Joseph M. Freeman, SJ
 A philosophy and theology
teacher for 52 years, Fr. Joseph
Freeman died in his sleep on March
18 at the age of 91. A longtime resident
of what is now Rockhurst
University in Kansas City, Missouri,
he most recently resided at the Fusz
Pavilion in St. Louis.
Fr. Freeman was born March 16, 1911 in Cedar
Rapids. His family moved to Omaha, and he graduated
from Creighton Prep in 1929. After a year at Creighton
University, he entered the Society of Jesus, completed a
master’s in philosophy and theology at Saint Louis
University, and taught Latin and English at St. Louis
University High School (1937-40).
He was ordained in 1944 and began a long teaching
career at Rockhurst College. In the classroom he was
known to be a taskmaster, but for some residents of
Kansas City and former students, he was a favored friend.
He loved sports and was an aggressive basketball and
handball player.
Following his retirement in 1998 he remained at
Rockhurst two more years before moving to St. Louis for
health reasons.
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Robert P. Raszkowski, SJ
 A man whose smile disarmed even the students he was disciplining,
Fr. Robert P. Raszkowski died Dec. 19, 2001 in St. Louis,
Mo. He was 87. “Raz,” as his fellow Jesuits
called him, had spent all of his Jesuit
apostolic life in Belize, up until four
months ago when declining health forced him to move to
the Fusz Pavilion on the campus of Saint Louis
University.
He was born March 4, 1914 and grew up in Berlin,
Wisconsin. His parents moved to Milwaukee where he
attended Pio Nono High School (1927-31) and
Marquette University (1931-33). He entered the Society
of Jesus at Florissant, Missouri in September 1933, completed
his studies at Saint Louis University, and was
ordained in June 1946.
Having spent his regency in Belize, Raz returned there
after ordination. For most of 56 years he was a respected
and much-loved teacher during the week at St. John’s
College and a gentle, humble pastor on San Pedro Island
on weekends. In these final years of his life he was a
school counselor and confessor. As one of his colleagues
said: “He did everything well.”
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