Lucien M. Brush Jr. ’52

LUCIEN BRUSH DIED of cancer in Roland Park, Md., Feb. 13, 1994. At a service in the Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins Univ., he was remembered as a scholar of international repute in the field of sediment transport, a teacher of warmth and integrity, and a devoted father and husband.

Luch had been a professor of environmental and civil engineering since 1969, and served as associate dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies from 1983-85. His love of athletics, nurtured at the Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh, led him to serve as a faculty representative to the N.C.A.A. During his tenures at the Univ. of Iowa and later, at Princeton (where he taught from 1963-69), Luch influenced an outstanding group of young scholars to understand and value the environment.

Lucien had the joy of working with his wife as a colleague. He and Grace Somers married in 1953, and they both received Ph.D.s in l956, Luch from Harvard and Grace from Radcliffe. Together they studied the transport of pollen grains in lakes and streams and applied their research to an improved understanding of Chesapeake Bay.

Luch is survived by Grace; their three sons, Lucien, George '81, and John; a sister; and two grandchildren. We extend to them our deepest sympathies.