St. Benedict's Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection was donated by the Sisters of St. Benedict's Monastery before they returned to St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Sisters came to Ogden in the late forties to start and run St. Benedict’s Hospital and to open a school of nursing to better help the community they were moving into. The collection contains written histories of the Sisters and St. Benedict's Hospital, as well as published newsletters that were catalogued and placed in Special Collections. This collection is broken up into seven main series: Histories, Mona England, Mount Benedict’s Priory, Ogden Regional Medical Center (ORMC), St. Benedict’s hospital, The School of Nursing, and news clippings.
The Histories series is broken up into general histories and the histories of Sister Estelle. The Mona England series contains materials donated to the hospital by Mona as a head surgical nurse from the last 1960s through the early 1990s. The Mount Benedict’s Priory series contains material dealing with the priory and the monastery where the nuns and priests resided who ran the hospital.
The ORMC series is broken up into several sub series with all documents with reference to the new hospital being placed in this series, and those with reference to St. Benedict’s remain within that series. The St. Benedict’s series is broken up into several subseries that deal with the hospital and its different organizations including the Volunteer Auxiliary and the American Red Cross. It also contains photographs and Press Releases dealing with the hospital.
The Scholl of Nursing series makes up the bulk of this collection and contains the withdrawal and transfer records of students, the different oral history projects conducted over the years, as well as information on the alumni association and photographs. The series also contain yearbooks and other ephemera from the school.
The news clipping series contains newspaper clippings that range from the 1940s through the 2000s. It is arranged in subseries and also contains a section for magazine and journal articles. At the end of the collection is an oversized section with oversized items and scrapbooks. Most of the scrapbooks pertain to the hospital, but a few deal with the school of nursing. In box 21 there is a prom photo that pertains to the school of nursing, it is the only one of its kind so it was put with the scrapbooks of St. Benedict’s Hospital around the same time frame .
Dates
- Creation: 1945 - 1981
Extent
44 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Box 1 General Histories
FD 4 “A History of Dt. Benedict’s Hospital,” 1981
Box 3 Mona England
FD 33 Constitution and By-Laws
List of Students
FD 27 2002-2005, Herda, Sister Jonathan, Unknown Date, Interviewed by Kathryn Burnside and Kathryn MacKay
FD 17 2002-2005, Swindler, Charles M., MD., August 19, 2002, Interviewed by Kathryn MacKay and Kathryn Burnside
P2 Front entrance of Nursing school and home 1960s
P3 Building 1950s
FD 8 Clara Mann Sorenson, Clara and Family c. 1950
P2 Nurses recruiting, table 1960s
P3 Nurses recruiting, poster unknown date
P4 Student Banquet, 1951
FD 13 Events, Nurses in the Community, 1949 (5 photos)
P1-2 LPN Program luncheon, September 1966
P3 Reception, 1960s 4 men talking
P4 Reception, 1960s nurse receiving award
P5 Reception, faculty-student reception September 1965
P6 Reception, LPN’s complete 30 hour course March 1967 at table
P7 Reception, LPN’s complete 30 hour course March 1967 nurses standing around a table
P1 September 1969
P2 September 1970
FD 29 Miscellaneous, 1947-1957
P1 Faculty in “conclave,” 1950s
P2-3 Basketball team, 1950s
P4-8 Pioneer Day float, 1957
P9-10 Standard Examiner Article, April 23, 1947
FD 30 Reunion, 2000, Class of 1950
P1-2 Helen Kennick Butters, then and now
P3-4 Betty Hoke Fernelius, then and now
P5-6 Frances Hardy Hawks, then and now
P7-8 Vivian Laubach McGervey, then and now
P9-10 Imogene Cundiff Marston, then and now
P11-12 Delores DeWulf O’Farrell, then and now
P13-14 Clara Mann Sorensen
P15-16 Dorothy Bynon Williams
P17-18 Mary Louise Etecheverry Yriate
FD 31 Students, 1948-1960
P1-3 1948
P4 Pat Hopkins and Helen Hopkins, 1958
P5 First Years, 1960
P6 Pat Brown, Unknown Date
P7 Connie G., Unknown Date
FD 32 Students, at Mass, 1960
P1 Nurse with patient, 1950s
P2 Pathology Prep, 1950s
P3 First year blood pressure technique, 1960s
P4-5 First years, 1960s
FD 34 Students, Capping Ceremony, 1949-1954
P1-5 1949
P6 1950
P7 1954
FD 35 Students, Capping Ceremony-Florence Nightingale, 1948-1951
P1-4 1948
P5-9 1950
P10 1951
FD 36 Students, Nursing School Opening, 1947 (10 photos)
Student Records, Transfers
Student Records, Withdrawals
Student Records, Withdrawals
Student Records, Withdrawals
Student Records, Withdrawals
Student Records, Withdrawals
Yearbooks
Catholic Organization
FD 4 1947-1949
General Healthcare
Hospital
Utah
FD 4 No Date
Magazine/Journal Articles
FD 5 1950-1993
FD 6 1994-1995
FD 7 Multi Media, 3 ½ discs.
