Photo Gallery

Chancel of St. Mary Student Parish, Ann Arbor, 1959. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Jubilee Homecoming Mass, October 24, 1974. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

St. Mary Student Parish, with the original Gold Bond Cleaners and Red’s Rite Spot down William Street, 1940s. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Offering envelope from UM senior Mary Frances Rood, April 16, 1944. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Announcements from First Mass, February 22, 1925. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Newman Club Prom at the Michigan Union, March 1940. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Pastor Charles Irvin explains the meaning of the pairs of stained glass windows (1973). Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Construction cost balance sheet from Fr. Michael Bourke, November 1925. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Students watching UM basketball in the Newman Center, 1953. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

An unidentified priest with servers and a full house at St Mary Student Parish, 1960s. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

A full house at Sunday Mass in the 1960s. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

First Holy Communion class in the 1960s. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Pastor John Bradley offers Mass, ca. 1965. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Morris Hall on State Street, the first location of St. Mary Student Chapel, 1919. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

The bell tower pictured in the 1940s was removed decades later. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Newly constructed and dedicated St. Mary Student Chapel, 1925. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Student parishioners in retreat, November 1987. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Pastor Charles Irvin (right) in 1968. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Fr Clair F. Berry was the chapel Pastor from 1936 to 1942, during the critical Depression and World War II. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Fr Francis J. McPhillips was Pastor during the post-war years and led the building of the Gabriel Richard Newman Center from 1942 to 1956. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Fr John F. Bradley was Parish Pastor leading up to church renovations following Vatican II, 1953-1967. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

University of Michigan student enrollment in Winter 1937. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Gabriel Richard Newman Center construction, 1953. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

News photo of Tom Harmon's marriage to Elyse Knox, Aug 26, 1944. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Ann Arbor Times article about Tom Harmon’s marriage, Aug 26, 1944. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Edward Cardinal Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit, 1937-1956. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Newman Club pigskin fundraiser, Michigan Daily, 1937. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Newman Club Spring Formal at the Michigan Union Invitation, April 21, 1939. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Newman Club Spring Formal photograph, Michigan Union, April 21, 1939. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

St. Mary student baseball team, 1948. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Newman Club members “swing your partners,” Nov. 17, 1961. Photo Credit: St. Mary Student Parish Records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.