582 Pomona College Journal of Entomologv 



The following tribute to Prof. Cook was adopted as a formal resolution by 

 the Claremont Pomologieal Club, and was published in "The Student Life" of 

 Pomona College, and in the Claremont "Courier": 



"Pomona College is losing a man acknowledged by many very competent to 

 judge as one of the greatest teachers and college professors in this country. 

 Southern California is losing one of her most active and useful citizens. The whole 

 State is gaining for the first time in her history, a professional man in an office 

 which absolutely requires a professional expert of the broadest and best training. 



"The loss to Pomona College will be felt most keenly by all of the students 

 who have known Prof. Cook personally. His genial nature, his great heart, his 

 tremendous and infectious enthusiasm, his keen interest in the personal welfare 

 of every student under him — these things have made him greatly beloved to all. 

 His interest in his students has never, through all the years, been a perfunctory 

 one, but always a living, active interest, that went right out and fought for them ; 

 an interest that not only helped them to find their life work and get into it, 

 whatever it might be, but ever afterward sujiported and encouraged them to great 

 efforts. In a quiet way, unknown to the public, he has even financially assisted 

 deserving students to complete their work, and for this he has been repaid in 

 some things beyond the value of money — loyalty and love. 



"The efforts of Prof. Cook to place his department in the College upon the 

 most efficient working basis have been unexampled, involving the most strenuous 

 and unending endeavors, and leading even to severe personal sacrifices. The 

 public has known little of this, so that the fight has to a great extent been a lone 

 one for Prof. Cook. Without just such a man through these days of formative 

 struggle in the building of the College the Department of Biology would never 

 have amounted to anything. All that it has accomplished is simply a measure 

 of this man ! 



"Prof. Cook's services to the general public are warmly acknowledged by 

 grateful men and women throughout the length and breadth of the State. His 

 correspondence on horticultural and agricultural matters has for many years 

 been of very extensive proportions — all religiously attended to with love and 

 interest and on his own time and expense. He has for years been the main mover 

 in the Claremont Pomologieal Club, a large organization, of great strength and 

 usefulness. For all of these great services he has previously had no public 

 acknowledgment, because the extent of his work has been known in the aggregate 

 to but few. His reward has been found in the high regard of great numbers of 

 our best people. 



"Now comes this ai)pointnient to the State Commissionership of Horticulture 

 — which is, as Governor Johnson well says, one of the most important offices in 

 the State — as the crowning event of Prof. Cook's remarkable career, and it is 

 an appointment that will be a lasting monument to the critical discernment and 

 good judgment of Governor Johnson. No man in the State or in the countrj- 

 at large could bring to just this particular work greater clean-cut and indubitable 

 fitness than can Prof. Cook. No man would be able more surely to gather about 



