In Memory Of Founder ¨C Luther Mook
Luther Mook, born in Brooklyn, New York, served as a Foreign Office for the U.S. Department of State. He also served as a member of the Advisory Board of the New York State Office for the Aging. Beginning in 1999, he was the first Vice President of the Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition. He passed away on April 2, 2003.
In 2000, he became a member of the Brooklyn Coalition on the Aging. In addition, he was the First Vice Chair of the Council of Community Advisory Boards, New York City Health and Hospital Community Advisory Board.
He was Founder and Chair of the Asian-American Republic Coalition. He also served as Director of Coalitions for the New York State Republican Committee.
In 1996, he was elected to the Electoral College, thereby becoming the first Asian ever elected.
As a member of the Brick Presbyterian Church since 1983, he was ordained an Elder in 1989. Luther was a graduate B.S. of Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. (1959)
Upon graduation, he was asked by Dr. Emory Ross, one of the worldĄŻs outstanding experts on African affairs and a consultant for the U.S. government, what he intended to do with his life.
Luther replied that he was interested in the foreign service. Dr. Ross immediately sponsored him for a tour with The Experiment in International Living and so spent his first summer after graduation in Africa.
Soon after returning from Africa, he was called into the military service for three years.
Luther returned to civilian life for one year and then was recruited by the U.S. Department of State where he remained until 1991.
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