F. Martin Brown, was born in New York City on March 24, 1903, the first of three sons of Frederick W., a research chemist, and Josephine (Von Rilke) Brown, a botanist, musician, and house wife. A forebear founded Brown University in 1764, and a cousin described particle motion to become known as Brownian movement.
"Brownie" attended public schools in New York City, then entered Columbia University to study mathematics, geology, and engineering. He left Columbia after three years and took a job with Frank E. Lutz as assistant in entomology at the American Museum of Natural History. He taught school in Rhode Island and Connecticut in the 1920s. He spent most summers in the Caribbean working as a pilot and mapmaker. Photos of his maps are deposited at Colorado College. He was known to generations of Fountain Valley School students and faculty as Brownie, and died in Colorado Springs on May 30, 1993. A memorial service was held on Sept. 19, 1993 in the chapel at Fountain Valley just south of Colorado Springs in Widefield. F. Martin Brown had lived in the Pikes Peak region since 1928 and in 1930 was one of the founding faculty members of FVS, this with the financial support of Spencer Penrose. He was a driving force behind the Broadmoor hotel's first ice rink and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Early in his career, Brownie achieved a reputation as an outstanding science teacher, and as an entomologist. He taught part time at Colorado College. In 1938 - 1939, Brownie and his first wife, Hazel, travelled in Ecuador gathering insects for research. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and taught at the Army Air Forces Intelligence School in Pennsylvania for most of his military career, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Brownie spent the remainder of his career as chair of the science department at FVS. His own research continued, with entomological expeditions to the Yucatan and the Lesser Antilles and trips through Colorado on a variety of geological and biological studies. After his retirement in 1973 at the age of 70, he continued his writing, research, and part-time teaching at Colorado College and Colorado State University. In 1976, Brownie began a long association with the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, identifying and comparing fossil and modern insects. A large part of the insect collection there was collected by Brownie in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He taught in the Stalking Education in the Wild program at Sanborn Western Camps, Florissant, Colo. F.M.Martin was a prolific writer, co-authoring over 250 scientific papers in entomology, geology, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, and the history of science as well as a number of junior high, high school and college textbooks. His works were published by the New York Entomological Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Denver Museum of Natural History, among others. His most noted books were America's Yesterdays, a history of the human race in North and South America, Jamaica and Its Butterflies and Colorado Butterflies (1957). He was a Research Associate with the American Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of the Carnegie Museum in their respective Departments of Insects and Spiders; his memberships include the Allyn Entomological Institute, the national Board of the Nature Conservancy, and The National Association of Geology Teachers.
Among his honors were The University of Colorado's University Medal of Service to the State in 1958, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Colorado College in 1973, and the Distiguished Service to Science Education Citation from the National Science Teachers Association in 1980.
Hazel Brown died in 1990; on Feb. 4, 1992 Brownie was married in Colorado Springs to former Grace Kemper. who survives. He is also survived by a brother, Donald P. Brown of Palermo, Maine. He left no children. Inurnment was held at Florissant Cemetery, SW corner, 1 mile off Teller County Rd on Upper Twin Rocks Road, Florissant.
