Tower Topics ~ Winter 2002

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'A Living Tradition'
Abbey announces $10.25 million campaign.

St. Maur floor plans

Welcome Center floor plans

Editorial
Tending a tradition.

A message from Abbot Gregory
An opportunity to serve.

Eight monks celebrate lives of service
Fr. Malachy Riley, Fr. Norbert Schappler, Fr. Edgar Probstfield, Fr. Denis Dougherty, Fr. Regis Probstfield, Abbot Gregory Polan, Fr. Albert Bruecken, Fr. Samuel Russell celebrate milestone anniversaries.

Alumni Reunion 2002

Alumni send Father Kenneth on Alaskan cruise

Alumnitems
Ordinations, Deaths and Varia.

Registration open for 10th Annual SOS
Annual SOS benefit auction to be held January 31, 2003.

Golf classic raises $32,000 for seminary
Annual tournament raises money toward the purchase of an elevator for St. Maur Hall.

Three hundred gather for Family Weekend

Library goes high-tech with MOBIUS
Database gives CSC timely access to 16 million books statewide.

Amazing Grace
Rev. Ronald Rolheiser, OMI provides weekly spiritual articles.

Abbey notes

Oblation

Ideas for giving at year end
Father Allan Stetz is the new director of major and planned gifts.

Send your blessings
Conception Abbey's honor/memorial program.

Special note:  The New Alumni Directory is now available.
The new 300-page Conception Seminary College Alumni Directory is now available. To order your copy, call the Alumni Office at (660) 944-2875, or e-mail: alumni@conception.edu. Suggested donation to cover printing and mailing cost: $10.

Abbot Gregory Polan and Dr. Taylor Barnes, provost of Northwest Missouri State University, shovel dirt around a tree planted during a ceremony October 11. The tree was planted on the NWMSU campus in memory of Father Philip Schuster and Brother Damian Larson, who were killed in a shooting at the abbey June 10. NWMSU is the only state college campus that has an arboretum. More than 50 people attended the tree-planting. he university donated the oak sapling and presented Abbot Gregory with another one, which was planted on the abbey grounds.

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