Br. Alan Paulian

John  Peter Heaney Jr. was born an only child on December 16, 1942, in Chicago,  Illinois.  He had wanted to be a  Christian Brother since early childhood and entered the Juniorate at La Salle  Institute in Glencoe, Missouri, in September of 1957.  Three years later he graduated to the  Novitiate on June 14, 1960.  There, on  August 30th of that same year he received the robe of the Brothers and the  religious name of Brother Alan Paulian.   A year later he was assigned to the Memphis Scholasticate to complete  his degree in English.  He died in an  accident at Stritch Hall Scholasticate when a tractor he was driving hit a  stump and overturned on him.  He was  nineteen years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only four  years.