Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 10

A—10 BAYLOR PRESIDENT EXPIRES IN WACD 2 Dr. Brooks Vietim of Cancer After Completing Labor of . Love for School. By the Associated Press. ‘WACO, Tex., May 14—Dr. 8. P. Brooks; 67, president of Baylor Univer- sity, died at the Baptist Sanitarium here early today. He succumbed to cancer a few days after physicians had forbidden him to complete a last labor of love for the school at which he had served 28 years, the signing of diplomas for the 400 members of this year's graduating class. Former Gov. Pat M. Neff and Dean W. 8. Allen of Baylor were with the umuy at the president’s bedside when e end came. Neff, former school- m te of Dr. Brooks, has been spoken of a8 a likely successor to the presidency of the Baptist school. Native of Georgia. - Dr. Brooks did not have the oppor- tunities of even & common school edu- cation until he was 22 years old. His n’ht upward among students to a place prominence among the Nation’s edu- cators came after he had supported his invalid father for several years by working as & farm laborer’ and as a section hand on the Santa Fe lines in Johnson County, Tex. Dr. Brooks was born in Milledgeville, Ga., December 4, 1863. His father, Rev. 8. E. Brooks, & Baptist minister, moved to Texas ‘when the son was 5 years old, and located in Johnson County at _Joshua. Having had s consuming desire for eduuuon since childhood, however, the lm nm in schooling. At the age of 23 he taught a small rural school in Johnson County, from the proceeds of which work he was able to enter the high school department of Baylor at e of 24, and continued his work e was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1893 at the age of 30. Fol- low! his graduation he entered Yale University, from which he received an- other degree in 1894. He then returned to Texas, when he taught for a while a8 the vublk: n:hool at Mcl belore being call chair of history and ewnmnlu at Hly- lor University. After several years on the Baylor faculty Dr. Brooks returned to Yale 'Jnlnnlty to take his master’s dztl’ee ‘was while gunu!u ‘work mere fiut he was elected president of Baylor and returned to his alma mat rmcmet executive in the Summer of Dr. Brooks was active in prom the cause of education in & gene way and it was upon his call that the | each Texas Assoclation of Colleges was or- gpnized on the Baylor Campus in 1916. llelyd Elect Wilson. early career as a_member of flu Blylor faculty he taught the first course in soclology ever given in this State and in 1915 he was elected pres- ident of the southem Sociological Con- Indiwln‘ the civlc interests of Dr. Brooks, he was vice president of the American Pelice Soclety, spoke ex- tensively in various parts of America in behalf of international peace and in 1907 organized the Texas Peace So- clety, the first State peace body ever formed in this country. Dr. Brooks was widely used as a speaker in behalf of the Democratic ticket in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was elected President the first time. Dr. Brooks was active in religious cir- cles. From 1914 to 1917 he was presi- dent of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and in 1910 and again in 1917 he was, elected vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1924 and 1925 he was president of the South- ern Baptist Education Association and ot the time of his death was vice pres- ident of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. In January of 1931 he was invited by the Baptist Bible In- stitute to deliver the Tharp lecture on “The Preacher From a Layman's Point of View.” In 1895 Dr. Brooks married Miss Mat- tie Sims of Cleburn, who survives him, along with two children. They are Miss Aurella Brooks, a member of the Eng- lish faculty at B:Lylar and Sios Brooks, a Waco attorney. The president has one granddaughter and is survived also by a brother, Prof. George Brooks of the State School for Deaf Mutes at Austin, Dr. Brooks was a member of & num- ber of Masonic bodies, the Maccabees and the Rotary Club. Numerous colleges over the country had conferred on him the honorary de- gree of LL. D. DOGWOOD TREE WALK IS PLANNED BY CLUB Washington Soroptimist Group 1932 Program Includes Pilgrimage. Planting of & walk of dogwood trees in the Clpml is one of the projects sponsored by the Washington Soropti- mkt. Club as part of its 1932 program, it was announced today after a meeting of the Bicentennial Committee of the club in the La Fayette Hotel. ‘The program includes a pilgrimage to Wakefleld, Va., birthplace of George ‘Washington, on June 21, 1932, by all the | Soroptimist Clubs in the United States; a display of Wakefleld china and the promotion of its sale through clubs in lll parts of the country and the com- pleutm of a Soroptimist walk of trees in Washington and in every city where there is a Soroptimist Club. ‘The trees will be adapted to the cities ter | whera the walks will be located. The ule’c:lon of '.hemdogwo':d for the fC&ml- expected to create a mass of - ‘wood blooms which will be a unmogt attraction during the blooming period 1931, Liceatr & Myms Tosacco Co. .)/el' you find me the friend of the man in the street” At home anywhere. The unvarying better taste of Chesterfield has won millions of smokers and continues to win millions more. And here’s why . . . 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