Rita Nealon Cooley

In: PS: political science & politics, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 594-595

Abstract

Professor Rita Nealon Cooley died on October 1, 2006, in her home in
New York City. She was born in New York in 1919 and attended a
Catholic School in the Bronx where she won the Classics prize and
was the Class Valedictorian. After graduating from Hunter College in
1940, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and as winner of
the Constitutional Law prize, she was awarded the Penfield
Fellowship by the department of politics at NYU in 1943 and began
taking courses in the graduate school.