A quintessential New Yorker and consummate patron of the arts, Alan Cohn had particular passions for jazz—he was a founding trustee of Jazz at Lincoln Center—and education. So after this beloved philanthropist died a year ago, at age 84, an organization with which he’d been active for half a century, the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women, honored his memory by endowing a Juilliard scholarship in his name. Describing Cohn as someone who “just loved life,” JFEW chair Jill W. Smith noted that she and the rest of Cohn’s fellow JFEW trustees “admired him for his intellect, but also because he was so fair and compassionate.” She added that he was not only “generous philanthropically but also in terms of sharing his knowledge.” And also his joy, whether it was about a performance—he and his wife Betsy attended several each week—or his or a friend’s philanthropic endeavors, or his family, or his latest golf game or jazz piano lesson. “He always had a smile and an eternally youthful way about him,” Smith said.