Southern Benedictine College

Southern Benedictine College was a Catholic Benedictine college and seminarian in Cullman, Alabama. Previously called Saint Bernard College, it closed in 1979. However, the campus has since been divided and repurposed into St. Bernard Preparatory School and religious community of Benedictine monks.

Southern Benedictine College
TypeCatholic Benedictine
Active1929–1979
Location
Cullman
,
Alabama
,
United States

History

Saint Bernard College had been conferring degrees since 1893 as a college preparatory school. Between 1948 and 1953, the board of trustees worked on expanding the institution to four-year-college status. The first class graduated in 1955. Saint Bernard College then received its accreditation as a senior college the next year from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and operated until 1979. It served the secondary-educational needs of hundreds in the baby-boom generation. Many students arriving from the Delaware Valley; New Jersey; Michigan; Georgia; New York; and Knoxville, Tennessee.

The college preparatory program was disbanded in 1962 and St Bernard College was formed. At that time, the college has a champion judo team. The school's golf team was ranked nationally in the NAIA Men's Championship in 1971.[1] The soccer teams of the 1960s were highly-competitive and gained national ranking in NAIA especially after recruiting Neil O'Donoghue in 1972, who later played football for Auburn University and in the NFL.

Changing its name once again, Southern Benedictine College officially closed on May 13, 1979.[2]

St. Bernard Preparatory School was reopened in 1984 on the Southern Benedictine campus and currently has a very promising private high school and seminarian. The prep school received its accreditation in 1995.[3]

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2009-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "(341) St. Bernard College". lost-colleges. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  3. "St. Bernard Preparatory School". web.archive.org. 2006-12-19. Retrieved 2021-01-17.

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