
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, November 28, 1995                   TAG: 9511280079
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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FORMER TECH PROFESSOR DIES IN MARYLAND

Coy Brooks, a professor in Virginia Tech's animal science department from 1954 to 1966, died Friday in Silver Spring, Md., of lung cancer.

Brooks, an expert on swine nutrition, left Blacksburg to become head of the animal science department at the University of Hawaii. He stayed there from 1966 to 1977, then returned to head Tech's Tidewater Research and Continuing Education Center until 1984.

He received his graduate degrees from the University of Missouri.

Memorial donations in his memory may be made to the Inter-Faith Chapel, 3680 Leisure World Blvd., Silver Spring, Md., 20906, or to the Montgomery County, Md., unit of the American Cancer Society, at 11331 Amherst Ave., Silver Spring, Md., 20902.

by CNB