Br. Lupinian David

Frederick was one of six children and the son of Albert J. and Frieda Louise Wiemer Pieters. He attended St. Charles Grade School and St. Mary’s High School in Burlington and received his Ph. B. degree from Marquette University in 1942 when he entered the United States Army. In February of 1946 he entered the Novitiate and upon completion was assigned to the faculty of the Juniorate at Glencoe. In September of 1948 he was assigned to St. Mel High School in Chicago. That same year he began graduate work at St. Mary’s College in Winona and attended six universities over the next twenty years: St. Mary’s College, Loyola University in Chicago, Notre Dame University where he received his M.A. in 1954, the University of Tennessee in Memphis, De Paul University in Chicago, and Perdue University in Hammond, Indiana. In 1951 his second teaching assignment took him to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, where he remained for the next eight years teaching and working in the Guidance Department. In 1959 he was assigned as the Director of the Scholasticate in Winona and remained there for three years before being assigned as Director of Holy Family Community and Director of the House at Glencoe. In August of 1962 he was assigned to teach and work in the Guidance Department at C.B.C. in Memphis. His next assignment took him to work in the Guidance Department at Bishop Noll High School in Hammond, Indiana from 1964 to 1966 when he was assigned to St. Patrick High School. He spent the next twenty-four years at St. Pats and retired at Christian Brothers Center in Romeoville in 1990. In 2002 Brother David moved to the Westmont Communities where he spent the last seven years of his life and where he died at age 89, having been a De La Salle Christian Brothers for 63 years.