Br. Lewis Richard

Brother Lewis earned two of his degrees, A.B. (1906) and A.M. (1908), from Christian Brothers College, St. Louis, Missouri, and in 1928, his Ph.D. from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. His uncle, Brother Icarion, was a member of the St. Louis Province and was an inspiration to his vocation. Brother Lewis Richard began his teaching career at St. Vincent's School in St. Louis, Missouri, in the elementary grades. Four years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College High School in that same city where he taught for eight years. In 1907 he joined the faculty of Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1912 he returned to CBC in St. Louis as Sub-Director and after three years there was named Director of De La Salle Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. The remainder of his career, which lasted a quarter of a century, was divided among five schools in the District: St. Mel High School and De La Salle Institute in Chicago and De La Salle High School in Joliet, Illinois; in Minnesota, Cotter High School, Cretin High School in St. Paul. He was particularly well qualified in philosophy, psychology and foreign languages. He died at age sixty-eight in his fifty-third year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.