Br. Lambert Aloysius

William Henry Hall was born on July 21, 1883, "on a farm, eleven miles northwest of Salina, Kansas", the son of Patrick and Bridget Martin Hall. He was the fifth son in a family of five boys and five girls. After three successful years at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's, Kansas, he left school to help on his father's farm until he was twenty-four years when he went to work for the government as a Railway postal clerk. His travels brought him to Kansas City where he met the Brothers and on November 16, 1909, he entered the Novitiate in Glencoe. On February 27, 1910, he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Lambert Aloysius. He completed his Scholasticate studies in Glencoe and was assigned in 1911 to CBC in St. Louis and to CBC St. Joseph, Missouri in 1914. In 1915 he taught at Cretin High School in St. Paul and from 1916 to 1918 he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, where his chief duty was the care of Brother Maurelian, who was in declining health. Brother Lambert was assigned to Rochester in 1919, at De La Salle in Chicago in 1920 and returned to Memphis in October of 1920. He was assigned to St. Patrick High School in 1921, to St. Joseph in 1922 but returned to St. Pat's in 1925 but for only a month before he settled in at St. Mel High School that same year. He was briefly assigned to St. Paul in April of 1926 but returned to St. Mel in August to teach. In 1937 he was assigned at St. Joseph but again only spent a few months there before returning to St. Mel. Although he did graduate work at the University of Minnesota, Loyola University and the University of Chicago, he completed his master's degree at DePaul University and he became an outstanding "bookkeeper" in every school where he was assigned. Brother Lambert Aloysius was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1940 and he remained there until his death twenty-four years later in 1964. He died on his birthday and was eighty-one years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-five years.