Br. Lucian Regis

James Francis Morgan was one of nine children born to Thomas M. and Mary Corrigan Morgan. James was born on February 1, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Sacred Heart Grade School and one semester at De La Salle Institute before entering the Juniorate program at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri. He entered the Novitiate in 1941 and received the name of Brother Lucian Regis, or Regis as he was called by almost everyone. He attended St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota from 1942 to 1945 where he received his BS degree. In September of 1945 he was assigned to teach at St. Peter School in Jefferson City, Missouri, but in November of that year he was transferred to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois. A year later he was assigned to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he remained until 1948 when he was assigned to Price College High School in Amarillo, Texas. In 1952 Regis returned to his alma mater, St. Mary’s College in Winona, to teach math and engineering courses. It was during his time there that he completed his MS degree at St. Louis University (1954). After five years in Winona he found himself back in Chicago teaching at St. Patrick High School where he remained until 1962 when he was assigned to Lewis University to teach physics and mathematics. From 1970 to 1973 he taught at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois before returning to Lewis University where he spent the remainder of his teaching career. Regis was one of four “Morgan Boys” who entered the Christian Brothers. His parents, James and Mary Morgan were Affiliated on October 2, 1956. Regis was a classroom teacher for forty-eight years and retired in 1994 to the La Salle Community on the campus of Lewis University. He died at 8:50 p.m. on Sunday, September 5, 2010 at Meadowbrook Nursing Home in Bolingbrook, Illinois, of liver cancer. He was eighty-six years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty nine years.