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Scope and Contents Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo 1: Commencement Ceremony, 1960s-70s A student walking down an aisle of the Abbey church after getting his diploma. In the background are more students obtaining their diplomas from the faculty and monks up at a podium. Photo 2: Commencement Ceremony, 1960s-70s Commencement taking place in the Abbey church with students walking up to the podium to receive their diplomas from faculty and monks. Around the podium are students to the front and left of...

Scope and Contents Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo 1: Graduates conversing outside the Abbey church, 1960s-1970s. Group of graduates having a conversation in front of the Abbey church main entrance. Two of them have their backs toward the camera--one on the right has "Hi Mom" in tape on his graduation cap. The third student with a mustache is facing the other two students as well as the camera and standing next to him is a young kid. Photo 2: Students standing for Commencement, 1960s-1970s....

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Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo 1: Graduates making their way to commencement ceremony, 1940s. Graduating students walking toward their commencement ceremony from the SJU Music Building. Photo 2: Graduation group photo, 1930s. Six graduating Architecture majors and Fr. Gilbert Winkelmann pose for a photo.

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Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo 1: Graduation photo, 1954. Graduating students standing for a group photo with cars behind them. Photo 2: Three faculty members(?) stand for a photo, 1950s? Three men standing in front of the doors to Emmaus Hall(?) in commencement robes.

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Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo: Baccalaureate Mass on the football field, 1953. 21 monks standing around the altar setup for the Baccalaureate Mass. 16 monks are dressed in white robes immediately around the altar and there are a further five dressed in their black habits to the left.

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Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo: Graduation ceremony in Old Gym, 1957. Graduating students are seated in the center wearing their robes while friends and famly are seated off to the sides. They are listening to Fr. Walter(?) giving a speech at the podium. Directly behind the speaker is an altar with lit candles and a crucifx next to an American flag.

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Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo: Graduation speech in the Old Gym, 1950s. Fr. Walter(?) giving a speech up on the podium to an audience of clergy members (seated to the speaker's right and behind him), graduating students (seated closest to camera), and students' families in the bleachers.

Scope and Contents Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo: Baccalaureate Mass in the Abbey church, 1962-1964. Five monks dressed in white (3 at the left podium and two at the right podium) are giving Communion to the graduating students who are in their robes but do not have their hats on. The students are all standing (Most in the pew and others are walking up to the small altars where the monks in white are) and are closest to the camera while in the background there is the altar behind the monks...

Scope and Contents Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s hoto 1: Commencement Day Mass, 1951. Photo of Bishop and priests sitting during the commencement outside of the east porch of the Quad. Photo 2: Graduation day, 1942. Large crowd of people gathered outside the the SJU Music Building after graduation. Photo 3: Commencement day ceremonies,1951. Priests processing out of the front entrance of the Great Hall for graduation. Photo 4: Commencement day ceremonies, 1951. Priests and bishop standing on the...

Scope and Contents Commencement Photographs, 1940s-1980s Photo 1: Monks congregated outside the Quad, no date. Photo 2: Commencement Day Mass, no date. Mass taking place on the steps in front of the south side of the SJU Music Building. Photo 3: Commencement Day Mass, no date. Same event as in photo 2, but from a higher angle. Photo 4: Conversations and milling around on Commencement Day, no date. Photograph is of a walkway which has students, parents/friends of students, and monks walking around and...