In Memoriam

Roger Malcolm Laub

 

Roger Malcolm Laub died on November 4, 2015 in Columbus, OH. 

He is survived by his wife, Karen Wade Laub, and his son, Aaron Malcolm Laub. 

Roger earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Kansas, and a master’s degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary. 

He was a gifted college teacher and later a pastor.  Roger and Karen converted to Catholicism. 

Dick Moser writes:  “Roger was a gentle soul, bright, idiosyncratic, and supremely literate.  I know of no one else who, when angry with a roommate, would strike out with, ‘You have the physiognomy of a worm!’” 

Rick Willis recalls Roger Laub as follows:  “We roomed together sophomore year, having met as freshmen in the scholarship-job stews of Timothy Dwight’s dining hall. He returned to Nebraska at the midpoint of our sophomore year, completed his degree at Omaha University, entered seminary in his mid-forties, and was ultimately ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, which vocation he plied until his death.  He was a singular man (I know we all are, but he more than most), with an unusually vivid and articulate personality.  He did more good in our world than most.”

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