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DOMINICAN FATHERS
DOMINICAN FATHERS. Order from the Province of St. Albert, River Forest, Illinois. Candidates for the Order began coming to LORAS COLLEGE in the mid-1940s to complete two years of a liberal arts education. In 1951 the Dominican College of Saint Rose of Lima was incorporated in Dubuque, Iowa, through the efforts of the theological faculty who had moved from the College of St. Thomas Aquinas, River Forest, Illinois.
Classes began for the first Dominican students in 1951. In 1953 Dominicans took over Smyth Hall on the Loras campus as a residence for prospective Dominican students. In 1961 the college in Dubuque and River Forest, once administered as a single Dominican House of Studies, was legally reorganized as AQUINAS INSTITUTE.
The loss of Dominicans from Dubuque was gradual. They were no longer teaching at Loras by 1970 when the interest of the order was focused on Aquinas. The Provincial Council of the Dominicans chose to relocate Aquinas in July 1980. The Institute was moved, effective June 1981, to the campus of St. Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri. A Dominican, however, remained the chaplain for St. Dominic Villa.