Background
Stennett H. Brooks was born July 19, 1932, to Roger and Jelina Brooks in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
Stennett H. Brooks was born July 19, 1932, to Roger and Jelina Brooks in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
The oldest of six children, three of whom preceded him in death, Brooks attended school in Panama, Jamaica, and New York before enrolling at Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) in Huntsville, Alabama.
Prior to becoming the president, Brooks served as treasurer for more than 20 years. Brooks died of injuries sustained in a car accident on April 4, 2008. In 1959, Stennett married Erma R. Parchment.
They had three daughters, Andrea, Audra, and Amalia.
After continuing his education at Oakwood, Brooks returned to the Northeastern Conference and served as the conferences"s accountant, secretary-treasurer and treasurer before becoming conference president As president, Brooks oversaw the construction of a nursing home, senior citizen housing, the Northeastern Conference Headquarters building, the purchase of a high school and the development of a campsite.
In addition to his work at the Northeastern Conference, he loved to traveling Brooks died April 4, 2008, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
He was certified as a cruise counselor by the Cruise Lincolnshire International Association and was a member of the American Society of Travel Agents and its Industrial Committee.