Marianist Brother William McCall, a teacher and champion of the speech and debate program in the 1960s at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, died of cancer in Cupertino on July 9, 2008. He was 81.
Brother McCall was born in Camas, Idaho, on Sept. 10, 1926. He attended middle and high school in Los Angeles.
In 1943, after completing his junior year of high school, Brother McCall enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in DeLand, Fla. His duties included aviation ordinance and servicing aircraft machine guns.
Upon his return from military service in 1946, Brother completed high school at Metropolitan High in Los Angeles and entered college there on the G.I. Bill at Loyola University. He graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree and later earned a master's degree in English literature there.
Brother McCall entered the novitiate in 1955 at Santa Cruz, professed first vows in 1956, and in 1960 professed perpetual vows in San Francisco.
Brother McCall spent most of his teaching career at Chaminade College Preparatory at Canoga Park and West Hills, Calif., where he taught for 22 years and served as president from 1982 - 1986. He also taught at Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco, Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, and St. Louis School and Chaminade University in Honolulu.
Brother had no immediate survivors. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 15 at the Marianist Center in Cupertino. Burial was July 16 at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos.
