A Renaissance man, Thomas Joseph Ervin ’71, JST ’88 was ordained a priest in May 1974 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. His ministry took him to parishes in San Francisco and the peninsula as well as the North Bay, where he lovingly cared for elderly nuns. After earning a Ph.D. in Psychology, he went to work at Stanford Medical Center’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital on the children’s oncology unit caring for both children and their families, offering pro bono work at UCSF’s AIDS Health Project, then into private practice as a licensed Clinical Psychologist in San Francisco, where he continued to practice until his death on May 21, 2020.