Br. Justin Regis

James  Francis Ridgeway was born the son of John C. and Rose Murphy Ridgeway on  November 13, 1920, in St. Joseph, Missouri.   James attended St. James Grade School in St. Joe and Christian  Brothers High School there as well.  He  entered the juniorate at Glencoe on February 9, 1934, and the novitiate there  on June 15, 1936.  In August of 1936 he  received the habit and religious name of Brother Justin Regis.  Just before the end of his novitiate he  fell ill with tuberculosis and spent nine months in Mt. St. Rose Sanitarium  in St. Louis, and received permission to take vows in 1938, without repeating  the Novitiate.  He spent two more years  convalescing in Glencoe, taking correspondence courses, teaching in the  Juniorate, and doing some translating and secretarial work before moving to  the Scholasticate in the summer of 1940.   Brother Regis completed his Scholasticate with his B.S. in History in  1942.  His first teaching assignment  took him to Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, Missouri,  from 1943 to 1951 and then spent 1951-52 teaching at De La Salle High School  in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He returned  to CBCHS in St. Louis from 1952 to 1954 and then was assigned to St. Mary's  College in Winona, Minnesota, where he taught history and political science  and served as Registrar from 1957 to 1961.   In 1966 he taught for a year at the College of Santa Fe and then  returned to De La Salle in Minneapolis for a year, 1967-68.  Brother Justin Regis worked in the  Provincialate in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1968 to 1971 and again from 1984 to  1991.  In 1971 he was assigned to teach  at Roncalli High School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and remained there for  thirteen years.  He retired in 1991 to  the Cretin-Hamline Community in St. Paul and served there for three years as  a tutor.  In November of 1994 he moved  to St. Mary's Home in St. Paul where he died on December 15, 1994, at age  seventy-four, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-eight  years.