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Collection CooR : Robert E. Cooke Collection

Description

Key

103400

Reference Code Element

CooR

Dates

1952-1975, inclusive

Extent

65 cubic feet (71 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Cooke, Robert E.

Administrative/Biographical History

Robert E. Cooke
13 Nov 1920 - 2 Feb 2014
Robert E. Cooke was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1941 and his M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine in 1944. He completed his internship and residency at New Haven Hospital but interrupted this period of training to serve two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In 1950, Cooke joined the faculty in pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1956, he came to Johns Hopkins as professor and chair of the pediatrics department. At Johns Hopkins, Cooke designed and implemented novel programs that complemented the care in the Children's Medical and Surgical Center, including a program that brought better medical care to inner-city mothers and their children. He also directed the Kennedy Program for Research into the Etiology of Mental Retardation. This work covered a broad approach to the prenatal, neonatal, and postnatal causes of intellectual and developmental disabilities, including viral disorders, biochemical aberrations, and neonatal chemical injuries. Cooke played a major role in the development of the Kennedy Institute for Handicapped Children, a center for the habilitation of the handicapped, and served as its first director. He lead the task force that developed the national Head Start program to help children born in poverty overcome social and education obstacles. He left Johns Hopkins in 1973 to become vice chancellor for health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1977, he became president of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and, later, the pediatrician-in-chief at Buffalo Children’s Hospital. He retired in 1989 and died in 2014.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1956-1973

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1956-1973

Scope and Content

The Robert E. Cooke Collection spans his entire career at Johns Hopkins, emphasizing his tenure as chairman of the department of pediatrics. Series include departmental correspondence (in subject files), patient correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, financial records, and reprints. These records are a resource for studying mid-twentieth-century efforts to find new approaches to childhood birth defects, intellectual and developmental disabilities. Substantial portions of the collection document the development of the Head Start program and the Kennedy Institute for Handicapped Children.

Subjects - Name

Personal name, Cooke, Robert E.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2009

Processing Information

The Robert Cooke Collection was inventoried by Chesney Medical Archives student employees Emma Graf, Isaac Finkelstein, and Kaitlin Warnock in 2009 under the direction of Phoebe Evans Letocha.

Accession

2007-078

Composed Of

Found 71 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
119A1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES AD-ASK	431996406	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES FOLDERS B-BRU	431996409	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES C-CYSTIC FIBROSIS	431996407	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Da-Di	431996410	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Diseases	285305	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES E-FR	431996408	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119A6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES G-GI	431996411	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B1- INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENTAL PERSONAL FILES	431996400	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES INT - J	431996403	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Ka-Kennedy, Edward	285306	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES KENNEDY FOUNDATION CORRESPONDENCE	431996401	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES KENNEDY FOUNDATION-KENNEDY INSTITUTION	431996404	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES KERR-MEA	431996402	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119B6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES MED-MYER	431996405	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES N-NATIONAL HEALTH	431996394	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES INTL INST-INTL SOCIETY	431996397	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES NEW-P	431996395	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Pa-Powers	285307	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES PRESIDENT COMMITTEE ON MENTAL RETARDATION	431996398	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C5- DEPARTMETNAL AND PERSONAL FILES PRESIDENTS TAST FORCE	431996396	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119C6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES PSY-RES	431996399	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES S-TUFTS	431996388	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D2- Personal and Departmental Files, U-Var	431996391	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES W-ZIA	431996389	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES HEAD START MATERIAL	431996392	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONALFILES SUBJECT FILES HEAD START MATERIAL	431996390	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119D6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES DR COOKE'S SPEECHES A-D	431996393	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Speeches Ec-Ho	431996382	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Speeches How-Me	285309	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES MI-WO	431996385	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Testimonies	431996383	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES Testimonies	285310	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES TEACHING LECTURES	285311	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES TEACHING LECTURES	431996386	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES CONFERENCES CONGRESS LEGISLATION	285312	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES CONFERENCES CONGRESS LEGISLATION	431996384	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119E6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES TRAVEL EXPENSES TRIPS D-U	431996387	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F1- DEPT AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES BOOK BBPP	431996376	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES PUBLICATION AND CORRESPONDENCE	431996379	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS AND CORRESPONDENCE	431996377	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS 1-49	431996380	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F5- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS 50-100	431996378	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119F6- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES 101-144	431996381	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G1- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS TITLE PAGES ONLY 1-130	431996370	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS BY THE AUTHORS	285313	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G2- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES REPRINTS BY THE AUTHORS	431996373	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILE COOKES PERSONAL MATERIAL	431996371	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G3- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILE COOKES PERSONAL MATERIAL	285314	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G4- DEPARTMENTAL AND PERSONAL FILES SUBJECT FILES COOKES PERSONAL MATERIALS	431996374	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection
119G5- MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS AND PUBLICATIONS	431996372	Box	CollectionCooR- Robert E. Cooke Collection

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