Br. Justin Anthony

Edward Joseph Sullivan was born on February 12, 1923, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jeremiah F. and Sarah Foley Sullivan. He attended St. Jerome Grade School and Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago before entering the Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri in 1940. A year later he entered the Novitiate where he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Justin Anthony. He completed his collegiate studies at St. Mary's College in Winona with a B.A. in 1945 and was assigned to teach in August at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1946 he transferred to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he spent five years before being assigned to St. Mel High School in Chicago. It was during these years that he continued his studies and received his M.A. in 1953 from Loyola University in Chicago. Following his years at St. Mel's he taught for one year, 1956-57 at Holy Name High School in Escanaba, Michigan and from 1957 to 1959 at St. Francis High School in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1959 Brother Anthony returned to St. Mary's College as Admissions Director and Counselor. In 1963 he attended Sangre de Cristo and taught half a year at De La Salle Institute in Chicago. The following year he taught at Bishop Noll High School in Hammond, Indiana, and returned to St. Mary's College to his Counselling and Director of Admissions duties. Brother Tony was assigned to La Salle Institute in Glencoe in 1971 to teach in the formation program. In 1977 he once again made the Sangre experience and studied for the second half of the year at St. Mary's College in San Antonio. The next four years, 1978-1981, found Brother Tony teaching at Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before being appointed Director of Guidance at the University of La Salle in Bacolod, Philippines. He returned to the United States in 1984 and worked for the next three years at Montini High School in Lombard, Illinois, before returning to the Philippines at La Salle Novitiate in Lipa as Director in 1987. He moved to Christian Brothers High School Community in Memphis, Tennessee, where he volunteered in the school from 1990 to 1995 when he officially retired. Brother Tony died on August 26 at Baptist Hospital in Memphis after a long illness. He was 79 years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty years.