Alice H. Cook was a Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Cornell University's first Ombudsman. She co-founded the Women's Studies Program and the Advisory Committee on the Status of Women at Cornell. Alice Cook devoted her life to helping working people - and especially working women - on four continents. Her self-named "patchwork career" included social work, adult education, labor organizing, a tour of foreign service at the end of World War II, twenty years teaching at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and authoring numerous books and articles. Alice Cook was a pioneer in bringing attention to issues such as comparable worth, maternity leave and pay equity and was known for both her scholarly writing and her activism on the experiences of working women around the world.