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Called to live heroically and to embrace the Catholic intellectual life, some 83 members of the Class of 2022 celebrated their graduation Saturday at 91����’s 48th annual California Commencement.

“This Education Is Training for Happiness”

At its 2022 California Commencement exercises, 91���� not only distributed 83 diplomas to its newest graduates, it also awarded honors to an esteemed guest, some dear friends, and a beloved president.

“Heroic People Need Heroes”

by Rev. John Nicholas Blaha (’02)
Priest of the Diocese of Kansas City, Kansas 
Commencement 2022
91����, California

Take Up the Vocation of the Catholic Intellectual Life

When members of the 91���� Class of 2022 gathered for the annual President’s Dinner on Wednesday night, they were greeted by a beloved and surprise guest: the great Fr. Buckley.

A recently retired TAC chaplain, Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J, returned to the California campus to celebrate with the soon-to-be graduates in advance of their Saturday Commencement. Just as the seniors were sitting to dinner, Dean John Goyette sped into St. Joseph Commons on a golf cart with Fr. Buckley — as witty as ever, and wearing a Darth Vader mask — in the passenger seat.

At the annual President’s Dinners honoring the senior class, the faculty traditionally presents the imminent graduates of 91���� with not one, but two parting gifts. One is from the College, the other from an anonymous friend.