P.P.B. Brooks was my maternal grandfather. Both his children attended Lanier, John P. Brooks (uncle) and Rhoda Adele Brooks (mother). During the summers, he would take me up to his space (3rd floor, I believe) and set me up with things to do while he was teaching summer school. There was a Coke machine on the first floor, and he would send me down to get Cokes, each costing a nickel.

Mr Brooks died in 1975 in Dallas. My mother, Adele Brooks, died in 2006. Uncle John died in 2008.

He did not want to retire, but I believe he reached the mandatory retirement age in Alabama. After he retired, he worked for Scotts Photography in Montgomery. (Photography was one of his passions, and I think Mr. Scott had been one of his students.) Around 1955 or 1956, he secured a position with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., and he and my grandmother relocated to the capital.

When he taught at Lanier, he became involved in aeronautics with his students (likely during World War II), but I am unsure exactly what this entailed.

If you have any information about him and his contributions during his career at Lanier, please contact me.

Thanks!

Bob Macfadzean