Br. Imilian Norbert

Timothy  Joseph Carroll was born on March 26, 1925, in Oak Park, Illinois, a western  suburb of Chicago, Illinois.  Timothy  attended St. Mel's High School, then a military academy but in his senior  year on March 26, 1943, entered the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri.  There he received the habit and religious  name of Brother Imilian Norbert on August 30, 1943.  He completed his Scholasticate at St.  Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1947 and began his first teaching  assignment that fall at Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri,  where he remained for one year before being assigned at Cotter High School in  Winona.  Four years later in 1952, he  was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Kansas City,  Missouri.  He spent the next year  teaching at the Juniorate in Glencoe but return to De La Salle in Kansas City  to become Assistant Principal and then Principal/Director.   In 1966 he was appointed to teach at  Providence High School in New Lenox, Illinois, and later that same year at  Montini High School in Lombard, Illinois.   He had received his M.A. from Rosary College in River Forest in 1955  and his M.Ed. from Loyola University in Chicago in 1969.  Brother I. Norbert was named  Principal/Director of Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods, Michigan,  in 1968 and then as Assistant Principal and then Principal at Driscoll  Catholic High School in Addison, Illinois, in 1973.  De La Salle High School in Chicago received  his services from 1978 to 1994 as Counselor and Campus Minister, and then as  Vice President of Student Affairs.   Brother Timothy was on a cruise ship with relatives in the autumn of  1994 when he experienced the massive heart attack that killed him.  He was placed on life support and  transported back to the United States where he died in Buffalo Grove,  Illinois.  He was sixty-nine years old  and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-one years.