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Gyla Brooks, whose 45 years of Public service in nursing, public health, teaching and administration, has taken her from the Arctic Circle to the Arizona desert, returned home to be Director of Nursing at the Beaver Valley Geriatric Center in 1970. With an A.B. in nursing at Western Reserve, a Masters in public health at Yale, and courses at the D. T. Watson School of Physical Therapy, she was a public health nurse in Pittsburgh and on the Navajo and Apache reservations. She taught at Western Reserve and Cornell School of Nursing in New York City, and was Director of Nursing at Sitka, Alaska, Community Hospital, and the Mission Hospital at Ganada, Arizona where her paper on Hip Disease Among the Navajos and Apaches was published in the Journal of Public Health. In the Community, she has been active in the Easter Seal Society, Cancer Society, Beaver Heritage Foundation, Camera Club and is past president of the Quota and Century Clubs.