SCIENTIST, HOMEMAKER
Dorothy was born the third child of Dr. Charles Noyes Brooks and his wife, Florence Idell Wright Brooks, in 1918 at their 500 Ridgewood Ave. home in Minneapolis. She was delivered by her father, in the same house as her own mother. She was named for the then newly popular "Wizard of Oz" books and movie heroine, she attended Douglas Elementary School and graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1935. She excelled in school, especially in mathematics. She enjoyed school theater activities as well. She and her siblings often put together extemporaneous plays in their own backyard theater. Dorothy was creative and artistic often designing, painting or constructing sets and costumes for these neighborhood-wide events.
Dorothy joined her siblings, Wright and "Betty" Brooks after high school, studying at the University of Minnesota where both her parents had also graduated. She majored in Home Economics and Chemistry. She also joined the sorority of her mother and sister, Gamma Phi Beta (GPB). An excellent student, Dorothy took a series of advanced mathematics and chemistry classes as an undergraduate, with an interest in medicine. She was often the only woman student in these classes. This was even more remarkable as she has a childhood hearing disability. A childhood disease left her gearing challenged. Her sister, Betty, would often attend her college classes with her and take lecture notes. The entire family was supportive of Dorothy's academic efforts. As a young college graduate she worked in her father's medical practice and as a biochemist, in the labs at General Mills Company. Premixed foods were some of the many "new " products that emerged after World War II in the food processing industries. Dorothy would bring home some of her "new" dry boxed cake mixes for her family to test out ! Angel food cakes were her favorite.
Dorothy's lifelong appreciation for nature and the outdoors were engendered by both her girlhood Girl Scout activities and her summer work experiences in Glacier National Park in Montana. She and her siblings were part of the American generations "Heading West" during summer school breaks. She and her sister explored American National Parks, living in the outdoors and appreciating the natural environment --while working at the park's newly popular tourist lodges.
Dorothy met her future husband, Dr. Charles Wilber Jarvis, "Charlie", there in the West at Glacier Park . They shared lifelong appreciation for the outdoors and the pine wilderness, camping, hiking and canoeing. World War II interfered with their initial marriage plans, when Harlie went to military service-- but they finally married in Minneapolis at her parents Minneapolis Kenwood home in 1945.
They set up housekeeping in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband continued his medical training nut also returned to the Pacific Northwest where he developed a medical specialty. Dr. Jarvis began a 20+ year career with St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in St Paul, Minnesota, where he led the Pathology Dept. They had three children, Joan, Peter and Nancy and lived in suburban Roseville Minnsota prior to moving to a wooded lot at Bald Eagle Lake where they built their ideal home at the water's edge in a natural wooded setting. They had accessed to the beauties of the outdoors and enjoyed canoeing, fishing and gardening there.
Dorothy developed many new skills over these same years . As her mother, she was a skilled homemaker, talented in creative and artistic homecrafts, in sewing and knitting, as well as creative cooking. Baking was a specialty, using experiences learned at General Mills. She also maintained an ambitious flower and vegetable garden, while keeping her three active children productively busy.
Dorothy was a 35-year+ member of the Keewaydin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) --the same chapter where many others of her family shared membership activities. Her aunt, Olive Brooks, had been the first Chapter Regent and her mother, sister and cousins were all members as well.
Dorothy's husband predeceased her in 1992; she died after a short illness in 1999 at the age of 81.
Dorothy was born the third child of Dr. Charles Noyes Brooks and his wife, Florence Idell Wright Brooks, in 1918 at their 500 Ridgewood Ave. home in Minneapolis. She was delivered by her father, in the same house as her own mother. She was named for the then newly popular "Wizard of Oz" books and movie heroine, she attended Douglas Elementary School and graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1935. She excelled in school, especially in mathematics. She enjoyed school theater activities as well. She and her siblings often put together extemporaneous plays in their own backyard theater. Dorothy was creative and artistic often designing, painting or constructing sets and costumes for these neighborhood-wide events.
Dorothy joined her siblings, Wright and "Betty" Brooks after high school, studying at the University of Minnesota where both her parents had also graduated. She majored in Home Economics and Chemistry. She also joined the sorority of her mother and sister, Gamma Phi Beta (GPB). An excellent student, Dorothy took a series of advanced mathematics and chemistry classes as an undergraduate, with an interest in medicine. She was often the only woman student in these classes. This was even more remarkable as she has a childhood hearing disability. A childhood disease left her gearing challenged. Her sister, Betty, would often attend her college classes with her and take lecture notes. The entire family was supportive of Dorothy's academic efforts. As a young college graduate she worked in her father's medical practice and as a biochemist, in the labs at General Mills Company. Premixed foods were some of the many "new " products that emerged after World War II in the food processing industries. Dorothy would bring home some of her "new" dry boxed cake mixes for her family to test out ! Angel food cakes were her favorite.
