When she graduated from Thomas Aquinas College, California, in 2008, Meghan Duke never imagined that she would one day join its teaching faculty, let alone at a new campus in New England. She never even expected to attend graduate school.
Returning to teach at Thomas Aquinas College, California, is a homecoming of sorts for Dr. John Finley (’99) — in more ways than one. Not only is he an alumnus of the College, he is also an alumnus of the faculty.
Growing up in Dallas and Houston, Texas, Joshua Lo (’12) nurtured dreams of becoming a concert cellist. Yet he reconsidered those dreams when he enrolled at Thomas Aquinas College in 2008.
Dr. Sarah Kaiser (’02) is among the first of Thomas Aquinas College’s second-generation tutors, joining her father, veteran tutor Dr. Thomas J. Kaiser (’75), on the College’s California faculty.
Alumna reporter and producer Mary Rose (Bacani ’03) Valenti traveled to California for her 20th reunion, then released a documentary about the experience.
“We live in such a safe environment that we get disconnected from nature, and people don’t appreciate how most of the world lives,” says Michael Core, a member of the Thomas Aquinas College President’s Council from Thousand Oaks, California. “I wanted to give an experience to a TAC graduate that would take them way out of their normal element.”
Our Lord began His public ministry by calling pairs of brothers to follow Him, and it is a practice that continues, as seminarians Isaac (’19) and Frater George (Patrick ’14) Cross, O. Praem., can attest.