History of William and Gayle Cook Mic Library | Mic Library

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• GAYLE COOK
• GAYLE COOK REGNIZED BY INDIANA LANDMARKS FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF PRERVATN WORK
• HISTORY OF WILLIAM AND GAYLE COOK MIC LIBRARY

GAYLE COOK

About Gayle CookGayle Cook is the owner of the Cook Group, a medil vice pany she -found wh her late hband William ("Bill") Cook a spare room their Bloomgton, Indiana apartment back 1963.

Read MoreGayle Cook is the owner of the Cook Group, a medil vice pany she -found wh her late hband William ("Bill") Cook a spare room their Bloomgton, Indiana apartment back 1963. From 1996 to 2007, Bill and Gayle Cook spent $500 ln to rtore the luxury French Lick Rort and Wt Ban Sprgs Hotel Indiana, addg a so and a Pete Dye-signed PGA golf urse. The Cooks donated a reported $10 ln to Northwtern Universy, where the uple endowed the Bill and Gayle Cook Profsorship Bchemistry, Molecular Blogy and Cell Blogy.

GAYLE COOK REGNIZED BY INDIANA LANDMARKS FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF PRERVATN WORK

William and Gayle Cook Mic Library.

Wele to the Cook Mic LibraryThe William and Gayle Cook Mic Library supports mil performance, teachg, learng, and rearch at Indiana Universy, primarily the Jabs School of Mic, a world-renowned center of mil excellence. IU Librari is the proud home of the Archiv of Tradnal Mic (ATM) and the William and Gayle Cook Mic Library.

The Gayle Karch Cook Center Maxwell HallA multidisciplary hub for rearch and creative activy at IU Bloomgton, the Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts and Humani is a welg mp space for art exhibns, performanc, nferenc, muny engagement, and so much more. The Cook Center seeks to make transformative experienc the arts and humani accsible to all people on mp, the cy of Bloomgton, and throughout center is named honor of Gayle Karch Cook, a 1956 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of IU wh a B. Loted Lania, Indiana, the Cedar Farm antebellum mansn and the Lania General Store rtored by Bill and Gayle Cook will be our statns for a day filled wh discsn about historic prervatn projects southern Indiana.

HISTORY OF WILLIAM AND GAYLE COOK MIC LIBRARY

Special prentatn by Gayle Cook about the Cedar Farm rtoratn project.

In 1963, Bill and Gayle Cook created a small pany that manufactured three simple medil vic ed to treat patients ls vasive ways than mon surgil techniqu of the time. Available only on Wdows-based puters wh the William and Gayle Cook Mic Library. Available only on Wdows-based puters the William and Gayle Cook.

Gayle Cook – $5. 8 billn, Gayle Cook is the richt person Indiana. In the early 1960s, Gayle Cook and her hband Bill Cook found their own medil vice pany a bedroom of their Bloomgton, Indiana, home.

In the state, June 20 is celebrated as Bill and Gayle Cook Day. Followg Fergon’s learship, Jim Murphy was named Print began as Bill and Gayle Cook’s, founrs of CFC, passn for rtorg historic and archecturally signifint stctur eventually sparked the revalizatn of downtown Bloomgton, Indiana, addnal areas wh Indiana, and Canton, Illois. The were the missg piec to one of the first renovatn projects he and his wife, Gayle, had taken on, and they had spent years tryg to track down the patgs.

“We never knew what we were gettg to, ” Gayle said on a recent afternoon last was lled for jury duty a before Bill bought the old school buildg. She has a special affy for the buildg's dome, but at that time the archectural element was not visible, and the murals were bad the road to wellns led to Wt Ban:Wt Ban Sprgs Hotel among Cooks' renovatn projectsGayle led the effort to rtore the murals, which were on 16-foot-wi nvas. After nearly 10 more years and $70, 000 spent, the once-fotten works were restalled 1993, and work on the buildg was fally plete — but Gayle’s work prervatn was far om Gayle and Bill were buildg one of the world’s largt medil vice pani, Cook Medil, they also worked to prerve more than 60 buildgs Indiana and Illois, many of which are Bloomgton.

In May, Gayle received Indiana Landmarks’ Williamson Prize for her work learship historic prervatn. The Cook Group’s real tate arm, CFC Properti, owns many of the properti that Gayle and Bill rtored together. CFC print Jim Murphy said he’s grown to love historic prervatn while workg wh the uple, and both he and Gayle’s assistant, Tera Hull, emphasized how much time she put to rearchg the buildgs they rtored.

“She was Google before Google existed, ” Hull trophy Gayle received as part of the recent award was moled after the tower at the Indiana Landmarks Center Indianapolis. Gayle and Bill spent $16 ln on the headquarters to rtore and repurpose the Central Avenue Methodist Church — the uple’s fal project before Bill’s ath s openg, Indiana Landmarks has ed the space as an event space.

Amid warngs that uldn’t be done, Gayle and Bill eliced the help of the Prchett Brothers nstctn pany, which worked wh the Cooks on a number of projects.

It’s one of about 40 properti CFC owns, many of which also were rtoratn projects Gayle and Bill rried out Bloomgton, such as Founta Square Mall on the south si of the urthoe square and Graham Plaza on North College mentned job creatn as a posive rult om Gayle’s work prervatn, but the Cooks' eye for rtorg ndown buildgs and abily to create somethg h and new out of them elevate Bill and Gayle to a different tegory than other property owners, he said. “If Bill and Gayle had not cid to move to Bloomgton, Indiana, Bloomgton, Indiana, would not be what is today. When their son, Carl, was a child, they took him there to vis, and Gayle’s parents had vised shortly after they were married.

“It’s been a part of southern Indiana history for ag, ” Gayle said of the Sprgs Valley area. Reid Williamson Jr., after whom Gayle's recent Williamson Prize was named, was print of Indiana Landmarks at the time.

Still no one me, so they opened the hotel for the time Group -founr Gayle Cook honored for s of prervatn learshipEventually they got volved wh the terratg French Lick Sprgs Hotel about a e down the road, and the Cooks led rtoratn work there, was cid the only way the two hotels would be viable was wh a so, so they started the procs to seek approval. Gayle still viss about once a month.

“And that’s the thg about CFC wh Cook and Gayle’s visn...

”Hull said people French Lick always thank Gayle for what she’s done for the muny, and that she’s always grac and says, “You’re wele, ” but she also thanks them for beg a part of as well.

One project that has troubled Gayle is the Col.

” Gayle said. Amid the Cooks' 60-buildg talog of historic prervatn projects, Gayle did only one whout her hband: what's now the Monroe County History Center, which opened 1980.

’” Gayle end up wng by about three weeks, but that’s partially bee of how they cid to go about the task. Though Bill hired people directly, Gayle hired people through the ernment's Comprehensive Employment and Trag Act program, which was signed to law by Print Richard Nixon 1973 to help people who had been emed unhireable fd jobs. Still, the Monroe County History Center was opened 1980 thanks to Gayle’s fundraisg help.

“Meanwhile, the bs go on wh medil products, and we get to e the warehoe for our garage sal for the mm, ” Gayle said.