Day Fire Threat Lessens;
Thomas Aquinas College Students Return to Campus
(September 25, 2006)
Santa Paula, CA-For the past week, the Day Fire has been burning
in the mountains just north of Thomas Aquinas College located on
Hwy 150 in Ventura County. On Saturday evening, September 23, 2006,
at the recommendation of the Ventura County Sheriff, the college
activated its evacuation plan, transferring its 350 students to
the Red Cross shelter located at Sacred Heart Church in Ventura.
All but 35 students who wished to remain at the shelter then dispersed
to the homes of local students, faculty, alumni and staff members.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Department has now dropped the evacuation
order for the Hwy 150 corridor. The California Highway Patrol, therefore,
is allowing Thomas Aquinas College students and staff to return
to the campus. The normal class schedule will resume on Tuesday,
September 26, 2006.
Students will remain prepared to evacuate again if the college
is notified that the fire poses any immediate threat. Weather forecasts
for the area are favorable, and good progress is being made in containing
the fire.
ABOUT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
Thomas Aquinas College opened its doors in 1971. It is a four-year
Catholic liberal arts college exclusively devoted to the study of
the Great Books, using only the Socratic method of dialogue in all
of its classes. There are no text books, no lectures and no electives.
Instead, the College offers an entirely integrated curriculum using
only the original texts of the greatest thinkers who have helped
shape Western civilization. These authors include St. Thomas Aquinas,
St. Augustine, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Euclid, Dante, Galileo,
Descartes, our American Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Copernicus,
Kepler, and Newton to name a few.
Thomas Aquinas College graduates consistently excel in the many
world-class institutions where they pursue graduate degrees in disciplines
such as law, medicine, journalism, business, theology and education.
They have distinguished themselves in these fields serving as headmasters,
business owners, lawyers, priests, journalists, doctors, military
service men and women, educators and college presidents.
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