Edmund Hunt

Brother Edmund Hunt, CSC A Memorial Mass will be celebrated for Brother Edumnd Hunt, CSC at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 12, 2005 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel on the campus of St. Edward’s University. Born in Elwood, Indiana, Brother Edmund lived as a Brother of Holy Cross for seventy-three years. He passed away at age 95 at Dujarie House, Notre Dame, Indiana, July 24, 2005. Funeral services and interment were at Notre Dame, July 28, 2005 A 1935 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Brother Edmund received a Doctorate in Classical Languages at the University of Chicago in 1940 and later studied at the Sorbonne, Paris. Brother Edmund’s long and masterful teaching career inspired his students at the University of Notre Dame, at St. Edward’s University, and at several high schools of the Congregation of Holy Cross. From 1946-1952, as the first Brother President of St. Edward’s University, Brother Edmund set the institution on a course to become the second largest Holy Cross University in the country. Brother Edmund’s wise counsel served the Congregation of Holy Cross at every level of engagement from personal mentoring to assisting with a rewriting of the Congregation’s constitutions. In his later years, he served at Rancho San Antonio, Chatsworth, California and then lived in Austin, Texas. Memorials and guestbook online at wcfish.com