Br. Louis de La Salle

After completing his A.B. degree at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931, Brother Louis' first assignment was to teach at the Juniorate in Glencoe, Missouri. In 1934 he completed his master's degree at DePaul and was immediately assigned to work on his Ph.D. studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His life of studies continued until 1954 while he took advanced courses at St. Louis University, the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota. Brother Louis was Dean at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, from 1938 until 1951, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics from 1936 until 1953 and again from 1955 until 1960. He also served as Dean of Students from 1953 until 1955 at St. Mary's. Brother Louis taught his beloved mathematics as a teacher at Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis from 1951-1953 and was assigned to Lewis College in Lockport, Illinois in 1960 as Dean of the College. He designed the self-study which produced the first North Central Association accreditation for the college. Brother Louis de La Salle was one of four sons of Peter and Clara Seiler to become De La Salle Christian Brothers. Three of his younger brothers, Brother Joel Adrian (deceased, 1957), Brother Peter (deceased 1956) and Brother Leo Wilfrid also were De La Salle Christian Brothers and his mother, Clara Seiler, was an affiliated member of the Institute. Brother Louis was widely published in a variety of professional journals, served as President of the Christian Brothers Education Association, and received numerous honors and distinctions during his outstanding career of thirty-four years in college work. He died suddenly of a heart attack on January 18, 1972, at age sixty-two and in his forty-fourth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.