Thomas Aquinas College to Celebrate 35th Anniversary with
Gala Benefit Dinner in Beverly Hills
(August 4, 2006)
SANTA PAULA, Calif.—On Saturday, September 30, 2006,
Thomas Aquinas College will celebrate its 35th anniversary
with a Gala Benefit Dinner at The Regent Beverly Wilshire
Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Keynote Speaker for the event
will be George Weigel, the official biographer of Pope John
Paul II and author of God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and
the Future of the Catholic Church. KABC-TV newsman Jim
Newman will serve as master of ceremonies, Cardinal Roger
Mahony of Los Angeles will deliver the invocation, and Bishop
Allen Vigneron will close the evening with a benediction.
The evening's events will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a Mass of
Thanksgiving to be offered by Bishop Vigneron. A cocktail
reception will follow at 6:00 p.m., and dinner will be at
7:00 p.m. Dancing to the music of the Johnny Crawford Band
will begin after the dinner program.
For further information or to reserve individual seats or
tables at the event, please contact Special Events Coordinator
Mrs. Patti Harmonson, 805-525-4417, ext. 329.
About Thomas Aquinas College:
Thomas Aquinas College opened its doors in
1971. It is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college exclusively
devoted to the study of the Great Books, using only the Socratic
method of dialogue in all of its classes. There are no text
books, no lectures and no electives. Instead, the College
offers an entirely integrated curriculum using only the original
texts of the greatest thinkers who have helped shape Western
Civilization. These authors include St. Thomas Aquinas, St.
Augustine, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Euclid, Dante, Galileo,
Descartes, our American Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Copernicus,
Kepler, and Newton to name a few.
Thomas Aquinas College graduates consistently
excel in the many world-class institutions where they pursue
graduate degrees in such disciplines professions as law, medicine,
business, theology and education. They have distinguished
themselves in these fields serving as headmasters, business
owners, lawyers, priests, journalists, doctors, military service
men and women, educators and college presidents.
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