College of Fellows

Dear Students and Staff,

As you are likely aware, the College of Fellows will be convening tomorrow, Thursday, May 21, at 2pm at DSPT. Kevin Starr, Librarian Emeritus of the State of California, historian and Professor at USC, Ned Dolejsi, Executive Director of the California Catholic Conference, Velma Richmond, Shakespeare scholar and emeritus professor, and André Delbecq, Professor of Management at Santa Clara University and former Dean of the American Academy of Management, will each give an autobiographical account of the way in which what they are calling a “Catholic imagination” and view of the world has informed and continues to inform their experience, highlighting the differences that exist between a Catholic and non-Catholic view of the world. After each of the presentations there will be a period for comment and discussion. The desire is that next year more of the Fellows will offer reflections of their own, ultimately culminating in the publication of a book that compiles these pieces in a compelling way. A reception will follow.

Cardinal Stafford, Major Penitentiary of the Catholic Church, John T. Noonan Jr., Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Barbara Elliott, Founder of the Center for Urban Renewal in Houston, Texas, Rick Gallagher, Leader of Cancer Control Research at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, and Michael Naughton, professor and Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, will also be in attendance.

I would be very grateful for your presence at this event tomorrow. In addition, I hope to see you on Friday at our Baccalaureate Mass (10 Am at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Berkeley) and at our Commencement Exercises (3 Pm at DSPT).

Sincerely

Rev. Michael Sweeney, O.P.
President
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology,
2301 Vine Street,
Berkeley, CA 94708(510) 883-2083