Oversized
FD 8 St. Benedict’s Hospital Alumni Association, Hi Fever Follies Reunion Book, Thursday June 17, 1993
Box 20 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 May 1949-October 1962
FD 2 December 11, 1951- June 2, 1964
FD 3 August 9, 1963-November 3, 1967
FD 4 School of Nursing, Prom photo May 1951, Graduates
Box 22 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 August 4, 1967-December 24, 1969
FD 2 April 30, 1968-October 1, 1969
FD 3 January 1, 1970-August 31, 1970
Box 23 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 September 2, 1970-December 20, 1970
FD 2 January 1, 1971-August 28, 1971
FD 3 August 29, 1971-April 28, 1972
Box 24 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 April 30, 1972-October 7, 1972
FD 2 October 7, 1972-April 28, 1973
Box 25 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 April 19, 1973-October 15, 1973
FD 2 October 18, 1973-March 4, 1974
Box 26 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 March 2, 1974-July 31, 1974
FD 2 July 31, 1974- July 30, 1975
.Box 27 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 December 1, 1974-April 30, 1975
FD 2 May 1, 1975-July 30, 1975
Box 28 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 August 1, 1975-October 31, 1975
FD 2 November 1, 1975-December 31, 1975
FD 3 January 1, 1976-March 1, 1976
Box 29 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 March 1, 1976-April 30, 1976
FD 2 May 1, 1976-July 30, 1976
Box 30 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 August 1, 1976-September 30, 1976
FD 2 September 30, 1976-December 30, 1976
FD 3 January 1, 1977-March 31, 1977
Box 31 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 April 1, 1977-April 30, 1977
FD 2 May 1, 1977-July 31, 1977
Box 32 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 August 1, 1977-October 27, 1977
FD 2 November 1, 1977-January 31, 1978
Box 33 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 February 1, 1978-April 30, 1978
FD 2 May 1978-July 31, 1978
Box 34 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 August 1, 1978-October 31, 1978
FD 2 November 1, 1978-December 31, 1978
Box 35 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 January 1, 1979-February 28, 1979
FD 2 March 1, 1979-April 30, 1979
FD 3 May 2, 1979-June 30, 1979
Box 36 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 July 1, 1979-September 30, 1979
FD 2 October 1, 1979-December 31, 1979
Box 37 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 January 1, 1980-March 30, 1980
FD 2 April 1, 1980-June 29, 1980
Box 38 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 July 1, 1980-September 30, 1980
FD 2 October 1, 1980-December 30, 1980
Box 39 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 January 1, 1981-April 29, 1981
FD 2 May 1, 1981-August 31, 1981
Box 40 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 September 1, 1981-December 31, 1981
FD 2 January 3, 1982-June 30, 1982
Box 41 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 July 1, 1982-December 29, 1982
FD 2 January 4, 1983-June 30, 1983
Box 42 Oversized
St. Benedict’s Hospital Scrapbooks
FD 1 July 2, 1983-December 23, 1983
FD 2 Loose Pages, January 2, 1984-January 25, 1984
Box 43 Oversized
School of Nursing Scrapbooks
FD 1 Student Photographs 1950-1960
Box 44 Oversized
School of Nursing Scrapbooks
FD 1 Student Photographs 1960-1968, plus pictures of staff
44 Scrapbooks
Cultural context
Geographic
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository