Charles K. Coates

Coates, 66, and her husband had lived in Southern Shores, N.C., for two years.She had worked in laser research at Phillips Laboratory in Albuquerque for about 10 years.He had been a University of New Mexico journalism professor for 23 years.
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Charles Coates said he first saw her picture with two other Vanderbilt University students on the front page of the Nashville Tennessean, a newspaper where he worked.Although the two had known each other, they didn't have their first date until after she graduated with a degree in English in 1958.Following three hours of courting, which included hamburgers, he proposed marriage to her while they sat in his 1955 Studebaker.About seven years older, Charles Coates said he had been on a lot of dates and had spent time "bouncing around" Europe.But from the moment he met her, Coates was attracted to her energetic, bright and witty personality.They were married two months later."She was beautiful inside and out," he said."We just clicked."Later, as an NBC-TV writer and producer in New York City, he spent too much time away from his family, he said.
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Other survivors include three children, Lindsay Patterson, Falls Church, Va., Charlie Coates, Avondale Estates, Ga., and Elinor Coates, Durham, N.C.; mother, Mrs. W.E. Lindsay Jr., Winchester, Tenn.; and six grandchildren.

After graduating from U.Va. in 1951, former CD sports reporter Charles K. Coates attended graduate school in business at New York University, enlisted in the Army, took his discharge in Germany, went to the University of Madrid in Spain and worked in business in New York City before deciding to follow his heart and become a newspaperman. He spent four years at The Nashville Tennessean; he left in 1961 to join NBC News in New York, where he worked as a writer, reporter and producer on and off for 20 years. His assignments included The Sixth Hour News, Eleventh Hour News, Today Show, the Huntley-Brinkley Report and NBC Nightly News. He traveled extensively throughout Latin America and the United States on breaking news, background and investigative pieces, presidential campaign coverage, political conventions, and space shots. For family reasons, he joined the journalism faculty of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1972, working also as a stringer for The New York Times, a television news consultant, a consultant to the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, and a free-lance writer and editor.

Chuck Coates ('51) has retired to the Outer Banks of North Carolina after many years in journalism. In his career he served as a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville, a writer-editor-producer for NBC News in New York (Huntley-Brinkley, Nightly News, Today) and a member of the faculty at the University of New Mexico.

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