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Dean John Goyette reports that tutor Dr. Karen Zedlick, who suffered a heart attack last month, received wonderful news yesterday. “Apparently an ultrasound showed that her heart has regenerated itself and the tissue that they feared could have died did not,” says Dr. Goyette. “She says she is so grateful for the outpouring of love, prayers, and support. She’ll be meeting again soon with her cardiologist.”

Thanks be to God! Please continue to keep Dr. Zedlick in your prayers!

“It doesn’t matter if you take the standard deduction, or if you itemize your tax returns,” says Matthew Plaisted, Thomas Aquinas College’s Annual Fund director. “If you give to TAC in calendar year 2020, you stand to achieve significant tax savings.”

In response to the economic fallout of COVID-19, Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act earlier this year. Among the act’s provisions are measures designed to encourage gifts to non-profit organizations, such as Thomas Aquinas College, which have incurred higher costs due to the pandemic.

Students at Thomas Aquinas College, New England, woke this morning to a welcome surprise that will help them make it through first-semester examinations — care packages, courtesy of their peers at Thomas Aquinas College, California.

“I got the idea from my own family, which has sent me care packages during past exam weeks,” says Robert Santine, a junior on the California campus who organized the Advent effort. “I thought it would be nice to have some kind of gesture of good will between the campuses.”

“I wanted to get a good idea of what was really worth doing, what’s life really about?” says Jordan Raum (’22) of Anthem, Arizona. “I wanted to spend time taking that question really seriously.”

Please pray for Dr. Henry J. Zeiter, who is on hospice care following a congestive heart failure. A longtime member of the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors, Dr. Zeiter is the father of Suzie (Andres ’87) and Camille (’91), as well as the grandfather of Joseph (’12) and Dominic  Andres (’24) and Zach Zeiter (’21). Please pray for his recovery, for his comfort, and for the well-being of his family.

As the son of Korean immigrants growing up in Diamond Bar, California, Dr. Joshua Lim had a yearning for truth, even in his earliest days. “I wanted to learn everything,” he says. His family attended a Presbyterian church with a Baptist-trained pastor, where he came to believe that if truth is what one seeks, there is only one place to find it — the Sacred Scriptures — a lesson he took to heart during his high school years. “I must have read the Bible for six hours a day,” he recalls.

“When Father walks among the angels and offers back to God on the altar all our hearts and sacrifices along with his own,” says Hélène (Augros ’92) Froula, “it’s best that he wears something that represents not only the finest of what is available in earthly materials, but also the best kind of offering in terms of human effort.”

Dr. Henry Joseph Zeiter died in his Lodi, California, home on Sunday, December 20, 2020.