Br. Liguori William

John Kelly was born on May 18, 1883, in Johnstone, Scotland, the son of Michael and Bridget Murphy Kelly. He was recruited by Brother Adjutor and entered the Novitiate at Castletown, Ireland, on September 18, 1906. He volunteered to serve in the United States and received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Liguori William in Glencoe, Missouri, on December 8, 1906. Upon his completion of his Scholasticate training in Glencoe, Brother Liguori was assigned as Sub-Director of the Juniorate Program. In 1910 he was assigned at St. Malachy in St. Louis; in 1911 at De La Salle in Chicago and the same year at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Brother was assigned to Cotter High School in 1916 in Winona and to Bishop Heffron High School in Rochester as Director in 1917. In 1916 he made his perpetual vows. Brother returned to Cotter in 1918 as Director and one year later he was assigned to teach at St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he was named Sub-Director and Director all in the same year. Ten years later in 1936 he was named Sub-Director of the Glencoe Novitiate and year one later he assumed the Directorship there. He was a quiet and modest man who received in M.A. in Romance Languages from Chicago University. In 1951 Brother Liguori William was assigned to teach again at De la Salle, in Chicago. Two years later, in 1953 he retired to Holy Family Community in Glencoe where he spent the next seventeen years. Brother Liguori died at age eighty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-four years.