"Brownie" attended public schools in New York City, then entered Columbia University to study mathematics, geology, and engineering. He left Columbia after three years and took a job with Frank E. Lutz as assistant in entomology at the American Museum of Natural History. He taught school in Rhode Island and Connecticut in the 1920s. He spent most summers in the Caribbean working as a pilot and mapmaker. Photos of his maps are deposited at Colorado College. He was known to generations of Fountain Valley School students and faculty as Brownie, and died in Colorado Springs on May 30, 1993. A memorial service was held on Sept. 19, 1993 in the chapel at Fountain Valley just south of Colorado Springs in Widefield. F. Martin Brown had lived in the Pikes Peak region since 1928 and in 1930 was one of the founding faculty members of FVS, this with the financial support of Spencer Penrose. He was a driving force behind the Broadmoor hotel's first ice rink and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Early in his career, Brownie achieved a reputation as an outstanding science teacher, and as an entomologist. He taught part time at Colorado College. In 1938 - 1939, Brownie and his first wife, Hazel, travelled in Ecuador gathering insects for research. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and taught at the Army Air Forces Intelligence School in Pennsylvania for most of his military career, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Brownie spent the remainder of his career as chair of the science department at FVS. His own research continued, with entomological expeditions to the Yucatan and the Lesser Antilles and trips through Colorado on a variety of geological and biological studies. After his retirement in 1973 at the age of 70, he continued his writing, research, and part-time teaching at Colorado College and Colorado State University. In 1976, Brownie began a long association with the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, identifying and comparing fossil and modern insects. A large part of the insect collection there was collected by Brownie in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He taught in the Stalking Education in the Wild program at Sanborn Western Camps, Florissant, Colo. F.M.Martin was a prolific writer, co-authoring over 250 scientific papers in entomology, geology, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, and the history of science as well as a number of junior high, high school and college textbooks. His works were published by the New York Entomological Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Denver Museum of Natural History, among others. His most noted books were America's Yesterdays, a history of the human race in North and South America, Jamaica and Its Butterflies and Colorado Butterflies (1957). He was a Research Associate with the American Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of the Carnegie Museum in their respective Departments of Insects and Spiders; his memberships include the Allyn Entomological Institute, the national Board of the Nature Conservancy, and The National Association of Geology Teachers.
Among his honors were The University of Colorado's University Medal of Service to the State in 1958, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Colorado College in 1973, and the Distiguished Service to Science Education Citation from the National Science Teachers Association in 1980.
Hazel Brown died in 1990; on Feb. 4, 1992 Brownie was married in Colorado Springs to former Grace Kemper. who survives. He is also survived by a brother, Donald P. Brown of Palermo, Maine. He left no children. Inurnment was held at Florissant Cemetery, SW corner, 1 mile off Teller County Rd on Upper Twin Rocks Road, Florissant.
F. Martin Brown, was born in New York City on March 24, 1903, the first of three sons of Frederick W., a research chemist, and Josephine (Von Rilke) Brown, a botanist, musician, and house wife. A forebear founded Brown University in 1764, and a cousin described particle motion to become known as Brownian movement.
"Brownie" attended public schools in New York City, then entered Columbia University to study mathematics, geology, and engineering. He left Columbia after three years and took a job with Frank E. Lutz as assistant in entomology at the American Museum of Natural History. He taught school in Rhode Island and Connecticut in the 1920s. He spent most summers in the Caribbean working as a pilot and mapmaker. Photos of his maps are deposited at Colorado College. He was known to generations of Fountain Valley School students and faculty as Brownie, and died in Colorado Springs on May 30, 1993. A memorial service was held on Sept. 19, 1993 in the chapel at Fountain Valley just south of Colorado Springs in Widefield. F. Martin Brown had lived in the Pikes Peak region since 1928 and in 1930 was one of the founding faculty members of FVS, this with the financial support of Spencer Penrose. He was a driving force behind the Broadmoor hotel's first ice rink and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Early in his career, Brownie achieved a reputation as an outstanding science teacher, and as an entomologist. He taught part time at Colorado College. In 1938 - 1939, Brownie and his first wife, Hazel, travelled in Ecuador gathering insects for research. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and taught at the Army Air Forces Intelligence School in Pennsylvania for most of his military career, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Brownie spent the remainder of his career as chair of the science department at FVS. His own research continued, with entomological expeditions to the Yucatan and the Lesser Antilles and trips through Colorado on a variety of geological and biological studies. After his retirement in 1973 at the age of 70, he continued his writing, research, and part-time teaching at Colorado College and Colorado State University. In 1976, Brownie began a long association with the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, identifying and comparing fossil and modern insects. A large part of the insect collection there was collected by Brownie in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He taught in the Stalking Education in the Wild program at Sanborn Western Camps, Florissant, Colo. F.M.Martin was a prolific writer, co-authoring over 250 scientific papers in entomology, geology, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, and the history of science as well as a number of junior high, high school and college textbooks. His works were published by the New York Entomological Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Denver Museum of Natural History, among others. His most noted books were America's Yesterdays, a history of the human race in North and South America, Jamaica and Its Butterflies and Colorado Butterflies (1957). He was a Research Associate with the American Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of the Carnegie Museum in their respective Departments of Insects and Spiders; his memberships include the Allyn Entomological Institute, the national Board of the Nature Conservancy, and The National Association of Geology Teachers.
