Alice Cook

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'For the figure skater and sports reporter, see Alice Cook (figure skater).

Alice Hanson Cook (November 28, 1903 - February 7, 1998) was an activist and professor at Cornell University in the United States. At Cornell, the Alice Cook House residential college was named in her honor.

Her varied life experiences included social worker, YWCA secretary, labor educator, post WWII advisor in Germany on reconstituting German labor unions, professor, university ombudsman, world acclaimed researcher, and to the very end, an activist.[1]

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  1. ^ Who was Alice Cook?. Retrieved on 2006-06-02.