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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
College Formally Protests HHS Mandate
In the May 20 issue of the National Catholic Register, members of the College's Board of Governors and faculty published a full-page open letter to President Barack Obama opposing the HHS mandate that would compel Catholic employers to violate Church teaching on matters of life and conscience. Two weeks later, the College voiced its opposition in a more formal way, filing an official comment with the Department of Health and Human Services.
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About the Formal Appeal
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COMMENCEMENT 2012
College Graduates 66 Seniors
On May 12 Thomas Aquinas College celebrated its 38th Commencement exercises, welcoming the 66 members of the Class of 2012 as its newest alumni. The day began with the Baccalaureate Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. The College’s head chaplain, Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J., served as the principal celebrant and homilist. At the ceremony that followed, Mother M. Assumpta Long, O.P, foundress and prioress general of the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, delivered the Commencement Address. The College's Board of Governors awarded the school's highest honor, the Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion, to Mother Assumpta in recognition of her extraordinary dedication and faithful service to Christ and His Church. Receiving the Medallion also were two of the College’s founders, Mr. Peter L. DeLuca and Dr. John W. Neumayr.
Address: Mother M. Assumpta Long, O.P.
Homily: Rev. Cornelius Buckley, SJ.
Senior Address: James W. Thompson ('12)
Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion Recipients
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SEMPER FIDELIS
Alumnus Presents Graduate with
Marine Corps Commission
Three years ago, only hours after receiving his diploma as a member of the Thomas Aquinas College Class of 2009, Robert Mohun returned to the stage at the foot of the academic quadrangle for a very different sort of ceremony. There Mr. Mohun became 2nd Lt. Mohun, accepting his commission as a member of the United States Marine Corps. Three years later, on Commencement Day 2012, now-1st. Lt. Mohun returned to the stage on the academic quadrangle, this time not to receive a commission, but to present one to a fellow graduate. A few hours after his own graduation, Noel Bulger, a member of the Class of 2012, formally became 2nd Lt. Bulger. He is the sixth Thomas Aquinas College alumnus to join the ranks of Marine Corps officers over the last few years.
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TWO NEW ALUMNI PRIESTS!
Memorial Ordinations Bring Total to 55
Over Memorial Day weekend two alumni of Thomas Aquinas College were ordained to the sacred priesthood, bringing to 55 the total number of alumni priests. The two new priests are Rev. Jerome Augustine Zeiler, O.P. (’00), a member of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, and Rev. Fadi Auro (’03), a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Fr. Zeiler and Fr. Auro are the first of five alumni to be ordained to the priesthood this summer. The others are: Rev. Mr. Joseph Bolin, Class of 2001 (Diocese of Vienna, June 15); Rev. Mr. Francis Marotti, Class of 2007 (Diocese of Kalamazoo, June 23); and Frater Maximilian Okapal, O.Praem., Class of 2002 (Norbertine Fathers, June 23).
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"LIFE SHAPED BY GENEROSITY"
Ventura County Star Profiles College
Vice President Paul J. O'Reilly
From the May, 21, 2012 edition of the Ventura County Star: “Paul O’Reilly grew up Catholic in a Protestant neighborhood in Belfast during the Troubles, when religious and political hostilities exploded across Ireland. So perhaps it comes as no surprise that his young life was marked by hatred, violence and murder. But ask O'Reilly about those times, back when he was a teenager, and he'll tell you it was the generosity of family, not bitterness, that formed him.”
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