Phyllis Simmons Brooks
{{Short description|Canadian educator}}
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| birth_name = Phyllis Theodosia Simmons
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|12|21}}
| birth_place = Bermuda
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|02|26|1926|12|21}}
| death_place = Canada
| nationality = Canadian
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| occupation = Educator
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Phyllis Theodosia Simmons Brooks (December 21, 1926 – February 26, 2012) was a Canadian educator.{{cite web |url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Phyllis-Brooks&lc=3781&pid=156160304&mid=5011650 |title=In Memory of Phyllis Theodosia Brooks |publisher=Giffen-Mack Funeral Home & Cremation Centre}}
Biography
Brooks was born in Bermuda and came to Canada on a scholarship to study teaching in 1945. She taught school in Bermuda and then, after marrying a Canadian, returned to Canada. She received a BA in English from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in education and then was a teacher and librarian with the Toronto school board for 20 years. After retiring from teaching, she taught adult literacy courses for the Toronto District School Board on a volunteer basis. Brooks also served as a member of the working committee of the Bermudian Canadian Association. While working with St. Christopher House in Toronto, she worked to raise scholarship funds for children in music programs.{{cite news |url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120206/ISLAND02/702069996 |author=Jessie Moniz|title=Full marks for two quality educators |newspaper=The Royal Gazette |location=Bermuda|date=February 6, 2012}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EFw7_bh0YEC&pg=PA72 |title=Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association, 1951-1976 |pages=72–73 |last=Hill |first=Lawrence |year=1996 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=1895642183}}
Brooks received the Harriet Tubman Award from the Ontario Black History Society. She was a founding member of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (CANEWA), later the Congress of Black Women of Canada.
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Category:Canadian schoolteachers
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