In Memoriam
Don Driscoll, S.J.
06/17/1933 - 04/21/2007
Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of our brother.
Fr. Donald D. Driscoll, S.J. Don, 73, passed away unexpectedly last night around midnight of an apparent heart attack.
Fr. Donald David Driscoll was born in Evergreen Park, IL on June 17, 1933. After attending parochial schools in Chicago, he went to Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, WI. He entered the novitiate at Florissant, MO on August 8, 1952. His normal course of studies were in St. Louis, MO and St. Marys, KS. From 1967 until 1986, he taught theology at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee and served as its rector as well.
In 1987, he began his twenty years of service at Creighton University as a theology teacher as well as chaplain. DD was probably best known throughout his years in the Society as the man who always found humor in every situation. Go to Tribute to Don Driscoll website.
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Thomas Hoffman, S.J.
05/22/1925 - 05/23/2006
A very kind, funny, and holy priest Fr. Thomas A. Hoffman, SJ, 81, died after a heart attack, at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. on May 23, 2006.
Born May 22, 1925 in Milwaukee, Tom finished Marquette High early so he could enter the Society of Jesus at Florissant in Feb. of 1943. He taught briefly at Regis High School in Denver and at Creighton Prep in Omaha, but is mostly remembered for his time at Campion (1958-66).
With encouragement from Vatican Council II, Tom earned a degree in Scripture at the Gregorian University in Rome. He taught Scripture at Creighton University (1960-1988) where his fastidious attention to detail could drive others crazy if they didn’t realize his two passions in life were, the Church and bird watching.
When heart trouble terminated his teaching in 1988, Tom stayed at Creighton to build up the theology library, hear confessions each noon, and roam the U.S. in search of birds he had not heard. A member of the Audubon Society since 1972, he documented over 1,400 species of birds in his lifetime.
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James Quinn, S.J.
12/16/1918 - 07/10/2006
An advocate for Creighton health science students from 1953 to 2003, Fr. James J. Quinn died of head injuries from a fall, on July 10, 2006 at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wis. He was 87.
Born in Chicago on Dec. 16, 1918, Jim moved when he was eight to Milwaukee and entered the Jesuits following graduation from Marquette University High School in 1937. He was ordained in 1950 and went to Creighton University to teach philosophy and supervise the dorm known as Wareham Hall.
Realizing how often patients in the health care system sought to find compassion, integrity and humility in medical personnel, he advocated electives in history, literature, philosophy and theology which would give students a view of life from a patient’s perspective. His labors bore fruit through his own teaching of ethics and his close association with the Catholic Physicians Guild and with the health care institutions in Eastern Nebraska. Jim was a man who kept in contact with many Creighton alums by phone and letter, a practice he continued when he moved to Wauwatosa, Wis. in 2003.
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John Holbrook, S.J.
07/28/1920 - 08/30/2004
John Holbrook, S.J., was known at Creighton for his friendly smile and acts of kindness.
“Wherever he worked, he touched people’s loves on a very personal level,” said Frank Ayers, associate dean of the school of Dentistry. “He had a rue knack of making everyone he came in contact with feel special.”
Holbrook, a chaplain of Chreighton’s dental school for more than twenty years, died Monday, August 30, 2004 at Camillus, the Jesuit health care center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was 84. He was diagnosed with cancer in several organs in July, Ayers said.
Holbrook was born and raised in Des Moines. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University in 1945 and a master’s degree from Creighton University in 1972.
Hobrook joined Creighton University in 1964, where he served as the chaplain of the school of dentistry and Swanson residence hall until 1972. He was later appointed director of pastoral care at St. Joseph Hospital, now Creighton University Medical Center. In 1991, he rejoined the dental school as chaplain. He retired in 2003.
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John Ginsterblum, S.J.
03/01/1922 - 10/11/2006
Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of our brother, Fr. John M. Ginsterblum, S.J. John, 84, passed away quietly at St. Camillus late yesterday afternoon, October 11.
John was born on March 1, 1922 in Eastman, WI and attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, WI. He entered the Society at Florissant, MO on September 1, 1940 and did most of his first studies in St. Louis, MO. After th eology at St. Mary’s, KS, John was ordained on June 17, 1953. He completed a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the Gregorian in Rome and then taught Theology at Creighton University until 1974 when was assigned as Rector of the Novitiate in St. Paul.
From 1975 until 1980, he was superior at the LaStorta Jesuit Community in Minneapolis and served as a teacher of Theology at the College of St. Catherine, a chaplain at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul, MN, and pastoral assistant at Our Lady of Peace in Minneapolis. When LaStorta was closed in 2003, John moved back to Omaha and worked in pastoral ministry until moving to St. Camillus in 2005.
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Jim Kramper, S.J.
04/11/1912 - 11/09/2005
A man who enjoyed priesthood and Jesuit life immensely, Fr. James P. Kramper, 93, died December 9, 2005, in Wauwatosa, Wis. of complications from Parkinson's disease.
Born April 11, 1912 in Omaha he entered the Jesuits in 1931 following graduation from Creighton Prep. He taught at Campion Jesuit High School before ordination (1938-41). He served the school again (1946-53) in admissions and student recruitment.
In 1953 Creighton University president Carl Reinert asked Jim to plan and build a new library. The Reinert Memorial Library was completed in 1961; Jim was director until 1977. From 1978-81 he worked in the development office, visiting donors in California.
Around the time of Carl's death in 1980, Jim turned his attention to parishes, assisting at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Omaha (1977-8) and at Queen of Apostles Parish in Council Bluffs (1981-7). He loved the people and they enjoyed, as one parishioner put it, his “humor, a 5-minute sermon, and a thought you could carry with you through the week.”
Limited by the effects of Parkinson's disease, he moved to the Jesuit Community at St. Camillus in 2003.
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| Morning offering by Fr. Kolvenbach, S.J. God, Our Father, I offer You my day.
I offer You my prayers, thoughts, words, actions, and sufferings
in union with Your Son, Jesus Christ, who continues to offer Himself
in the Eucharist for the salvation of the world.
May the Holy Spirit, Who guided Jesus, be my guide and my strength today
So that I may witness to Your love.
With Mary, the mother of our Lord and of the Church,
I pray especially for this month’s intentions as proposed by the Holy Father.
Fr. General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.
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