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[17-April-2006]

ND’s Dr. Robert Leader dies

Filed under: General — @ 12:10 EDT

I’m very sorry to report this, but Dr. Robert Leader, emeritus professor of art and my father’s mentor, has died.  I remember, every Sunday, looking up at his Stations of the Cross mural painted along the entire expanse of the South wall of Little Flower Catholic Church.  His specialty was stained glass windows and the mural evoked the same feeling as stained glass.  Dr. Leader’s influence on my father’s style is obvious and though I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Leader a few times when I was in school, I never had the chance to thank him for that.  Here is a reprint of Dr. Leader’s obituary for when the link to the South Bend Tribune goes away:

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