Lee P. Yeazell, MA, MA

Lee was Director of Campus Ministry and Instructor of Theology at St. Xavier, a Jesuit college preparatory secondary school in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also taught theology at Cincinnati’s La Salle High School. He received his MA in speculative philosophy and an MA in systematic theology from the Athenaeum of Ohio.

Yeazell collected and edited In All Things (Loyola Press 2003), a book of prayers written by students at more than thirty secondary schools throughout the US, which is now used in many schools across the country.

As head of the Campus Ministry Department for twenty-two years, he organized and led a wide range of
retreats and prayer sessions for diverse groups of students and adults. He used music, film, ritual, journaling, quiet prayer time, recreation, small and large group discussion to develop themes, such as “Finding God in All Things,” “God’s Presence and Care for Us in our Personal Relationships,” and “Recognizing God’s Gifts in the Mentally and Physically Challenged.”

Yeazell taught a variety of theology courses, including World Religions, Social Justice, Introduction to
Scripture, Prayer and Meditation, Sacraments and Liturgy. For years, he was part of a program designed to
encourage progress in the spiritual life of students at St. Xavier. It involved meeting in the summers for hour- long sessions with fifty to sixty students and individually with each student’s parents to discuss their son’s spiritual growth and to set concrete action steps for his last two years of school.

For many years, Yeazell and his wife belonged to two adult prayer small groups, which met regularly to share their spiritual growth. One of these groups comprised Yeazell’s work colleagues and the other, a group of friends mostly outside of his work life.

Yeazell and his wife, Carol Dreyer Yeazell, have two sons and two daughters-in-law, Daniel and Jacqueline and Michael and Erin - and four granddaughters.

Lee Yeazell died in November 2022 after bravely battling Lewy Body Dementia for several years.