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What Can You Do with a Liberal Education?Nothing speaks more to the versatility of the College’s academic program than the good that our alumni are doing throughout the Church and the world.
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by The Most. Rev. Robert C. Morlino
Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
Transcript, Homily from the Baccalaureate Mass
Commencement 2018, Thomas Aquinas College
May 12, 2018
Don’t you all look great!
After much reminiscing and toasting at the end of Wednesday night’s President’s Dinner, members of the Class of 2018 weren’t ready to retire just yet. So, in keeping with a longstanding College custom, they made their way to Ventura’s Buena Lanes — joined by several members of the faculty and Head Chaplain Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P. — for some late night bowling. Photos are available in the slideshow below:
Note: Each year the president of Thomas Aquinas College hosts a dinner on the Wednesday before Commencement as an opportunity for members of the faculty and staff to bid farewell to the graduating class. Below are text and audio of President Michael F. McLean’s remarks and a photographic slideshow from this year’s dinner.
Address to the Class of 2018
By Dr. Michael F. McLean
President, Thomas Aquinas College
May 9, 2018
On Wednesday, as members of the Senior Class completed their last final examination, they greeted one another with hugs and congratulations on the academic quadrangle. After all arrived they headed down to the campus ponds for the traditional celebratory swim:
When members of the Class of 2018 arrive at the President’s Dinner this evening, awaiting them at each place setting will be a gift from the College — and one from an anonymous friend.
In a longstanding tradition, the younger classes at Thomas Aquinas College take turns each spring bidding farewell to the soon-to-be-departing seniors.
Last Saturday evening the juniors had their opportunity, hosting a reception and dinner for the Class of 2018 on the academic quadrangle, followed by a dance behind St. Gladys Hall.
Above is a video of “In a Doleful Train,” from the Thomas Aquinas College Choir’s recent performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, accompanied by the Thomas Aquinas College Orchestra and directed by Daniel J. Grimm (’76). This year’s concert was the first to be held in the newly completed St. Cecilia Lecture and Concert Hall.
In 2015 a group of underclassmen challenged the College’s upperclassmen to a Saturday game of baseball. Somewhat presumptuously, they dubbed the event The First Annual All-American Baseball Game, suggesting that they were confident that they were establishing a longstanding tradition. Four years later, their hopes appear to have been wellfounded as, on Saturday, the campus athletic fields were the site of the 2018 All-American Baseball Game.
As part of their long farewell tour, members of the Class of 2018 gathered with the freshmen Sunday for a “midnight snack.”
Dispensed from their usual curfew, the seniors and freshmen stayed up late in the coffee shop of the newly completed St. Cecilia Hall, enjoying treats and each others’ company in the waning days of the academic year. Commencement is now just 10 days away!