Maui County HI Archives News.....GEORGE P. COOKE OF MOLOKAI REVEALS RETIREMENT APRIL 1. January 21, 1948
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UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER January 21, 1948
  Wailuku, Maui, Jan. 19, -- George P. Cooke, kamaaina Molokai and territorial 
business and civic leader, and manager of Molokai Ranch, Ltd., will retire 
from active management of the ranch after 40 years of service, April 1, Mr. 
Cooke informed a representative of the Maui News Saturday.
  Mr. Cooke after April 1 will serve as president of the Molokai Ranch, Ltd. 
Succeeding Mr. Cooke to the management of the ranch will be Desmond 
Fitzgerald, at present assistant manager.
  John H. Midkiff Jr., of Waialua, Oahu, who has spent considerable time in 
ranching in Mexico, will be named to the assistant managership of the ranch. 
Mr. Midkiff joined the ranch staff on January 1 of this year.
  Mr. Cooke attended Yale university after preliminary schooling in Honolulu. 
He received his B.A. degree in 1905 and returned to Honolulu to become stock 
and bond clerk for the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd.
  In 1908 he became bookkeeper for the American Sugar Co., Ltd., and the 
Molokai ranch, and in 1910 was made manager of the two Molokai properties. In 
1918 he became president of both concerns.
  He was a leader in the movement to make Molokai a source of food supply for 
Honolulu. In 1920 he established a model dairy ranch at Mapulehu, Molokai, and 
constructed the Leleiona, a motor boat of the sampan type, for the delivery of 
dairy produce to Honolulu.
  He has been interested in the Boy and Girl Scout movements and in 1935 was 
awarded the silver beaver by the Maui Council Boy Scouts of America.
  He has been a leader of many movements looking to the betterment and 
improvement of the island of Molokai, and was instrumental in starting the 
model Molokai community center.
  In 1921 he became executive officer of the Hawaiian homes commission. He 
resigned his position in 1924.
  During World War I he served as a volunteer aide of the naval intelligence 
bureau, and during World War II served as director of the office of civilian 
defense on Molokai.
  For many years Mr. Cooke represented Maui county in the territorial 
legislature, both as representative and senator. During the regular and 
special sessions of 1933, and the regular sessions of 1935, 1937 and 1939, he 
served as president of the senate.
  Mr. Cooke, who resides at Kauluwai, Molokai, belongs to many organizations 
and is a trustee of the Maui Chamber of Commerce.
  Mr. Fitzgerald is the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Fitzgerald of Kula. He was 
named assistant manager of the Molokai Ranch, Ltd. in November, 1945 after 
being separated from the air corps as a lieutenant colonel. 
  Prior to the war he was with the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. at 
Puunene as a harvesting luna. He was active here in polo and kennel club 
circles.


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