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6/4/04 |
Campus wins
Excellence in Design Awards from City of Claremont.
 Pomona
College has earned two Excellence in Design awards
from the City of Claremont.
One of the awards recognizes the newly-renovated
Pearsons Hall (seen at right), one of the College's
oldest buildings. The other award is for the
new landscaping around Clark V residence hall.
Regarding the Pearsons renovations, the city's
Architectural Commission praised architect Brian R.
Bloom for a design that "successfully preserves the
architectural integrity of this venerable structure,
while incorporating the amenities, safety
requirements and accessibility standards of a modern
building."
As for Clark V dormitory, the commission noted that
courtyard areas were replanted among established
trees with forest pansies, mahonia, red fountain
grass, and gardenias. Wall sconces, metal espaliers,
and a dry streambed feature were introduced to both
highlight the building’s strong details and to
soften its poured-in-place concrete wall surfaces.
"This engaging landscape design blends indoor and
outdoor spaces together beautifully," according to
the commission.
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5/20/04 |
College receives
$1.3 million grant to enhance science education.
Pomona College has received a $1.3 million grant
from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), to
enhance the college’s well-regarded Biology
Department and expand interdisciplinary scientific
programs that relate to biology. Pomona will use the
HHMI grant to hire doctoral fellows in
biostatistics, biochemistry, and biophysics; to
enrich its science curriculum and to purchase
equipment related to those enhancements.
"This new grant will enable Pomona College to expand
its efforts to connect teaching and research for our
students,” says Pomona College President David
Oxtoby. “Through my own work as a scientist, I know
that access to state-of-the-art equipment and close
collaboration with faculty in student research are
the key factors in encouraging students to enter
scientific fields. This grant will have significant
impact on our ability to educate future scientists
for leadership roles in this country and the world."
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5/17/04 |
Students honor Pomona professors for excellence
in teaching.
Students at Pomona College have elected
professors Eleanor P. Brown,
Martha E. Andresen, Gilda L. Ochoa, Kenneth B.
Wolf and Sidney J. Lemelle (shown from left to right
in the photo) to receive the 2004 Wig Distinguished Professor
Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The Award
recognizes exceptional teaching, concern for
students and service to the college and community.
The recipients of the Wig Awards are elected by the
junior and senior classes and then confirmed by a
committee of trustees, faculty and students. The
awards were announced at Pomona's 111th Commencement
held on May 16, 2004. Several of the winning
professors have been chosen for the annual award
multiple times. Andresen, an English professor, is
now a seven-time winner of the award. Student
comments included: “Dr. Andresen can make a biology
major excited about Shakespeare.”
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5/13/04 |
Three Pomona College professors
named to endowed chairs.
Three Pomona College professors, Laura Mays Hoopes,
Michael McGaha and Arden Reed, have been named to
endowed chairs in biology, English and modern
languages. The honors were approved by the Pomona
College Board of Trustees at their quarterly meeting
in May.
 Laura
L. Mays Hoopes, a professor of biology and
molecular biology who served as the college’s vice
president of academic affairs from 1993 to 1998, has
been named the Halstead-Bent Professor in Biology. A
member of the faculty since 1993, Hoopes teaches
Introductory Genetics, Genetic Regulation in
Eukaryote and the introductory seminar Biographies
of Biologists.
Michael D. McGaha, who is chair of the
Romance Languages and Literatures Department, has
been appointed the inaugural Yale B. and Lucille D.
Griffith Professor in Modern Languages. A member of
the faculty since 1970, he teaches Advanced Spanish;
Survey of Spanish Literature; Literature and Life:
Don Quixote; Sex, Power and Religion in Golden Age
Drama; and History and Culture of Sephardic Jews.
Arden Reed, a member of the faculty since
1979, has been named the Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M.
Dole Professor in English. He teaches the courses:
Literature of the Romantic Period; Nature of
Narrative in Fiction and Film; Reading Images; Queer
Theories, Gay Fictions; and Wordsworth & Proust:
Advanced Seminar; as well as the art history course
Manet, Degas, Cezanne, and the introductory seminar
Paris and the Birth of the Modern.
