Benefactors

On Saturday, June 11, Thomas Aquinas College hosted the annual Legatus-Aquinas Forum. Some 15 members of the Ventura-North Los Angeles Chapters of Legatus, the international organization of Catholic business executives, participated in the event, which took place on campus.

The day began in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel, where College Chaplain Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J., offered Mass. Recent graduate Sean Donnelly (’16) assisted Fr. Buckley at the altar as an acolyte, and student Giorgio Navarini (’17) served as the cantor and organist.

“When his fellow founders chose Dr. Ronald P. McArthur as the College’s first president, they made him and his wife, Marilyn, intellectual and spiritual parents to the students of Thomas Aquinas College,” says current President Michael F. McLean. “Ron and Marilyn believed that the Faith must be handed on through more than just books: it must be lived in a community. They sought not only to form students’ minds, but also to foster deep and genuine friendships based on the love of truth.”

In the 2016-2017 edition of The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College, the Cardinal Newman Society once again recommends Thomas Aquinas College as one of 29 Catholic institutions nationwide with a strong Catholic identity, lauding it for its “impressive intellectual rigor that is matched by a commitment to orthodox Catholicism.”

At its most recent gathering in May, the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors welcomed its newest member, Robert W. Andrews, managing director of Cambridge Associates LLC in Menlo Park, California. “Bob has been a good friend and benefactor of the College for nearly a decade,” says President Michael F. McLean. “We are honored and grateful that he is joining the Board, and we look forward to benefiting from his leadership and his wisdom in the years to come.”

After the last vehicle rolls off the Thomas Aquinas College campus following Commencement; when the residence halls, once teeming with students, grow quiet; when silence briefly replaces Socratic discourse in the classroom buildings, it may seem as though the intellectual life of the College has slipped into a summer’s hibernation.

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[audio=Brian Kelly on Celtic Connections 05-28-2016]

At its spring meeting, the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors voted unanimously to reappoint Dr. Michael F. McLean as president of Thomas Aquinas College. “Dr. McLean has served ably over the past six and a half years,” says Chairman R. Scott Turicchi. “On behalf of the Board of Governors, I extend to him my deepest gratitude and my sincere congratulations.”

Today the United States Supreme Court unanimously issued an order in Zubik v. Burwell, a case challenging the HHS mandate that religious institutions must facilitate the provision of insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients, and other objectionable services to their employees, contrary to their deeply held religious beliefs. Thomas Aquinas College is a co-plaintiff in the case.

• Slideshow: President’s Reception and Taco Dinner
• Now Available: Portraits of the Class of 2016 and Commencement Photos
• Ventura County Star: “College says farewell to graduating class with ‘excellent leadership’”
• Photo Slideshows: Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement
• Archbishop Cordi