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Alumna
Gives $10 Million to Pomona College For Construction of
Two New Buildings
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CLAREMONT, Calif. — Merging a lifelong interest in the
workings of the human mind with her long-time support of her
alma mater, Lillian Lincoln Howell, of Hillsborough, Calif.,
has made a gift of $10 million to Pomona College for the
construction of two new academic buildings to house, among
other disciplines, a range of programs involving the study
of the mind and brain. Howell is a 1943 graduate of the
college.
The donation is the largest single gift from a living donor
ever received by Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier
liberal arts colleges, located in Claremont, Calif.
 When completed during the academic year 2006-07, the two new
buildings, comprising a total of 92,300 square feet of
space, will house classrooms, teaching and research
laboratories and faculty offices for a variety of academic
departments, including Asian American Studies, Black
Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Computer Science, Environmental
Analysis, Geology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science,
Neuroscience and Psychology. The buildings will be located
at Sixth Street and College Way.
“These new buildings will be home to a number of exciting
fields, many of them disciplines that cut across traditional
academic boundaries in innovative ways,” said President
David Oxtoby. “This gift will enable faculty from all of
these departments to deepen their engagement with teaching
and scholarship, to bring additional students into their
research laboratories, and to introduce new generations of
Pomona students to the excitement of their fields. We are
deeply grateful to Lillian Howell for her farsighted
generosity to Pomona College and its faculty and students.”
One of the new buildings will be named the Lincoln Building,
to honor Howell’s family, including her father, John C.
Lincoln, who founded the Lincoln Electric Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, and her son, Lincoln C. Howell. The other
building will be named the Edmunds Building in honor of
Charles K. Edmunds, the fifth president of Pomona College,
to whom Howell has said she owes a special debt of gratitude
for his support during her first years at Pomona.
While an undergraduate at Pomona from 1939 to 1943, Howell
studied science and philosophy and enrolled in a variety of
courses, including psychology. She also wrote poetry. “Over
the years,” she said, “new fields of study have emerged,
including neuroscience and cognitive science, that are of
immense interest to me. With the new buildings, all programs
at Pomona involving the science of the mind will be located
together. It will be very exciting.”
As owner of the Lincoln Broadcasting Company, she became the
first woman to develop a television station in a top-10
market, with the founding of San Francisco’s KTSF in 1976.
One of the nation’s first multi-ethnic stations, KTSF today
offers news and entertainment programming in 12 languages,
reaching an audience of about 1.4 million viewers.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the Web at
www.pomona.edu. |
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