Hospitals and Higher Education
A group of sisters who started in science had significant roles in hospitals and higher education outside of the College of Saint Benedict. As the community expanded, some sisters traveled west and east to contribute to the sciences in different ways. In 1945, a group of sisters went west to undertake the building of St. Benedicts Hospital in Odgen Utah. This was a unique situation for Benedictines to be immersed in a predominantly Mormon area. In 1968, a group of sisters went east to help out in a newly started nursing program at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. St. Anselm was transitioning to allow women, and sisters were called in to help fill new roles as faculty. In both locations, sisters stepped into leadership roles.