Br. Louis Bertrand

Robert Juettner was born on August 31, 1924, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of four children. His two sisters, Donna and Barbara, entered the Benedictine Sisters in Minnesota. Robert attended St. Anne’s Grade School and De La Salle High School in Minneapolis but completed his high school studies when he entered the Juniorate in 1940 and the Novitiate in 1942 in Glencoe. He completed his B.S. at St. Mary’s College in Winona in 1946 and was first assigned to teach at St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois. In 1948 he was assigned to St. Peter High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, where he spent three years before returning to teach at St. Mel’s. In 1958 he served as teacher and Principal of Central Catholic High School in Vincennes, Indiana, where he remained for eight years. In 1965 he was assigned as Principal at Roncalli High School in Aurora, Illinois, but returned to the classroom in 1968 when he accepted a teaching assignment at De La Salle High School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He returned to the United States and served for one year as Principal of Central Catholic High School in Muskegon, Michigan, before moving to the Christian Brothers Center on the campus of Lewis University where from 1971 to 1981 he managed the Educational Data Center and taught part-time at Lewis. He left the Chicago area in 1981 to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but returned a year later to assume the position of Director of Finance for the Chicago Province. After seven years in District Administration he elected to once again join the Lewis University Faculty. In 1995 he took charge of the St. La Salle Auxiliary and Development Office in St. Paul, Minnesota and retired in 2002. Health reasons caused his move to St. Theresa Home in New Hope, Minnesota in 2003 where he remained until his death in North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota on August 29, 2007, at the age of 82, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-five years.