Kudos Include: “Best Value,”
“Best Classroom Experience”
& “Most Religious Students”

Each July, Thomas Aquinas College invites members of the President’s Council — the backbone of the College’s financial-aid fund — to one of two Great Books Summer Seminar Weekends. At these weekends President’s Council members get an inside look at the unique education that they so generously help to make possible. They attend a series of classroom discussions about great books led by the College’s president, dean, and other members of the teaching faculty.

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Each July, Thomas Aquinas College invites members of the President’s Council — the backbone of the College’s financial-aid fund — to one of two Great Books Summer Seminar Weekends. At these weekends President’s Council members get an inside look at the unique education that they so generously help to make possible. They attend a series of classroom discussions about great books led by the College’s president, dean, and other members of the teaching faculty.

The newest of the six Thomas Aquinas College Boards of Regents — representing Orange County, California — held its inaugural event last Sunday. Hosts for the gathering were Drs. Mary and Barton Billeci, parents of Laura (’09), who welcomed some 16 of their fellow Regents to their Laguna Niguel home. There, members got to know one another while discussing their shared mission of promoting the College and its program of Catholic liberal education.

Note: Thomas Aquinas College Head Chaplain Rev. Joseph Illo delivered the following homily at Sunday Mass during the this past weekend’s Great Books Summer Seminar.

Reflecting on 25 Years of
the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

The College’s new Stations of the Cross run alongside a narrow, paved road that predates the College itself — the drive that once brought visitors to the Doheny family hacienda, now the official residence of the College’s president. “The lush area around the drive had gone pretty much unused for as long we’ve been here,” says Dave Gaston, the campus landscape designer. “It was basically a jungle. We had to clear and clean it up, but it’s gorgeous now.”

The decision announced today in the Hobby Lobby case, while providing immediate relief to Hobby Lobby and the other plaintiffs, contains language which leaves the implications of this decision for Thomas Aquinas College unclear.