Br. Hugh Nicholas

James  Michael Schumer attended St. George High School in Chicago before the entered  the Novitiate in 1951 at Glencoe, Missouri.   He completed his undergraduate studies at St. Mary’s College in  Winona, Minnesota. His first assignment returned him to Glencoe, Missouri  where he taught at La Salle Institute from 1955 to 1960.  He was assigned to St. Joseph High School  in Westchester, Illinois in 1960 and taught there until 1965 when he was  transferred to St. Patrick High School in Chicago where he was to spend the  next twenty-six years.  He took a  sabbatical in 1991 and afterward began working for the Christian Brothers  Conference in both Illinois and Landover, Maryland.  In 1993 he was assigned to Christian  Brothers Center in Romeoville and remained there until 2001 when he retired  to the Westmont Community in Westmont, Illinois. Brother Nicholas moved to  Resurrection Life Center in Chicago, Illinois in 2013 and died there on  December 27, 2015, at age eighty-two. At the time of his death, he had been a  De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-four years.