NCUSAR Study Visit to Yemen Participant Mrs. Bonnie Cook
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Author: National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Released 22 April 2008
Bonnie Cook
Bonnie Cook
Malone Fellowship Participant
Bonnie Rene Cook was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mrs. Cook attended Dixie High School and Dixie Junior College in St. George, Utah. She went on to Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah and then to University of Arkansas Little Rock. After attending college off and on for forty-four years she graduated in 2003 ("after all my children did," she likes to note) with a Bachelor of Arts.
Mrs. Cook married to the late Mr. Henry D. Cook in 1959 and they have three children, Peter and Allison born in Hobbs, New Mexico as well as Anne born in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia.
Mrs. Cook’s life has been an exciting one. From 1959 – 1965 the family lived in lived in, Utah, New Mexico, and the Navajo Reservation in Arizona moving in 1965 to Tripoli and Marsa el Brega, Libya until 1973. From there, in 1973 until 1994 they lived in Abqaiq, Ras Tanura, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and from 1994 up until now have been living in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Mrs. Cook taught music and art in the Saudi Aramco schools, worked in the school libraries, and taught private piano in my home studio. A full-time wife and mother, now a grandmother, Mrs. Cook also worked with Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts. She is a gardener and traveler.