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Box OSBCHI-C-100-1

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Ordway, Colo.

 Sub-Series — Box: OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents

There is relatively little material relating to the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's time in Ordway, Colorado, compared to the nearly two decades the community taught vacation schools in the town. All that's contained in this sub-series is a list of the Sisters who ran Ordway's summer schools of religion and a map highlighting the town on a map.

Dates: 1929 - 2007
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Religious Education Schools collection / Colorado Schools

Religious Vacation Schools Manual collection, 1953

 Sub-Series — Box: OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 2b
Scope and Contents

This manual was published in three volumes: A Course of Study for Grades I and II; A Course of Study for Grades III, IV, and V; and A Course of Study for Grades VI, VII, and VIII. It was originally published in 1942 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and updated in 1953. The autor is Sister M. Rosalia, M.H.S.H.

Dates: 1953
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Religious Education Schools collection / Summer Religious Education

Rush to Colorado poem, 1959

 Item — Box: OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 2c
Scope and Contents This anonymous, handwritten poem was found with the Summer Vacation Schools materials. It extoles the beuaty and excitement of Colorado and encourages people to come experience it for themselves. It was written in 1959, the centennial of Colorado statehood. Many Sisters enjoyed traveling to Colorado by train and in the days before vacations, going out to teach summer school gave Sisters a change of scene and the chance to beautiful experience new places with welcoming families. Often the...
Dates: 1959
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Religious Education Schools collection / Summer Religious Education

Eagle, Colo., 1940 - 1989

 Sub-Series — Box: OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

This series contains a couple photographs of Sr. Constance Matern, OSB, and Sr. Anthony Hrusovsky, OSB, a priest, and their vacation school group outside St. Mary Church in Eagle, Colorado. Also included are some pictures taken during a 1989 archive trip Sr. Vivian Ivantic, OSB, and Sr. Eleanore Hillenbrand, OSB, took to Colorado. The list of Sisters who taught at the summer schools of religion in Eagle may be incomplete, as the second page of the list is missing.

Dates: 1940 - 1989
Found in: Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives / Religious Education Schools collection / Colorado Schools

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