Brother Luke Driscoll, F.M.S., a high school principal and teacher who served at Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, died there Sept. 9 at Champagnat Hall, the Marist Brothers’ retirement community. He was 90.
He taught at Mount St. Michael, 1981-1982 and 1941-1949; Marist Prep in Esopus, 1949-1954; St. Ann’s Novitiate in Poughkeepsie, 1939-1941; and St. Ann’s Academy, Manhattan, 1936-1939.
He also taught in Brooklyn, in Massachusetts and at the Marist novitiate in Orlu, Nigeria, and was a principal in Georgia and Texas. He directed a Marist sabbatical program in Fribourg, Switzerland, 1972-1979.
He was co-director of the Marist novitiate in Calumet, Ill., 1982-1984; a staff member at a retreat center in Wheeling, W.Va., 1984-1987; and a hospital chaplain in Augusta, Ga., and spiritual coordinator of the permanent diaconate program of the Diocese of Savannah, 1987-2001.
Born in the Bronx, he entered the Marist novitiate in 1932 and professed final vows in 1939. He held a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in English from Fordham University.
He had lived at Champagnat Hall since retiring in 2001.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 12 at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Baychester Avenue, the Bronx, with burial the next day at the Marists Brothers Cemetery in Esopus.