Dorothy's lifelong appreciation for nature and the outdoors were engendered by both her girlhood Girl Scout activities and her summer work experiences in Glacier National Park in Montana. She and her siblings were part of the American generations "Heading West" during summer school breaks. She and her sister explored American National Parks, living in the outdoors and appreciating the natural environment --while working at the park's newly popular tourist lodges.
Dorothy met her future husband, Dr. Charles Wilber Jarvis, "Charlie", there in the West at Glacier Park . They shared lifelong appreciation for the outdoors and the pine wilderness, camping, hiking and canoeing. World War II interfered with their initial marriage plans, when Harlie went to military service-- but they finally married in Minneapolis at her parents Minneapolis Kenwood home in 1945.
They set up housekeeping in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband continued his medical training nut also returned to the Pacific Northwest where he developed a medical specialty. Dr. Jarvis began a 20+ year career with St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in St Paul, Minnesota, where he led the Pathology Dept. They had three children, Joan, Peter and Nancy and lived in suburban Roseville Minnsota prior to moving to a wooded lot at Bald Eagle Lake where they built their ideal home at the water's edge in a natural wooded setting. They had accessed to the beauties of the outdoors and enjoyed canoeing, fishing and gardening there.
Dorothy developed many new skills over these same years . As her mother, she was a skilled homemaker, talented in creative and artistic homecrafts, in sewing and knitting, as well as creative cooking. Baking was a specialty, using experiences learned at General Mills. She also maintained an ambitious flower and vegetable garden, while keeping her three active children productively busy.
Dorothy was a 35-year+ member of the Keewaydin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) --the same chapter where many others of her family shared membership activities. Her aunt, Olive Brooks, had been the first Chapter Regent and her mother, sister and cousins were all members as well.
Dorothy's husband predeceased her in 1992; she died after a short illness in 1999 at the age of 81.
SCIENTIST, HOMEMAKER
Dorothy was born the third child of Dr. Charles Noyes Brooks and his wife, Florence Idell Wright Brooks, in 1918 at their 500 Ridgewood Ave. home in Minneapolis. She was delivered by her father, in the same house as her own mother. She was named for the then newly popular "Wizard of Oz" books and movie heroine, she attended Douglas Elementary School and graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1935. She excelled in school, especially in mathematics. She enjoyed school theater activities as well. She and her siblings often put together extemporaneous plays in their own backyard theater. Dorothy was creative and artistic often designing, painting or constructing sets and costumes for these neighborhood-wide events.
Dorothy joined her siblings, Wright and "Betty" Brooks after high school, studying at the University of Minnesota where both her parents had also graduated. She majored in Home Economics and Chemistry. She also joined the sorority of her mother and sister, Gamma Phi Beta (GPB). An excellent student, Dorothy took a series of advanced mathematics and chemistry classes as an undergraduate, with an interest in medicine. She was often the only woman student in these classes. This was even more remarkable as she has a childhood hearing disability. A childhood disease left her gearing challenged. Her sister, Betty, would often attend her college classes with her and take lecture notes. The entire family was supportive of Dorothy's academic efforts. As a young college graduate she worked in her father's medical practice and as a biochemist, in the labs at General Mills Company. Premixed foods were some of the many "new " products that emerged after World War II in the food processing industries. Dorothy would bring home some of her "new" dry boxed cake mixes for her family to test out ! Angel food cakes were her favorite.
Dorothy's lifelong appreciation for nature and the outdoors were engendered by both her girlhood Girl Scout activities and her summer work experiences in Glacier National Park in Montana. She and her siblings were part of the American generations "Heading West" during summer school breaks. She and her sister explored American National Parks, living in the outdoors and appreciating the natural environment --while working at the park's newly popular tourist lodges.
Dorothy met her future husband, Dr. Charles Wilber Jarvis, "Charlie", there in the West at Glacier Park . They shared lifelong appreciation for the outdoors and the pine wilderness, camping, hiking and canoeing. World War II interfered with their initial marriage plans, when Harlie went to military service-- but they finally married in Minneapolis at her parents Minneapolis Kenwood home in 1945.
