Br. Hermeus Norman

James  Ambrose Wray was born in 1923 in Chicago. He entered the Novitiate in Glencoe  in 1938 and the following four years he pursued his academic studies at St.  Mary’s College in Winona.  His first  assignment in 1942 took him to De La Salle Military Academy in Kansas City  where he spent two years before being assigned to St. Mel High School in  Chicago.  He Taught in the  Scholasticate in Glencoe from 1951 to 1955. In the next four years he spent  two at St. Patrick’s High School in Chicago and every other year at the  Scholasticate again.  In 1962 his dream  of missionary work came true when he was assigned to teach in the  Scholasticate in Sri Lanka.  In 1964 he  taught at Boy’s Town, Madurai, India and in 1965 he went to Guatemala where  he taught at Collegio de La Salle in 1965 and Liceo La Salle in Chiquimula  the following year.  In 1967 he began  his work in Pakistan helping to establish St. Patrick’s Technical School and  working at Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center and founding the Mary Adelaide  Rehabilitation Program for Drug Addicts. He spent forty-seven years in  Pakistan, more than he spent in his native America.  At the time of his death, he was ninety-one  years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventy-two years.