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5/12/04 |
Student's
essay on ethics takes first place in Elie Wiesel
contest.
Pomona College senior Leslie Barnard has been
awarded first place and $5,000 in the Elie Wiesel
Prize in Ethics Essay Contest for her essay,
“Forty-three Cents.” Inspired to enter the contest
in part by the ethics classes she has taken at
Pomona College, Barnard, a senior majoring in
religious studies, based her essay on the
summer she spent living in a Buddhist nun’s hostel
and teaching English to local schoolchildren in
India.
In Ladakh, Barnard writes in her essay, if a child
whose allowance for an entire month is 20 rupees
(approximately 43 U.S. cents) spends 5 rupees on a
small chocolate bar, she will instinctively share it
with all the other children hovering around the
candy stand, whether she knows them or not. It
doesn’t matter if adults are watching. This practice
has nothing to do with rules or punishments. It
comes from a deeper place. Like most Americans, I
had been raised to believe that the more I earned
and achieved over and against my competitors, the
more I would have, the more I would be. In Lakadh,
however, this is not the case.
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5/6/04 |
Student athletes
win annual Pomona-Pitzer Major Sports Awards.
 The Athletic Department has announced the winners of
the 2004 Major Sports Awards:
- Seniors Kelli Howard (tennis), Jonathan Samples
(seen in his blue football uniform) and An-Yen Hu
(soccer) won Most Valuable Athlete Awards.
-- Senior Matt Lee-Ashley (soccer), and junior
Valerie Stout (swimming) received the
Scholar-Athlete Award.
-- Senior Stephanie McDougall (cross country/ track)
and Junior Matthew Johnson (football/ track) won
the Athletic Excellence Award, given to the best
multi-sport athletes.
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5/3/04 |
Avery
grants send Pomona people on adventures in China.
Eleven members of the Pomona College community – a
mix of students, alumni, staff and faculty – have
been awarded R. Stanton Avery China Adventure
Program grants, which will allow them to travel to
China to conduct a research project. The R. Stanton
Avery China Adventure Program is open to students,
faculty, staff and graduates within the past seven
years of the Claremont Colleges, California
Institute of the Arts, Caltech and Occidental
College with an interest in learning more about a
particular aspect of China.
This year's research projects are richly varied,
ranging from training with dragon boat teams to
studying myths animating sacred mountains to
exploring underground art-rock music.
“The Avery China Adventure Program provides a great
opportunity to pursue creative projects in China and
develop close contacts with Chinese people,” said
Pomona College Professor Allan Barr, the college’s
advisor for the Avery grant. “Over the years, with
the help of these grants, Pomona students, alumni,
faculty and staff have been able to get off the
beaten track and do a lot of unusual things in
China, making personal discoveries that have had a
real impact on their lives.”
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4/26/04 |
Sagehen Celebration: Alumni Weekend will be packed with
fun,
memories and academic adventures from April 29 to May 2.
Pomona College's annual Alumni Weekend runs from
April 29 to May 2, with activities ranging from
class reunions to concerts to a symposium on
creativity. Alumni will have the chance to go back
to school and attend many Pomona classes on Friday,
April 30. Or visitors can tap into their creativity
by attending the annual Alumni Symposium, which this
year is entitled “The ‘Aha!’ Moment: Discovery,
Breakthrough, Epiphany."
The weekend also offers opportunities for a dinner with College
President David Oxtoby, a picnic, the
traditional Parade of Classes, campus bus tours and
several concerts and performances. This year's event
includes reunions for classes ending in '4 and '9,
providing many opportunities to mingle and share
memories.
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4/26/04 |
TV news veteran
Walter
Cronkite to speak at May 16 commencement.
Former "CBS Evening News" anchorman Walter Cronkite
will deliver the keynote address at Pomona College's
May 16 commencement. Approximately 400 students will
receive their undergraduate degrees in Pomona
College’s 111th Annual Commencement Exercises at
2:30 p.m. in Bridges Auditorium, 450 N.
College Way, Claremont.
