Cooke School and Institute
2020-21 Donor ReportTHANK YOU!
For 35 years, Cooke has provided an educational experience that anchors
students and families. Together with its world-class educators, our community
has worked to re-define and refine what special education could and should
be, making it student-centric, well rounded and meaningful.
Your support makes it all possible, and we are grateful!
A Note from Cooke President, Dr. Michael Termini
As I sit in my office in our new school building and reflect, I stand in awe of what we have accomplished. The “we” is a broad group of hundreds of families, thousands of students, creative and dedicated faculty and staff, trustees, and our individual and institutional donors.
The new building is a testament to all of you, but what goes on within the walls is our greatest achievement. As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, we recognize our incredible growth:
- Our annual enrollment has grown from seven young children to more than 300 students ages 5 through 21.
- Each of our current students receives the same level of individual attention as did our first students.
- Not only do our faculty follow best practices, but they create new instructional practices that are suited to the academic and therapeutic needs of each student, optimizing their ability to live as independently as possible.
- Our new school provides space for athletics, related services, art, music and movement instruction, and technology, the likes of which we could only have dreamed of some few years ago. I am confident that these new physical resources will allow for more innovative programming.
As we celebrate 35 years of education, each of us can feel proud of our contribution. On behalf of our current students, and thousands of alumni, I thank you for your engagement and support.
Giving Categories
35 Years of Learning
$200K and Up
Andrea Pollack and Adam Usdan
Karen and Tom Robards
The Taft Foundation
$100K to $199,999
Moody’s
Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation
The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund
$50K to $99,999
Helen Lee-Warren and David Warren
Debbie and Andrew Morris
Tracey and Robert Pruzan
Robert and Ardis James Foundation
Julia Tung and Tongwei Liu
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
35 Years of Growing
$25K-$49,999
Alina and Ozzie Ramos
The Atlantic Foundation
The Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation
$10K-$24,999
Benno Ansbacher
Joan Beir
Ellen Bickal and Gary Bieber
BlackRock
City National Bank
Sybil Cohen
Debbie Cooper and Daniel Sternberg
Danielle Curi and Max Herrnstein
DE Shaw
Deloitte
June Eichbaum and Kenneth Wirfel
HSBC Bank USA, NA
The Hyde & Watson Foundation
Juanita Leff
Mc Gowan Builders
Morgan Stanley
Nancy and Daniel Neff
June Niklus and David Murphy
Janet and David Offensend
Deborah and Michael Pollack
Elsa Roe
Carolyn Rossip Malcolm
Laurel Rubin
Barbara and O. Griffith Sexton
Christine and Eamon Walsh
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
35 Years of Belonging
$5K-$9,999
SoJin Bae and Jay Kim
Wendy Banner and Geoffrey Wiener
Marcia and Michael Beck
Mary and Randy Berger
Roxanne and Scott Bok
The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Deirdre Featherstone
and Wilson Madden
Stacey and Andrew Feller
Anne Garonzik
Carlie and Neal Garonzik
Wendy and Benjamin Goldberg
Janice and Ralph James
Robin and Brian Leach
Nan Molofsky and Arthur Skelskie
NKSFB, LLC
Patricia Nooy and Roger Miller
Louise Parent and John Casaly
Heather and Brett Rogoff
Sterling National Bank
The Esther and William Benenson Family Foundation
Barbara and Michael Zimmerman
Denise and Stuart Zwerling
$1K-$4,999
Diane and Leon Abudaram
Kimberly Albright and Michael Dow
Sabine Barbier-Goldman and Jonathan Goldman
Anastasia and Ronald Barth
Elli and David Basner
Susan Caruso Green and Stuart Green
Bethany Chase and Andy Weinstein
Jane Condon and Kenneth Bartels
Maria Luisa Cotrina and Juan Carlos Lopez
Heather and Jeffrey Damon
Margaret Downs and Henry Zachary
Erika and Todd Drezner
Kathleen and Lawrence Dunne
Michael Eaton and Michael Hoagland
Martha and Stephen Ellman
Betty and Billy English
Eveline Erni Barton and Gary Barton
E. Ann Gill and Robert Hempel
Anna and Dionysios Grevenitis
Elizabeth and Jason Hamilton
Cindy and Randall Heck
John Henderson
Christine and Kevin Hennessey
Roberta Herter
Molly Hoagland and Rufus Collins
Tracy Hurley Martin
Meredith J. Kane
Fanny and Khamsy Khowong
Sandra and Joseph Lambert
Diana Lopez and Robert Begleiter
Carmen and Ivan Lorenzana
Beth Maher
Cia and Robert Marakovits
Michelle Mintz and Jason Scharfspitz
Mutual of America
New York Community Trust
Elizabeth Ostrow and Andrew Buchsbaum
Nawal Otmane-Tani
and Ahmed Mitwalli
Joyce and Daniel Pariser
Laurie and David Pauker
Sarah Paul and Mark Nachamie
PBDW Architects
Paula and John Perlowski
Eileen Red
Susan and William Rifkin
Barbara and Victor Rocco
Carolina Sandoval-Ciferni and John Ciferni
Lorna and Mitchell Schamroth
Samantha and Steven Scire
Anne and Ronald Simon
Rose Marie and Kelly Smith
Gayle Spear and David Eisen
TD Bank, N.A.
