J. Donald Freeze

Who was J. Donald Freeze?

James Donald Freeze, S.J. was the Academic Vice President for the main campus of Georgetown University from 1979 to 1991. In this role, he supervised all academic programs of Georgetown's College of Arts and Sciences, School of Foreign Service, School of Language and Linguistics, School of Business Administration, Graduate School, and School for Summer and Continuing Education.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland he became a Jesuit novice in 1950. After junior college at the Jesuit seminary in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, he received a master's degree in philosophy from Weston College in Massachusetts in 1957.

He taught Latin and French at Saint Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia for three years, then studied theology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria from 1960 to 1964. He spent another year in France and took his final vows as a Jesuit and was ordained a priest at Wheeling Jesuit College in West Virginia in 1968.

Father Freeze taught metaphysics and psychology at Wheeling College until 1969, then became chairman of its philosophy department while doing graduate work in philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lived at Georgetown University from 1970 until 1991.