List of Pomona College people
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Here follows a list of notable people associated with Pomona College in Claremont, California, including notable graduates,[1] non-graduating attendees, and past and present faculty.
Notable graduates
 Senior executive at The Walt Disney Company, Roy E. Disney, class of 1951 |
 Actor and musician, Kris Kristofferson, class of 1958 |
 Civil rights activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams, class of 1968 |
| File:TurrellatRoden.jpg Artist James Turrell, class of 1965 |
 Acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, professor at Pomona from 2002 to 2008 |
 NBA Championship head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich coached the Pomona men's basketball team from 1979 to 1987. |
 Acclaimed novelist, Jonathan Lethem, professor at Pomona from 2011 to present |
Arts and letters
Art
- Lewis Baltz, class of 1965 - photographer
- Chris Burden, class of 1969 - artist
- Judy Fiskin, class of 1966 - photographer and video artist
- Mary GrandPre - illustrator, best known for her work on the US editions of the Harry Potter books
- Roger Edward Kuntz, class of 1948 - landscape painter
- Peter Shelton, class of 1973 - sculptor
- Barbara T. Smith, class of 1953 - artist
- James Strombotne, class of 1956 - painter
- James Turrell, class of 1965 - artist
Film and television
- Amanda Blake, (attended) - actress
- Robert Blalack, class of 1970 – Academy Award Visual Effects (Star Wars), and Emmy Visual Effects (The Day After)
- Richard Chamberlain, class of 1956 – actor (Shogun, The Thorn Birds, Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, Dr. Kildare, and many more stage and screen projects)[2]
- Rosalind Chao, class of 1978 – actor
- Art Clokey, class of 1943 – animator and creator of Gumby
- Roy E. Disney, class of 1951 – executive at The Walt Disney Company, nephew of Walt Disney
- Ted Field, class of 1979 – media mogul and film producer
- Paul Guay, class of 1979 – screenwriter (Liar Liar, Heartbreakers, The Little Rascals)
- Allison Jones, Emmy Award-winning casting director
- Joel McCrea, class of 1928 – film actor (Sullivan's Travels, Foreign Correspondent)
- Joe Menosky, class of 1979 – television writer (Star Trek franchise)
- Lynda Obst, class of 1972 – film producer
- Scott Paulin, class of 1971 – actor, husband of actor Wendy Phillips
- Viveca Paulin, class of 1991 – actor, wife of comedian Will Ferrell
- Melissa Jo Peltier, class of 1983 – television writer and producer (Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan)
- Kelly Perine, class of 1991 – television actor
- Alison Rosen, class of 1997 - TV and internet personality
- Jim Taylor, class of 1984 – Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Sideways); frequent writing partner of Alexander Payne
- Robert Taylor, class of 1933 – film actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe)
- Robert Towne, class of 1956 – Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Chinatown; nominated for The Last Detail and Shampoo)
- David S. Ward, class of 1967 – film director (Major League) and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (The Sting)
- Frank Wells, class of 1952 – president, The Walt Disney Company
- John Whitney, Sr. – early computer animation filmmaker
- George C. Wolfe, class of 1976 – two-time Tony Award-winning play director, playwright and film director (Nights in Rodanthe)
- Anthony Zerbe, class of 1958 – actor (Will Penny, The Omega Man, Licence to Kill)
Music
- Frank Albinder, class of 1980 - conductor, former director of Chanticleer
- John Cage (attended) - musician and poet
- Chris Cain, class of 1999 - musician, We Are Scientists
- Christine Fan - American-born Taiwanese singer and actress
- Eric Friedl, musician, The Oblivians, owner of Goner Records
- Kris Kristofferson, class of 1958 - writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician
- Douglas Leedy, class of 1959 - composer and music scholar
- David Murray, class of 1977 - jazz musician
- Keith Murray, class of 1999 - musician, We Are Scientists
- David Noon - composer
- Robert Shaw, class of 1938 - six-time Grammy-winning conductor
- Lucy Shelton, class of 1965 - soprano
- Vladimir Ussachevsky, class of 1935 - composer
- Frank Zappa (attended) - prolific musician, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Journalism and non-fiction writing
- H. Arnold Barton, class of 1953 - historian
- Paul Fussell, class of 1945- cultural and literary historian
- Bill Keller, class of 1970 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of The New York Times
- Verlyn Klinkenborg, class of 1974 - non-fiction writer
- Doug McConnell, class of 1967 - television journalist
