Featured in a story on www.myneworleans.com, Brother Lee Barker talks about how one of his jobs was to talk to students about church ministry: becoming priests, brothers and nuns. He turned to a unique method of grabbing his audiences attention: magic. And now, with his repertoire of tricks, he is always anxious to show those sleights of hand as he travels back and forth between Pensacola and New Orleans.
The Thibodaux native spends his school days as a guidance services counselor at McGill-Toolen and when summers roll around he heads over to St. Stanislaus where he gives “character talks” to the camp-goers each morning. Brother Lee Barker, the 86-year-old Sacred Heart brother also once served as principal of the former St. Aloysius High School.
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