Rodney M. Cook, Jr. is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He initiated the campaign to successfully save the 6000 seat Fox Theatre. In 1982, he established Rodney M. Cook Interests, a design/development company. In 1987, he established PolitesCook Architects which designed the Newington Cropsey Museum, NY, housing the largest American collection of Hudson River School paintings (Arthur Ross Award to founder.) He is a Founding Trustee of The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Architecture and organized the design and construction of the Princes’ Olympic Games Monument in Atlanta with Anton Glikine, et al. His preservation efforts currently involve the establishment of the Russian National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is on the boards of directors of the Hearst Foundation/Hearst Castle, Atlanta Landmarks (owner of the Fox Theater), the Institute of Classical Architecture andClassic America, The New York Philomusica, and is a past president of Animal Health Trust U.S., Newmarket, England. He has lectured at the University of Georgia, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, Washington and Lee University, “The Scott Room” at the United States Senate, Hearst Castle, the Kremlin Armory, Tolstoy estate Yasnaya Polyana, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation, Moscow, National Building Museum, Washington DC, The Senate, and the Russian Embassy, Washington. Mr. Cook’s work has been published in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times of London, Pravda, Izvestia, The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, Forbes and USA Today.