Thomas m cook biography
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Thomas D. Cook
Thomas Dixon Cook (born 31 July 1941)[1] is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and Emeritus Fellow at their Institute for Policy Research, where he was formerly the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice.[2] In 2014, he became a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research.[3]
Honors and awards
[edit]Cook received the Myrdal Prize for Science from the American Evaluation Association in 1982 and the Donald Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology from the Policy Sciences Organization in 1988. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1997-1998. In 2000, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he became a Margaret Mead Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2002. He received the Peter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in 2012.[1][4]
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COOK, THOMAS A.
COOK, THOMAS A. (7 January 1912 - 25 Nov. 1996) was a businessman and civic activist. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to Montry and Daisy Cook. The family moved to Chicago, where Cook's mother died, then to Cleveland in 1917. He graduated from Central High School, then joined a side show band with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, working summers as a trumpeter. In 1933 he played at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, joining the musicians union there. He then played in the marching band of the Ohio State University, where he graduated in 1936. He attended law school at the University of Michigan for one year, then became a postal clerk. During World War II, he served in Europe as Army first lieutenant. After the war, he joined his father in the asphalt business, helping to launch Cook Paving and Construction Co. in 1950. Cook was a founder of the old Quincy Savings & Loan Association, and was one of the first black investors in a McDonald's franchise. He was a member of the Minority Business Enterprise Unit of Cleveland, the Ohio Contractors Association, and the Cleveland Engineering Society. He was a life member of the NAACP, and a member of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Karamu House, the Double Exposure camera clu
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