Family and Friends of Reg Brook

The Reg Brook Memorial Award honors the memory of Reginald in recognition of his unique contributions to the education of a generation of University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geology students. Each summer since 1969, Drs. Thomas Laudon and James McKee took geology students participating in the department’s summer field camp to the isolated region of Lake Tagish in British Columbia, where they spent two and a half weeks of their eight week program camping on the Brooks’ land and enjoying his family’s generous hospitality. Reg acted as an informal instructor to the students, a practice his family continued after his death. Reg had a last-impact on the students, with 100 of them contributing to the scholarship fund Drs. Laudon and McKee established in his memory.

Reginald Galbraith Brook (1921-1977) was a longtime resident of Graham Inlet, Tagish Lake, British Columbia where his family had cabins for rent and catered fishing and boating parties. In the winters, he was a modern day trapper. Reg served in India and Burma in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1946. Prior to moving back to his family’s homestead on Tagish Lake, he lived in Vancouver and was an electrical engineer for many years.