Br. Patrick Jonathan

Owen  Meegan was born one of six children to Dorothy Sullivan Meegan and Eugene P.  Meegan, on March 21, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois.  He attended De La Salle High School in  Chicago for three years before entering the Juniorate in 1958.  After Novitiate he earned one of his five  degrees, his B.A., at St. Mary’s College in Winona.  There he also earned his M.Ed. in 1968 and  later went on to earn his M.A. at the University of Detroit (1969), his D.A.  at Idaho State University (1976) and his J.D. at Loyola University in Chicago  (1992).  His first teaching assignment  took him to Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, Missouri in  1963 and the following year to Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods,  Minnesota.  In 1966 he was transferred  to Bishop Noll High School in Hammond, Indiana and three years later, in  1969, to St. Paul Shared-Time High School in Chicago.  In 1970 he began teaching at Lewis  University in Romeoville, Illinois, and in 1972 at Pensionat St. Josef,  Vienna, Austria, for a year.  In 1973  he returned to Lewis University and in 1975 he taught at St. Gabriel’s in  East Elmhurst, New York, for a year.   The next eleven years were spent at Lewis University and in 1987 he  went to C.I.L. in Rome, Italy.  He was  appointed Sub-Director and teacher in the Residency Community in Chicago in  1987 and remained there until 1980 when once again he pursued graduate work  at Loyola University while living in the St. Patrick High School  Community.  In 1993 he opened a law  practice and remained in that work until 2001 when he returned to Lewis  University to teach once again.   He  died on December 29^th  in Chicago at the age of sixty-five and had been a De La Salle Christian  Brother for forty-eight years.