VERA KOHN

KOHN--Vera Sharpe, a resident of Princeton, died of complications from a stroke on October 12, 2014 at the age of 86. She was born and raised in New York City. She received a BA in Modern European History and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College, and a Licence from L'Institute des Hautes Etudes Internationales at the University of Geneva. She married Immanuel Kohn on July 22, 1950 and attended Yale Law School with him for one year, where she was one of eight women in a class of approximately 180 law students, before her first child was born. After law school, her husband joined the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where he eventually became Chairman of the Executive Committee. The couple lived for a short time in Brooklyn, New York, and from 1954 to 1968 in Westchester, New York, where she taught at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry and later commuted to Manhattan to work in the Office of Public Information of the United Nations' Secretariat. They moved to Princeton in the summer of 1968, where she volunteered at the Stony Brook Millstone Watersheds Association, working on the preservation of open space and farmland for several years. She was a Docent at the Princeton University Art Museum and on the Board of the Princeton University Concert Committee. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Club, the Harvard Club, the Nassau Club, the Present Day Club, and the Bedens Brook Club. Immanuel Kohn, her husband of 62 years, passed away in March 2013. She is survived by four children, Gail, Peter and wife Margaret, Sheila, Robert and wife Susan, and six grandchildren, Megan, Emily, Michael, Jason, Sarah, and Katherine. Burial services will be private. The family requests that any gifts in Vera's honor be sent to the Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton University Art Museum or the Princeton University Chamber Concerts.