Background
Cooke, Geraldine Aurora Hopkins was born on July 11, 1929 in Providence. Daughter of Gordon Sheldon and Aurora (Lavoie) Hopkins.
Cooke, Geraldine Aurora Hopkins was born on July 11, 1929 in Providence. Daughter of Gordon Sheldon and Aurora (Lavoie) Hopkins.
Diploma, Truesdale Hospital School Nursing, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1950. Student, Boston University, 1967. Student, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1970.
Bachelor in Education and Psychology with distinction, Emmanuel College, Boston, 1977.
Nurse maternity floor, Truesdale Hospital, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1950; supervisor operating room, Union Hospital, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1951-1952; DON, Union Hospital, New Bedford, 1952-1954; private duty nurse, St. Francis, Mount Sinai and City Hospitals, Hartford, Connecticut, 1957-1959; nurse operating room, Norfolk County Tuberculosis Hospital, Braintree, Massachusetts, 1963-1964; visiting nurse, Braintree, Holbrook, Massachusetts, 1965-1966; Parkinson rehabilitation therapist, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, 1967-1968; school nurse, Braintree (Massachusetts) Public Schools, 1968-1986; nurse medical-surgical floor, Bayonet Point Hospital, Hudson, Florida, 1988-1989; private duty nurse, South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth, Massachusetts office nurse, private practice cardiology office, Spring Hill, Florida subsitute nurse, private practice cardiology office, since 1992. Camp nurse Camp Cachalot Boy Scout Camp, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Member of advisory board Massachusetts Office for Children, member commission to prevent teenagepregnancy. Member of advisory county and education planning committee Norfolk County-Newton Lung Association. Speaker in community and professional groups.
Member National Education Association, Massachusetts School Nurses Organisation (charter, chairman certified committee), Braintree Education Association, Concerned Diploma Nurses (president), National Professional Association in Education, Pi Lambda Theta (life).
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Married Robert Frank Cooke, September 8, 1951. Children: Robert Sheldon, Curtis Wendell.