Cronkite's commentary
defined issues and events in
America for almost two
decades. Once named the "most trusted figure" in
American public life, Cronkite often saw every
nuance in his nightly newscasts scrutinized by
politicians, intellectuals and fellow journalists
for clues to the thinking of mainstream America. His
legacy of separating reporting from advocacy has
become the norm in television news.
Pomona College has a long history of distinguished
commencement speakers. Speakers in previous years
included former Sen. Bill Bradley, civil rights
leaders Myrlie Evers Williams and Coretta Scott King
and entertainment figures Patrick Stewart and Twyla Tharp. Cronkite is one of
many journalists to serve as commencement speaker
over the years, including Newsweek columnist
Eleanor Clift, New York Times editor Bill
Keller and TV newsman Garrick Utley.
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4/21/04 |
Pomona-Pitzer tennis sweeps Player of the Year
awards.
 In a tennis triumph, Pomona-Pitzer has taken the
Player of the Year awards for both men and women.
Seniors David Frankel, pictured to the right, and Kelli Howard received the honor from the Southern
California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Frankel capped an undefeated conference season with the award. Currently,
he is ranked No. 2 in the West Region in
singles and doubles. Howard also won Player of the
Year last year, and was the 2003 Female
Scholar-Athlete for SCIAC.
In addition to earning the Player of the Year award, both Howard and Frankel were named
First Team All-SCIAC.
Joining Frankel on the first team is his doubles
partner, senior JR Hall. On the second team for the
men’s side, freshman Jeff Jablonski was named. On
the women’s side, senior Whitney Henderson and
senior Betsy Mork were both named to the second
team.
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4/16/04 |
Pomona
College student earns Beinecke Brothers
Scholarship.
Pomona College junior Sam Cross is one of only 18
college students nationwide selected to receive a
Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship. Beinecke
Scholarships are given each year to college juniors
from select institutions who plan to continue their
education and attain a Ph.D. in social sciences,
arts or humanities at any accredited graduate school
in the world.
“I'm planning, at present, to attend graduate school
with the aim of getting a Ph.D. in English,” says
Cross, who is currently studying abroad in
Cambridge, England. “After that, I hope to become a
professor at a college or university and spend my
time teaching and researching.”
The Beinecke Scholarship seeks to encourage and
enable highly motivated students to pursue
opportunities available to them and to be courageous
in the selection of a graduated course of study.
Each scholar receives $2,000 immediately prior to
entering graduate school and an additional $30,000
while attending graduate school.
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4/5/04 |
Pomona College
students earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
and Mellon Fellowship to continue their studies.
Jennifer Nado '04 recently earned an Andrew W.
Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. The award
includes tuition and fees, plus a stipend of $17,500
for first-year Ph.D.
program studies in fields of "humanistic studies",
very broadly defined. In the fall, Nado will attend
Rutgers University, where she will begin her work
towards a Ph.D. in philosophy with a certificate in
cognitive science. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies
help promising students prepare for
careers in college-level teaching and scholarship in
humanistic studies.
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Meanwhile, three Pomona juniors have been awarded
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. William Jeck
(mathematics major), Kyle Lancaster (molecular
biology) and Alice Waldron (geology) were among 310
Goldwater Scholars selected this year from a field
of 1,113 students. Winners are selected on the basis
of academic merit and a demonstrated potential for
careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or
engineering. The one and two year
scholarships will cover the cost of tuition and
other expenses up to a
maximum of $7,500 per year. Recent Goldwater
Scholars have been awarded 56 Rhodes Scholarships and numerous other
distinguished fellowships.
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3/31/04 |
 Actor
and alumnus Richard Chamberlain to discuss
his recent
memoir at Pomona College on April 5.
Actor and author Richard Chamberlain will discuss
his recently published autobiography "Shattered
Love: A Memoir" in a public talk at Pomona College
on Monday, April 5. Chamberlain, a Pomona College
graduate, will discuss the dominant themes of his
book: love, forgiveness, detachment, self-image and
social conditioning.
