Br. Leonard Wilfrid

William Thomas Reid was born on December 21, 1908, the son of Joseph Henry and Anna Kelly Reid in Rockford, Illinois. Anna died the same month that William was born and his father later married Ellen O'Neill who became the mother who raised him and saw that he attended St. Alphonsus Rock Church School in St. Louis. It was from there in 1925 that William entered the Juniorate in Glencoe and the Novitiate in 1928. Now Brother Leonard Wilfrid completed his scholasticate studies at Glencoe and DePaul University in Chicago where he received his B.A. degree in 1932. His first teaching assignment took him to St. Mel High School where he also served as Athletic Director. In 1945 he was appointed Director of De La Salle High School in Minneapolis and one year later was assigned to teach at St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois. He remained there until 1950 when he moved to teach at Cotter High School in Winona, Minnesota. He returned to St. Mel High School in 1952 where he taught for the next sixteen years. In 1968 he was assigned to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois where along with his teaching duties he was librarian. He died in 1977 at age sixty-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-two years.