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Legacies--multi-generational links to the College--are an important part of Pomona tradition.
The Stover Family
Clarence Stover '21 came with his family to the Pomona Valley at age four.
At Pomona College, Stover lettered in football, was a member of the varsity track team, and was involved in Kappa Delta. After graduating, he married Reba Taylor '22, a native of Ojai, California. They were active in several civic and cultural organizations in Claremont and Los Angeles. Stover served on the Claremont City Council and the Los Angeles County Art Institute, and Mrs. Stover served as president of the Claremont Board of Education. Urged by friend and associate Millard Sheets, Mrs. Stover was also founding president of the Scripps Fine Arts Society.
In 1928, with his brother, Willard Stover '13, Stover founded the successful construction firm, the C.T. and W.P. Stover Company.
Stover's construction enterprises contributed to Pomona's campus in many ways, including the familiar buildings of Edmunds Union (1937) and Clark (1929), Frary (1929), and Mudd (1947) residence halls. In addition, Stover built several beautiful homes in Claremont as well as much of the commercial property on Harvard Avenue in the Claremont Village.
Today, the family name is memorialized on Pomona's campus with the Clarence Stover Memorial Walk and the Reba Taylor Stover Memorial Fountain. Stover Walk connects the academic quad to Big Bridges Auditorium with a wide east-west broadway north of Marston Quad. The Stover Fountain, given by the Stover family and friends in Mrs. Stover's memory, graces the south courtyard of the Smith Campus Center.
"Pomona College was an integral part of my parents' lives and so many of their closest friends were Pomona alumni and faculty," said Allan Stover. "In fact, while most college classes held reunions in the college dining halls, many of the reunions of the classes of 1921 and 1922 were held at our home."
