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| Don Brooker was born at Waikari, Mid-Canterbury in 1914. He grew up in a rural environment and as a boy attended the Peaks and Harwarden primary schools before moving onto Christchurch Boys High School. Here his ability subsequently enabled him to enrol at Canterbury University College to study science. He graduated with a B.Sc. in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biological subjects. While at University he worked as a laboratory assistant in wheat genetics research but eventually he decided to become a teacher and completed a two year course at Christchurch Teachers College. At about this time he became interested in the rapidly expanding field of radio technology and soon qualified to become the operator of an amateur (ham) radio station. He retained his interest in radio for all of his working life because the hobby eventually became an integral part of his colour therapy research. In early post war years Don taught science and mathematics at Marton District High School then in 1960 he became Deputy-principal of Wanganui Technical College, where he remained for the next four years. It was during this period that he discovered the Liley System of Colour Healing in which he became very interested in spite of his initial rejection of Colour Therapy as being so much quackery! The fact that radio and light waves from the electromagnetic spectrum were an integral part of the therapy, no doubt appealed to Don's physics orientated university background. He and Dr. Liley spoke often about and researched the Liley way of Colour Healing which Don eventually inherited. Then late in in 1964 Don Brooker's way of life was considerably changed by his appointment as Principal of Southland Technical College in Invercargill where he spent seven years of his educational career. He became heavily involved in promoting technical education in Southland and in his last year in office, had the satisfaction of helping establish Invercargill's first Polytechnic College. During the Invercargill years he had to virtually shelve his interest and activities in Colour Therapy healing, but vowed that as soon as he retired he would establish a Colour Therapy Clinic and set about researching the scientific pathways of Colour Healing. So when Don retired as a secondary school principal in late 1972, he and his wife Nan moved to Cambridge where they purchased a large, 4 bedroom retirement home with basement space suitable for the housing of both clinic and workshop. By early 1973 his first clinic was in full operation and he was already finding new colour tabulations for unmatched diseases and trying out different electronic circuits as possible modern replacements for the outdated Liley Colour Machines. Because of the large influx of patients from Europe in the late 1980's, he opened a second clinic in Cambridge and trained staff to help run both establishments. During the last decade of his working life Don became heavily involved overseas in Australia and Europe, until eventually he was obliged to retire for a second time in 1997 at the age of 83. Don has lived in Cambridge, providing Colour Therapy for 24 years, treating people, many of them from Holland, suffering from various diseases, viruses and infections. Don Brooker is not a doctor, nor does he pretend to be - Don is a scientist, a "non-medical specialist" - a colour therapist.
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