Chamberlain's memoir chronicles his professional and personal struggles:
growing up with an alcoholic father, his relentless
need to prove himself worthy and his recent decision
to discuss his sexuality publicly. Chamberlain began
his acting career at Pomona College in the '50s and
went on to star as TV's "Dr. Kildare," along with
numerous other stage, TV and movie roles.
The talk will be held at 12:15 p.m. in Lyman Hall,
Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Ave.,
Claremont. A book signing will follow in front of
the Pomona College Museum of Art.
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3/30/04 |
Accomplished
foreign service officer named Inspirational Young
Alumnus at Pomona College.
After graduating from Pomona College in 1997, David Holmes
never expected he'd wind up working in the desperate and devastated landscape of
post-war Kosovo. But now he
couldn’t imagine being anywhere else. Holmes works
for the U.S. State Department as a political and
human rights officer, promoting human rights and
helping the society to rebuild in the aftermath of civil war.
For his efforts, Holmes has been named Pomona
College’s Inspirational Young Alumnus for 2004. He
works with the leaders of minority communities in
Kosovo to monitor their political positions and
activities and encourage them to support the
policies of the international community. He also
advocates for the compassionate
resolution of human rights issues, in particular
human trafficking and missing persons in Kosovo.
Holmes hopes his experiences will inspire other
Pomona graduates to consider a career in public
service.
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3/25/04 |
Pomona College art
museum hosts poster exhibition on racism, sexism and
human rights through May 15.
“Courageous Voices: Posters on Racism, Sexism and
Human Rights,” an exhibition of 44 political posters
that deal with racism, sexism and human rights, will
be on view at the Pomona College Museum of Art from
March 23 through May 15 and at the Smith Campus
Center Cultural Center from March 23 through May 5.
Organized by the Center for the Study of Political
Graphics in Los Angeles, these posters are
selections from a larger exhibition representing a
wide range of human rights issues, both past and
present, domestic and international. Racism and
sexism have been emphasized because they are too
often overshadowed as central human rights issues by
the more dramatic images of torture, mass arrests
and political assassinations that are reported daily
in the press. Yet racism and sexism are even more
insidious violations of human rights because they
are not only manifested in illegal activities, but
in the more subtle and daily dehumanization of women
and people of color-the majority of the world's
population.
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3/24/04 |
Pomona soccer star
Matthew Lee-Ashley '04 scores NCAA scholarship.
 Pomona
College soccer player Matthew Lee-Ashley just scored
a different sort of goal. The midfielder, pictured
here in a white Sagehen uniform, has been awarded a
postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA. The
scholarship provides $7,500 for postgraduate study
at the school of his choice. Lee-Ashley, a senior
from Colorado, was among 58 student-athletes
nationwide to land the scholarship.
To qualify, a student-athlete must have an overall
grade-point average of 3.2 or its equivalent and
must have performed with distinction as a member of
the varsity team. Lee-Ashley, 23, says his athletic
endeavors have helped him academically. "You
get your energy and aggression out on the field,"
says Lee-Ashley. Then he's able to hit the books in
the evening and concentrate. The 23-year-old history
major also has found time to work as editor of
The Collage, a student newspaper at The
Claremont Colleges. Lee-Ashley is considering
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3/17/04 |
Two Pomona
seniors have been awarded Watson Fellowships for
international travel and study after graduation.
Pomona College students Tony Tiu and Jacqueline
Wong-Hernandez have been awarded the prestigious
Watson Fellowship for a year of independent
exploration and travel outside the United States.
The award is given each year to 50 graduating
seniors at one of 50 participating private liberal
arts colleges and universities. Each fellow is
awarded $22,000 for the year of travel and study. Tiu will document in story and photographs the
Chinese immigrant experience in Germany, Spain,
France, Peru, South Africa and Australia. His
winning independent study project is titled
“Chinatown Around the World: Chinese Diaspora
Through Stories and Photographs.” Wong-Hernandez
will investigate folk medicine in Mexico, Guatamala,
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia for her project, titled
“Needing to Know: An Exploration of Curanderas,
Fear, and My Grandmother.”
