Diane O'Brien Cooke Memorial Scholarship

Diane O’Brien Cooke, an Ulster County Community College Alumna, was a committed medical professional, who later became a Nursing Professor at SUNY Ulster. Diane Cooke’s career began as one of the first nurses in the Cardiac Care Unit at Benedictine Hospital. She served as a member of the Nursing faculty at Russell Sage College and she also held supervisory positions in the Emergency and Critical Care departments at Albany Medical Center. In March of 1996, Mrs. Cooke died after a brief illness. Friends, family, and colleagues were fundamental in the establishment of a memorial scholarship in her name. This scholarship is available to returning Nursing students with a cumulative average of at least 3.3. Ulster County residents are preferred recipients. Many gifts to this fund were made in memory of Diane’s sister, Eileen O’Brien Showers, who passed away in 1999.