Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-14 | Page 1 | Advanced Stage

I I I I Advanced Stage ji I I DAVID BELASCO Noted for Artistry I fAMED BAYlOR U. U p PRESIDENT DIES DIESEnd End Comes Quietly to Noted Educator Suffering From Internal Cancer WACO ACO Tex TeL la 1 May It 14 United Press Dr Samuel Palmer Brooks pre president of or Baylor university died at the Central Texas Baptist sanitarium sanitarium sani san early riy today He lie was 67 61 years old With VIlli his death th the state lost its foremost educator and Baptist de de- de leader The end came quietly with the family a n youthful schoolmate and anda a Baylor official at l his s bedside Dr Brooks lapsed into a coma yesterday and never rallied With the same grim courage he lie exercised in fighting the storms o of poverty revolutionary debates often the antagonism of or his llis own brother- brother Continued on Paso Page C Two Iwo I FAMED BAYlOR U U. U PRESIDENT DIES Continued 1 from Irom Pate Pace One hood for tOl Baylor nearly three decades he ic resisted the tile ravages of internal cancer ancer KNEW END WAS VAS NEAR On May 2 he was told he had buta but a few weeks at most to live Systematically th the hardy veteran beloved be- be loved oved alike by thousands of or Baylor graduates Baptists and Texas cItiZens cItI- cItI zeDS Zens set about rounding out his active ac- ac I ive tive life I He sent his students a a. message message- My only regret in going is 15 that Ishall I shall shaH never be able t to stand before another Mother student body Carry Carryon on Dr Brooks known l to ta his students I and faculty in informal conversa- conversa lon lion as Prex left but one unfinished unfinished unfinished task the task the signing of or diplomas for or the tile spring graduating class Ill not disappoint my students he avowed and set about in the face of excruciating pain penning his signature signature sig sig- sig nature times But death won in the grim le When ho he had left this last meI memento me me- I mento to some students who will willbe be c graduated next week his strength the failed ailed the last waning strength to which he had resorted contrary to medical advice that h he was US short short- ort ort- ening his ills brief period of or life WAS VAS HARD liARD WORKER To the end he displayed that same me indomitable spirit which Inspired his voracious study by a kerosene lamp lampIn In his childhood his work as a a. railroad rail rall- road oad section hand his desertion of that hat labor to enroll in Baylor academy academy acad acad- emy elny his securing of or degrees from Baylor and Yale and his presidency of the oldest institution of ot higher education on Texas toll soil founded in 1845 wIllie while Texas was still a re re- re public Pat M. M Neff NeI former governor of Texas kept ept a sad vigil with the dying president his roommate InBa in Ba Baylor lor Just before he fell Into inta a a. stupor Dr Brooks requested Neff to sIt it with him and hold ilLs his hand as ashe ashe ashe he passed Into tho the beyond be ond Neff was in the flower banked hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital room when death struck Dean V. V S S. S Allen acting president of Baylor Bayor Bay- Bay lor br or since inco Dr Brooks was Incapacitated ta ted was the only other person present present pres pres- ent except members of or tho the fam- fam iy FAMILY ULY PRESENT They were his wife a son Sims Brooks prominent Waco attorney and anti a a. daughter MI Miss s Aurelia Brooks teacher In Baylor Dalor who was on a leave eave of or absence studying in Columbia Colum- Colum bia ia university when she hastened 1 to o her fathers father's bedside Funeral service will be held FrIday Friday Fri FrI- day afternoon in III Waco Vaco hall hail auditorium presented to Dr Brooks Broos as the gift gUt of tho the citizens of Waco Wacota to ta o Baylor university Dr George W. W Truett of or Dallas outstanding Baptist minister and Dr J. J M. M Dawson Waco pastor will officiate I