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AN OPEN LETTER TO
PRESIDENT
OBAMA
College
Formally Protests HHS Mandate
In the May
20 issue of the National Catholic Register,
members of the College's Board of Governors and faculty
published a full-page open letter to President Barack
Obama opposing the HHS mandate that would compel
Catholic employers to violate Church teaching on matters
of life and conscience. Two weeks later, the College
voiced its opposition in a more formal way, filing an
official comment with the Department of Health and Human
Services.
Read the Open Letter 
About the Formal Appeal
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COMMENCEMENT
2012
College
Graduates 66 Seniors
On May 12 Thomas
Aquinas College celebrated its 38th Commencement
exercises, welcoming the 66 members of the Class of 2012
as its newest alumni. The day began with the
Baccalaureate Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity
Chapel. The College’s head chaplain, Rev. Cornelius M.
Buckley, S.J., served as the principal celebrant and
homilist. At the ceremony that followed, Mother M.
Assumpta Long, O.P, foundress and prioress general of
the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, delivered
the Commencement Address. The College's Board of
Governors awarded the school's highest honor, the Saint
Thomas Aquinas Medallion, to Mother Assumpta in
recognition of her extraordinary dedication and faithful
service to Christ and His Church. Receiving the
Medallion also were two of the College’s founders, Mr.
Peter L. DeLuca and Dr. John W. Neumayr.
Address: Mother M. Assumpta Long,
O.P.
Homily: Rev. Cornelius Buckley,
SJ.
Senior Address: James W. Thompson
('12)
Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion Recipients
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SEMPER
FIDELIS
Alumnus
Presents Graduate with
Marine Corps
Commission
Three years ago, only hours after receiving his
diploma as a member of the Thomas Aquinas College Class
of 2009, Robert Mohun returned to the stage at the foot
of the academic quadrangle for a very different sort of
ceremony. There Mr. Mohun became 2nd Lt. Mohun,
accepting his commission as a member of the United
States Marine Corps. Three years later, on Commencement
Day 2012, now-1st. Lt. Mohun returned to the stage on
the academic quadrangle, this time not to receive a
commission, but to present one to a fellow graduate. A
few hours after his own graduation, Noel Bulger, a
member of the Class of 2012, formally became 2nd Lt.
Bulger. He is the sixth Thomas Aquinas College alumnus
to join the ranks of Marine Corps officers over the last
few years.
Full Story
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TWO
NEW ALUMNI
PRIESTS!
Memorial
Ordinations Bring Total to 55
Over Memorial
Day weekend two alumni of Thomas Aquinas College were
ordained to the sacred priesthood, bringing to 55 the
total number of alumni priests. The two new priests are
Rev. Jerome Augustine Zeiler, O.P. (’00), a member of
the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, and Rev. Fadi Auro
(’03), a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Fr.
Zeiler and Fr. Auro are the first of five alumni to be
ordained to the priesthood this summer. The others are:
Rev. Mr. Joseph Bolin, Class of 2001 (Diocese of Vienna,
June 15); Rev. Mr. Francis Marotti, Class of 2007
(Diocese of Kalamazoo, June 23); and Frater Maximilian
Okapal, O.Praem., Class of 2002 (Norbertine Fathers,
June 23).
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"LIFE
SHAPED
BY
GENEROSITY"
Ventura
County Star Profiles College
Vice President Paul
J. O'Reilly
From the May, 21, 2012 edition
of the Ventura County Star: “Paul O’Reilly grew
up Catholic in a Protestant neighborhood in Belfast
during the Troubles, when religious and political
hostilities exploded across Ireland. So perhaps it comes
as no surprise that his young life was marked by hatred,
violence and murder. But ask O'Reilly about those times,
back when he was a teenager, and he'll tell you it was
the generosity of family, not bitterness, that formed
him.”
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