Br. Ladislaus Mark LaMont

Victor Giles LaMont was born one of seven children of Victor Joseph LaMont and Mary Gertrude Baudin-LaMont on April 16, 1913, in Duluth Minnesota. He had three brothers: Julian, Gerard and Donald, and three sisters: Beatrice, Jane and Elizabeth.  "Giles", as he was called by his family, attended Morgan Park and Duluth Cathedral elementary schools and entered Cathedral High School in 1927. One year later he entered the Juniorate at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri. Three years later he entered the Novitiate there where he received the habit on August 30, 1931, and the religious name of Brother Ladislaus Mark. His college work was begun at Glencoe in 1932, continued in Chicago in 1933 and completed at St. Mary's in Winona, Minnesota, in 1935 when he received his B.A. in English. Brother Mark began his teaching career at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis where he taught religion, English and mathematics. One year later, 1936, he was assigned to St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois, and in August of 1937 he was assigned to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri, where he added chemistry to his usual list of teaching subjects. In 1939 Brother Mark was assigned to teach at St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, and he remained there until 1942 when he was assigned to Boys Town, in Omaha, Nebraska. 1943 found Brother Mark teaching at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis again where he remained until 1949 when he was transferred to Cretin High School in St. Paul. He traveled south in 1952 when he was assigned to Price High School in Amarillo, Texas, where he taught classes, supervised boarders and served as athletic director. In 1956 he returned to St. Mel High School to teach and in 1958 returned to Cretin as Assistant Principal. From 1960 to 1966 he taught at St. Mel for his third time there. He was appointed Director of Religious Education for the District and resided at the Provincialate in Oak Park, Illinois, from 1966 to 1969 when he was assigned again to teach, this time at Driscoll Catholic in Addison, Illinois. In 1970 Brother Mark was assigned to teach at Grace High School in Fridley, Minnesota, but after only one year there was assigned as Director of Development for St. Mary's Press in Winona. He accepted the principalship at Beckman High School in Dyersville, Iowa, in 1973. He spent 1975 working again at the Provincialate in St. Paul before be assigned to teach in 1976 at Grace High School once again, retiring two years later in 1978. Brother Mark, remained in Fridley to become a volunteer at St. William's Parish. In 1982 he continued his volunteer services while living at the Highland Community in St. Paul and from 1991 to 1993 while living at the Frogtown Community. In 1993 he moved to Cretin-Derham Hall Community where he resided until his death. On the morning of February 2, 2004, he died at the United Hospital in St. Paul. He was ninety years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventy-three years.