Brooks, Eleanor Stabler, 1892-1986.

Margaret Brooks Morse (1917-1992), daughter of Eleanor Stabler Brooks and Charles Franklin Brooks, graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1938). A medical social worker (Simmons College A.M., 1940), she first worked at New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn. and later in university hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. She married businessman Philip Weber Morse in 1943 and they had three children. A political activist, Margaret Brooks Morse participated in protests against the Vietnam war and worked for a nuclear freeze, nuclear disarmament, and to improve relations with the Soviet Union. An accomplished musician, she conducted her church choir, sang, and played piano and violin.

Eleanor Stabler Brooks (Radcliffe A.B. 1914) married meteorologist Charles Franklin Brooks (Harvard A.B. 1911, A.M. 1912, Ph.D 1914) in 1914. She raised and home-schooled their seven children, five of whom attended Harvard and Radcliffe. Charles Franklin Brooks first worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, then taught at Yale University (1915-1918), Clark University (1921-1931), and Harvard University (1931-1958), where he also directed the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. He was a founding member of the American Meteorological Society, remaining its secretary until 1954.

Eleanor Stabler Brooks, community volunteer, graduated from Radcliffe (A.B. summa cum laude, 1914) and was married to Charles Franklin Brooks, professor of meteorology at Harvard. They had seven children. She was active in the League of Women Voters and in UNICEF.

Eleanor Stabler, daughter of Edward Lincoln Stabler and Elizabeth Tubby Stabler, was born September 9, 1892. The Stablers were Quakers and lived first in Brooklyn, N.Y., and then in Greenwich, Conn. Eleanor attended Radcliffe, graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in biology in 1914, and was the winner of the Jonathan Fay Prize. At Harvard she met Charles Franklin Brooks, meteorologist (Harvard A.B. 1911, A.M. 1912, Ph.D 1914) and they married in June 1914.

Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958) was the son of Morgan Brooks, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana and Frona Marie Brooks, who did graduate work at the Harvard Annex (later Radcliffe College), 1884-1886. Frona and Morgan Brooks had eight children, five of whom attended Radcliffe and Harvard including their daughter Frances Brooks Colcord, classmate of Eleanor Stabler Brooks.

Charles Franklin Brooks worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Atlas of American Agriculture (1914-1915); he was then instructor in geography at Yale University (1915-1918). After service during World War I with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Texas, he returned to Washington to edit the Weather Bureau 's Monthly Weather Review (1918-1921). He was appointed associate professor of meteorology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. (1921), full professor (1926), and he remained at Clark until 1931. From 1931 until 1958 he was professor of meteorology at Harvard University and director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. He was largely responsible for founding the American Meteorological Society in 1919, remaining its secretary until 1954 and editing its bulletin until 1938.

The Brooks had seven children, five of whom attended Harvard and Radcliffe. ESB home schooled the children until the family moved to Milton, Mass. ESB and the children spent summers at Silver Lake, N. H. corresponding frequently with CFB who remained at home to work and teach. Together they wrote Why The Weather? (1924). After the death of her husband in 1958, ESB lived with her sister Anna Bunker Stabler (Radcliffe Class of 1923). ESB died in New Haven, Conn. in 1986.