Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 25, 1991 TAG: 9102240059
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: MILLBORO SPRINGS, VA. LENGTH: Medium
MILLBORO SPRINGS, VA. - Edward P. Brooks, age 95, died of a heart attack at his farm in Millboro Springs, Va. on Friday, February 22, 1991. He was born in Westbrook, Maine, July 11, 1895. Mr. Brooks graduated from M.I.T. in 1917. Upon graduation, he served throughout World War I as a Lieutenant in the First Engineer Regiment, First Division, U. S. Army. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary bravery. Following the war, Brooks began a career in industry where following employment with several companies, he joined Sears-Roebuck and Company in 1927. He was employed by Sears for a quarter century, retiring as vice president in charge of factories and director. During those years, he served industry in many capacities including being a director of more than twenty-five corporations, including the Erie Railroad, American Optical Company, Sharon Steel, Armstrong Rubber, Whirlpool Corp., the Colonial Fund and Colonial Growth Fund of Boston. Upon retiring from Sears in 1951, Brooks was named Founding Dean of the Sloan School of Industrial Management at M.I.T. until 1959 when he retired. While at M.I.T., he organized the first advanced management program in India. During his lifetime, Dean Brooks was active in civic affairs in Chicago and Boston. He was acting head of the Chicago Community Fund Campaign in 1941. He was a director of the Chicago Institute of Design, the Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross and he was a member of the Corporation of M.I.T. from 1940 to 1945. In World War II, he served several agencies in Washington, D. C. as a consultant. He was the first chairman of the National Research Committee Boards on equipment and material. In 1945, he was Vice Deputy of the White House Mission to China on war production. For this service he was awarded the American Medal of Freedom and the Chinese Victory Medal. After moving to Virginia in 1971, Dean Brooks was the first chairman of the Garth Newel Music Center Foundation. He was preceded in death by his wife, Carol Wright Brooks in 1971. He is survived by two daughters, Beverly Brooks Floe of Belmont, Mass.; Carol Brooks Pihl of Hinsdale, Ill.; a son, Robert Wright Brooks of Manakin-sabot, Va.; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Garth Newel Music Center or to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. McLaughlin Funeral Home in Hot Springs, Va., is handling the arrangements.
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