Br. Jovinian Daniel

George  Patrick McEnery was born on April 23, 1925 in Evanston, Illinois, and  attended St. George High School there in grades nine to eleven.  On September 2, 1942, he entered the  Juniorate program at La Salle Institute, Glencoe, Missouri, to complete his  senior year of high school. In August of 1943 he received the habit of the  Brothers, the religious name of Jovinian Daniel and he entered the  novitiate.  One year later in 1943 he  traveled to St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, to begin his  undergraduate studies.  He received his  B.S. degree Summa Cum Laude in 1947.   He also completed his M.A.T. Degree in 1955 and M.S. Degree in 1973,  all from St. Mary's College.  His first  teaching assignment took him to St. Patrick's High School in Chicago for a  only a year.  He was assigned to  Central Catholic High School in 1948 in Vincennes, Indiana.  He spent three years there before moving to  St. Mel's High School in Chicago where he was to spend the next three years.  From 1955 to 1961 he was Principal at  Pacelli High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  He returned to Chicago in 1961 to become  Assistant Principal and then Principal at De La Salle High School until  1963.  He served as Sub-Director of  Novices in 1963-64 and then was appointed in 1964 as Assistant Principal at  Newport Catholic High School in Newport, Kentucky.  In 1966 he returned to Central Catholic  High School at Vincennes as Principal.   He served there for two years and in 1968 he was appointed Director of  the Scholasticate in Memphis, Tennessee.   He was assigned in 1969 as Principal of Christian Brothers High School  in St. Joseph, Missouri, and in 1970 he returned to teaching at Christian  Brothers High School in Memphis, Tennessee where he was to remain until 1975  when he was assigned to La Salle High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. After ten  years in Cincinnati he was transferred to Christian Brothers College High  School in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was to spend the next and last  thirteen years of his life.  In 1990 he  received the Distinguished La Sallian Educator of the Year Award.  He died at age seventy-three after a long  bout with cancer.  He had been a De La  Salle Christian Brother for fifty-six years.