Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 12/23/1949
Brother Venard CSC, nee Charles Gorman, aged
50, third assistant superior general of the Congregation of Holy
Cross and principal of the Mt. Carmel boys’ school in the
Bronx, N.Y., died Thursday in the facility house in the Bronx,
after a heart attack. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 10,
1895, and entered the Congregation of Holy Cross July 1, 1925. He
took his final vows on July 2, 1929 and received his A. B. degree
from the University of Notre Dame. He was awarded the master’s
degree at St. John’s University, Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1947.
Brother Vernard taught in Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville,
Ind. from 1929 to 1931; was director of the St. Charles Boys’
Home in Milwaukee, Wis., from 1931 to 1943; returned to
Evansville for a year; was principal of the Thomas Aquinas School
in Brooklyn from 1944 to 1949 and was appointed to the St. Carmel
school in the summer of 1949 after receiving a certificate of
merit as superior in the diocese of Brooklyn. In 1945 he was
elected assistant general to Very Rev. Albert F. Cousineau CSC,
of New York City.
Funeral rites will take place at the
University of Notre Dame at 8 a.m. Tuesday with burial in the
Community Cemetery. Brother Venard was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Gorman, of Minneapolis and is survived by two sisters,
Miss Irene Gorman and Mrs. L. Shaugnessy, both of St. Paul, Minn,
and a brother William Gorman of Houston, Texas.
Editor: The age of 50 cannot be calculated
from the birth and death dates stated in this obituary.