Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother John Paul Driscoll CSC

Sept. 22, 1927 – June 24, 1987

South Bend Tribune 6/26/1987

Brother John Paul Driscoll CSC, 59, president of Holy Cross Junior College, died at 8 p.m. Thursday of an apparent heart attack. He was born Sept. 22, 1927 in Brooklyn NY. Survivors include a sister, Sister Mary CND, of Ridgefield, Conn. He became a novice Aug. 15, 1891 and professed his vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross Aug. 16, 1952. During World War II he served with the US Navy Atlantic Fleet. He completed his undergraduate studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and earned his masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He served as a teacher in Austin and Monroe, Mich., before his appointment commandant of Sacred Heart Military Academy in Watertown, Wis. in 1955. In 1966 when Holy Cross Junior College was established, he became its president and dean.

Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in St. Joseph Chapel at the Holy Cross Brothers Center, with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery, also at the Center. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Sunday at the Brothers Center Chapel, where a wake will be at 7:30 p.m.