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As an undergraduate, she was a four-year competitor in fencing and hockey, and captained the fencing team as a senior. A wearer for the Women[apos]s Athletic Association [quote]C[quote], she also served as manager of the fencing team as a sophomore and junior. In addition, she was president of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association and the WAA Council in 1941. Cook, who earned her law degree from Cornell in 1943, practiced New York City, Albany and Ithaca prior to her election to the New York State Assembly from the 128th District in 1962. She chaired the Assembly Education Committee, and served on Health, Labor and Ways and Means committees and several ad hoc committee and commissions. After she left the Assembly in 1974, she became Cornell[apos]s vice president for land grant affairs, a post she held from 1976 until 1980. She maintained a law practice in Ithaca.