St Boniface High School - Sabonite Yearbook (Cold Spring, MN)

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Review Our Benedictine Heritage Table of Contents Centennial Review Administration . . Staff. . . Faculty. . . Students. . . Classes. . . Activities . . Sports. . . Ads... . Amleto Giovanni Cicognani and his assistants proceed through an honor guard as- sembled by Knights of Col- lumbus on Centennial Day, August 22, 1956, at St. J hn's Abbey. .. ...4--5 ...6-7 ...8 ...9 ..13 ...31 ...39 ...63 .....73 Knights of Columbus Form Honor Guard For Apostolic Delegate Cicognani

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i 4 a gi Letas wi Q iii 'its Coat of Arms precedes His Ex- cellency, the Most Reverend Peter W. Bartholome, Bishop of St. Cloud, as he walks in the St. John's Centennial Day procession Auguest 22, 1956, accompanied by Father Authur Hoppe and Fa- ther Paul Zylla. As a symbol of our appreciation for the work of our Benedictine administration and faculty, we have dedicated this year's SABONITE to Our Benedictine Heritage. Celebrating their centennial representing one hundred years of Christian development through prayer, work, and obedience are the Sisters of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, and the members of St. Iohn's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. While St. Iohn's Abbey opened its celebration with Centennial Day, August 22, 1956, the sisters began their centennial year January 1, 1957. Quotations featured on the administration, faculty, and division pages are taken from the Holy Rule of St. Benedict and Pope Pius XII's encyclical, FUIBENS RADIATUR.

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From behind the smiles of John Mayer, Loretta Hansen, Jean Theiscn, Laura Dingman, and Doreen Karls, towers the church at Jacob's Prairie, another work of the Bene- clictines. fOther students from St. James' parish are Ed- mund Schmitz, Diane, and Robert Dockendorf. As Jewels Clustered Around Their Churches. fPius XID Benedictines Like a Star in the Tobetter understand the history with which we as students are most concerned, let's follow the sisters of St. Benedict as they move from their cloister at St. Cloud to their present location at the Convent of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota. The first Benedictine sisters to encounter the hard- ships presented by Minnesota frontiers were four nuns and three postulants under the supervision of Mother Benedicta Riepp , OS B, Upon arrival at St. Paul in June, 1857, the persevering group was sent to St. Cloud where they were furnished with a frame build- ing near the church. Here they were able to conduct classes of music and elementary grades. Beginning their mission in poverty,the sisters soon won the honor and respect ofthe community. After five years of convent life and teaching in St. Cloud, anew convent was prepared for them in St. Joseph. As a beginning of the development through which our own school has progressed, the sisters opened a parish school in St. Joseph in 1862. For eighteen years the sisters lived in the modest dwelling which they occupied from 1863 until the first wing of the present structure was completed in 1881. Bonnie-Bennics Mary Kuebelbeck, Rose Mary Schmit, Gloria Dietman, Lana Kramer, Mary Ann Schmit, Mary Alice Wedl, and Mary Reichert revive talent at an alurnnae rendezvous in Mary Hall at the College of St. Benedict. Seated at the piano are Margaret Wenner and Irene Bates. The new residence hall will be blessed in September, 1957. Alumane missing from this picture: Eileen Torborg and Sister M. Louis Manuel, O.S.B.