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The 1997 women’s soccer team poses for its inagural photo.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. JOE’S ARCHIVES

Archives Unboxed: The rise of women’s soccer

Olivia Gasparro ’27, Features Columnist November 5, 2025

In 1996, St. Joe’s officially recognized its first women’s Division I soccer team. The inaugural team is featured on pages 118 to 119 of the 1997 St. Joe’s yearbook with black-and-white photos...

The 1972 St. Joe’s club ice hockey team featured in The Greatonian.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. JOE’S ARCHIVES

Archives Unboxed: 1972 St. Joe’s club ice hockey team

Dylan Kouba ’27, Special to The Hawk October 22, 2025

The first team photo of the St. Joe’s ice hockey club, established in 1971, can be found in the 1972 edition of The Greatonian, the university’s yearbook. The team used the University of Pennsylvania’s...

 SCREENSHOT: LENNY CALVO ’25

Archives Unboxed: “History of SJU” video

Lenny Calvo ’25, Special to the Hawk November 6, 2024

A 20-minute video is a gold mine of St. Joe’s history — and a trailer for more that never materialized. Produced in 2013, the video was supposed to be the first in a three-part series, according...

A white student in blackface poses behind a fence on page 79 of “The Greatonian” 1979 yearbook in the SJU Archives and Special Collections. PHOTO : MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

How we reported “Confronting Racism”

Charley Rekstis April 3, 2019

The Hawk Staff began research for “Confronting Racism” in mid-February after we decided to continue the conversation that began in November 2018 about racism on campus. It started with the idea of...

Christopher Dixon looks through a replica of the Saint John’s Bible (Photo by Luke Malanga ’20).

Institutional memory

Angela Christaldi April 25, 2017

St. Joe’s archives not reaching fullest potential Located on the third floor of the Post Learning Commons, the Saint Joseph’s University Archives occupies the least-populated area of the typically...

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