Among his honors were The University of Colorado's University Medal of Service to the State in 1958, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Colorado College in 1973, and the Distiguished Service to Science Education Citation from the National Science Teachers Association in 1980.
Hazel Brown died in 1990; on Feb. 4, 1992 Brownie was married in Colorado Springs to former Grace Kemper. who survives. He is also survived by a brother, Donald P. Brown of Palermo, Maine. He left no children. Inurnment was held at Florissant Cemetery, SW corner, 1 mile off Teller County Rd on Upper Twin Rocks Road, Florissant.
"Brownie" attended public schools in New York City, then entered Columbia University to study mathematics, geology, and engineering. He left Columbia after three years and took a job with Frank E. Lutz as assistant in entomology at the American Museum of Natural History. He taught school in Rhode Island and Connecticut in the 1920s. He spent most summers in the Caribbean working as a pilot and mapmaker. Photos of his maps are deposited at Colorado College. He was known to generations of Fountain Valley School students and faculty as Brownie, and died in Colorado Springs on May 30, 1993. A memorial service was held on Sept. 19, 1993 in the chapel at Fountain Valley just south of Colorado Springs in Widefield. F. Martin Brown had lived in the Pikes Peak region since 1928 and in 1930 was one of the founding faculty members of FVS, this with the financial support of Spencer Penrose. He was a driving force behind the Broadmoor hotel's first ice rink and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Early in his career, Brownie achieved a reputation as an outstanding science teacher, and as an entomologist. He taught part time at Colorado College. In 1938 - 1939, Brownie and his first wife, Hazel, travelled in Ecuador gathering insects for research. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and taught at the Army Air Forces Intelligence School in Pennsylvania for most of his military career, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Brownie spent the remainder of his career as chair of the science department at FVS. His own research continued, with entomological expeditions to the Yucatan and the Lesser Antilles and trips through Colorado on a variety of geological and biological studies. After his retirement in 1973 at the age of 70, he continued his writing, research, and part-time teaching at Colorado College and Colorado State University. In 1976, Brownie began a long association with the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, identifying and comparing fossil and modern insects. A large part of the insect collection there was collected by Brownie in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He taught in the Stalking Education in the Wild program at Sanborn Western Camps, Florissant, Colo. F.M.Martin was a prolific writer, co-authoring over 250 scientific papers in entomology, geology, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, and the history of science as well as a number of junior high, high school and college textbooks. His works were published by the New York Entomological Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and Denver Museum of Natural History, among others. His most noted books were America's Yesterdays, a history of the human race in North and South America, Jamaica and Its Butterflies and Colorado Butterflies (1957). He was a Research Associate with the American Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of the Carnegie Museum in their respective Departments of Insects and Spiders; his memberships include the Allyn Entomological Institute, the national Board of the Nature Conservancy, and The National Association of Geology Teachers.
Among his honors were The University of Colorado's University Medal of Service to the State in 1958, Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Colorado College in 1973, and the Distiguished Service to Science Education Citation from the National Science Teachers Association in 1980.
Hazel Brown died in 1990; on Feb. 4, 1992 Brownie was married in Colorado Springs to former Grace Kemper. who survives. He is also survived by a brother, Donald P. Brown of Palermo, Maine. He left no children. Inurnment was held at Florissant Cemetery, SW corner, 1 mile off Teller County Rd on Upper Twin Rocks Road, Florissant.
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