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Saturday, January 29, 2000 Page: 6A
January 26, 2000 rofessor Russell Elway “Bud” Brown, of Hickory, N.C.,
died Wednesday. Born June 21, 1921, in Hartford, Conn., he grew up in
Wilkes-Barre. He earned degrees in economics from Bucknell University and
completed postgraduate work in political science at the University of Chicago.
He taught economics at Lenoir-Rhyne College, chaired the Division of Social
and Behavioral Sciences and retired in 1983. He taught part time until 1986
and was named professor emeritus in 1987. A lieutenant in the U.S. Army in
the European Theater during World War II, he participated in the Battle of
Omaha Beach and the Battle of the Bulge. He, his wife and daughter
participated in the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963. He was a charter
member of the Hickory Jaycees, a commentator on a Hickory radio station, and a
member of the American Economics Association, the Southern Economic
Association and the Southern Political Science Association. Surviving are his
wife of 56 years, the former June Shirley Higgins ; daughter, Lesley
Brown-Levine, Lincolnton, N.C.; one granddaughter; and nephew, Merle Mackin,
Kingston. A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Bass-Smith Funeral
Home Chapel, Hickory. The family will receive friends after the service.
Memorial donations may be made to the Russell “Bud” Brown Scholarship
Endowment Fund at Lenoir-Rhyne College; or the Memorial Garden Fund at First
Presbyterian Church, Hickory.