Cooke, 61, said the higher fees would hurt the undergraduate and graduate scholarships awarded by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which are some of the most generous in the nation.

Bryan G. Maxwell, 20, of Wilmington, N.C.; University of Virginia, will attend U-Va. for a master's in English language and literature and Stanford for a medical degree.

Suzanne Cooke, 31, the estranged wife of Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, 75, holds her 8 pound, 13 ounce baby daughter at a Washington hospital, Jan. 26, 1988.

Cooke died April 6, 1997, at age 84, leaving an estate worth an estimated $825-million. He left most of it to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a trust to provide scholarships and other aid to ...

LANSDOWNE, Va., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With college affordability becoming an increasingly insurmountable hurdle for families, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's mission of supporting ...