About Us

To date, the St. Athanasius Educational Foundation has worked with a number of

traditional Catholic educators, professionals, and lay people from across the country in

developing a vision as well as a proposal for the College of St Athanasius. This labor, began

before the official founding of the Foundation in 2010, has resulted in the completion of a

Proposed Academic and Informational Bulletin, and a promotional Pamphlet depicting a site

selected for the college.

Our Team

Timothy H. Bratt

B.S.

Timothy Bratt has been employed as a geologist with the Illinois Department of Transportation for 35 years, having received a B.S. degree from Montana State University in 1979. He and his wife, Grace, are the parents of 12 children, four of whom still reside at home. They have attended the Latin Mass in Rockford, Illinois, since January, 2006.

John D. Nelson
B.A.

John D. Nelson grew up in Middleton WI as the fifth of eleven children. He attended Magdalen College in Warner, NH and graduated in 1998 with a BA in Liberal Studies. John works as a trainer and team lead for a large medical software company in the Midwest and devotes his time to physician education, physician well-being, clinical informatics, and Hospital Medicine. He lives with his wife, Renee, and their 8 (soon to be 9) children in Belleville, WI. John grew up serving the Traditional Latin Mass for Fr. Alfred Kunz in Dane, WI and continues to attend the Latin Mass in Rockford, IL.

Matthew P. Adas

B.A. / LCSW / LMFT

Matthew P. Adas, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graduated from University of Wisconsin - Madison, with a B.S. in Landscape Architecture with an emphasis in Education. Has served as the Assistant Principal at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Academy, a private, independent school teaching the Catholic faith to grades K-12 in Rockford, IL for the past nine years. Has also practiced Landscape Architecture for twenty years, and currently practices part-time. Lives in Caledonia, IL with his wife, Sarah, and four boys. Mr. Adas enjoys his passions of golf, hunting and spending time attending to his gentleman farm acreage. Mr. Adas is a practicing Catholic and attends Latin Mass at St. Mary Oratory, Rockord, IL.

Our Mission

The generosity of you who look forward to supporting the work of the St. Athanasius Education Foundation will be used to further our work as follows:

• To complete the application process for authorization to function as a college in the State of Illinois;

• To select and compensate the personnel necessary to begin the process of organizing the staffing and developing policy for the college;

• To purchase the property and provide for the appropriate improvements of the buildings and ground;