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3/8/04 |
Sociology
Professor Gilda Ochoa offers a new book on power and
solidarity in the Mexican American community in Los
Angeles.
 "Becoming
Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power,
Conflict, and Solidarity" is the newest book by
Gilda Ochoa, associate professor of sociology and
Chicana/o Studies. Focusing on the Mexican-origin,
working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles
County, Ochoa examines Mexican Americans' everyday
attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican
immigrants. Using in-depth interviews, participant
observations, school board meeting minutes, and
other historical documents, Ochoa investigates how
Mexican Americans negotiate their relationships with
immigrants at an interpersonal level. Her research
into daily lives highlights the centrality of women
in the process of negotiating and building
communities and sheds new light on identity
formation and group mobilization in the U.S. and on
educational issues, especially bilingual education.
Read Ochoa's Faculty Profile...
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3/2/04 |
Pomona
students and physics professor publish research on
laser tweezers in professional optical journal
Optics Express.
Late last year, Pomona College students Perry Schiro,
Class of 2004, and Christopher DuBois, Class of
2006, had their research on “Large capture-range of
a single-beam gradient optical trap” published in
Optics Express, a professional scientific journal
produced by the Optical Society of America. In
layman’s terms, they used a single highly focused
laser, like a very tiny Star Trek tractor beam, and
found that the radius of the capture range was up to
ten times the distance scientists previously thought
it was. Schiro noted, “It's useful if you want to
manipulate cells or other spherical objects
non-intrusively.” Applications in molecular biology
and other areas are possible. The paper was
co-authored with Alfred Kwok, a professor of physics
at Pomona.
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3/1/04 |
Can't remember "what's-her-name's" name? Psychology
Professor Deborah Burke offers insight into
"tip-of-the-tongue" experiences.
“I’ll never forget what’s-her-name”
expresses the familiar experience of vividly
remembering a person but not his or her name. You
can picture her. You know when you last saw her. Her
name is right there on the tip-of-the-tongue but you
just…can’t…grab it. This sort of “tip-of-the-tongue”
(TOT) experience happens to people more often with
each passing year, says Deborah Burke, a
psychologist at Pomona College who has been working
on the riddle of tip-of-the-tongue experiences for
more than 20 years. The majority of naturally
occurring TOTs involve failure to retrieve proper
names, and TOTs experiences involving proper names
increase more with aging than those involving other
types of words. Burke’s new study, being published
in the March 2004 issue of Psychological Science,
provides compelling insight into why we are unable
to produce people's names and other words that we
know we know, and why this problem gets worse with
aging.
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2/24/04 |
Senator John
Edwards to speak at Pomona College on Wednesday,
Feb. 25
 In
his only Los Angeles area stop on Wednesday,
February 25, U.S. Senator John Edwards, one of the
two leading contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination, will speak at Pomona
College in Claremont.
The event will begin at 11 a.m. in the Edmunds
Ballroom at the Smith Campus Center (170 East Sixth
Street, Claremont). Tickets for the event, which is
free, will be available at the College's Smiley
Residence Hall (550 N. College Way at Sixth Street),
beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, February 25. Six
hundred tickets will be reserved for members of The
Claremont Colleges community, and 200 tickets are
reserved for members of the public. (Attendance will
be limited to the number of people who can safely
fit into the Edmunds Ballroom.) There is no reserved
parking.
Senator Edwards was invited to the Pomona campus by
the student group Claremont for Edwards. News about
Edwards' upcoming visit has generated considerable
excitement, according to James Solomon, a sophomore
at Pomona and a leader of
Claremont for Edwards. "The students that I talk to
are very active and incredibly knowledgeable about
the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
This visit is a great opportunity for Edwards and the
students. ... Edwards really has a coherent argument
about the state of America and very detailed policy
ideas about education, health care, politics and
taxes."
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2/20/04 |
Outstanding
faculty mentors are honored with Irvine
Distinguished Faculty Fellowships.
