Allan Cook died May 26, 1998, at his home in Wellesley, Mass. He was 76.
He attended Wesleyan U. in Connecticut and the U. of Arizona before spending two years in the Army artillery in Italy and North Africa. Allan entered Princeton in 1946, graduated in 1947 with his bachelor's in engineering, studied astronomy at Princeton, and received his master's in 1950, followed by his doctorate in 1952. In the interim he taught at Carleton College in Minnesota.
After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and involvement in a joint program at Ottawa's Dominion Observatory, he joined the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in 1973 was appointed one of seven members of the Voyager Mission Imaging Team, on which he served for almost 20 years winning recognition for analyzing data collected from the Neptune and Uranus fly-bys. He received '44's Bate Farnum award in 1992. In addition to his distinguished scientific career, he pursued interests in world history and politics.
To Joan (Stewart), his wife of 39 years; his son, Allan B.; his daughters, Carolyn and Frances; his brother, Jeffrey; and his four grandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.
The Class of 1944