Br. Liguori Edward

Robert Emmet Welch was born on September 17, 1907 in Winona, Minnesota, the son of William and Catherine Welch. He entered the Novitiate in Glencoe, Missouri, on October 1, 1926, at age nineteen, and received the habit in December and the religious name of Brother Liguori Edward. He completed his scholasticate training and transferred to the San Francisco District. He taught at Cathedral High School from 1928-1931, 1944-1947, 1948-1957 as Sub-Director, and from 1958-1962 as Sub-Director and Vice Principal. Brother Liguori Edward also taught at St. Mary's College in 1931, the Juniorate at Mont La Salle (as Director), and also as Director of the Scholasticate at St. Mary's College in Moraga from 1935 to 1944. He taught at Bishop Armstrong High School in Los Angeles in 1957-58 and again from 1966 to 1970. His final teaching assignment was at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento from 1978 to 1985 when he retired to Mont La Salle in Napa at the Holy Family Community. Brother Edward died there at age seventy-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-nine years.