In anticipation of the upcoming groundbreaking ceremony for St. Gladys Hall, the College has commissioned two artist’s renderings of the new classroom building. The renderings are the work of Domiane Forte (’00), principal of Forte & Associates, an architectural firm based in Santa Paula, Calif.

The rules of Thomas Aquinas College’s annual Cookie Cook-Off are simple: Teams get one evening to bake their confections, working entirely from scratch. Recipes and ingredients are left to their own devices and imaginations. The next day, a select panel of tutors and administrators evaluate the cookies on the basis of several criteria, including taste and presentation. Below are photos from this year’s competition:

Posted: January 23, 2013

When Americans gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the annual March for Life, many will be inspired, in part, by one of Thomas Aquinas College’s late champions of the unborn, Andrew “Kent” Moore (’14).

Students to Lead Route

“THE 2 BUSES ARE FULL!!”

Thus proclaims the sign on the billboard in St. Joseph Commons, where Thomas Aquinas College students get their campus news and notices. The buses are the two large passenger coaches that will help bring some two-thirds of the College’s student body to San Francisco this weekend for the Walk for Life West Coast. Other students will take cars, or ride up with faculty and chaplains, as they have every year since the Walk first began in 2005.

E. L. Wiegand Foundation Awards $600,000 Grant for Renovations

This summer, when Thomas Aquinas College begins construction on its second classroom building, St. Gladys Hall, it will also refurbish its first, St. Augustine Hall, with the assistance of a $600,000 grant from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation of Reno, Nevada.

His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, has accepted President Michael F. McLean’s invitation to serve as Thomas Aquinas College’s 2013 Commencement Speaker. The youngest American cardinal, and the first Cardinal Archbishop from the Southern United States, he will travel to campus this spring to participate in the College’s May 11 graduation exercises. He will also serve as the principal celebrant and homilist at that morning’s Baccalaureate Mass.

“The Irrelevance of Abraham and the Salvation of Egypt”

Note: Periodically members of the Thomas Aquinas College teaching faculty present informal lectures, followed by question-and-answer sessions, on campus. These late-afternoon gatherings afford an opportunity for tutors to speak about some topic of great interest to them and to share their thoughts with other members of the community. Dr. Christopher Decaen delivered the following talk on September 19, 2012:

Dear Friends,

Last week, at the invitation of His Eminence Marc Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, I had the honor to take part in the Ecclesia in America Congress at the Vatican in Rome. Coming as it did at the beginning of the Year of Faith, this experience was a great grace for me and for the College.

Giving Rate More than Quadruple National Average,
Reflects Alumni Satisfaction

“It’s not hard to get our graduates to contribute to the College,” says Director of Alumni Relations Mark Kretschmer. “I just send them an e-mail, reminding them how important their donations are to the College’s future. Then the gifts start rolling in.”

During the last days of classes before final examinations, 35 Thomas Aquinas College juniors gathered in the rotunda of St. Thomas Hall to sing four hymns. The brief performance marked the latest chapter in a young but increasingly anticipated campus tradition.