Br. Hugh Martin

Arthur  Bertling was born one of five children to Stephen and Catherine Bertling on  May 19, 1912, in Chicago, Illinois.  He  attended De La Salle High School in Chicago from 1926 to 1930 and entered the  Novitiate in November of 1931.  Arthur  received the habit and religious name of Brother Hugh Martin on April 21,  1931.  He received his A.B. degree from  St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1935 and received his first  teaching assignment that same year at St. George High School in Evanston,  Illinois.  In 1937 he received his M.A.  at Loyola University in Chicago and his Ph.D. from Loyola in 1940.  He returned to St. Mary's in Winona from  1940 to 1959 and at the same time was Director of the Scholasticate there  from 1952 to 1959.  Brother Arthur  moved to Lewis College in 1960 as Sub-Director and seven years later, in  1976, was assigned to the College of San Carlos in Medellin, Columbia, where  he remained until 1969.  He served at  La Salle College in Rio Grande, Brazil 1969-70 and at Instituto Abel, in  Biteroi, Brazil in 1970-71.  Brother  Arthur returned to the United States from 1971 to 1976 and served at Lewis  University in Romeoville, Illinois.  He  returned to international assignments in 1976, teaching at La Salle High  School in Kagoshima, Japan, and in 1977 to 1979 at La Salle High School in  Hakodate, Japan.  From 1979 to 1983 he  taught at La Salle College in Bacolod, Philippines, and at Biteroi, Brazil in  1983-84.  He spent 1984 at St. Martin  Secondary School on St. Vincent Island and retired to C.B. Center Community  in Romeoville in 1986.  He then  volunteered at Centro La Salle, in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1987 until 1989.  He retired a second time in 1989 at C.B.  Center Community in Romeoville and died there on December 18, 1997, at age  eighty-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-six  years.