Box OSBCHI-C-100-1

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This sub-series contains an archive note listing Sr. Mary Schartung, OSB, as the only Sister to teach a vacation school in Blende, Colorado. She taught in the town during the summer of 1949 or 1950.

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This sub-series lists 1935 and 1935 as the years the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught vacation schools in Bristol, Colorado. Sr. Edith Rabida, OSB, along with someone named Holly taught the former, while Sr. Maurus Becker, OSB, taught the latter.

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This series contains a folder for each town in Colorado where Sisters taught summer schools of religion. Most contain a list of which Sisters taught in a town and when, while some include much more material, such as photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, etc.

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This sub-series is comprised of several Colorado maps, all of which mark towns where Sisters taught summer schools of religion. Some indicate where smaller towns not shown on the maps are located, while others have brief notes written in the margins.

Scope and Contents This sub-series contains four Archives Newsletters published in 2007 explaining the history of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's vacation schools in Illinois, Arizona, and Colorado. Each town is listed, along with its parish, and which Sisters worked where when. A seperate document lists about how many students attended each summer school, while another provides a brief note on what led the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago to run their first vacation school in 1930. Over the years, a dozen...

Scope and Contents Sister Vivian Ivantic, OSB compiled a list of Sisters who taught weekday, Sunday, and summer classes at St. Anthony Church. She included pages on the parish history taken from the 60th anniversary book of St. Michael Church, Cañon City, Colorado. There is a brief note from Sister Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB regarding her experience, a data sheet prepared for the 1965 Visitation of St. Scholastica Monastery, part of an Our Community article by Sister Aloysia Ripperger, OSB referencing problems...

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This series contains a folder for each town in Colorado where Sisters taught summer schools of religion. Most contain a list of which Sisters taught in a town and when, while some include much more material, such as photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, etc.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains a folder for each town in Colorado where Sisters taught summer schools of religion. Most contain a list of which Sisters taught in a town and when, while some include much more material, such as photographs, news clippings, pamphlets, etc.

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This sub-series contains a couple papers with information concerning the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's vacation schools in Calcite, Colorado. Sisters began teaching in the town in the mid-1920s, but had left by the end of the decade. Also included is a special edition of the Canon City Daily Record from 1962 celebrating the municipality's centennial.

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This sub-series details the summer schools of religion run by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago at various instituions in Cañon City, Colorado, from 1929 to 1965. Sections from a June, 1929 entry of the "Cathechists' Corner," written by Sr. Scholastica Hrusovsky, OSB, describe the earliest days of the city's vacation schools from a first-hand account.