Br. Robert Frain

Robert Frain was born the son of George Joseph and Leone Louise Comyne Frain on April 3, 1923, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended De La Salle Institute in Chicago and entered the Juniorate in the middle of his Freshman year. He left the program and returned to De La Salle and graduated valedictorian of his class of 1941, and then returned to Glencoe as a postulant. He received the religious habit on August 30, 1941, but left the Institute again on August 22, 1942. Robert returned to Chicago, where he worked as a hotel clerk, a machinist in a defense plant, and, finally, for ten years as a computer programmer for the Chicago Tribune. He went back to school and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Loyola and taught at Quigley Seminary until 1973 when at age fifty, he again entered the Brothers, making his Novitiate in Windsor, Ontario, in 1974. In 1975 he was assigned to Brady High School in West St. Paul and taught Latin and English for three years before moving to Pacelli High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he taught until his death at age sixty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for eleven years.