Raskin joined Apple in January 1978 as the 31st employee. He later hired his former student Bill Atkinson to work at Apple, and began the Macintosh project.
Links:
Jef Raskin homepage (http://humane.sourceforge.net/jefweb-compiled/index) at Source Forge, run by his son Aza Raskin
... he was ordained on May 24, 1864. On May 10, 1873, at his request, he was permitted to travel to Molokai to help the lepers who had virtually nothing to keep them warm ...