Br. Kiaran Gilbert

Harry Blum was born the son of Henry and Elizabeth Fitzgerald Blum on June 22, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended St. Mel High School. It was from St. Mel's that he entered the Juniorate on February 1, 1936. He received the habit and the religious name of Brother Kiaran Gilbert on August 30, 1940, as he entered the Novitiate. After completing his Scholasticate studies at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1943, he was assigned to teach at Cretin High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota; De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri; and his alma mater, St. Mel's High School in Chicago. He later taught at St. Patrick's High School in Chicago and was Principal at St. Joseph's High School in Westchester, Illinois, for three years. He spent 1964 working in Puerto Rico and had returned to the United States and was, at the time of his death, recovering from a heart attack. He died at age forty-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty years.