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Col. Sam Shaneyfelt, USAF (’86), works at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia at Headquarters, Air Combat Command, where he helps to manage the production of the Department of Defense's newest fighter aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35). A former pilot, Col.

The rural town of Bow, N.H., is a long way from the sands of Somalia or the jungles of Haiti, but for Dr. Francis “F.J.” Milligan (’85) and his wife, Germaine (Durocher ’88), it is a welcome home. Until 1996, F.J. had been serving as a medical doctor in the U.S. Army, where he achieved high distinction serving in global hot spots around the world.

“Everyone serves God in one’s own little way; I’m just doing mine this way.” Not every medical doctor might characterize her work this way, but this is how Dr. Nadine St. Arnault (’78), a Denver anesthesiologist, conceives of her own professional stature.

Dr. St. Arnault specializes as an anesthesiologist for a medical group covering five Denver-area medical facilities. She is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists.

Col. Paul W. White, M.D. (’95) grew up in Illinois in a family of physicians. Both of his grandfathers, his father, and all of his father’s brothers are doctors. Yet medicine, let alone military service, was not immediately on Dr. White’s mind when he was choosing a college in the early 1990s.

After graduating from Thomas Aquinas College, María (Rangel ’99) Cardenas earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach, California, in 2005.

“We do normal roofs that look like roofs and houses that look like houses,” says Will Dowdy (’05), an architect at the Northern California firm of Anderson|Kim Architecture+Urban Design. “It’s more traditional. It’s been done before, but it works pretty well, just like it has for a long time.”

While a student at Thomas Aquinas College, David Isaac (’05) was delighted when his peers performed his musical compositions, including two string quartets and a piano quintet. And his senior thesis, “On the Harmonic Unity of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune,” was awarded distinction. So it should come as little surprise that, since graduating, Mr. Isaac has pursued a promising career in musical composition.

When she was a young Filipino immigrant living in Canada in the late 1980s, popular culture worked to undermine Mary Rose Bacani’s faith. Now, as a producer and reporter for Salt + Light Television, Miss Bacani (‘03) is working to reinvigorate the faith within Canadian popular culture.