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Today Andrew Moore (’14) is in North Platte, Neb., nearing the halfway point in his 10-week, 3,000-mile walk across the continental United States.
More from Commencement 2012:
Note: Each year the graduating class elects one of its members to present the Senior Address at Commencement. This year’s speaker, James W. Thompson of Amherst, N.H., will be teaching as Glendale Preparatory Academy in Glendale, Ariz., starting this fall.
Note: The following open letter to President Barack Obama appears on the back page of the May 20, 2012, issue of the National Catholic Register. (Download the PDF.)
Three years ago, only hours after he received 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. Surrounded by his family, his classmates, and his fiancée, Mr. Mohun became 2nd Lt. Mohun, receiving his commission as a member of the United States Marine Corps.
Under a bright California sky, on Saturday, 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 of the Holy Spirit in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, with the College’s head chaplain and assistant to the dean for religious affairs, Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J., serving as the principal celebrant:
At its 2012 Commencement exercises on May 12, Thomas Aquinas College awarded its highest honor, The Saint Thomas Aquinas Medallion, to three eminently worthy recipients: Mr. Peter L. Deluca, Dr. John W. Neumayr, and Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P.
With the end of the academic year comes the return of a number of annual senior traditions. On Wednesday, as members of the Senior Class completed their last final examination, they greeted one another with hugs and congratulations by the Guadalupe Fountain. After all had arrived they headed down to the campus ponds for a celebratory swim. The soon-to-be graduates then met up again during lunchtime in St. Joseph’s Commons, where they proudly announced their accomplishments to the underclassmen: