Br. Hector Vincent

Charles Joseph Schumacher was born the son of Charles and Ellen Mary (McDonald) Schumacher on July 21, 1892 in Burlington, Wisconsin. His family moved to Chicago where Charles attended St. Patrick's High School. It was from there on January 4, 1906, that he entered the Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri. He graduated to the Novitiate where on July 2, 1908, he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Hector Vincent. His first teaching assignments brought him to St. Louis in 1909 to St. Vincent School, in 1910 to St. Bridget School and in 1911 to Christian Brothers College. In 1912 he was assigned to De La Salle High School in Chicago and in 1913-1914 to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1915 he was assigned to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Director of fifteen young Brothers studying at the University of Missouri at Columbia. This same year he received his B.S. from CBC in St. Louis, a year before completing his A.B. at CBC in Memphis. He served fourteen years at Kansas City before being moved to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, in 1929. Eleven years later he was assigned to De La Salle High School in Chicago in 1941 but returned to De La Salle in Kansas City in 1959 and remained there until his death in 1968. He was an avid sports fan and loved coaching the young men at his schools. He received his A.M. degree in 1928 at DePaul University. He died at age seventy-six, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-two years.