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It has been a busy year for alumna reporter and producer Mary Rose (Bacani �03) Valenti: In addition to producing several documentaries for Salt + Light Media, some of which featured fellow 91����� Aquinas College alumni, she traveled to California to join her classmates for their 20th reunion. Earlier this month, she took to Salt + Light�s blog to on the experience � and to release a about the visit.

�When I opened up the admissions brochure for 91����� Aquinas College, it was as if lightning struck me,� writes Mrs. Valenti, recalling how she first learned about the College some 24 years ago. �I fell in love.� The journalist compares this providential discovery to another, four years later: her introduction to Salt + Light, describing both as the �only two instances in my life where God�s call was undoubtedly clear.�

First as a full-time and now � in order to raise her four children � as a freelance producer, Mrs. Valenti has relied on her rich background in the liberal arts to keep her in good stead at Salt + Light. �I didn�t fully appreciate it then, but 91����� Aquinas College in California provided me with an incredible spiritual and intellectual foundation in my Catholic faith,� she says. �It provided me with a �bright lamp.��

Mrs. Valenti has shone that lamp on various issues and apostolates through her work in Catholic television � including, recently, Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. Still more recently, she brought her class reunion to life in a profiling both her classmates and the college they were privileged to call their home.

�My education became an invaluable part of my life,� she writes. �I was excited to go to my college reunion in June of 2023 to rejoice in the gift of that education and to capture that joy through Salt + Light Media.