People: Apr. 24, 1964

Each day begins at 5:30 in the morning, ends around 9 at night. And it has been that way since last July for James Roosevelt Jr., 18. That's when he entered the Mont La Salle Novitiate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools near Napa, Calif. The newly named Brother Matthew David got parental permission from both his divorced Episcopal father, James Sr., and Catholic mother before accepting his religious vocation. At 25, the grandson of F.D.R. hopes to leave the layman's life for good, take final vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, stability, and teaching the poor.

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