08/31/2026
In mid-August, President Father Jack Wall and board members from the USA Catholic Extension Society based in Chicago, Illinois visited the University Archives and Special Collections. Members in attendance described their trip to PEI as a pilgrimage to see where their founder Bishop Francis C. Kelley came from.
Special Collections Librarian Simon Lloyd took the group on a tour of the St. Dunstan’s University Main Building and other SDU-connected sites on campus, which was where Bishop Kelley would have attended school as a student of St. Dunstan’s College (Class of 1888). Simon then delivered a presentation “A Philosophy of life, the Stability of Faith” Bishop Francis Clement Kelley & ‘Old St. Dunstan’s.” Archivist Juanita Rossiter also delivered a presentation that focused on the Bishop Francis C. Kelley fonds (F 9) in the Robertson Library Archives and Special Collections holdings.
Extension members spent some time examining the Bishop Kelley records and artifacts, which were generously donated by the St. Dunstan’s University Board of Governors.
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