Br. Luke Azarias

William  Joseph Herbert was born the son of Michael and Mary Duggy Herbert on November  9, 1910, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He  attended De La Salle High School and entered the Juniorate on June 1, 1929,  at Glencoe, Missouri, and graduated to the Novitiate on June 15, 1930, where  he received the habit and religious name of Brother Luke Azarias on August  30, 1930.  During his lifetime he  earned four degrees: A.B. at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, in 1934;  B.S. in Library Science at Catholic University of American in Washington,  D.C., in 1939; M.S. in Library Science from Rosary College in Illinois in  1954; and a M.A. in Religious Studies at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota,  in 1973.  He was a faculty member for  forty-three years at St. Mary's College in Winona of which he was an  associate librarian of the Fitzgerald Library, a building which he helped  design and supervise construction for the campus.  As Librarian and instructor in religion and  a noted musician, he served at St. Mary's from 1935 until his death in 1978  at age sixty-eight, having been a De la Salle Christian Brother for forty-nine  years.