Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Robert Poudrier CSC

May 23, 1900 – Feb. 3, 1960

South Bend Tribune 2/4/1960

Brother Robert Poudrier CSC, 59, former director of the Father Gilbault School for Boys in Terre Haute, died Wednesday afternoon in the Community Infirmary on the University of Notre Dame campus. He had been ill for several years with a heart condition and had been confined to the infirmary about three weeks. Brother Poudrier was born in Oconto, Wis. on May 23, 1900, and entered the Brothers of Holy Cross on Sept. 23, 1923 at Sacred Heart College, Watertown, Wis. He received the habit on July 1, 1924 and mad his final vows on July 2, 1928. He received his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame 1930 and did graduate work at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood, Calif.

He taught in high schools in Evansville, Ind. and New Orleans, and in 1934 was appointed director of the Gilbault School, an institution for underprivileged boys. He was the first brother appointed to the position, which he held until 1945. Later he taught in Long Beach, Calif. and the served as principal of Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. In 1953 he was appointed to the teaching staff at Notre Dame International in Rome, Italy, until an illness forced him to return to the University of Notre Dame, where he did archives work, and worked in the vocation office.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. today in Columba Hall at Notre Dame. The office of the dead will be at 5 p.m. Friday in Sacred Heart Church on the campus and funeral services will be in the church at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with burial in the Community Cemetery on campus.