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ENGAGE & EVANGELIZE
Business & Tech Professionals Advise Students at Career Panel
“As you think about how to discuss your education with others in the marketplace, don’t be bashful,” attorney Justin Alvarez (’97) advised a group of Thomas Aquinas College students at this Sunday’s Career Panel in St. Bernardine of Siena Library. “I think we are rightfully trained to be humble people, and that makes it difficult for us to sell what God has given us as our gifts. But humility is acknowledging the reality of the gifts we have been given, then conveying that reality to others. And that creates opportunities for us to do great good in the world.”
Conveying one particular reality — the blessing of a Thomas Aquinas College education — to potential employers was the focus of Sunday’s panel, hosted by the College’s Office of Career Advisement. “Students here have the gift of spending four years honing the art of thinking,” continued Mr. Alvarez, who is the founder of The Alvarez Firm, a law corporation based in Camarillo, California. “You are trained in the art of clear and precise thinking, and I believe most employers — including myself — find that to be incredibly valuable.”
Joining Mr. Alvarez on the dais were two other panelists with deep connections to the College: James Bemis, the father of a member of the Class of 2004, is a principal at Montague DeRose and Associates, LLC., a California-based financial advisory firm. Nathan Haggard (’99) is a graduate of the College and a systems engineer at Apple, where he manages the company’s technical relationship with some of its largest enterprise customers, such as Disney, Amgen, and Toyota.
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Justin Alvarez (’97) and James Bemis
Nathan Haggard (’99)
Students mingle with the panelists
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WITNESSES TO HOPE
Students Lead the Way at Walk for Life 2015
After the close of classes on Friday, January 23, more than 200 Thomas Aquinas College students departed for San Francisco and the 11th annual Walk for Life West Coast. They arrived late in the night at Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco’s Little Italy, where the Salesian fathers graciously offered them a place to sleep in the parish’s two gymnasia. The next morning, they attended Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral with the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, before heading over to the Civic Center Plaza for the Walk.
At the request of the Walk’s organizers, the College’s students once again took on volunteer positions, directing traffic and crowds, as they helped lead the way through the streets of San Francisco. All prayed, sang, and peacefully called for an end to abortion alongside more than 50,000 fellow walkers.
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ST. THOMAS DAY 2015
Prayer, Scholarship, and Fun in Honor of College’s Patron
On January 28, 2015, members of the Thomas Aquinas College community celebrated the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas with a fitting combination of prayer, scholarship, and fun.
The day began with an early Mass in the Dominican rite, in honor of the College’s patron, with one of the school’s two Dominican chaplains, Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P., serving as the celebrant. Later that morning, the College’s Head Chaplain, Rev. Hildebrand Garceau, O.Praem., offered Mass in the ordinary form, with the College’s 2015 St. Thomas Day lecturer, Rev. Romanus Cessario, O.P., serving as the homilist.
That afternoon students and members of the faculty gathered in St. Joseph Commons for the St. Thomas Day Lecture. Fr. Romanus spoke for an hour on the subject, “Mediated Religion: Aquinas on the Sacraments,” and then spent another hour or so answering students’ questions. After dinner, the day culminated with a beloved campus tradition, Trivial and Quadrivial Pursuits, a campus-wide quiz show famous for its extravagant costumes and over-the-top displays of creative gamesmanship.
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Fr. Paul: “St. Thomas & the way to God”
Fr. Romanus: “Three Titles of St. Thomas”
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Community Mass
Rev. Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Trivial and Quadrivial Pursuits
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ST. GLADYS HALL UPDATE
Landscaping Nears Completion on
College’s Newest Building
Although workers concluded construction of the College’s newest building, St. Gladys Hall, before the start of the academic year, landscaping of the building’s southern plaza continued throughout the past semester and is now almost complete. A blue-tiled infinity pool, featuring a sunburst — the symbol of the College’s patron, St. Thomas Aquinas — now overlooks the campus athletic fields. Young trees and shrubs surround the building and dot the plaza, thanks to Norman’s Nursery of Carpinteria, California, which generously donated all the plantings and groundcover.
All that remains for the plaza to be complete is its centerpiece — a statue of the building’s patroness, St. Gladys. A local sculptor is currently working on an original statue, commissioned specifically for the campus, which will be installed in time for a formal dedication ceremony later this year.
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About St. Gladys Hall
About St. Gladys
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