Br. Kevin Alexis

Eugene  Burns was born in Chicago on October 9, 1905, and was one of the first  students to attend the newly opened Saint Mel's High School to enter the  Christian Brothers.  He joined the  Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri, in February of 1921 and graduated the  following year to the Novitiate in June of 1922.  There he received the habit and the  religious name of Brother Kevin Alexis.   Because of illness he was sent to Chicago in June of 1924 where he  died at age nineteen, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only  three years.