Abstract This collection contains 30 volumes covering events and notes from novitiate classes between 1940 and 1968 and a one-off journal from 1987-1988. Each class, running from August to June of the following year, had one novice chronicle their experiences a bound book. Additionally, there are two volumes from the cooperator novitiate and house of studies at St. Thomas Aquinas Priory in River Forest with entries from 1946 to 1965, covering 1943-1954 and 1953-1965. During the...

Abstract The Vocations Promotion Collection covers the correspondence and administrative structures supporting vocational discernment and recruitment within the Province of St. Albert the Great. Spanning from 1952 to the present, the collection includes records, mostly correspondence and reports, from the Office of the Promoter of Vocations, separated into subseries by changing title, from Promoter of Vocations (1952–1969) to Director of Vocations (1969–1973), Coordinator of Vocations (1973–1981),...

Abstract The Young Dominican journal collection consists of 66 journals published between 1946 and 1968 by novices of the Dominican Novitiate in Winona, Minnesota. Initially published three times a year, the journal transitioned to a biannual schedule in 1967 before ceasing publication in 1968. The journals, housed in one archival box, served as an apostolate to promote vocations within the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great and feature includes theological reflections, novitiate and...