Br. Levian Anselm

Eugene Francis Devine was born on April 8, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Eugene and Catherine Walsh Devine. He entered the Juniorate in Glencoe on November 12, 1927, and after four years entered the Novitiate there on June 15, 1931. There he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Levian Anselm. He began his Scholasticate studies in August of 1932 and graduated with a B.A. degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1935. His first teaching assignment took him to Christian Brothers High School in Memphis in 1937 but he transferred in January of 1937 to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri. Brother Levian Anselm was assigned to De La Salle High School in Minneapolis in August, remained there until 1940 when he took up teaching at Cathedral High School in Duluth, Minnesota. In 1942 he was transferred to St. Mel's High School in Chicago and in 1943 he taught at Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. Six years later, in 1951, he was assigned to St. George High School, but returned to De La Salle in Minneapolis in 1952. In 1954 Brother Anselm was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis and remained there for the next eighteen years, teaching his favorite subjects, religion, mathematics and Latin, until he died of a heart attack at age fifty-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-one years.