Craig B. Brush ’51

Craig was born May 28, 1930, in New York to Josephine Marple Brush and John M. Brush ’21.

He prepared at Andover and at Princeton was an SPIA major. He was a member of Charter and performed in the 1950 Triangle show. Craig roomed with Chip Fawcett, Jerry Rose, and Bob Vivian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He began his teaching career as an instructor at Choate, then went to Columbia University, where he earned a master’s and a doctoral degree in French. He spent two years in Paris on a Fulbright and taught French for eight years.

Craig moved to City College for four years, after which he went to Fordham University’s modern languages department, where he spent the remaining 25 years of his academic career. He served two terms as department chairman, two years as chairman of the Fordham College honors committee and — one of his proudest accomplishments — served as faculty mentor of FLAG (Fordham Lesbians and Gays) for a decade. His published works include Montaigne and Bayle: Variations on the Theme of Skepticism, and From the Perspective of the Self: A Reading of Montaigne’s Essays. Craig died in New York Sept. 14, 2011. His sister Brenda (Mrs. William E. Spencer) predeceased him.