Pomona College News

Winners of the 2012 Walker Memorial Competition were announced at a ceremony on the evening of May 26 at the Bridges Hall of Music.

For Claremont Heritage, there is no better way to honor the city's past than to host an evening enjoying the trees, buildings and scenery that continue to keep Claremont a beacon of historical significance along the foothills.

The spring equinox has passed and the days are growing longer as the summer solstice approaches.

A public servant on Los Angeles' east side for the last decade, Luis Lopez is hoping to represent Angelenos in the 51st Assembly District.

GRAYSON HOFFMAN/SPECIAL TO TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Karolina Poderski adjusts the tassel on Ying Hong's cap before The Pine School's graduation ceremony Friday morning in Hobe Sound.

Paul Fussell, historian and cultural critic, died last week at 88. With his death, America lost a steady voice for cantankerous protest against all so many pedestrian American institutions and assumptions - the gourmet restaurant, the uniform, the national defense system.

A renowned scholar of World War I and II, Fussell joined Penn's English department in 1983, and taught until his retirement in 1994, after which he and his wife continued to live in Philadelphia for several years prior to moving to Oregon.

The Claremont Symphony Orchestra will offer a concert of pieces honoring Great Britain and its composers on June 10 at the Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College.

Gabriel Friedman and his students worked for six months learning the intricacies of playing an instrument and fine-tuning their skills.

James H. Howard, as a major and fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, he earned the Medal of Honor in aerial combat in World War II.

The American Red Cross Claremont Chapter will hold its third annual Run for the Red through the Claremont Colleges on Memorial Day, May 28.

A former Claremont City Council candidate on Thursday morning was sentenced to probation that includes staying away from Pomona College after being found guilty for trespassing onto an organic farm at the college.

Professor Char Miller of Claremont's Pomona College examines historic struggles and contemporary debates over public lands in the United States in his new book, Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy published by Oregon State University Press.

Ashley Vega, 20, brings a box for Jessica Lewis, 19 she unloads her clotheshangers out of a suitcase.

How far will Southern California students go, and how creative will they get, to attract the attention of a university admissions office in a viciously competitive market made worse by the fear of unemployment that grips anyone aged 16 to 26? The old joke is the student who sent a shoe to the office of admissions with a note chirping: "This is my ... (more)

Contests for strings, piano voice and chamber music will be in full swing throughout the day for the annual competition put on May 26 by the Musicians' Club of Pomona Valley.

Claremont resident and former city council candidate Michael Keenan was found guilty Tuesday for trespassing, following an arrest at the Pomona College Organic Farm last year.

A former Claremont City Council candidate could learn his fate Tuesday morning here after he was arrested in September for trespassing onto an organic farm at Pomona College.