The Reverend Eugene Bryan Montague,83, died on Monday, June 11, 2012. Gene attended Central Washington Teachers College on a journalism scholarship but eventually earned his B.A. with a double major in English and History. He accepted a scholarship to The University of Texas, Austin, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D., specializing in 19th century British Literature. In 1960, he was named Director of the Honors College at ASU. In 1965, he moved his family to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a Hobson Fellow and Convention Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and The Episcopal Theological Seminary. At the same time, he was Lecturer at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ordained in 1967, Gene accepted a position at The Cathedral of St. Paul (Episcopal) in Detroit and served as the first Protestant Chaplain at the University of Detroit, a Roman Catholic institution. Gene also served on the Examining Board of Chaplains, specializing in Theology, for nearly twenty years. In 1968 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Detroit, where he worked for nearly thirty years, first as professor, then department chair, and eventually as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He retired in 1994 and was named Professor Emeritus. Gene is survived by a brother, four children and ten grandchildren.