"Panoramic" Photographs Featured
on
Thomas Aquinas College Website
(March 9, 2010)
SANTA PAULA, CA-March 5, 2010-Thomas Aquinas College is happy to
announce a new addition to its website. The 4-year, Catholic great
books college now features 25 panoramic photographs ("panos")
that show off its beautifully landscaped campus, its Spanish Mission-style
architecture, and the striking beauty of its location at the entrance
to the Los Padres National Forest. The photographs are a gift of
the parents of current students at the college and were provided
through his company, Rack Photography.
Says Jon Daly, Director of Admissions, "This panoramic tour
offers a wonderful window into Thomas Aquinas College for the many
applicants who seek admission to the college but have not yet been
able to visit the campus." Each year, the college welcomes
a steady 65% of entering freshmen who come each year from outside
of California, as well as a small percentage of students from overseas.
"We fully expect these 360-degree, interactive photographs
will inspire students to want to know more about the College - and
to schedule a visit to sit in on classes and meet some the students,
staff and faculty in person. They also provide a convenient way
to check in on campus development. To my knowledge," he adds,
"we are one of only a handful of colleges and universities
in the country to have this feature on its website, and, again,
we are deeply grateful to Rack Photography for offering it to us."
Digital cameras, computers, and cutting-edge software are all
required to produce panoramic photographs. In addition, expensive
motorized equipment is needed to precisely regulate the movements
of a camera so that about 7 overlapping, flat photographs can be
stitched together to create the one interactive image file. When
completed, the viewer then "stands" in the center of the
resulting spherical photograph and with the computer mouse, "turns
around" in the space as though he were actually there.
Vice President for Development, Quincy Masteller, remarks, "Not
only will applicants to the college benefit from this new feature
on our website, but so also will our benefactors - individuals and
foundations - so many of whom reside in cities and states all across
our country. Through their generous gifts to the college, we have
been able to build out a truly beautiful campus. Now, though they
may be 3,000 miles away, they can have an almost firsthand look
at the good their generosity has brought about."
Among the 25 new "panos" are tours of the residence
halls, the student coffee shop, St. Bernardine of Siena Library,
Albertus Magnus Science Hall, and beautiful outdoor locations around
the campus. Perhaps of greatest interest to viewers are the "panos"
of the school's recently completed Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity
Chapel, which has been featured in publications such as Architect
magazine and Traditional Building.
To take an interactive, panoramic tour of Thomas Aquinas College,
please visit the school's website at www.thomasaquinas.edu and click
on the link on the homepage
ABOUT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
Named a 2010 "Best Value" college by The
Princeton Review and Kiplinger's, Thomas Aquinas College is a four-year,
Catholic liberal arts college with a fully-integrated curriculum
composed exclusively of the Great Books, the seminal works in the
major disciplines by the great thinkers who have helped shape Western
civilization. There are no textbooks, no lectures and no electives.
Instead, under the guidance of faculty members and using only the
Socratic method of dialogue in classes of no more than 20, students
read and discuss the original works of authors such as Euclid, Dante,
Galileo, Descartes, the American Founding Fathers, Shakespeare,
Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Aristotle, Plato, St. Augustine,
and of course, St. Thomas Aquinas. Alumni consistently excel in
the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate
degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology and
education. They have distinguished themselves serving as lawyers,
doctors, business owners, priests, military service men and women,
educators, journalists and college presidents.
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