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Last Wednesday evening, California students gathered in the St. Cecilia Hall Recreation Room for “The Assistant Dean on Tap,” an informal forum with the campus’ new assistant dean for student affairs, Dr. Jared Kuebler. “I was thinking about giving a short talk, but then I realized, well, given that this is my first ‘Assistant Dean on Tap,’ I’d rather hear about what’s on your minds,” Dr. Kuebler began. From there, he opened the floor to student questions.

Throughout September there have been volleyball matches every Friday afternoon on the New England campus. In an intramural league consisting of five student teams and one team of tutors, “The tutors always dominate,” reports one of the campus’ resident directors.

The National Catholic Register has selected Thomas Aquinas College as one of only 38 faithfully Catholic colleges and universities included in its 

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Helen Grace Puccetti, who died on August 29, and for the consolation of her family, including daughter Pip (Donahoe ’78) and grandchildren Theresa (’20) and Peter Donahoe (’22). Mrs. Puccetti and her late husband, Victor, were generous benefactors of Thomas Aquinas College and longtime members of its President’s Council.

Each fall at Thomas Aquinas College the sophomores, juniors, and seniors take turns staging welcome events for the new freshman class. This past weekend, the sophomores had their turn in New England, while the juniors had theirs in California.

On Friday night Thomas Aquinas College, California, hosted its inaugural concert of this year’s St. Vincent DePaul Lecture and Concert Series. Classical guitarist and Grammy nominee Paul Galbraith performed music by J. S. Bach, Alexander Scriabin, Isaac Albéniz, and Franz Joseph Haydn — all on the eight-stringed Brahms Guitar, which he helped to develop.

On September 8, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Head Chaplain Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P., led a group of students and faculty members in a Rosary procession around the California campus. The group began outside St. Joseph Commons, processed down to the Lourdes Grotto on the lower campus, and concluded in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel.

Three thousand miles and three hours apart, the two campuses of Thomas Aquinas College both celebrated the new academic year on Saturday with an All-College Picnic, with students, faculty, staff, and their families getting together for an evening of food and fun.

On Friday night Thomas Aquinas College, New England, hosted the inaugural concert of this year’s St. Vincent de Paul Lecture and Concert Series. Held in Olivia Music Hall, the concert featured the Madison String Quartet, which has played at Carnegie Hall  and in other premier venues world-over for 20 years. The New Jersey-based ensemble performed Mozart’s Quartet in G Major, K. 156; Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons; and Haydn’s Quartet Op. 20, #4.