Br. Jarlath Robert

Joseph Lane was born on January 7, 1910, in Pine Lawn, Missouri, the son of Robert and Mary McQueeny Lane. Robert Lane was a railroad employee and the family led a somewhat nomadic existence as Joseph attended six different grade schools. His family settled in Chicago where he attended St. Patrick High School and it was from there that at the end of his freshman year he entered the Juniorate and then the Novitiate in Glencoe. After only ten months of Scholasticate he volunteered to go to California in response to a request for aid from the Brother Visitor of the western district. He immediately began teaching at Cathedral High School in Los Angeles. After five years he returned to teach at St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, and completed work on his bachelor's degree at DePaul University in Chicago. In 1936 he was sent to Catholic University in Washington, D.C. to work on his doctorate and upon completion was assigned to Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, but for only a brief time before he was assigned to St. Mary's College. He became Vice-President there in 1950 until 1967. He was a guest professor at Manhattan College and at De La Salle College in Manchester, England. In 1970 he was appointed consultant in the Office of Education at the Motherhouse in Rome. He published A Political History of Connecticut During the Civil War and Catholic Heritage, a history of the dioceses of Minnesota. Brother J. Robert died at age seventy-one, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-seven years.