Clinton Ethelburt Brush III ’33 *35

Bert died in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 20, 1996, after an operation. He was 85 years old.

He was a native of Nashville and prepared at Lawrenceville. He was one of the best known, best liked, and most active members of our class. He was on the Tiger board for four years, was active in the Triangle Club, and served as its president senior year. He was a coxswain with the 150-pound crew, a cheer leader, and a member of Cap and Gown. At graduation he was voted the best all around man outside of athletics, the best dressed, and he came in second as the handsomest.

After graduation, Bert did his graduate work in architecture at Princeton, interrupted by a year's study in France. He received his MFA degree in 1935 and for the next 57 years practiced architecture in Nashville, for many years with the firm of Brush, Hutchinson and Gwinn, the latter being our own Bob Gwinn. They were responsible for the law and divinity school buildings at Vanderbilt U., the Nashville Children's Theater, the Cumberland Science Museum, and for several school buildings and churches. Bert served as president of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects and was a director of that organization. Bert had the useful and busy career which his classmates would have predicted for him.

He wrote a moving tribute to his friend and our classmate Jose Ferrer in our 1992 summer newsletter. Bert's wife, Martha Stockton Brush, died in 1990. He is survived by his children, Clinton E. IV, Richard S., and C. Beeler, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1933