Thomas P. Cook ’32

Tom Cook died Mar. 18, 1999, at Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa., peacefully, with his family at his bedside.

"Country lawyer, public servant, and inhabitant of Princeton -- that is the ideal life from my point of view." Tom's words from the 25th-reunion yearbook aptly describe the productive, satisfying life he lived. After Princeton, Tom graduated from the U. of Virginia Law School in 1936. He married Mildred Benedict a week later. He practiced law in NYC until 1948. He was deputy district attorney on the staff of Thomas E. Dewey and served in the Army Air Force during WWII.

Tom moved to Princeton in 1948 and formed a firm for the practice of law. He later was deputy attorney general of New Jersey and counsel for the state Dept. of Education. Tom was president of the Princeton United Way, Friends of Princeton Open Space, and the Princeton Bar Assn. Tom loved Princeton and rowed on the crew. He was passionate about music, open-space preservation, and curbing population growth. Tom was a member of the Nassau Club and president of the class at the time of his death. Tom is survived by his wife, Mildred; sisters Grace Ramus and Jane Taylor; children Charlotte Cook Rakela, Thomas Jr., and Louisa Cook Moats; and one grandchild, to all of whom the class offers its sincere condolences.

The Class of 1932