They set up housekeeping in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband continued his medical training nut also returned to the Pacific Northwest where he developed a medical specialty. Dr. Jarvis began a 20+ year career with St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in St Paul, Minnesota, where he led the Pathology Dept. They had three children, Joan, Peter and Nancy and lived in suburban Roseville Minnsota prior to moving to a wooded lot at Bald Eagle Lake where they built their ideal home at the water's edge in a natural wooded setting. They had accessed to the beauties of the outdoors and enjoyed canoeing, fishing and gardening there.
Dorothy developed many new skills over these same years . As her mother, she was a skilled homemaker, talented in creative and artistic homecrafts, in sewing and knitting, as well as creative cooking. Baking was a specialty, using experiences learned at General Mills. She also maintained an ambitious flower and vegetable garden, while keeping her three active children productively busy.
Dorothy was a 35-year+ member of the Keewaydin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) --the same chapter where many others of her family shared membership activities. Her aunt, Olive Brooks, had been the first Chapter Regent and her mother, sister and cousins were all members as well.
Dorothy's husband predeceased her in 1992; she died after a short illness in 1999 at the age of 81.
Dorothy was born the third child of Dr. Charles Noyes Brooks and his wife, Florence Idell Wright Brooks, in 1918 at their 500 Ridgewood Ave. home in Minneapolis. She was delivered by her father, in the same house as her own mother. She was named for the then newly popular "Wizard of Oz" books and movie heroine, she attended Douglas Elementary School and graduated from West High School in Minneapolis in 1935. She excelled in school, especially in mathematics. She enjoyed school theater activities as well. She and her siblings often put together extemporaneous plays in their own backyard theater. Dorothy was creative and artistic often designing, painting or constructing sets and costumes for these neighborhood-wide events.
Dorothy joined her siblings, Wright and "Betty" Brooks after high school, studying at the University of Minnesota where both her parents had also graduated. She majored in Home Economics and Chemistry. She also joined the sorority of her mother and sister, Gamma Phi Beta (GPB). An excellent student, Dorothy took a series of advanced mathematics and chemistry classes as an undergraduate, with an interest in medicine. She was often the only woman student in these classes. This was even more remarkable as she has a childhood hearing disability. A childhood disease left her gearing challenged. Her sister, Betty, would often attend her college classes with her and take lecture notes. The entire family was supportive of Dorothy's academic efforts. As a young college graduate she worked in her father's medical practice and as a biochemist, in the labs at General Mills Company. Premixed foods were some of the many "new " products that emerged after World War II in the food processing industries. Dorothy would bring home some of her "new" dry boxed cake mixes for her family to test out ! Angel food cakes were her favorite.
Dorothy's lifelong appreciation for nature and the outdoors were engendered by both her girlhood Girl Scout activities and her summer work experiences in Glacier National Park in Montana. She and her siblings were part of the American generations "Heading West" during summer school breaks. She and her sister explored American National Parks, living in the outdoors and appreciating the natural environment --while working at the park's newly popular tourist lodges.
Dorothy met her future husband, Dr. Charles Wilber Jarvis, "Charlie", there in the West at Glacier Park . They shared lifelong appreciation for the outdoors and the pine wilderness, camping, hiking and canoeing. World War II interfered with their initial marriage plans, when Harlie went to military service-- but they finally married in Minneapolis at her parents Minneapolis Kenwood home in 1945.
They set up housekeeping in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband continued his medical training nut also returned to the Pacific Northwest where he developed a medical specialty. Dr. Jarvis began a 20+ year career with St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, in St Paul, Minnesota, where he led the Pathology Dept. They had three children, Joan, Peter and Nancy and lived in suburban Roseville Minnsota prior to moving to a wooded lot at Bald Eagle Lake where they built their ideal home at the water's edge in a natural wooded setting. They had accessed to the beauties of the outdoors and enjoyed canoeing, fishing and gardening there.
Dorothy developed many new skills over these same years . As her mother, she was a skilled homemaker, talented in creative and artistic homecrafts, in sewing and knitting, as well as creative cooking. Baking was a specialty, using experiences learned at General Mills. She also maintained an ambitious flower and vegetable garden, while keeping her three active children productively busy.
Dorothy was a 35-year+ member of the Keewaydin Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) --the same chapter where many others of her family shared membership activities. Her aunt, Olive Brooks, had been the first Chapter Regent and her mother, sister and cousins were all members as well.
Dorothy's husband predeceased her in 1992; she died after a short illness in 1999 at the age of 81.
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