Charles D. Lake ’54

Charles D. Lake ’54, of Marion, Mass.; Feb. 16. A retired clergyman. After Brown, he went on to earn a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale and a master’s in Christian Theology and PhD in philosophical theology from the Univ. of Chicago before being ordained to the Christian ministry by the First Baptist Church of Melrose, Mass., in 1957. He served as an assistant in the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, then on the faculty of Stevens College in Columbia, Mo., followed by the position of chaplain and dean of Stevens College for 11 years. In 1976 he moved to Marion to become the executive director of the Massachusetts Commission for United Ministries in Higher Education and he later went into semiretirement as interim pastor of the South Baptist Church of New Bedford, Mass., and, finally, preaching at First Congregational Church of Marion. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne; two daughters; a son; a daughter-in-law; and four grandchildren.