TMC celebrates Chapel groundbreaking

Students, staff, faculty, friends and donors of Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky., gathered on Aug. 2 to break ground on the College’s free-standing chapel project. The College met its goal of raising $3.5 million to build the Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel earlier this spring. Construction bids are still out through the end of the month. Official construction will begin in September, with anticipated completion of the project in early fall of 2012. The chapel is being designed by Northern Kentucky-based architects Robert Ehmet Hayes & Associates PLLC.The decades-long dream of building a chapel became a determined quest in 2009, when President Sister Margaret Stallmeyer, C.D.P., with the support of the Board of Trustees, launched an official fund-raising campaign to make that dream a reality. The Diocese of Covington, under the guidance of Bishop Roger Foys, led the donor list with a multi-year $500,000 pledge, and soon parishes and other donors joined in the effort. A capstone gift from John and Juanita Griffin and family allowed the College to meet the goal this March. Read the full story here.