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NORRIS L BROOKENS

le first permanent building on the Sanniversity campus is named for *ens, a civic leader and the •• ? Illinois Board of. IIS, V-1 leader p and foresight was ment of this, the upper-level university. I okens was app in ted chairof Reg< . Governor n the Bo. formed in • d for the nivers oringf Id I in January, i • r sity was or Ri id B. complete!, ail of ^ schools. was alsc active in the establishment of a commju college in chat are., and served of the Illinois Boai of Higher I on. A native o f T< ka, Kansas, Dr. Bn graduates % ith h< /ersiti o f Chicago in studi< Heidelberg Germany nd ret o the Chicago where he rea d a PI ology in 1937 ,s M.D. in 1939. H< forth- medical tr; ing at Yal nati •loinin. I Ir Stal during World War I I . He I the 1946 tined ii * • •• when s a mcmb< :f unt ii July 2 8 , 1 9 6 < It is specia ippropri.i State I brar^ nent Build