Br. Joseph Antoninus

When he entered the Novitiate in 1913, Brother Joseph was the first student from Duluth, Cathedral High School to enter the Christian Brothers. In August of 1914 he was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, moving to Kansas City in 1915, De La Salle in Chicago in 1916 and to St. Mel High School in the same city in 1917. He remained there until 1926 when he returned to Duluth to teach in his alma mater, Cathedral High School. In 1928 he spent one year at Christian Brothers High School teaching and was then named Director of Cotter High School in Winona, Minnesota, where he remained until 1935. In 1936 and from 1937 to 1939 he was assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona with a year in between, 1936 at St. Pat's High School in Chicago. He was to return to Chicago in 1939 to teach a De La Salle and in 1940 he went to Evanston, Illinois to teach. In 1945, after requesting for over eighteen years to be allowed to teach in the missions, he was accepted, at age fifty, for an assignment to Bluefields, Nicaragua.  Brother Joseph returned after ten years in the missions to the United States and was assigned in 1954 to Amarillo, Texas, for a year and then moved on to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, in 1955 where he remained until his death on January 29, 1961, at age sixty-five and in his forty-eighth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.