Brooks, Eleanor Stabler

Margaret Brooks Morse was born October 23, 1917 in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Eleanor Stabler Brooks and Charles Franklin Brooks, and was the second of their seven children. She attended Radcliffe College (A.B. 1938) where she studied English Literature and the classics, and was a member and president of the Radcliffe Choral Society.

After graduating MBM spent ten weeks bicycling around England and Europe, including Nazi Germany. Upon her return, she enrolled in Simmons College of Social Work and earned an A.M. (1940). She was employed as a medical social worker (1940-1941) at New Haven Hospital in New Haven. In 1941 she married Philip (Pete) Weber Morse (Harvard 1938), and relocated to Cleveland, Ohio where she worked as a medical social worker at university hospitals in Cleveland. During PWM's wartime service in the Navy, MBM temporarily relocated to New York City where she gave birth to Philip Morse (March 19, 1943). She moved later to Cambridge to be close to her family.

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