My name is George Cook. I am in my early forties. I am a African American man married with one child. I served in the army from 91 to 94 after a year of college at Virginia State University an African American college where I developed my love for writing.
I am proud and honored to be a trustee on The Hillside High Scholarship Fund. The board gives out small scholaships to local kids to help with college cost and to reward their academic excellence.
I am also an NAACP member
I am a local PTA member at my daughters school, Calvin Coolidge.
I am an avid sports fan who coaches young kids ( 10-14 year olds. ) in intramural basketball and football as a way to keep the little knuckleheads out of trouble.
In 2009 on 04/18/09 my rec league basketball team the Senior lakers won the league championship. Congrats boys. The flag football team I coach the Hillside Giants won the town championship in November 2005 due to my excellent coaching...(smile.) My favorite teams are the NY Football Giants and my beloved Syracuse Orange Basketball Team. 2003 NCAA champs just in case you didn't know.
Some of my speeches and pictures are below:
Pictures of some of the teams I have coached as a volunteer.
Here I am in the white t shirt and bald head handing out the trophies to my flag football team for our championship in the Hillside Rec. League.
George Cook speaking in Baltimore on 02/07/09 at a vigil for missing woman Mia Lynn Nicolls
ANNOUNCEMENTS!
03/01/10 George Cook will be running unopposed for his Board of Education seat. He will be running with Oscar Cortez and Nancy Mondella. Congrats to all
01/01/10 George Cook in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America founded Cubpack 97 in Hillside NJ. He serves as Committee Chariman for the troop. Read more about the efforts to get the troop statrted HERE
07/01/09 George Cook named first ever Black Planet Riser Of The Month. Read statement from BlackPlanet below:
BlackPlanet Rising is excited to announce our first member to be recognized for contributions in their community. In the spirit of the BPR movement, George L. Cook has made giving back a personal mission. As a soldier, community activist, political advocate, coach, husband, and father, George provides support to those around him. Most recently, he has created a petition to increase the coverage of missing Black women on cable & broadcast networks, in the hopes that more exposure will lead to finding these women and reuniting them with their loved ones,
04/18/09. Congratulations to the youth basketball team I coach the Senior Lakers. We won the Hillside Rec League championship in an exciting overtime thriller 69-66 and we did it as the 4th seed in a 4 team tournament. Congrats!
This is a picture of my brother Chris Cook and I after we ran in the Project Children 5K race in Maplewood NJ on 08/07/08. My brother Chris finished the race with a time of 24.35 and I finished with a time of 29.44. That's me on the left, George Cook
This is me and Master Sergeant Shade M. Lee, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.
This is me and Tuskegee Airmen Malcom Nettingham.
Here I am with Robert Scott a member of the NY Black Yankees from 1946-1950.
This is me with Pamela DeLeon Lewis author of "CRYING THROUGH THE TEARS, a cancer survivor's odyssey.
