Harry Angelo Brooks ’35

Harry died at his home in Glen Head, NY, on June 2, 2000. He was 87.

He prepared for Princeton at Pawling School [N.Y.], where he served on the student government board and ran with the track team. At Princeton, he majored in French and English and was a member of Charter Club and Triangle Club. In 1938 he added a Columbia law degree to his Princeton diploma. By then, he used to say he'd developed "an acute distaste for legal work." So, in 1941 he joined the Natl. Guard, which led him into participation in the Allied landing at Rouen during WWII, a march across Hitler's Europe, and postwar service in Berlin, where he worked at the Allied Commandatura - the four party headquarters - and became chief of staff.

Coming back to the US in 1946, Harry "wanted something entirely different." He began a 44-year career as a NYC art dealer, starting with E. Coe Keff Gallery, then Knoedler & Co., and finally Wildenstein & Co., where he became pres. before retiring in 1990. During this period, he also devoted time to a host of other organizations, including Princeton U.'s Art Museum, the Natl. Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame in Saratoga, N.Y., and the Racket & Tennis Club and Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

He leaves his wife, Helen M. "Holly" Brooks, two daughters, two stepsons (including Howard B. Lowell '76), and seven grandchildren.

The Class of 1935