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What Can You Do with a Liberal Education?Nothing speaks more to the versatility of the College’s academic program than the good that our alumni are doing throughout the Church and the world.
Dr. Glenn Arbery: “God Blesses Those Faithful to Him”
by Dr. Glenn Arbery
President, Wyoming Catholic College
Remarks at the Inauguration of Paul J. O’Reilly
October 22, 2022
Thank you, Dean Goyette, and greetings from Wyoming Catholic College on this high occasion of the inauguration of Dr. Paul J. O’Reilly as president of Thomas Aquinas College. It is an honor for us to be represented here, because, since its inception, TAC has articulated and lived out a mission that distinguishes it from all others. It has been deeply serious in its ambitions and its rigor, deeply Catholic in its teaching and its practices, and as a result, its graduates have spread the influence of Thomas Aquinas College and garnered for it a universal respect.
“Since its inception, TAC has articulated and lived out a mission that distinguishes it from all others.”
It has been my privilege these past nine years at Wyoming Catholic College to work with your alumni daily, first as colleagues on the faculty and then as my closest advisors as president. The education here has always so clearly informed who they are that I have felt it as a major paradigm against which Wyoming Catholic College measures its own distinctness. When our dean considers the inordinate amount of work that we require of our students, he also remembers that his Senior Seminar at TAC spent only two classes on War and Peace in a semester that included Democracy in America and many other texts. Memories come up so constantly that there have been occasions when I, the only non-alumnus in a meeting, have listened while the recollection of some tutor or classmate carried everyone else away. It is always a pleasure to hear, as it is a pleasure to work with them all. Your graduates have a habitus that affects their approach to everything they do, in ways appropriate to the gifts of each.
As president of a small college now in its 15th year, perhaps I most appreciate stories of the early struggles of TAC, especially when I look now at this beautiful campus and this chapel. Last year when I spoke at the campus in Massachusetts, I had the same feeling, not envy — well, not exactly — but the recognition that obstacles help define us, that God blesses those faithful to Him, and that hope and clarity of purpose draw the beneficence of those who witness them. As St. Paul writes to the Ephesians, “living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into Him who is the head.” May Our Lord bless Dr. O’Reilly and Thomas Aquinas College at the beginning of this new administration in the second half-century of your history. May the friendship between our institutions “living the truth in love” grow ever deeper.
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