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O'TOOLE, Rev. William Bernard

  • O'TOOLE, Rev. William Bernard

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Date of Birth
April 18, 1897
Born City
Painesville
Born State/Country
OH
Date of Death
July 25, 1968
Death City
Houston
Death State/Country
TX
EDUCATION

Study at St. Michael's College, U. Toronto, 1916-18B.A. U. Toronto, 1924; M.A., 1938; study at St. Basil's Seminary; Ontario College of Education, Toronto, 1924-5; U. Chicago.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lat. tchr. Houston, 1919-21; ordained RC priest, 1924; Lat. tchr., Assumption Coll., Windsor (ON) 1925-6, 1933-4; Toronto, 1926-9; Detroit, 1929-33; instr. to prof, class. St. Michael's Coll., U. Toronto, 1934-42, 1943-6; pastoral work in Houston, TX, 1959-68.


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NOTES

Father O'Toole was, like Odysseus, short of stature, witty and resourceful, a plucky sportsman in his youth, and in the classroom very much the captain of his team. He loved classics, and nothing gave him so much pleasure as the beauty and harmony of a Latin phrase, especially when preserved in a felicitous translation. Though as a major in the United States Army during World War II he wrote grimly from Europe, "This is a tense period, and the burden is a heavy one," he was also, in the postwar years, the genial master of Elmsley House at St. Michael's, warm and welcoming with his students, chuckling at life through puffs of smoke.


SOURCES

Dictionary Of Basilian Biography (1969); Basilian Newsletter (27 July 1968); 4 (1969) 128-9.


AUTHOR
M. Owen Lee
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