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Minutes, programs, sections proceedings, correspondences, 1950 - 1959
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The American Benedictine Academy, founded in 1947, is a non-profit association whose purpose is to cultivate, support and transmit the Benedictine heritage within contemporary culture. The Academy sponsors and promotes disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research, writing and collaboration among its members. It serves as a catalyst inviting men and women to ponder creatively and to discuss the challenges to Benedictine values in the twenty-first century.
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The American Benedictine Academy was founded on December 30, 1947, at St. Procopius' Priory in Chicago, Illinois.
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In this folder are ABA materials which were collected from Ferdinand Benedictines who were members of the ABA. The official ABA archives are preserved at St. Benedict Monastery, St. Joseph, Minnesota. From 1967 through 1985 they were at Ferdinand.
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FINDING AID 901
Chronological Index for A Dictionary of English Benedictine Writers 1300-1540
ABA Language and Literature Newsletter May, 1959
American Benedictine Academy Newsletter 27-Jun-59
ABA Language and Literature Newsletter March-April, 1959
Papers Given at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Language and Literature Section August 17-20, 1959
Minutes of the ABA Philosophy-Section Meeting August 17-20, 1959
The American Benedictine Academy Minutes and Transactions of the Sixth Meeting Natural Sciences and Mathematics August 17-20, 1959
ABA Language and Literature Newsletter Advent, 1959
The American Benedictine Academy Section Meetings Sacred Studies, Social Science, Fine Arts August 16-19, 1966
Letter from Oliver L. Kapsner, O.S.B. 12-Dec-59
ABA Language and Literature Newsletter May, 1959
Letter from Adrian Fuerst, O.S.B. 24-Jun-66
List of ABA members
Letter from Adrian Fuerst, O.S.B. 7-Sep-65
Letter from Oliver L. Kapsner, O.S.B. 3-Apr-63
Letter from Sister M. Roberta Mellinger, O.S.B. 4-Mar-63
Letter from Benjamin Stein, O.S. B. 7-Jan-63
Letter from Sister M. Leocadia, O.S.B. 20-Dec-62
Letter from James C. Cox 10-Nov-62
Letter from Edward E. Malone, O.S.B. 26-Oct-62
Letter from Benjamin Stein, O.S. B. 5-Sep-62
Letter from Oliver L. Kapsner, O.S.B. March, 1962
Letter from Benjamin Stein, O.S. B. St. Scholastica Feast, 1962
Foreword to Benedictine Bibliography
Letter from Benjamin Stein, O.S. B. 6-Jan-62
Letter from Sister Anne, O.S.B. 27-Jun-59
Letter from Oliver L. Kapsner, O.S.B. 1-Jun-61
Letter from Sister Anne, O.S.B. 27-Jun-59
The Language and Literture Second agenda
Minutes and Proceedings of the Language and Literature Section of the American Benedictine Academy August, 1959
The ABA Newsletter Philosophy Section January, 1959
The ABA Newsletter January, 1959
The ABA Newsletter Library Science Section January, 1959
The ABA Newsletter October, 1958
ABA Language and Literature Newsletter January, 1958
Letter from Roland Behrendt, O.S.B. All Saints, 1958
Letter from Oliver L. Kapsner, O.S.B. 19-Sep-58
Proceedings of the Meeting of the Language and Literture Section of the American Benedictine Academy August 26-29, 1957
Suggestions for Section Officers 1957
American Benedictine Academy Progrm for the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Language and Literature Section August 26-29, 1957
Newsletter Language and Literature Section Advent, 1956
The American Benedictine Academy Education-Psychology Section 11-Jun-56
Minutes of the Business Session of the Education Psychology Section American Benedictine Academy 1956
The American Benedictine Academy Financial Report January 1, 1957-December 31, 1957
Newsletter The American Benedictine Academy Spring, 1956
Newsletter-Language and Literature Section--The American Benedictine Academy Advent, 1955
Outline of Topics for Papers at the 1954 Meeting of the Psychology and Education Section of the ABA
General Considerations on Catalog Cod Revision 1954