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When J. R. and Claire Smeed of Bakersfield, Calif., approached the podium at the 2009 Commencement exercises, Chairman of the Board of Governors R. James Wensley presented them with a bronze bust of St. Albert the Great. This presentation marked the Smeeds’ induction into the Order of St. Albert, which was established some years ago to honor those benefactors who support the College to an outstanding degree. The bust is modeled after an original bronze sculpture of the 13th century saint by O.

As part of its 1999 Commencement Ceremonies, Thomas Aquinas College inducted three foundations into its esteemed Order of St. Albert the Great.The three foundations — The Dan Murphy Foundation, the Fritz B. Burns Foundation, and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation — have been particularly generous to the College.

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It was in visiting the Thomas Aquinas College campus in 2003 to attend a memorial Mass that Lloyd Noble first became acquainted the school. That Mass was offered for his half-uncle, Richard Noble, who had served on the College’s Board of Governors from 1977 until his death in late 2002 and left his entire estate to the College.

Thomas Aquinas College is grateful to the parents and grandparents of its students for engendering in these young people the habits of mind and soul that dispose them to its unique program of Catholic liberal education. In recognition of this partnership, the College has established a formal association of parents and grandparents.

Thomas Aquinas College seeks to cultivate in its students the life of moral and intellectual virtue, first nurtured in them by their parents. Through the Parents’ Association, members can further this end in a number of ways:

Since Thomas Aquinas College first opened its doors, students, faculty, and alumni have sought the intercession of St. Joseph for the school’s well-being. The College asks members of the Parents’ Association to join in a perpetual novena by daily recitation of the following prayer to St. Joseph:

Walter J. Conn served on the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors from 2013 until his death one year later, on September 18, 2014, continuing a longstanding friendship between the College and the Conn Family. That relationship began in 1992, when one of Mr. Conn’s brothers, Rev. Thomas Conn, S.J., came to the College as a chaplain, a position in which he faithfully served until his own death, from cancer, in 1997. During that time Fr.