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Pomona College Magazine is published three times a year by Pomona College
550 N. College Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
Online Editor: Mark Kendall
For editorial matters:
Editor: Mark Wood
Phone: (909) 621-8158
Fax: (909) 621-8203
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of births or deaths.
Phone: (909) 621-8635
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Email: alumni@pomona.edu
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Family Tree / The Scripps-Revelle-Clark Family
Founding Roots
The Scripps-Revelle-Clark family’s roots to Pomona College date back a
century, when Robert Paine Scripps attended the College’s Preparatory
School, Class of 1909. Robert was the nephew of educator, publisher and
philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, who helped her brother, James,
start The Detroit News in 1873 and founded Scripps College in
1926. Their half-brother, E.W. Scripps, later founded the Scripps
newspaper chain. Ellen’s great niece, Ellen Clark Revelle (Scripps ’31)
married Roger Revelle ’29, which joined the Revelles with the newspaper
family.
The couple’s nephew, Peter Clark ’52, said that contact between the
families is infrequent but that when they do come together, they fondly
remember the College, particularly the close interaction between faculty
and students. “The accessibility to faculty was an important part of the
college experience,” he says. “We gained a great deal beyond the
classroom.”
Of course, it’s not that he and his wife or other relatives chose the
College that prompted his children to attend: It was their friends—other
Sagehens. “You dismiss relatives. You take their views for granted, at
least that was the case with my daughter and son. A lot of the
attraction to the College is the consciousness of the friends.”
And now some late-breaking good news: Just after the print version of
this magazine went to the presses, we learned that Fowler McCormick
Stillman Brown, son of Ellen L. Clark '82 and Fowler M.S. Brown '82, has accepted
admission to Pomona starting in the fall.
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