{"id":9960,"date":"2017-02-07T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9960"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:35:15","slug":"cookey-samuel-joseph","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/cookey-samuel-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"COOKEY, Samuel Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, historian, educationist, administrator, bom January 25, 1918, Opobo Town, Rivers State; married Virginia Oboaya Emuchay 1950, two sons, two daughters; Education: The Sierra Leone Grammar School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1930-34, Achimota College, Achimota, Ghana, 1940-44, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, 1944-46, University of London, England, 1952-53; Career: Appointed Teacher, St Paul&#8217;s College, Awka, 1934-40; Teacher, Achimota College, Ghana, 1942-44; Princi pal, Okrika Grammar School, Okrika, 1946- 52; Principal, Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1954-59; Assistant Federal Adviser on Education, 1959-61; Adviser, Post Secondary and Higher Education, 1962- 67; Chief Federal Adviser on Education, 1967-72; Director, Education Division, Com monwealth Secretariat, London, 1972-77; Pro- Chancellor and Chairman of Council, University ofIbadan, 1984-85; Pro-Chancel lor and Chairman of Council, University of feenin, since 1985; Chairman, Political Bureau, 1986-87; member, The Constituent Assembly, 1988; member, Executive Board, United Nations Education and Scientific Commission (UNESCO), 1962-70; chair man, UNESCO General Conference Programme Commission, 1969-70; Chair man, UNESCO Programme and ExternalRe lations Commission, 1969, 1970; Chairman, International Conference on Education, Geneva, 1971; member, International Round Table for the Advancement of Counselling, 1972; member, Rotary International, 1964- 84; National Honours: Officer ofthe Order oftheNiger, 1979, Eisenhower fellow, USA, 1963;UNESCOMedal for Servicesto Edu cation, 1970; Charter Fellow,College ofPre ceptors, London, 1975;Honorary Degrees: conferred with Honorary Doctorof Humani ties, Silliman University, Philippines, 1965; Honorary Doctor of Law (Hon, LL.D), Rivers State University ofScience and Technol ogy, Port Harcourt, 1986; Hobbies: photog raphy, music, astrology; Address: 12, DegemaClose, RumuibekweHousing Estate, P.O. Box 3396, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9960","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}