Br. David Nathan

James McGinnis Darst was born the son of Gus and Susan Mary McGinnis Darst on December 6, 1941. He entered the Novitiate in Glencoe in August of 1959 and made his Scholasticate at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota. His tour of duty included St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois - 1963, Archbishop Rummell High School in Omaha, Nebraska - 1964, De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri - 1966 and 1969, and Providence Junior High School in St. Louis, Missouri - 1967. Very sensitive to ideals of peace and social justice, he became a member of the "Catonsville Nine", who engaged in the burning and destruction of draft records in Catonsville, Maryland. Indicted and convicted, he was awaiting sentencing at the time of his death in a car accident. He was twenty-eight years old, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for ten years. He was the first Christian Brother born in Memphis to die in the Institute.