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The order of the community is determined by rank, i.e., by the date each sister entered the community.
Directories are arranged alphabetically.

This folder contains indexes of both living and deceased sisters from 1867 to present sorted in several ways. See "Finding Aids" for separate sorts.

The sisters' vow of poverty included renunciation of property, its use and usufruct.

Sister Mary Eve Shoaf, who died of cancer on March 31, 1995, was a professor at Troy State University in Dothan, Alabama.

Hard-covered ledger, handwritten, Ferdinand, 1935

This register carries the names of members, listed according to classes, who made temporary vows, perpetual vows, and who entered the novitiate.

Official directives for the initial formation processes are given in LISTEN III. The "Evaluation for Permanent Transfer" form is in this file. See Content Sheet 2844 & "Finding Aids" for the names of sisters who have transferred to the Ferdinand.

The academy oblates and the Sisters of St. Benedict affiliated in 1975 with a monastery member assuming the directorship.

Sisters have changed their names throughout the community's history. Most of the changes took place after 1960.