Br. Joseph Walter

Douglas Vincent was born on January 12, 1915, the son of Jesse and Margaret Vincent. He attended grade school at St. Thomas the Apostle in Minneapolis and in September of 1930 he entered De La Salle High School in Minneapolis. After completing one semester he entered the Juniorate of the Christian Brothers on January 31, 1931. Upon completing his high school years there he entered the Novitiate in June of 1934, received the habit of the Brothers in August of 1934, professed his first vows and began his Scholasticate training in September of 1935. He received his B.A. in English from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1938 and in August of that year began his teaching career at De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois, moving one year later to St. Patrick's High School in the same city. Brother Joseph Walter was assigned to Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, in August of 1941 but transferred to De La Salle High School in Chicago when the Brothers withdrew from this apostolate in November of 1941. He went to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1942 where he remained for eight years before be assigned to Cotter High School in Winona, Minnesota, in 1950. He was assigned to teach his beloved English at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis in 1951 and remained there until 1956 when he taught for one year at Benilde High School in St. Louis Park. In 1958 and 1959 he taught at Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis, Missouri, and returned to teach again at De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois, from 1959 to 1963. For the next eleven years, from 1963 to 1974, he taught at Cretin High School in Minneapolis and from 1974 to 1978 at Brady High School in West Saint Paul. In 1978 he was assigned to Pacelli High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he remained until 1978 when he returned to Cretin-Hamline Community where he died on February 6, 1991. A quiet and unassuming man, he was seventy-six years old and was in his sixtieth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.