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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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St. Thomas Day
Lecture
Rev. Michael
Sherwin, O.P.
University of Freiburg
January
28 |
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Ash Wednesday
February
13 |
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Board of Governors
Meeting
February
14 |
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Presidents’ Day Lecture
Dr. Jeffrey
Tulis
University
of Texas at Austin
February
22 |
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Don Rags
February
26-28 |
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Solemnity of the Dedication of Our Lady of the
Most Holy Trinity Chapel
March
7 |
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Lecture: Dr. William H. Donahue
St. John's College
March
15 |
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Order of Malta Retreat
March
16 |
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Palm Sunday
March
24 |
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Student Triduum Retreat
March 28 -
March 30 |
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Easter Recess
March 28 -
April 3 |
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Good Friday
March
29 |
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Holy Saturday
March
30 |
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Easter
March
31 |
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Anniversary of the Death of College President
Thomas E. Dillon
April
15 |
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Lecture: Dr. Scott Crider
University of Dallas
April
19 |
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Board of Governors
Meeting
May
10 |
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Commencement
May
11 |
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IN MEMORIAM |
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Clara Damiani
December 5, 2012
Benefactor, mother
of John (’84) |
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Eugene
P. Halpin
January 6, 2013
Father of Mary Ann
(Shapiro ’79),
David (’79), and Kathleen (Santoro ’82);
grandfather of Philip (’97), Sarah (’98), Luke (’98), Koert
(’06), and
Caecilia Shapiro
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FRITZ
B.
BURNS
FOUNDATION
AWARDS
COLLEGE
$3.2
MILLION GRANT
New
classroom building: St. Gladys Hall
Thomas
Aquinas College has received a grant of $3.2 million
from the Fritz B. Burns Foundation of Los Angeles for
the construction of a new classroom building. St. Glady
Hall — the thirteenth building constructed since the
College acquired the undeveloped site for its campus in
the 1970s — will nearly complete the academic
quadrangle, which is anchored by Our Lady of the Most
Holy Trinity Chapel. Housing eight classrooms, the
building is designed to facilitate the small, seminar
discussions which are at the heart of the College’s
unique academic program. Ground-breaking ceremonies will
be held in the spring of 2013, and construction will
begin following Commencement in May. Completion of St.
Gladys Hall is expected in the spring of
2014.
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COLLEGE
RANKED
#2 FOR
ALUMNI
GIVING
Rate
More than Quadruple National Average,
Reflects Alumni
Satisfaction
U.S News & World
Report has named Thomas Aquinas College No. 2 out
of more than 1,200 colleges and universities nationwide
on its newly released rankings of alumni giving. The
rankings are based on the percentage of alumni who
contribute to their colleges and universities.
Alumni-giving rates are, according to the magazine, “a
gauge of alumni satisfaction” and a sign of “school
spirit” — a reflection of how much graduates value the
education they received as students.
“We are
profoundly grateful to our alumni for their generous and
sacrificial support,” says Vice President for
Development Paul J. O’Reilly. “Not only do alumni gifts
help to cover our $4 million in annual financial aid
costs, they also attract the support of philanthropic
foundations, which use alumni giving as a measure of the
College’s institutional strength.”
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FAITH
IN ACTION
BLOG
Alumni
in the Church and the World
The Faith in Action
blog is a running report
about the good works of Thomas Aquinas College alumni.
Recent news on the blog includes:
• Updates from Clear Creek
Monastery, where 11 alumni
monks currently live and pray. In December, three of
those monks, Br. Peter Miller (’07), Br. Robert Nesbit
(’07), and Br. Patrick Carter (’05) made their solemn
professions. In October, two other alumni monks were
ordained to the transitional diaconate: Br. Andrew
Norton (’06) and Br. Christian Felkner (’01).
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The Cardinal Newman Society’s profile of Michael Van Hecke
(’86), in which Mr. Van Hecke
describes his conversion from a would-be surfer to an
award-winning educator.
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Br. Peter Miller
(’07),
Br. Robert Nesbit (’07) & Br.
Patrick Carter (’05)
Michael Van Hecke
(’86)
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THE
COLLEGE
IN THE NEWS
A
Round-Up of Recent Stories
A new online college guide, TheBestSchools.org, has
compiled detailed college rankings that focus
specifically on undergraduate education, exempting
schools whose reputations derive mostly from their
research or graduate programs. Using this measure, the
guide has named Thomas Aquinas College to its list of
“The 50 Best Colleges in the United States” — one of
only two Catholic colleges to be do so
designated.
Meanwhile, Eric Owens of
The Daily Caller has published a list of “14
small, very interesting Colleges” that “punch well above
their respective weight classes,” including Thomas
Aquinas College. The College, he observes, is “a
demanding and seriously Catholic bastion of the liberal
arts and sciences … that specializes in the Great
Books.” He further notes that “Every student completes
the same four-year interdisciplinary” program, which
features “Homer, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Shakespeare
and, of course, plenty of St. Thomas
Aquinas.”
TBS: “The 50 Best Colleges in the U.S.”
The DC:“14 small, very
interesting Colleges”
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SUPPORT
THE COLLEGE
WITH YOUR
IRA!
Tax-Free
Rollover through February 1
The popular
IRA Charitable Rollover is back: Taxpayers who are at
least 70½ years old may make contributions directly to
the College from their IRAs without incurring the normal
taxation. Such contributions are not counted as income,
but they do count toward the annual Required Minimum
Distribution.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act
amended on January 2 extends the IRA Charitable Rollover
through all of 2013 — and makes it retroactive through
2012, too! Qualified distributions must be made by
February 1, 2013 to be counted retroactively for the
2012 tax year.
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