Reynold Hillenbrand
Reynold Hillenbrand Papers (MRH), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Account books, agenda, bibliographies, book orders, brochures, bulletins, calendars, chaplains' manuals, circulars, clippings, compositions, contracts, correspondence, curricula vitae, drafts of booklets, drafts of manuals, essays, examinations, financial papers, interviews, itineraries, lectures, lists, liturgical music, maps, meditations, memoranda, mimeographed handouts, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, notes, outlines, pamphlets, poems, policy manuals, prayers of the faithful, proceedings, programs, promotional publications, proposals, regulations, reports, reprints, resolutions, retreat notes, sermons, songs, statutes, surveys, talks, training courses, tape recordings, and photographs; concerning Hillenbrand's career as a seminarian, rector, pastor, liturgist and chaplain.
I. Seminary
(A) Notebooks from Hillenbrand's student years (1924-1931) at Quigley and St. Mary of the Lake Seminaries for courses in English, German, French, Hebrew, poetry, philosophy, apologetics, scripture, theodicy, psychology, liturgy, precepts, dogma, canon law, homiletics, moral theology, and patrology; notes from classes, notes for talks and sermons, and notes for Hillenbrand's M.A. thesis; examinations, compositions, resolutions, meditations, correspondence, and mimeographed handouts.
(B) Correspondence, book orders, and notes from his year as a teacher of English on the Quigley Seminary faculty (1932-1933). One folder of notes and financial papers from his years on the Diocesan Mission Board (1933-1936).
(C) A notebook of meditation and self-examination (1935-1936); retreat notes and notes for sermons from his years as rector of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary (1936-1944) concerning prayer, salvation, sin, the rosary, birth control, purity, mixed marriages, Catholic Action, Mary, purgatory, the annunciation, Christmas, Easter, the ascension, the Mystical Body, confession, mercy, mortification, the Little Flower, the promises of the Sacred Heart, the Eucharist, and racial discrimination; records of his administration concerning the college charter, management, accreditation, curriculum, Jesuit faculty, sixth-year program, and rules; notes of the course he taught in Liturgy and mimeographed handouts and examinations from his poetry course; bibliographies and book orders; a manuscript sent to Hillenbrand for criticism and correspondence concerning it; and documents concerning the controversy between the Catholic printing firm Gardenvale Press and labor unions raising the question of whether seminary business should be given to a non-union shop.
II. Catholic Action
(A) Records of the Summer School of Social Action for Priests at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary (1938-1940) consisting of financial papers, account books, lists of participants, notebooks, bibliographies and mimeographed textbooks; notes, outlines, correspondence, and mimeographed handouts concerning other schools of Catholic Action including the Waukegan Labor School, Detroit Priest's School of Social Action, San Antonio School of Social Justice, and Cathedral Labor School; with information on Communism, the CIO, Bishop Bernard Sheil, credit unions, labor unions; representing the work of Fr. John F. Cronin, SS, Fr. Daniel A. Lord, SJ, Fr. Gerald Ellard, SJ, Fr. Desmond Schmal, SJ, and Msgr. George G. Higgins. Records of Hillenbrand's work as an arbitrator of labor disputes (1940-1945) and documents showing his interest in organized labor, the National War Labor Board, and fair employment practices (1938- 1948).
(B) Records of Hillenbrand's service as national chaplain of movements of the specialized lay apostolate, consisting of office files from the Chicago headquarters of these organizations:
(1) general lay apostolate files (1939-1976) including bibliographies, songs, essays, reprints, mimeographed notes, bulletins, pamphlets, notes for talks, clippings, programs, minutes, reports, and financial