Dale Bartholomew "Coop" Cooper was born on the Nineteenth of April, 1954 and lived as a child in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went to Germantown Friends School, a Quaker school in the area, at least for middle school and presumably for High School. While his family was not Quaker, they did consider themselves to at least somewhat identify with that faith. Certainly Dale kept this in mind when he applied to and agreed to attend Haverford College, another Quaker educational institution in the Philadelphia area for his undergraduate studies. This Quaker connection becomes interesting when one looks at characters such as Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, lending the suggestion the Albert's nonviolence is due to the Quaker Peace Testimony.