Br. Loman Daniel

Michael James Ryan was born on May 8, 1933, one of four children of Thomas Joseph and Helen Counihan Ryan, in Berwyn, Illinois. His mother died when he was nine years old. His father sent him to St. Patrick's High School where he met and decided to join the Brothers. Upon graduation in 1951, Michael entered the Novitiate on June 15th. He received the habit in August of the same year and took the religious name of Brother Loman Daniel. He completed his year at Glencoe and took his scholasticate studies at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, receiving his BA in 1955. Brother Loman Daniel did his practice teaching at CBCHS in St. Louis in the summer and was assigned in August to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois. During his twelve years there he taught history and religion and began his M.A. Degree at Loyola University. Early in the 1960, Brother Loman experienced symptoms of his oncoming multiple sclerosis. Eventually he had to give up his teaching duties and became Registrar and wrestling coach. In 1967 he was sent to Driscoll Catholic High School in Addison, Illinois, where he became one of the school's librarians. In the fall of 1968 he was transferred to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois. Although he was now in a wheelchair full time, he did not quit or slow down. But in late 1970, Michael had to enter the Marianjoy Rehabilitation Center in Wheaton, Illinois, for special care. He eventually entered St. Patrick Residence in Joliet where he died in 1978 at age forty-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for twenty-seven years.