Rev. John B. Baud, s.j. - Assignment Record

Assignment Record– Rev. John B. Baud, S.J.

Summary of Case: A native of Lyons, France, Baud was ordained in 1932 for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in California. He spent the better part of three decades stationed in Nulato AK at St. Peter Claver's Mission, later renamed Our Lady of the Snows. He was a teacher, artist and musician, and is said to have had "a special concern" for children and youth. In 1962, when the Diocese of Fairbanks was established, Baud was moved to Copper Valley School in Glenallen AK. He later served briefly in St. Mary's, then as a hospital chaplain in Kodiak and Ketchikan, in the Archdiocese of Anchorage and the Diocese of Juneau. He died in 1968. Baud's name is included on the Fairbanks diocese's list of "admitted, proven or credibly accused perpetrators of sexual abuse." He is noted in February 2016 to have had one complaint against him.

Born: August 11, 1897
Ordained: June 20, 1932
Died: December 6, 1968

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State/Country	Position	Notes
1/28/1919	1923	Jesuit Novitiate	Los Gatos	CA	seminarian
1923	1926	Mount St. Michael's	Spokane	WA	philosophical studies	Baud became a U.S. citizen in 1926.
1926	1927	St. Ignatius High School	San Francisco	CA	teacher of Latin and music
1927	1929		Yakima	WA	teacher
1929	1930	Holy Cross Mission	Holy Cross	AK	prefect of boarding school boys
1930 Boston archbishop was William Henry O'Connell (1907-1944).	1934	Weston College	Weston	MA	theological studies	Baud was ordained in 1932.
1934	1935		Paray-le-Monial	Burgundy, France	tertian father
1935 Vicariate-Apostolic of Alaska bishop was Joseph Raphael John Crimont, S.J. (1904-1945), followed by Walter James Fitzgerald, S.J. (1945-1947), and Francis Doyle Gleeson, S.J. (1948-1968).	1962	St. Peter Claver's Mission/Our Lady of the Snows	Nulato	AK	2/2, 1/1, 1/2, 1/1 Superior 1940-1954	St. Peter Claver's Mission was renamed "Our Lady of the Snows" in 1951. St. Peter Claver's/Our Lady of the Snows had a school with 45-77 students. Per Louis L. Renner, S.J., in his Alaskana Catholica: A History of the Catholic Church in Alaska, Baud had a "special concern" for children and youth. He started "The Club of St. John Bosco" for them.
1935	1962		Kaltag, Galena, Yokokaket, Birches, Nukloroyet, and other villages on Middle Yukon	AK		These were stations of St. Peter Claver's Mission/Our Lady of the Snows.
1951	1966	Vigilance Council		AK
1962 The Fairbanks diocese was established August 8, 1962, with Gleeson as its bishop.	1965	Holy Family	Glenallen	AK	3/3 Baud was named "Spiritual Father" of Copper Valley School. He counseled students and taught religion and art.	Copper Valley School, a college prep boarding school established by the Jesuits in 1956, was affiliated with Holy Family. It had a grade school with 36 students (eventually phased out) and a high school with 60 students during Baud's years at Holy Family.
1962	1965		Gulcana, Chitina	AK		These were stations of Holy Family in Glenallen.
1965	1966	St. Mary's Mission	St. Mary	AK	2/2 "Spiritual Father" and religion teacher.	St. Mary's had a grade school with 124 students and a high school with 100 students (14 day students and 86 boarders).
1966 The Anchorage archdiocese was established February 9, 1966. Its archbishop was John Joseph Thomas Ryan (1966-1975).	1968	St. Mary's of Kodiak and the Islands	Kodiak	AK	2/2	St. Mary's had a school with 100-87 students.
1966	1968	Griffin Memorial Hospital	Kodiak	AK	Chaplain
1968 Juneau bishop was Robert Dermot O'Flanagan (1951-1968).		Ketchikan General Hospital	Ketchikan	AK	Chaplain	Baud died December 6, 1968 in Seattle WA, where he was diagnosed with "inoperable cancer."

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1933-1969)

• Memoirs of a Yukon Priest, Segundo Lorente, S.J., Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C., Copyright 1990,
p. 25
• Alaskana Catholica: A History of the Catholic Church in Alaska, by Lous L. Renner, S.J., Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, 2005
• Non-Monetary Undertakings of the Fairbanks Diocese Under the Third Plan of Reorganization, Diocese of Fairbanks website, downloaded February 15, 2016

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This assignment record was last updated on February 28, 2016.