Ivantic, Vivian, 1913-2023

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This small collection contains essential biographical data, teaching certificate, a graduation photograph, material related to Sister Philomene Sponsel, OSB and her life in community. There is also correspondence between her, Sister Beatrice Singler, OSB, and Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB from after she left the community. Many of the letters include landscape sketches.

Scope and Contents This collection contains biographical information and personal papers. Included in biographical information is a personal data sheet, ministry lists, diplomas, teaching certificates, jubilee and funeral materials, photographs, and more. Her personal papers give insight into her personal and professional life as a woman religious and the community's archivist. Sister maintained significant correspondence with friends, family, colleagues, elected officials, and the community. She discusses...

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Within this album, there are several series. They include construction of school building, demolition of West building, Indoors, Outdoors, Camp Sam Benito, residence of Sisters at 602, and white cottage at 502 Pike. A series of special interest is a set of Polaroids of chairs reupholstered by Sr. Karen Bland, OSB. and the sisters.

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A note included with the album states: The snapshots on the next three pages were taken at SS. Benedict and Scholastica on Orleans Street. A careful scrutiny of the pictures will show the entire yard or "garden enclose" as well as the tracks of the elevated train. There are photographs of community life, visits, work, and events like graduations and jubilees in Illinois and Colorado.

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This sub-series contains a list of Sisters who taught in Telluride, Colorado, during several summers between 1931 and 1978. Three news stories about St. Patrick Church appear alongside a postcard, map of the area, and some images taken by Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, during an archives trip she and Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, took to Colorado in 1989.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The materials in this collection were gathered over the years by Prioresses and archivists and held in the monastery and school libraries as reference materials. Mother Theresa Krug, OSB, whose brother was the abbot of the Abbey of Monte Cassino probably contributed the earliest material. Sister Ignatia O'Connor, OSB gathered some of it for a display at the 1961 centennial of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB continued to add to the collection once it was in the...