Brooks Hall ’44

BROOKS, AGE 68, passed away July 7, 1990, at the Baptist Hospital, Oklahoma City, following a brief Illness. our Class and Princeton have lost a loyal, responsive friend. His active involvement with the Princeton Club of Oklahoma City continued right up to the time of his death. A handsome man inside and out, blessed with wisdom, warmth, and humor, he loved his family, church, and country, and the rough and tumble of the oil business.

Brooks majored in geology, graduating with honors in 1943. He played freshman football, rowed on the varsity crew; served on a number of undergraduate committees. Pete Wells and Don Hirschberger were his roommates; Tower his club. "Cowboy" joined the U.S.N. Submarine Service in 1943. At the end of his 3V2 years of duty he was a It. commander. Gaining an M.B.A. at Harvard, he began a successful lifetime career in oil development. He formed the HallJones Oil Corp., later the Brooks Hall Oil Corp. Golf and thoroughbred racing were his longterm hobbies.

He is survived by his widow, Jackie; his brother, Brad; sons Fred, Brooks Jr., and Kirkland; four grandchildren; and two stepsons, Jay and Russell Phillips. To all we extend our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1944