# @thomasmoreky on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DU0i0q8DQmc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/56419625-thomasmoreky-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-16T13:47:22.000+00:00

## Caption

Celebrating President's Day by looking back at a time when a U.S. President dedicated the new Thomas More campus 🇺🇸

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled from the White House to Crestview Hills, KY to help usher in a new era for our institution - transitioning from Villa Madonna Academy to Thomas More College. The dedication ceremony happened in a packed Seiler Commons. Our President, Monsignor John F. Murphy, visited the Oval Office to gift a photo album of the dedication to the U.S. President.

Dr. Judith (Middendorf) Marlowe '69 was student council president at the time and helped organize the dedication ceremony. She recalls how strictly she held the secret of the President's visit and how no one knew if he would arrive until the day of the ceremony. She says, "We constructed a very elaborate scenario for both possibilities and then just had to keep quiet about it, which was extremely difficult as you can imagine... So all of us who were in on the secret found ourselves having private little conversations because we were just bursting to talk to somebody about this possibility and that was the only way we could."

#MakeItMore #ThomasMoreUniversity #PresidentsDay #AchieveMore

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Ben Rosenstiel | @benrosenstiel99 | https://gondola.cc/benrosenstiel99 | Social Media Specialist |

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makeitmore, achievemore, thomasmoreuniversity, presidentsday

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