Illinois Benedictine College Campus Tour 1982

Campus Tour 1982

Films clips from the 1982 production "Illinois Benedictine College Campus Tour"

In the summer of 1982, a group of Illinois Benedictine College students from Joan Hopkins' freshman advising group and French classes helped me produce a video of tour of the IBC campus as an orientation tool for new students. It was definitely an amateur production. You'll notice that soundtrack isn't always in sync and that the video freeze look even worse in a digitized format. Nevertheless, we hope you will enjoy this little glimpse of our Benedictine University history.

Photo: A View of the IBC Campus in 1980

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The Ghost of Benedictine Hall A poem by Dr. Mardelle Fortier	Arrival at Benedictine Hall A 13 second video clip	Aerial View of the Campus 2.11 minute video clip	The History of Benedictine Hall with Fr. Stanley Vesely, O.S.B 2.54 minute video clip


The Ben Hall Food Service If you were here at the time, you'll see many familiar faces 2 video clips	Campus Ministry and the Chapel with Fr. Timothy Navin 4.45 minute video clip	The Mail Room with Br. Sebastian Kuhn, O.S.B. 59 second video clip	Registrar's Office Sorry, no audio 56 second video clip


The Art Department with Fr. Michael Komechak, O.S.B. 1.50 minute video clip	The Elevator narrated by Fr. Stanley 22 second video clip	Student Health 24 second video clip	The Power House narrated by Fr. Stanley 1.06 minute video clip


The Old Gym n arrated by Fr. Stanley 1.21 minute video clip	The Stone House with Arthur Denardo 1.30 minute video clip	Procopius Hall n arrated by Fr. Stanley 23 second video clip	The Bookstore Procopius Hall 1.16 minute video clip


The Cemetary narrated by Fr. Christian Ceplecha, O.S.B. 53 second video clip	The Grotto with Pamela Becker Radcliff Class of 1984 1.17 minute video clip	The Residence Halls narrated by Fr. Stanley 1.08 minute video clip	Introduction to Campus Statues with Fr. Christian 1.27 minute video clip


Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Altar narrated by Fr. Christian 57 second video clip	Saints Cyril & Methodius narrated by Fr. Christian 1.52 minute video clip	Our Lady in Exile narrated by Fr. Christian 1.57 minute video clip	The Observatory narrated by Jeff Madura 27 second video clip


The Playing Fields no audio 9 second video clip	The Jurica Nature Museum in the Scholl Center with Fr. Theodore Suchy, O.S.B. 4.42 minute video clip	The Academic Computing Center in the Scholl Center with Eileen Clark 1.41 minute video clip	The Theodore Lownik Library with Bert Thompson 2.31 minute video clip


A Closing Message from former President, Dr. Richard Becker 1.29 minute video clip		Switch to these lower bandwidth files if the video clips listed above do not play well

I'm in the process of compiling "credits" for this project, so if you can help identify members of the IBC community who appear in these video clips, please contact Joan Hopkins at jhopkins@ben.edu

Thank you!

Video clips were filmed by the late Rob Drdak, Class of 1984