Br. Julius Timothy

John McNary was born in Ellendale, North Dakota, on April 4, 1922. He attended Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and upon graduation entered the Novitiate in 1940 in Glencoe, Missouri. He completed his undergraduate degree in 1944 at St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota in 1944 and his M.A. at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois in 1949. His first teaching assignment took him to De La Salle Institute in Chicago in 1944 where he spent five years before be assigned to Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee in 1949. In 1952 he began teaching at St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, and four years later became Director of Vocations for the St. Louis District. In 1959 he returned to the schools and was named Principal at Christian Brothers High School in Quincy, Illinois. In 1964 he was appointed Principal of Rummel High School in Omaha, Nebraska, and in 1970 he was appointed Principal at O’Hara High School in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1973 he accepted an international position at St. John’s High School in Waterloo, Belgium as teacher and counselor but two years later was appointed Headmaster. He returned to the United States and Christian Brothers University in 1977 where for the next 30 years he served as Career Counselor, Placement Director, Alumni Director, as an International Recruiter and as Director of International Admissions. He never lost his love for international students and Christian Brothers University and in his last years in retirement he often volunteered at the Memphis Jubilee School, De La Salle at Blessed Sacrament, reading and tutoring primary grade students. He died suddenly of an aneurism at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis shortly after he had finished praying the rosary with Mrs. Patricia Bader, the nurse for the Brothers. He was eighty-five years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-seven years. He donated his body to science and his ashes were buried in ceremony on September 24, 2011 in Calvary Cemetery in Memphis.