Br. James William Clarey

James  William Clarey was born on May 5, 1939, in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the son  of Walter Leo and Marian Lillian (Fogarty) Clarey. Bill, as he was called, was one of five children:  Michael, Patrick, Gerald, and Margaret. He was preceded in death by his  parents and two of his brothers, Michael, and Patrick.  Bill graduated from St. Francis Academy in  Hankinson, North Dakota in 1957 and enrolled immediately the following fall  at Saint Mary’s College in Winona Minnesota. A year later, in 1959, he  entered the Novitiate of the Christian Brothers in Glencoe, Missouri.  He professed his first vows in 1960 and his  final vows five years later in 1965.   He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 and a Master of Education in 1967  from St. Mary’s College.  He later  earned a Master of Science in 1966 from North Dakota State University, Grand  Forks, ND, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of North Dakota, with a  Bush Foundation Fellowship. Bill’s first teaching assignment was at Cretin  High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, followed by Shanley High School in  Fargo, North Dakota. He was Director of Christian Brothers Student Retreat  Center (“Dunrovin”),  Marine on St. Croix, MN, and was one of the founders in 1970 of Drug  Education for Youth in St. Paul, MN where he served as director until  1972.  He was founder and administrator  of the federally funded Drug Abuse Services Project in Minneapolis. He spent  a year in the International Lasallian Renewal program in Rome which was  followed by a year as assistant provincial in Saint Paul.  In 1980 he began a nine-year term as Director  of Counseling and Career Services at the University of Saint Thomas in St.  Paul followed by the same work at St. John’s University in Collegeville MN,  for eight years.  He then became  Director of Sangre de Cristo Renewal Cener in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  In 2004 through 2007 he was a counselor at  St. Michael’s High School in Santa Fe.   His final ministry was Director of Senior Brothers for the Midwest  Province of Christian Brothers.  He  served on the Board of Trustees at St. Mary’s College for fifteen years and  the Board of Trustees of the College of Santa Fe for six years, among others.  He was a gentle and much beloved man. His visitation and funeral took place  on January 6, 2023, at Assumption Church in Saint Paul and his cremains were  buried at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. At the time of  his death, he had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-four years.