Are you graduating this May? 

Would you like to carry your country's flag in the commencement ceremony? International students graduating in May will be able to carry their country's flag in the commencement procession. If you would like to represent your country, please contact OISS no later than Friday April 22nd 2005. Only one person per country and ceremony will be allowed to carry their country's flag.

The first person to sign up from a country will be that country's flag bearer. So, contact OISS immediately if you want to represent you country.

If you have questions, contact OISS via email oiss@stthomas.edu or call (651 962-6650) or stop by the office in 161 Murray Herrick.

St. Thomas to observe second annual Heritage Week March 5-11

The University of St. Thomas will observe its second annual Heritage Week Saturday, March 5, through Friday, March 11.

The week will feature a series of events that celebrate the university’s 120-year history. This year’s theme, “If These Walls Could Talk: From Dreams to Reality,” focuses attention on the university’s architecture, and the spirit of the people expressed through that architecture.

This includes not only the campus buildings we use today, but plans for structures that were never built … yet strongly influenced today’s widely recognized “St. Thomas look.”

Heritage Week traditionally begins on the date of the annual St. Thomas Day celebration. This year, however, one event will begin several days before St. Thomas Day. A treasure hunt will start Monday, March 28. The hunt will continue until Friday, March 11, unless the treasure hunters unravel the clues and find the treasure before that time. Put on your thinking cap and check below for more details.

This annual week’s activities are coordinated by the Office for Mission and grew out of a recommendation by a Community Events Task Force to focus on several community-building events each year.

Unless noted below, all Heritage Week events are free and open to all students, staff and faculty. For more information call the Office for Mission, (651) 962-5200. Here is a listing of the events.

• Treasure Hunt – Feb 28-Mar 11
• St. Thomas Day Mass and Celebration – Mar 5
• Heritage Week Common Text Panel Discussion–Mar 7
• Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast – Mar 8
• School of Law Tours – Mar 8
• Film: “Fresco” – Mar 9 and 11
• Heritage Week Receptions – Mar 9 and 10
• Faculty-Staff Recognition Ceremony – Friday, Mar 11