a recent visit he made to Boston.
"Engineering students are taught to solve problems through the application of the laws of basic physics," said Mr. Cole. "These laws ... can be substantiated or proven time after time after time. Likewise, as I learned many years ago in the Christian Science Sunday School, the laws of God are absolute and are applicable to every situation.
"We involved highly educated specialists .... There were no answers."