???–Doug Swanson In Memoriam: Armyn Roberts Brooke, 1929-2017 rmyn Roberts Brooke, who served Portland State as a teacher and tutor, died April 30 at age 87. Ms. Brooke was born on May 29, 1929, near her family’s wheat farm in Oakesdale, Washington. At the age of six she went to live with her aunt and uncle, then later reunited with her mother and brothers. She spent most of her high school years traveling throughout the South as her stepfather pursued a military career. She attended 10 high schools in four years, finally returning to Washington and graduating from Leavenworth High School in 1946. At the University of Washington, where she earned a bachelor’s in elementary education, Ms. Brooke met her future husband, a graduate student named Clarke Brooke, Jr. The couple married in 1949 and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she taught elementary school and her husband pursued a Ph.D. in geography at the University of Nebraska. After two years in Ethiopia, where the first of the couple’s three daughters was born, the family moved to Portland and Dr. Brooke began his teaching career in the Department of Geography at Portland State. In 1974 Ms. Brooke completed a master’s in teaching at PSU and began teaching and substituting in Portland-area schools. In 1977 she joined Portland State, teaching and tutoring students in study skills, vocabulary, and English as a second language. The family often ventured overseas as Dr. Brooke conducted research in Tanzania, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. In 1975 they lived in a van for six months while traveling throughout Europe studying endangered domestic animal breeds. The Brookes continued their world travels in retirement, including a trip down the Amazon River. They visited Patagonia, Chile, Alaska, Egypt, the Antarctic, the Arctic, and the Caribbean. Ms. Clark continued her involvement in the Unitarian Church, AAUW, Lake Oswego Library, and various Democratic political causes. She was a supporter of cultural arts and was a longtime season subscriber to Portland Arts and Lectures, Chamber Music Northwest, White Bird Dance, Artists Repertory Theater, and Portland Opera. Ms. Brooke’s husband died in 2009. She is survived by her three daughters and their spouses, Ann Brooke, of Kauai, Hawaii; Jill and Brad Wall, of Portland; Megan Brooke and Peter Schoonmaker, of Portland; granddaughter, Emily Clemons; and grandsons Guy, Cole, and Henry Schoonmaker. Memorial donations in Ms. Brooke’s name may be made to the Lake Oswego Public Library, 706 Fourth Street, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 97034. –Doug Swanson 1971 Photograph of Armyn Brooke from PSU Digital Archives 5 A
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