Alumni, 1890s-1970s Volume 4, 1910s-1938

Photographs: Students Who Became Priests

Monks of St. John's Abbey

Photo 1: Gilbert Winkelmann and student, no date.

Informal photo, outdoors. Gilbert Winkelmann, wearing a monastic habit, wire-rim eyeglasses, and fedora, and holding a cane, is interacting with a boy on a sidewalk. The boy is wearing jacket and tie, along with a newsboy cap. He is smiling, and appears to be adjusting his sleeve.

Black and white, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Real photo postcard, printed on Cyko stock.

Written on back: "Fr. Gilbert Winkelmann / OSB."

Photo 2: Gilbert Winkelmann and unidentified man, no date.

Snapshot, outdoors, of Gilbert Winkelmann with his arm around the shoulder of a taller man. Gilbert is beaming, and wears a clerical suit and round rimless eyeglasses. The other man is slender, and wears a suit jacket and patterned tie.

Black and white, 3 5/16 x 5 9/16 inches.

Written on back: "Rev. Gilbert Winkelmann / OSB &."

Photo 3: Gilbert Winkelmann and Paul Pappenfuss, no date.

Snapshot, outdoors, of Gilbert Winkelmann with his arm around the shoulder of a slightly shorter man. Gilbert wears a clerical suit and round rimless eyeglasses. Pappenfuss wears suit and tie. He leans forward with one hand in the pocket of his jacket.

Taken at the same time and location as the previous photo on this page.

Black and white, 3 5/16 x 5 9/16 inches.

Written on back: "Rev. Gilbert Winkelmann / OSB / -- / Paul Pappenfuss."

Pappenfuss was in the St. John's high school class of 1913.

Photo 4: Roy Donaldson and Gilbert Winkelmann, 1938.

Snapshot, outdoors, of a tall man in cap and gown standing next to Fr. Gilbert. Gilbert is smiling, and wears monastic habit, clerical collar, and rimless eyeglasses. They are standing utside of Benet Hall.

Black and white, 3 x 4 inches.

Written on front, lower left: "5/29/38." This was Commencement Day.

Written on back: "Roy Donaldson / Fr. Gilbert Winkelmann / OSB."

Roy M. Donaldson was St. John's University Class of 1938.

Gilbert Winkelmann's baptismal name was Lawrence. He completed his sophomore year of college at St. John's University in 1909, and entered the novitiate that summer. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1916.