Br. Julius Raymond

Thomas  William Long was born the son of Raymond and Irene Milligan Long on May 26,  1921, in Chicago, Illinois.  It was  there that he attended St. Mel's Grammar and High School.  At the end of the first semester of his  freshman year he entered the Juniorate at Glencoe on February 1, 1936.  He progressed to the Novitiate where he, on  August 30, 1939, became Brother Julius Raymond and received the habit of the  Brothers.  He received his bachelor's  degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1943, and was  assigned to teach at Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis,  Missouri.  He returned there in 1948-50  and 1951-52.  In 1945 he was assigned  to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and remained  there until 1948, returning there to teach again in 1964-66.  Brother Raymond began one of his five  assignments to his college alma mater, St. Mary's, in 1950.  He served there again 1960-65, 1966-76,  1978-83 and 1985, for a total of almost thirty-two years.  Raymond completed his master's degree at  St. Louis University in 1952 and served as Vocation Director at Glencoe,  Missouri, in 1959 (and again in 1976) and was assigned to teach at Hill High  School in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1960.   Brother Raymond taught at Cardinal Newman College in St. Louis,  Missouri, during the 1983 academic year.   He was on assignment in Memphis, Tennessee, at Christian Brothers  College when he died suddenly of a heart attack at age sixty-five, having  been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty years.  His death was discovered on the morning of  December 19th although he had died the evening before on the 18th.