Michael Termini
The Cousins’ Charitable Foundation
Caroline Urvater Venable LLP
Cathy Wong and Keath Chan
Caroline and Eric Yoon
Constant Joy
#WeLoveCooke
$500-$999
Anita Abraham-Inz and Richard Inz
Suzanne and James Aisenberg
Anonymous Donors
Rosemary and Jonathan Ansbacher
Janet Beck
Ulka and Scot Campbell
Zheng Chiu and Shuet Ying Choi
Carrie Cohen and Richard Lipsey
Latoya Cook
Kitty and Guy de Chazal
Donna S. DeCoursey and John C. Straton, Jr.
Nancy Devlin Byers and Ben Dowdell
Sherree and Marc Drezner
Gail and Peter Ferris
Jacquelyn and Glenn Fittante
Tom Flood
Stephanie Gayden and Marc Miller
Lara Gerstein and Ann Hairston
Frank Iannelli
Carol and Mark Jaffe
Chris Karagheuzoff
Marisa Lago and Ron Finiw
Ester Mae
Leonardia and Gino Tadiar
Jamie and Joseph Luft
Barbara Marcus and Michael Pollack
Patti and Cabot Marks
Renée and Kurt Nicholson
Patricia and Lewis Raibley
Anne Marie Roina-Livoti and Peter Livoti
Jeanne and Blane Schertz
Harvey Shapiro
Amy Sohnen
Deborah and Jeffrey Stevenson
Bob Tuschman
Christina van Hengel and Charles Miller
Claudia and Maarten van Hengel
Kathleen and William Weigel
Leah and Robert Wilcox
Barbara Wolf
Brigitte Yohe
Vera Zlatarski
$250-$499
Hana and Hanif Abdur-Rahman
Madina Abdurasulova
and Chris Moschovitis
Jonathan Aghravi
Susan and Albert Asebrook
Ellen Banner
Elizabeth Barlow and William Bedwell
JoAnn and Robert Beltempo
Paul Binder
Jill Block and Marc Shapiro
Katherine Bradford
Caren Byrd
Paul Cantor and Helaine Cantor
Judy Choi and Philip Herter
Jeffrey Cohen
Maria and Warren Davis
Portia Dillard and Andrzej Jakubowicz
Ann Dowd Arancio
and Lawrence Arancio
Francine Dreyfus
Deborah Farrington
Debra and Barry Frank
Tomoko Furuya-Capozzi
and Richard Capozzi
Faye Ginsburg and Fred Myers
Brendan Goldstein
Karen Hartmann
Martha Hornthal
and Kathleen Kincaid
Carmen and Roman Hurko
Hillary and James Jacobs
Gita and Michael Kinney
Susan and Thomas Kirch
Laurin and Norman Kleiman
Phyllis Klein
Lori and Elliot Kloper
Robin Krause
Laurel Leff and Jeremy Paul
Carol Levin
Miriam and Robert Mahler
Lisa and Dennis Meade
Gabrielle and Michael Palitz
Mary Ann and Len Policastro
Juliette Rose
Chrystia Slywotzky
Joanne and Kenneth Sold
Sierra Soucy and Zeke Tell
Benjamin Stapleton
Sharon Sullivan and James Gravitt
Cindy Surdi
Nancy and Robert Swain
Drusilla van Hengel and Riley Patlak
Stacie Wong
Up to $249
Enrique Aldana
James Alicea
AmazonSmile Foundation
Deborah Antar Ehrlich and Jerald Ehrlich
Sam Antar
Arielle Argibay and Carlos Abraham
Miriam Aviles
Noemi and Nelson Aviles
Larissa Baczyk
Sara Basson
Jacqueline Bediako
Bunny Benenson and Andy Roth
Arnis Berger
Leonard Bertolino
Janet Bickal
Frances Blackman
Tonya Blazio
Robert Bodzin
Vjekoslava Bosanac-Popovic
and Zack Popovic
Cheryl Boucher
and Christopher Castaldi
Susan and Donald Brant
Leslie and Frederick Bright
Harvey Bunis
Sapna Champaneria
Melissa Chan
Jessie Chen and Ding Bin Xie
Talida and Timothy Chen
Elizabeth Chisholm
Gigi DeCrosta
Michael Deegan
