J. Brooks Robinson ’36

Brooks died Aug. 8, 2001. He was a graduate of the Moran School in DC. At Princeton he majored in philosophy and was a member of Key and Seal.

Since 1938 he was board chairman of the Grogan Robinson Lumber Co. of Great Falls, Mont. He also was a past president of the Montana Building Material Dealers Assn., Montana Taxpayers Assn., Vermiculate Assn.-Chicago, and was listed in Who's Who of The West 1962-1968. He was president of the Kiwanis club of Great Falls and a past trustee and president of the Deaconess Hospital of Great Falls. His hobbies were golf, fishing, and sailing on Flathead Lake in Montana.

Brooks is survived by his wife, Eleanor S. Speaker, whom he married in 1940, sons J. Frederick and Owen B., daughter Marjorie Smith, and several grandchildren.

He had great affection for Princeton and for our class. When younger, he and Eleanor attended some of our class reunions despite the long distance from their home.

The Class of 1936