Br. Lawrence Martin

Thomas Francis Michuda was born one of seven children of Hermina Buday Michuda and August Michuda on August 18, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended De La Salle High School in Chicago for one year before entering the Juniorate in Glencoe in 1937. He progressed to the Novitiate in 1940 and to St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota, where he graduated with a B.S. degree in 1944. Following college his first teaching assignment took him to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri where he remained for six years before being assigned to Cotter High School in Winona to teach and be Sub-Director. In 1952 he was transferred to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he taught from 1952 to 1956 and was Director and Principal from 1956 to 1962. In 1962 he was assigned to Benilde High School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota as Director but only stayed there one year before being assigned to his alma mater, De La Salle Institute in Chicago. After five years there he was appointed Director and Principal of Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois. In 1974 he attended Sangre de Cristo Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and later that year was appointed Principal of Central Catholic High School in Muskegon, Michigan. A year later he was appointed Development Director for the Chicago District and moved to Christian Brothers Center in Romeoville, Illinois. In 1984 he moved to Driscoll Catholic High School Community where he served as Director of the St. De La Salle Auxiliary and Director of St. Mel and St. George High School Alumni Associations. He continued as Director of the Alumni Associations until his retirement in 2000. He died at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, on February 2, 2008 at the age of eighty-six, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-eight years.