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MARCHING FOR LIFE!
Students Walk for Life, Inspired by Late Classmate
About two-thirds of the students of Thomas Aquinas College traveled to San Francisco on the weekend of January 25-27 for the Walk for Life West Coast. Joined by members of the faculty, the campus chaplains, and numerous alumni, the students sang hymns, prayed the Rosary, and testified to the Culture of Life.
As is their custom, the student marchers wore Thomas Aquinas College sweatshirts, which this year bore a special inscription: “In Memory of Andrew ‘Kent’ Moore, Class of 2014.” Kent, who was struck and killed by an automobile while walking for life over the summer, was with them in spirit and in prayer.
Some 3,000 miles away, Kent was also inspiring walkers at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. At the request of the Archdiocese of Washington, the College prepared a video tribute in his honor, which 28,000 young people watched at a pre-March youth rally.
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Video Tribute to Andrew “Kent” Moore (’14)
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Slideshow: Walk for Life West Coast
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COMMENCEMENT 2013
Cardinal DiNardo to Serve as Speaker
His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, has accepted President Michael F. McLean’s invitation to serve as Thomas Aquinas College’s 2013 Commencement Speaker. The youngest American cardinal, and the first Cardinal Archbishop to serve the Southern United States, he will travel to campus this spring to participate in the College’s May 11 graduation exercises. He will also serve as the principal celebrant and homilist at that morning’s Baccalaureate Mass.
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COMPLETING THE QUADRANGLE
Renderings of St. Gladys Hall,
Planned Upgrades for St. Augustine Hall
In anticipation of the April 17 groundbreaking ceremony for St. Gladys Hall, the College has commissioned an artist’s renderings of the new classroom building. The renderings are the work of Domiane Forte (’00), principal of Forte & Associates, in Santa Paula, Calif.
At the same time that it begins construction of St. Gladys Hall this summer, the College will refurbish its first classroom building, St. Augustine Hall, thanks to a $600,000 grant from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation of Reno, Nevada. The grant will provide new carpeting and a modernized heating and cooling system that is quieter and more efficient. The upgrades also include a pedestal for the statue of the building’s patron, St. Augustine, and the lowering of the building’s very high ceilings, which have proved detrimental to classroom acoustics and energy costs.
Renderings of St. Gladys Hall
More about St. Augustine Hall
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St. Gladys Hall
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THE COLLEGE IN THE NEWS
A Round-Up of Recent Stories
Writing for The Tidings, Thomas Aquinas College Governor Maria O. Grant reviews the ongoing “Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Caravaggio is “one of the most influential artists of the 16th and 17th centuries,” writes Mrs. Grant, an Overseer at the Huntington Library, Gardens, and Art Collections and a tour guide at the Norton Simon Museum. “The show is full of powerful works,” she notes, “but it is also intellectually fascinating in seeing how one artist had such an influence on so many others.”
Meanwhile, in a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) about the role of accrediting agencies in higher education, former U.S. Senator and University of Colorado President Hank Brown cites a famous episode in the College’s history dating back to 1992: “The accrediting body known as the Western Association of Schools and Colleges … threatened the accreditation of California’s Thomas Aquinas College unless it changed its exemplary Great Books curriculum of classic readings, a central component of that Catholic institution’s course work, to make it more ‘open.’ At least the accreditors had the wisdom to back down.”
Finally, two alumni of the College — Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh (’85), chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, and Dr. Brian Kelly (’88), dean of Thomas Aquinas College — make an appearance in Remembering Ralph McInerny, a lovely story in Crisis magazine by Dr. Christopher Kaczor of Loyola Marymount University. Dr. McInerny, the late philosopher and writer, mentored scores of accomplished young scholars, including Drs. Cavanaugh, Kelly, and Kaczor, as well as numerous alumni and tutors of the College.
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Governor Maria O. Grant
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NEW VIDEO!
High School Summer Great Books Program
Each summer for two weeks, high school students from around the country join members of the teaching faculty on the campus of Thomas Aquinas College for spirited conversation, engaging firsthand some of the best works of the past 2,500 years. They read and discuss works selected from the masters of the Western intellectual tradition, including Plato, Euclid, Sophocles, Shakespeare, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pascal, and Boethius. It is a time for forging new friendships, for enjoying the give and take of rational argument, and for pursuing the truth, which civilizes, ennobles, and liberates.
A new video features highlights from the two-week program — a time of broadening the mind, forging friendships, and fortifying the soul.
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