You can only handle the vertical centering using a section break - next page
at the end of your title page. Then format that page for vertical centering.
You can handle the spacing between paragraphs using space-before or
space-after formatting on your paragraphs.
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I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several
blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and
my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns
between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I
shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from
my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an
appropriate way to do this with styles?

thanks,
mike