Br. Hilary Mark

George  Robert Wagner was born one of eight children to William John and Loretto  Shillington Wagner in Chicago.  George  attended St. Gertrude grammar school and St. George High School in Evanston  for a year and a half before he entered the Juniorate in January of  1931.  He received the habit on August  30, 1933, and the religious name of Brother Hilary Mark.  After completing his bachelor's degree at  St. Mary's College in Winona, Brother Mark was assigned to the Juniorate  staff at Glencoe.  He transferred a  year later to Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis and taught there  for the next five years.  In 1943 he  studied French at McGill University in Canada and taught English to the  Scholastics in Montreal.  In 1944 he  was assigned to Cotter High School in Winona and remained there for six years  before being chosen to make the Second Novitiate in Rome, Italy.  Mark returned to CBCHS in St. Louis in 1952  for a year and in 1953 began teaching at St. Patrick High School in Chicago  and while there completed his master's degree at De Paul University.  He was assigned to Central Catholic High  School in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1955 and four years later to Price College  High School in Amarillo, Texas, where in 1959 he received his first  administrative assignment.  In 1963  Brother Mark was named the first Principal of Bergan High School in Peoria,  Illinois, and two years later was named Principal of St. Patrick High School  in Chicago.  He left administration in  1968 when he was assigned to Montini High School in Lombard, Illinois.  Ten years later, in 1978, Mark moved to  Christian Brothers Center in Romeoville, Illinois, where he worked for the  next two years as the District Archivist.   From 1980 to 1982 he accepted an assignment as archivist in the  Generalate in Rome, Italy.  Mark  returned to Romeoville in 1982 where he remained for the next twenty  years.  In 2002 the community moved to  Westmont, Illinois, and Mark was the first to move into the new  community.  He was admitted to  Resurrection Hospital on December 14, 2003, suffering from symptoms of  pneumonia.  He did not recover and died  two days later, on December 16th.  He  was eighty-seven years of age and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother  for seventy years.