Vignettes

Most of the following were initially created as short PowerPoint “History Lessons” for the CSB and SJU Administrative Assemblies. The date in brackets (“[20xx]”) indicates when each was compiled. These are also in Digital Commons.

• 100 Years Ago at Saint John’s: Interesting Tidbits from 1917 [2017]
• 1866 Move from “Indianbush” to “Saint Louis Lake” (Lake Sagatagan) [2016]
  Related video: Lake Sagatagan: A Lake of Saint John’s Abbey Arboretum [2018 video]
• Alcuin Library’s 1966 Dedication, the Vice President, and Dorothy Day [2017]
• Alternative Break Experience (ABE) – Campus Ministry [2018]
• Anniversaries in 2015-16 for CSB and SJU [2015]
• Ardeleons: Drama on a Woman’s Campus, Part 1 [2018]
• Ardeleons: Drama on a Woman’s Campus, Part 2 [2018]
• Bahamas Connection to St. Ben’s & St. John’s [2019] [revised 2022]
• Before the Benedictines: the Peoples Here First [2018] ; includes Treaties
• Benedicta Arts Center at 50: A History [2014]
• Benedictine Heritage (Tour) Namesakes at St. Ben’s & St. John’s [2013]
• Benedictine Institute of Sacred Theology (BIST) and Mary Anthony Wagner, OSB [2015]
• Benedictine Pioneers in America: Lessons Not in the Books [2017]
• Bennie Identity Controversy [2015]
• Black Students Occupy President’s Office, 1970 [2013] [Updated and available as a video in 2017]
• Blazers’ History: CSB’s Athletes Get a Name and a Logo [2017]
• Blazers’ New Athletics Director, Glennis Werner ’93 [2016]
• Blood Drives on Campus [2013]
• Building a College for Women: The Beginnings of St. Ben’s [2015]
• Campus Health Centers [2010]
• CEP: The Community Education Project, aka “The Farm”: An Intentional Living Community for CSB/SJU Students, 1968-1970 [2019]
• Christmas at Saint John’s [2021]
  Related video: Christmas Tree Journey and Tree Installation
• Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research [2011]
• Collegeville’s St. John the Baptist Parish History [2020]
• Commercial School at St. John’s: The Case for the Liberal Arts [2013]
• CSB’s Publications Over the Years [2017]
• CSB’s Three New (Old) Buildings: St. Wendelin, Caedmon, & the Artisan Studio (i.e. Schoenecker Commons) [2016]
• Disabled / Differabilities in CSB History [2015]
• Diversity at CSB/SJU [2022]
• Employee Benefits History [2011] CSB/SJU
• Firehouse Theater’s 1968-69 Performances: Censorship on Campus [2019]
• Fires at St. John’s [2014]
• Flynntown and Its Namesake, Coach Ed Flynn [2009]
• Flynntown Neighborhood Is Home to Nature Conservancy at SJU [2012]
• Food Service at St. Ben’s: The Early History [2018]
• Football by the Quad? Mystery of the Uprights [2019]
  Includes slides on building progress, 1867-1945 
• Ghost Stories [2023]
• Golfing in Collegeville [2016]
• Hassler: Teacher, Author and Artist [2022]
• Home Ec Babies at Saint Ben’s [2024]
• Humor in The Record (and elsewhere) [2018]
• Idzerda, CSB’s 8th President [2013]
• Indian Industrial School at Saint John’s, 1884-1896 [2019]
• Indian Industrial Schools at Saint Ben’s, 1884-1898, and White Earth [2019]
  Related: Indian Industrial Schools at Saint John’s and Saint Benedict’s [online, exhibit, 2019]
  Video:From Assimilation to Revitalization at CSB/SJU [Peace Studies Conference presentation, 2019]
• Indianbush: Where Was It? (Saint John’s first location in Collegeville) [2016]
• Jacob Wetterling Case at CSB/SJU [2016]
• Johnnie Bread History [2018]
• Lake Sagatagan’s Pickerel Point Bridges [2014]
  Note: See also : Curiosities: Early Saint John’s and the Shores of Lake Sagatagan [2022]
• Libraries at St. John’s [2015]
• Library Book Moving [2016]
• Library Directors of CSB and SJU [2022]
• Liturgical Press, Collegeville: A Brief History [2015]
• Lost Saint John’s, Part 1: Earliest Buildings [2021]
• Lost Saint John’s, Part 2: Mills and Greenhouses [2021]
• Lost Saint John’s, Part 3: Lost – and Found? Sagatagan Shrines [2022]
• Lost Saint John’s, Part 4: First Chapel and the Exhibition Hall [2024]
• Mariella Gable & Kristin Malloy: The “Wicked Nuns” (book banning at CSB) [2023]
• McCarthy’s Days at SJU [2010]
