Br. Idonius Ambrose

Thomas  Trusk's father, Charles, was born in Poland and his mother, Antonette  Wallock, in La Salle, Illinois.  Thomas  was born in DePue, Illinois, on September 16, 1921, and attended high school  at De La Salle Institute.  He entered  the Glencoe Novitiate and received the habit and the religious name of  Idonius Ambrose on August 30, 1939.  He  received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1943 at St. Mary's College in Winona,  Minnesota, and a M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1952.  Ten years later in 1962 he received his  M.S. from the University of Notre Dame, again in chemistry.  In 1966 he was awarded his Ph. D. in  Chemistry from Notre Dame.  From 1943  to 1949 he worked as a graduate assistant at St. Mary's College, taught high  school chemistry at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, St.  Peter's High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, and De La Salle High School  in Kansas City, Missouri.  The  remaining thirty-nine years of his teaching career, from 1949 to 1988, was  spent at St. Mary's College.  He  retired to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1988 and died in December of 1998 at age  seventy-seven, having been a De la Salle Christian Brother for fifty-nine  years.