Word: elmbrook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elmbrook was established by the American branch of Opus Dei in September 1959. It is not a monastery and its residents are not required to take vows. Most of them, however, gather for daily mass, formal evening meals, meditation sessions, and occasional weekend retreats at the association's rural conference center in East Pembroke...
Living at Elmbrook, Schmitt said, "involves a serious effort to make use of the means the Church has to offer-the sacraments, prayer and confession-to live conscientiously...
Officially Elmbrook has no house rules. There is tacit agreement, however, to maintain a minimum of noise, to wear coats to dinner, and generally to observe home manners. "We like to keep a family atmosphere," Richard F. Collier '72, one Elmbrook resident, said...
...Elmbrook has no official policy on the use of drugs. "It's never come up," Collier said. "The people who live here and the people who come over a lot aren't going to use them...
...upkeep of the house and the planning of activities are the responsibility of a house committee, consisting of Schmitt and two residents appointed by him. The committee assigns cleaning and maintenance jobs to everyone in the house, but hires women to cook and to clean up after meals. Elmbrook students pay room and board fees to the house which Collier said were "slightly higher than Harvard...