• Nancy Hynes Institute for Women’s Leadership [and its namesake]: A Brief History [2021]
• Observatory Hill (SJP site) [2014]
• Old Stone House [2017]
• One Co-operative Venture: The 1960s Planning for CSB/SJU’s Jointness [2017]
• Pandemic at Saint Ben’s: The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1920 [2020]
• Peter Engel, Saint John’s Fourth Abbot [2022] or view as a video (at 10:00)
• Peter Pan Productions at SJP/CSB/SJU [2016]
• Prep Dorm Mystery on the Forest Floor: Bak [2020]
• Prep Puts on “Godspell” Play – Again [2017]
• Prep School’s New Head of School Jon McGee [2019]
• Prep’s World: The Place Up/On/Built into the Hill [2011]
• Promoting Saint John’s: Ads from “Way Back When” [2010]
• Recycling at CSB: A Short History [2021] also available as a video
• Residential Life at St. Ben’s in the Early Years [2013]
• Residential Life at St. John’s in 1920 [2010]
• Saint Benedict’s 50 Years Ago: 1964-65 [2014]
• Saint Benedict’s 50 Years Ago: 1967-68 [2018]
• Saint Benedict’s Buildings Renovated in 2019: Historical Photos [2019]
• Saint Benedict’s Buildings, Part 1 [2012]
• Saint Benedict’s Buildings, Part 2 [2012]
• Saint Benedict’s Buildings, Part 3 [2012]
  Related video: Campus (Historical) Tour: CSB Through the Years
• Saint Benedict’s High School Closes and Saint John’s Prep Goes Co-Ed: 1973 [2023]
• Saint Benedict’s Master Plans (1960s-1990s) [2014]
• Saint Benedict’s Pageant [2011]
  Note: Short silent videos of the Pageant and Pageant practice are also available.
• Saint Benedict’s Statues [2013]
• Saint Benedict’s Teresa Hall at 100 [2014]
• Saint Benedict’s Woods, Lodge and Lake Sarah [2024]
  Related video: “The Turkey Story” [2009, Saint Benedict’s Monastery]
• Saint John’s – 75 years ago (1936) [2011]
• Saint John’s 12th President, Fr. Bob Koopmann [2009]
• Saint John’s 13th President, Michael Hemesath [2012]
• Saint John’s Abbey Woodworking [2013]
• Saint John’s First “Bible Project” (the library) [2011]
• Saint John’s First Abbot, Rupert Seidenbusch [2012]
• Saint John’s First Abbot’s 1866 Election [2017]
• Saint John’s First Cemetery [2016]
• Saint John’s First Science Hall [2010]
• Saint John’s Football – in 1952 [2015]
• Saint John’s Founder: Boniface Wimmer, in Brief [2013]
• Saint John’s Gets its Charter: 1857 [2011]
• Saint John’s Lands & Wetlands: Historical Highlights [2012]
• Saint John’s Origins [WJON YouTube video, 2015]
• Saint John’s Prep Headmasters, Part 1 [2012]
• Saint John’s Rat – Johnny Rat History, Part 1 [2012]
• Saint John’s Statues [2013]
• Skiing (Downhill) at Saint John’s: The Story of “Mount Carmel” [2023]
  Note: See also the short silent ski hill video that was part of this lesson
• Skiing at Saint John’s: The Early Years [2020]
• Snowstorms at Saint John’s [2016]
• Sound of Music: CSB/SJU’s Connections to the Movie [2015]
• Spoof Issue Discovery (A Day in the Life of an Archivist) [2019]
• Stephen B. Humphrey and Saint John’s Auditorium [2009]
• Stickwork – “Lean On Me” – Built at St. John’s [2015] [updated 2016] aka “Monks’ Cradle”
• Student Organizations at CSB – 50 Years Ago [2011]
• Study Abroad at CSB+SJU: A History [2024]
• Sustainability – Sustained for 150+ Years! [2010]
• Swayed Pines Festival, 1974-2000: Community Building through Music, Crafts, Food & Fun [2023]
• Theater Department Milestones in the Evolution of CSB/SJU Cooperation [2021]
• Twins at St. John’s [2014]
• United Way Promotion on the Campuses [2014]
• Vatican II and Saint John’s / Fr. Godfrey Diekmann [2013]
• War Protest, 1972: Students Blockade the SJU Campus [2022]
• Whither the Weather? 130 Years of Weather Recording at Saint John’s [2022]
• Wireless at St. John’s: The Early Days of Radio on the Campus [2019]
  Note: See also Bonnie Finn’s Radio at Saint John’s [2024]
• World War I & Saint John’s [2017]
• World War II Air Force Cadets at Saint John’s [2018]
• World War II Air Force Cadets at Saint John’s as documented in The Record: WIL-CO [2018]
• World War II Air Force Cadets at Saint John’s: Jack Webb of “Dragnet” Fame Gets His Start [2018]
• World War II-Era Barracks at St. John’s [2018]