Thomas Aquinas College Regents to Host 2nd Annual Golf Classic at Sherwood Country Club

(June 2, 2008)

Santa Paula, Calif.- On Monday, June 2, 2008, the Board of Regents of Thomas Aquinas College will host the second annual Thomas Aquinas Golf Classic at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. Proceeds will benefit the Student Scholarship Fund at the college. The cost to play is $1,100 per person for registration prior to May 1st, and $1,200 per person for registration after May 1st. Major sponsorship opportunities for this event are available until May 1st.

Registration the day of the event will begin at 10:00 a.m. and tee time will be at 11:30 a.m. The day will conclude with refreshments, buffet dinner, and an awards ceremony. Awards will be presented for low gross team, low net team, individual low net, and individual low gross. There will also be men's and women's long drive prize opportunities as well as two hole-in-one, two closest-to-the-pin, and putting contest awards.

Jim Scanlon, Chairman of the Board of Regents and Chairman and CEO of Scanlon, Guerra and Burke Insurance Brokers in Woodland Hills, says, "This is a wonderful opportunity to come out for a great day of golf at a world-class venue in support of deserving students at Thomas Aquinas College. We are blessed to have this unique institution right here in Ventura County, one that is preparing young men and women extraordinarily well for intellectual and moral leadership in all walks of life. Last year we raised over $50,000 for these students; this year we hope to double it!"

For information about sponsorship opportunities or to register for the golf classic, please contact Robert Bagdazian at 805-525-4417 or rbagdazian@thomasaquinas.edu

About Thomas Aquinas College:
Ranked the #5 "Best Value" in the country for 2008 among all liberal arts institutions by The Princeton Review, Thomas Aquinas College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college with a fully-integrated curriculum composed exclusively of the Great Books, the seminal works in the major disciplines by the great thinkers who have helped shape Western civilization. There are no textbooks, no lectures and no electives. Instead, using only the Socratic method of dialogue in all of their classes, students read and discuss the original works of authors such as Euclid, Dante, Galileo, Descartes, the American Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Shakespeare, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine, and of course, St. Thomas Aquinas. Graduates consistently excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology and education. They have distinguished themselves serving as lawyers, doctors, business owners, priests, military service men and women, educators, journalists and college presidents.

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