Br. Hermes Albert

Brother Hermes Albert entered the Brothers as a student from Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1927 and completed his high school education at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri.  In 1934 he received his B.A. degree from DePaul University, specializing in English and history, and his M.A. degree in history from St. Mary's College in Winona in 1944.  His first two teaching assignments kept him in Illinois at St. Patrick High School in Chicago from 1934 to 1939 and at St. George High School in Evanston from 1939 to 1944.  He was to spend the rest of his career and his life in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  From 1944 until 1960 he taught at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis; Benilde High School in St. Louis Park from 1960 to 1962 and at his alma mater, Cretin High School; in St. Paul from 1962 to 1968; Brady High School in West St. Paul from 1968 to 1972; Xavier High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, from 1972 to 1979 and again at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis from 1979 to 1981. Having suffered from diabetes and arthritis for many years, he retired to River Pines Health Care Center in Stephens Point, Wisconsin, in 1981 and then to the Holy Family Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor in St. Paul in 1984 where remained active until he suffered a heart attack on January 25, 1985.  He died at age seventy-three, in his fifty-eighth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.