It is with deep sorrow and a profound sense of loss that we announce the death of Craig B. Brush.  Born and raised in Manhattan, this true New Yorker was a man of rare intellect, extraordinary education, broad knowledge, generosity of spirit, and true wisdom, although he would contest the latter.  The majority of his professional life was spent at Fordham University, and he came to it via his role as instructor of French and English at Choate School, then Columbia University, and finally City College of New York.  In so doing, he applied, expanded upon and passed on the knowledge he received at Phillips Academy in Andover, Princeton University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and Columbia University, where he was awarded a two year Fulbright Award to study in Paris, and from where he received his Ph.D. in French in 1963.  Columbia’s Chamberlain Award allowed him to write his dissertation on Montaigne and Bayle, which he published in book form in 1966.  This work laid the groundwork for a lifelong interest in the essayist, which culminated in his last book From the Perspective of the Self: A Reading of Montaigne’s Essays, published by Fordham University Press in 1994.  The ensuing years saw an enormous scholarly output, and professorial as well as administrative service to Fordham; the latter included two terms as Chairman of the Modern Languages Department, an additional term as Associate Chair, and one year as Acting Chairman of the Computer and Information Sciences Department.  In addition, he served two years as Chairman of the Fordham College Honors Committee, and as President of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau of New York, to mention but a few of his contributions to the intellectual life of Fordham University.  One of his proudest accomplishments, however, was the fact that he served more than a decade as faculty mentor of FLAG (Fordham Lesbians and Gays), one of the country’s oldest gay and lesbian college organizations.