Our brother George O’Brien was
born in Stamford
, Connecticut
in 1917. After high school, George
worked in New York City
for 7 years before entering the college. After
a year at the college, he joined the Order in 1943, and was solemnly professed
in 1948.
In
1946, George began teaching at St. Norbert High, and after ordination in 1949,
he was assigned to Southeast Catholic where he taught English.
While there, he was assistant chaplain at the Newman Club at Drexel
University
, spending his summers at Villanova, from where he earned an M.A. in English in
1956.
In
1959, with the move of St. Norbert High to the vacated West
DePere
Public School
to become Abbot
Pennings
High School
, George was appointed vice-principal, teacher, and guidance counselor.
Continuing
his education during the summers of 1960-1962 at Marquette, and 1963-1964 at
Harvard, he upgraded his credentials and from 1965 to 1969, taught English at
the college, was the dean of men, and chaplain at Hickory Grove Sanatorium.
From
1969 to 1974, George was a professor of English and director of housing at St.
Thomas
College
, in St. Paul
,
Minnesota
. From 1974-1977
he was director of resident students, guidance counselor and teacher of English
at St. Thomas
Academy
.
George
became associate pastor of St. Michael Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut from
1978 until 1981, and then at St. Luke’s in Westport, Connecticut, until 1983,
when he retired to St. Norbert Priory at Bishop Neumann High School.
He died on
Monday, May 8, 1989 at the age of 71.