Pomona recognized five outstanding faculty members
with $7,000 fellowships for work as mentors and
advisors to students of color, students from
economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and
first-generation college students. George Gorse,
Marcelle Holmes, Daniel O’Leary, Ami Radunskaya, and
Valorie Thomas were honored as this year's Irvine
Distinguished Faculty Fellows. “The awarding of the
fellowship,” explained Gary Kates, dean of the
college, “is meant to recognize and honor the
important work of mentoring our students. These
faculty members have been truly outstanding in that
regard. The monetary support will enhance their
ability to pursue their individual research or
teaching projects.”
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2/19/04 |
History professor and documentary filmmaker
at Pomona wins a grant to complete his newest work on the
transgender movement.
 Victor
Silverman, an associate professor of history at
Pomona College, was awarded a 2003 Horizons/Frameline
Film and Video Completion Fund grant to complete
post-production work on his documentary, "Screaming
Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria." The
documentary recounts the riot at an all-night coffee
shop in 1966 that sparked a militant transgender
movement in San Francisco. The documentary,
co-directed by Susan Stryker, tells the story of the
first known act of militant transsexual resistance
to social oppression.
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2/13/04 |
Pomona senior
premieres his first film alongside award-winning
Pomona alumnus filmmaker.
Alex Scott, a Pomona College English
major, dealt with last-minute casting problems,
location cancellations, breakdowns, car accidents
(real ones), forgetful cast members and exploding
containers of fake blood over the summer during the
shooting of “Erasure,” a 13-minute short film he has
written and directed. “The experience was a rocky
one – and a time of intense learning for everyone
involved,” said Scott.
“Erasure” will be screened in conjunction with the
25-minute short film “For Our Man” by Pomona alumnus
Kazuo Ohno, class of ‘96. Kazuo completed “For Our
Man” as a graduate student at Columbia University.
The short went on to win the Student Academy Awards
in 2002, and screened to enthusiastic audiences at
such prestigious film festivals as Telluride and
South by Southwest (where it won the prize for best
narrative short). Both films will be screened at
Pomona at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, in Rose Hills
Theatre, Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St.,
Claremont. The screening is open to the public and
free of charge.
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2/13/04 |
Pomona
professor plays a lead role in new research about
the quality of southern California public schools.
The Southern California Consortium on Research in
Education (SCCORE.org), under the directorship of
David Menefee-Libey, associate professor of politics at Pomona, has
released its 2003 comprehensive survey and analysis
of kids and schools in the five-county Los Angeles
region, which includes the counties of Los Angeles,
Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Santa
Barbara.
Menefee-Libey reports that three broad themes about the Los Angeles
region's elementary and secondary education system
were revealed by the survey. “The
system faces equity challenges perhaps even more
daunting than its quality challenge. As we in the
Los Angeles region evaluate the Governor’s budget
proposals for education, it’s critical that we have
a very clear idea about the state of our schools,”
he explains.
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2/9/04 |
‘Cast-Iron
Chef’ competition turns up the heat and turns
students into chefs at Pomona's dining halls.
 The thriller-from-the-griller competition in which
culinary gladiators “batter to the death” comes to
Pomona when four students go
spatula-to-spatula at the second-annual Cast-Iron
Chef competition. The competition is based on Iron
Chef, the Japanese TV show that became a cult hit in
the United States. A guest panel judges the menus to
determine who is victorious and who is vanquished.
Pomona's contestants will be given costumes and a
“secret basket” of ingredients they must use to
create dishes tasty enough to wow the panel of
judges from Pomona College.
Students will battle it out in two preliminary
rounds, held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
February 10, in Frary Dining Hall, and Wednesday, February 11, in Frank Dining
Hall. The victor from
the preliminaries will go on to cross culinary
swords with Frank Dining Hall Director Michael
Williams, a professional chef, at the championship
round, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on
Thursday, March 11, at Frary Hall. For more
information, contact Toby Bushee, catering manager,
at (909) 607-9281.
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2/2/04 |
Memorial
Service for Professor William Whedbee will be held
at Pomona College on February 14.
