Br. Idonius Emery

Thomas Patrick Hogan was born on July 25, 1916, in Buffalo, New York, one of four children to Thomas Francis and Anne Candee Doran Hogan. Thomas attended public school for most of his elementary education but the family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1930 where he attended Cretin High School. Upon graduation he entered the Novitiate at Glencoe where he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Idonius Emery. He received his B.S.S. at St. Mary's College in Winona and later his A.M. at St. Louis University. Brother Emery's first teaching assignment brought him to Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939 but a year later he was transferred to St. Patrick High School in Chicago for five years. In 1945 he taught at CBCHS in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent the next four years. Brother Emery was assigned to St. George High School in Evanston in 1949 and returned to teach at Christian Brothers College in Memphis in 1951. Named Director General of La Salle Institute in Glencoe in 1956 he remained there until he was appointed as founding Director of the Stritch Hall Scholasticate in Memphis. In 1961 he was appointed Director of Novices and in Glencoe, where he remained until 1967 when he requested to "return to the classroom." Brother Emery was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in Quincy, Illinois, but only remained there one year before being assigned as Principal and Director of Christian Brothers Community at Costa High School in Galesburg, Illinois. One year later he was assigned to La Salle High School in Cincinnati. Brother was given time for study in 1970 but in the second half of that year he returned to Christian Brothers College in Memphis where he was to spend the next eighteen years of his life. In 1988 he was assigned to La Salle Institute in Glencoe where he died in 1995 at the age of seventy-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty years.