Irene Joseph and Sidney Brooks were married on February 10, 1921 in St. Louis at the home of Rabbi Louis Witt, Irene's brother-in-law. Rabbi Witt officiated at the ceremony. Rabbi Witt was the senior rabbi at Temple Sharre Emeth at the time. He would serve there until 1929.

Graduated from Harvard University

Sidney started his advertising career in Chicago, Illinois and would later start his own advertising firm in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1910. His firm (Brooks Advertising) was was very successful. He started and was very active with the Little Rock Rotary Club. the details of his endeavors with Rotary are outlined below.

Club 99
The Rotary Club of Little Rock is Arkansas' oldest and largest civic organization. Organized on July 13, 1913, the Club was charted as the 99th club of Rotary International on January 1, 1914. Sidney M. Brooks was the founder and first president. He brought the ideas of Rotary from a contact in Los Angeles. Mr. Brooks researched the organization and invited friends August Engel, Corbin M. Duncan, A.M. Carroll and E. Star Thompson to meet with him and discuss the possibility of organizing a club in Little Rock. These five men on the evening of July 6, 1913 selected two men each to invite to join. By the time the club received its charter on January 1, 1914, there were thirty-six members.

The club traces its origin to the 1911 arrival in Little Rock (Pulaski County) of Sidney M. Brooks (1886–1985), a Memphis, Tennessee, native who had graduated from Harvard University and moved to Little Rock to establish the state's first advertising agency. Knowing that Brooks needed to meet more people to establish business relationships, a banker suggested to him that he should look into something called the Rotary Club, which the banker's nephew had joined in Los Angeles, California.

Rotary Club of Little Rock, AR
President, 1913-14
District Governor, 1931-32
President Emeritus, April 1939
Secretary, 1914-52
July, 1913 Charter Member