 A
memorial service celebrating the life of Professor
J. William (Bill) Whedbee, who died in his sleep at
home on Thursday, January 22, will be held on
Saturday, February 14, at 2 p.m. at Bridges Hall of
Music on the campus of Pomona College, at 150 East
Fourth Street in Claremont. Dr. Whedbee, who was 65,
was the Nancy M. Lyon Professor of Biblical History
and Literature and of Religious Studies at Pomona
College. A member of the Pomona faculty since 1966,
Dr. Whedbee was a five-time winner of the College’s
Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence
in Teaching, who touched and transformed the lives
of countless students, many of whom were inspired to
follow in his footsteps. “Teaching was his love and
joy,” says Zayn Kassam, a friend and chair of the
Religious Studies Department.
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1/15/04 |
Pacific
Basin Institute's Frank Gibney talks about the 50th
anniversary reprinting of his classic book about
post-WWII Japan.
 Published
in 1953, Five Gentlemen of Japan: The Portrait of
a Nation's Character provided a nation with
insights into a country and culture that had
recently been a mysterious and deadly enemy. Written
by Frank Gibney, a former U.S. Navy intelligence
officer and now professor of politics and president
of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College,
the classic was reprinted by D'Asia Vu Reprint
Library, in December 2003, on the occasion of its
50th anniversary.
Five Gentlemen was the book that "began to
inform an entire generation about what had been to
many an inscrutable Japan," says Richard Halloran, a
former New York Times correspondent in Asia.
"Over the years, a few books have equaled it, but
none has surpassed it." "Many people remember [the
book] as their first introduction to Asia and
Japanese society."
"Really a series of snapshots taken at a particular
time in history, the book...was extraordinary
because it was the really first to describe the
Japanese in Japan during and after the war and what
they were dealing with," says Gibney. "It was one of
the first three or four books about Japan and the
Japanese to come out after the war."
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1/15/04 |
R. Carlton Seaver joins Pomona's Board of Trustees
continuing a family tradition of support for the
College.
R. Carlton Seaver, a partner in the Los Angeles firm
of Seaver & Gill, LLP, has been elected to the
Pomona College Board of Trustees. Seaver’s
membership on the Pomona Board of Trustees continues
a long and warm relationship between the College and
the Seaver family. Carlton Seaver’s father, Richard
Seaver, Class of 1943, as well as all five of
Carlton’s uncles and aunts, are Pomona graduates.
His uncle, Frank Seaver, Class of 1905, was the
first president of the Associated Student Body, a
president of the Alumni Association, and a member of
the College's Board of Trustees from 1947 until
1964. Richard Seaver served on the Board from 1970
to 1995 and remains an honorary member.
Many might recognize the Seaver name from the
contributions the family has already made to the
life of the College. In addition to the Byron Dick
Seaver Theatre complex and the Seaver House, the
family's gifts enabled the construction of three of
the college's science laboratory buildings. In 2002,
a $23.3 million gift from the estate of Frank R.
Seaver supported the renovation and expansion
of the Seaver Science Center. The newest addition to
the Science Center is the Richard C. Seaver Biology
Building, now under construction, to recognize many
decades of exceptional service to the College.
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1/8/04 |
Pomona
Geology Professor Robert Gaines digs to uncover
bizarre lifestyle of ancient fossil.
 Robert
Gaines, an assistant professor of geology at Pomona,
spends a lot of his research time looking at
fossils. His research of Elrathia kingii, the
world’s most familiar trilobite fossil, led him and
his colleagues to the conclusion that this fossil
that's easily found by hobbyists in rock shops and
museum and university collections worldwide, lived a
bizarre lifestyle as possibly the first among
Earth’s few lifeforms to flourish without benefit
from the sun, or photosynthesis.
“We propose that Elrathia kingii, the ‘world’s most
famous trilobite,’ represents the oldest known
example of an animal-microbial symbiosis, a finding
that has important ramifications for the nature and
development of the earliest animal ecosystems on the
planet,” said Gaines.
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of the news media requiring further assistance with these stories should contact Cynthia Peters,
Associate Director of Public Affairs, at (909) 621-8515 for immediate assistance, or by e-mail
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