Susan and Chris Devlin
Karla and Ray Devonish
Kadiatou Diallo and Ibrahima Bah
Jennifer DiFiglia and Todd Toler
Carlos Dolmo
Vicki Doucet
Andreen Douglas
Kathryn and James Douthit
Gaetie Edouarzin
Robyn and David Epstein
Karen and Delroy Espinoza
Dara Feivelson
Janice Fevrier-Monrose
Pat and James Fingeroth
Irene and Jason Gans
Clare and Frank Garcia
Linda Garrettson
Adele Gatens
Phyllis Gerstein
Susannah Gersten
Gail Gerzetic
Emily Giese
Kathy and Eric Goldberg
Susannah and Bernard Goldstein
Eileen and Dominic Granito
Donna Green
Nancy Guzowski
John Habich and Andrew Solomon
Carol and Gregory Hanna
Ryan and Ethan Hawke
Adrienne Hepler
Mary Herms and Ryan Marshall
Bao Ho and Joshua Schneyer
Jill Hodge
Madeline and David Holder
Janet and Sat Hon
Christina and Willyhawk Huang
Tonya Hurley Pagnotta
and Michael Pagnotta
Pam Hutto and Kenneth Hochman
Kamran Isayev
Stephanie Jacqueney
Maria Jaime
Jennifer and Nicholas Jerez
Frances Jones
Vera Jones David
Justus Frances
Kamien and Lawrence Mattis
Jennifer Kane and Bernie Trilling
Sharon Kaye-O’Connor
and Brian O’Connor
Marion and Hal Kessler
Betsy and Bill King
Erin and Kevin Kinsella
Sonya Kippins
Suzanne Knaster
Aliza and Evan Kushner
Maryanne Kuzniar
Michelle Latimer
Alvina and Edward Lau
Jae Lee Ivy and Alan Leibowitz
Degan Leopold
Louise Levy
Marisa Luft
Tom MacGregor
John Malaya
Ian Malcolm
Marjorie and Charles Malone
Janelle and Gregory Manning
Cathy Martinez
Noreen and Mario Mastrangelo
Maggie McCabe and Ryan Crew
George McDermott
Anne Marie and
Thomas McDonough
Laura Mercedes Silva
and Mario Silva
Rosa Molina Martinez
Catherine Morris
Joan and Richard Nardi
Paul Neglia
Sophia Neglia
Tara Nicholson
Katie Niebuhr and Peter O’Brien
Luz Padilla
Beth Parker and Ken Taymor
Jennifer Patterson and Louis Craco
Cindy and David Pinter
Jonathan Polansky
Janine Pollack
Allison and David Porter
Barbara Pratt
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Suzette Prigmore
Shirley and Stanley Puskarz
Ferid Radoncic
Maria and Johnny Rahman
Sami Rahman
Maxine and Earl Reiss
Resource Furniture
Nancy Richard
Blaine Robinson
Everlidys Robles
Susannah Rogers
Norma Rosario
Donna Ross
Jessica Ross
Janet Rotter
Karmen and Frederick Royall
Chris Sales
Lisa Sanderson
Elizabeth Santiso
Nicole Santos and Ebony Santos
Lorin Schiff and Lenny Adelson
Amy and Josh Schindler
Birgit Schwarz-Hickey
and Lenny Hickey
Susan and Joel Shapiro
James Silberman
Kathy Simic
Ginny and Eric Skar
Joan Soucy
Alison Spencer
Phyllis Stern
Robert Stone
Rosemary Suh Watts and Shawn Watts
Wing Sung Chan
Eileen Tell
Patricia Thorpe
Linda and Michael Tomasso
Damicela Toro
Jan van Voorn
Sandra Vanderbrook
Katty Vargas
Jacqueline Vega and Genaro Marrero
Charles Vorbach
Matthew Warshaw
Carolyn Weston
Maureen Wilson
Maddie Wolberg and Mike Lock
Erica Wolff
Esther Yon-Sook Suh
and David Kwang-Eel Suh
Frances Zwerling
We are grateful to those of you who supported our mission through your
amazing generosity.
YOU’VE made all the difference!
