Br. Liguori James

Fred La Marche was born on December 30, 1908. As a freshman in high school he met the Christian Brothers and entered the Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri, in November of 1924. Four years later he entered the Novitiate and received the habit of the Brothers in August of 1917. He completed one year of Scholasticate in Glencoe before moving to the Chicago Scholasticate studying at DePaul University and receiving his degree in 1931. His first teaching assignment was to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was to spend the next five years. He was transferred to De La Salle High School in Chicago for the 1935-36 academic year and moved to Duluth in August of 1936 to serve as Athletic Director and to coach sports along with his usual teaching duties. In 1938 he came back to Chicago to teach at St. Patrick's High School for one year and to St. Mel's High School for one year. In 1940 he was assigned to Price College in Amarillo, Texas, where he remained until 1946 when he was assigned to St. Peter School in Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1957 he moved to De La Salle High School in Minneapolis. He died of cancer on February 11, 1962, at the age of fifty-four. He often served in schools as a coach and Athletic Director along with his teaching duties and was noted for his skilled carpentry work. At the time of his death he was in his thirty-fifth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.