Br. Kevin Stanislaus

Bartley Vincent Mackey was born on May 26, 1915, one of seven children of Eleanor O’Connor and Thomas Mackey. He and his five brothers and one sister were all born in Chicago where Bartley attended St. George High School for less than one year before entering the Juniorate in February of 1930. He entered the Novitiate in June of 1933 and the following year began his Scholasticate training at Glencoe and then completed his BA degree at St. Mary’s College in Winona. His first teaching assignment took him to De La Salle Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1937 and after three years there he was assigned to Boy’s Town in Nebraska for four years. In 1945 he was assigned to teach at St. Peter High School in Jefferson City, Missouri but a year later he was named Principal of De La Salle Academy and returned to Kansas City for the next six years. It was during this time that he completed his MA degree at St. Louis University. From 1952 to 1962 he was assigned to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was served as Assistant Principal and then Principal. He returned to the classroom in 1962 at St. Mel High School in Chicago but was named Assistant Principal in 1965 at De La Salle Institute in Chicago. He was assigned at Lewis University from 1967 to 1969 when he was named Principal at Providence High School in New Lenox, Illinois. He was only there for one year before being assigned to at St. Paul High School in Chicago, where he spent the next seven years. In 1977 he was assigned to teach at Central Catholic High School in Muskegon, Michigan and in 1980 at Driscoll Catholic High School where he officially retired from teaching in 1980. He remained in the Driscoll Community until he entered Resurrection Life Center in 2008 where he died at age 93, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for 75 years.