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Distinguished Service Award
Byron Hayes '56
In 1952, Byron Hayes was admitted to Pomona on a scholarship that
awarded him $3,000 for each of his four years. The young man from San
Gabriel took full advantage of the experience. He graduated Phi Beta
Kappa in 1956, was named the outstanding senior in economics, played
first base for the varsity baseball team and was a member of the Phi
Delta fraternity.
 Pomona transformed his life—and he has been returning the favor ever
since. Hayes has been president of both the Alumni Association and the
board of the Pomona Torchbearers. The Toluca Lake resident has led
fundraising drives, sat on reunion committees and hosted groups of
prospective Pomona students in his home.
All of which is why Hayes has been awarded Pomona’s Alumni Distinguished
Service Award for 2005–06. He will receive the honor during Alumni
Weekend, when his class gathers for its 50-year reunion.
“I’m very grateful to Pomona and the people of Pomona—the professors and
others there—for the quality of the education I got,” Hayes says. “I
attribute a lot of my success in life to Pomona.”
Hayes earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and worked as an
attorney in Los Angeles for 40 years. One of his key contributions to
the College involved property in Padua Hills, owned by a corporation in
which Pomona had a controlling interest. Hired in 1989 by Pomona to help
sell the land, Hayes persevered with a complex plan that had stalled for
years. After retiring in 1999, Hayes continued to work on the case pro
bono. In 2003, Pomona completed a long-awaited real estate deal, part of
which involved selling 125 home sites to a developer. Hayes says the
transaction probably netted at least $7 million.
“If we hadn’t had Byron, there’s no way in the world we would have been
able to put together that hillside deal,” says Arlene Crowe, Pomona’s
retired director of real property and assistant treasurer.
In his many volunteer ventures for Pomona, Hayes has received an assist
from his wife of 45 years, Deanne.
The chance to bond with fellow Pomona people is why Hayes says he’s
always enjoyed helping with alumni programs. “I’ve made a lot of
friends.”
—Paul Sterman ’84
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