Box OSBCHI-C-100-2

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This sub-series contains a list of the three Sisters who taught vacation schools in Stoneham, Colorado, during the summers of 1936 and 1936. According to Sr. Pancratoa Yede, OSB, the town was very poor and plagued by drought during her time there. A page from "Our Community" containing two paragraphs about Stoneham is also included, and may suggest another vacation school was taught in the town during the summer of 1937.

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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.

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This slim sub-series is comprised of a single slip of paper listing one summer school of religion taught by Sr. Mildred Scheetz, OSB, and Sr. Leocadia Gnidica, OSB, in Uravan, Colorado, although it is unknown if they were there in 1973 or 1974.

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Besides several archival notes about which Sisters taught vacation schools in Vail, Colorado, and students who commuted from Vail to Minturn, Colorado, this sub-series is comprised of many postcards highlighting the area's gorgeous scenery.

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This sub-series is comprised of four pamphlets about Victor, Colorado, and its surrounding minds, along with a 1992 Archives Newsletter that explains how many children from Victor would commute to vacation schools run by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago in nearby towns.

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This sub-series contains one piece of paper listing Sr. Mary Cornella, OSB, as the only Sister to teach a summer school of religion in Vineland, Colorado. The vacation school of religion was likely taught in 1943.

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This sub-series contains three archival notes regarding the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago's vacation schools in Vroman, Colorado. The first two summer schools of religion were taught in 1941 and 1942, the last was taught sometime in the 1950s.

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This sub-series is entirely comprised of a short list of Sisters who taught vacation schools in Weldona, Colorado, from the mid- to late-1930s.

Scope and Contents This sub-series starts with a list of Sisters who taught vacation schools in Westcliffe, Colorado, nearly every year from 1930 to 1965. Several news clippings relating to Our Lady of the Assumption appear next, including a 1945 story from The Southern Colorado Register about the summer school of religion. Some other documents revolve around the parish's establishment and how the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago became involved. Westcliffe is where the community taught its first vacation school...

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This sub-series contains a slip of paper listing Sr. Scholastica Hrusovsky, OSB, as the only Sister to teach a vacation school in Williamsburg, Colorado, during the summer of 1940.