The American Benedictine Academy
Junior Essay Competition
A Program to Promote Research
Among Monastics in Formation
To foster use of local archives in monastic communities
To develop interest in local history and tradition
To acquaint young monastics with the history of the community, the purposes and personalities of its founders, significant events, developments, and challenges in the community
To encourage the collection of personal memoirs
To stimulate interest in and study of monastic history
The essay must be an historical or biographical study centered in the junior monastic's own monastery and utilizing archival material. The paper should be 2,000-2,500 words in length, typewritten or computer generated, double-spaced.
The winner of the Junior Essay Competition will be awarded:
a two-year membership in ABA
a waiver of registration and hospitality fees for the 1998 ABA
Convention
a book of interest to monastics
Send essay and the following information to:
Valerian Odermann, OSB
Assumption Abbey
PO Box A
Richardton, ND 58652
(E-mail: valerodian@aol.com or Fax: 701-974-3317)
INFORMATION TO ACCOMPANY ESSAY
Name
Community name, address, phone #, fax #
Personal address (if different from above)
Current status (pre-novitiate, novitiate, temporarily professed)
Title of essay
All essays must be received by March 1, 1998. The winner will be announced by April 15, 1998.