Dates

• Existence: 1919 - 2003

Biographical note

Robert Patrick Neenan, SJ was born on February 19, 1919 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Emmet Joseph and Mary Helena (Liebst) Neenan. He studied at St. Louis and St. Mary's in Kansas and was ordained June 14, 1951. He taught American history, speech, and religion, and served as a director of dramatics. In 1959 he became the Alumni Director at Creighton Preparatory School, where he launched their Annual Giving program. He served as Executive Secretary of the National Conference of Jesuit Alumni Administrators' (JAA) Secondary Schools section beginning in 1963, and he continued in that capacity when it became Jesuit Secondary Education Commission's (JSEA) Commission on Planning and Development (COPAD) in fall of 1970. He was also elected Regional Secretary for secondary schools for Region IV of the Association of American Colleges (AAC).

Neenan died on October 9, 2003 in Wisconsin.

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