- Richard Pérez-Peña - reporter for The New York Times
- Mary Schmich, class of 1975 - columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2012 for Commentary
- Zafar Sobhan - Bangladeshi journalist and editor of the Dhaka Tribune
Writing
- Richard Armour, class of 1927 - author, humorist, professor
- Vikram Chandra, class of 1984 - Indian writer
- Garrett Hongo, class of 1973 - Japanese-American poet
- Ved Mehta, class of 1956 - writer
- Louis Menand, class of 1973 - writer, The Metaphysical Club
- Douglas Preston, class of 1978 - writer for The New Yorker and Smithsonian, bestselling thriller author
- Richard Preston, class of 1976 - writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author
- William Irwin Thompson, class of 1962 - poet, cultural historian, cultural critic
- Lynn Walford - writer, copywriter and author
Other
- Clara Breed, class of 1927 - librarian
- Don Daglow, class of 1974 - video game designer and producer
- Eddie Dombrower, class of 1980 - video game designer and producer
- Alex Linder, class of 1988 - owner/operator of the Vanguard News Network, an antisemitic, white supremacist website[3]
- Zelana Montminy - psychologist, health expert, author and TV personality
- David Ossman (attended) - writer and comedian best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre
- Twyla Tharp (attended) - Emmy and Tony award-winning dancer and choreographer
- Marianne Williamson (attended) - author and spiritual teacher
Government and law
U.S. Senators and Congressmen
- Alan Cranston, class of 1936 - Democratic Senator from California (1969–93) (transferred)[4]
- Brian Schatz, class of 1994 - United States Senator (D-Hawaii) (2012–present)
Federal officials
- William B. Bader, class of 1953 - former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Esther Brimmer, class of 1983 - U.S. foreign policy expert and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
- Leslie A. Wheeler, class of 1921 - former U.S. government official and diplomat
State and city officials
- Ellen Bard, class of 1971 - member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives[5]
- Richard "Tick" Segerblom, class of 1970 - Nevada Assembleyman, elected to Nevada Senate 2012
- Silsby Spalding (1885-1949) - first mayor of Beverly Hills, California[6][7]
- Mark Wyland, class of 1968 - California Senator
Judges
- James Marshall Carter, class of 1924 - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and later United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[8]
- Kimberly J. Mueller, class of 1981 - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Stephen Reinhardt, class of 1951 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Cruz Reynoso, class of 1953 - former member of the California Supreme Court
- Christina A. Snyder, class of 1972 - Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Richard G. Taranto, class of 1977 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- George H. Wu, class of 1969 - Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
Diplomats
- Hugh S. Gibson - U.S. diplomat
- Julian Nava, class of 1951 - first Mexican-American to become the US Ambassador to Mexico
Activists
- Paul F. Eckstein Esq., class of 1962 - Co-Chairman at National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Myrlie Evers, class of 1968 - activist, first full-time chairman of the NAACP[9]
- John Payton, class of 1973 - civil rights attorney and president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Other
- Bernard Chan, class of 1988 - member of the Hong Kong Executive Council and President of Asia Financial Holdings[10]
Business
- Laszlo Bock, class of 1993 - Senior Vice President, People Operations, Google
- Cathy Corison - winemaker
- Lynn Forester de Rothschild - CEO of E.L. Rothschild
- Burnell H. DeVos Jr, class of 1949 - co-chairman of Price Waterhouse
- Roy E. Disney, class of 1951 - executive at The Walt Disney Company; nephew of Walt Disney
- Hashim Djojohadikusumo, class of 1976 - Indonesian entrepreneur and brother of former Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto
- Ranney E. Draper, class of 1960 - chairman of Spring Creek Investors and philanthropist
- Richard Fairbank, class of 1972 - founder and chairman of Capital One (transferred)
- Nick Friedman, class of 2005 - President and Co-Founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk and named in Inc.'s "Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30"
- James M. Galbraith, class of 1964 - President of Crestmont Investments, author, and corporate finance lawyer
- Alex Garfield, class of 2008 - CEO of Evil Geniuses and featured in Forbes' “30 Under 30: Games and Apps”
- George E. Moss, class of 1952 - President of Roscoe Moss Company
- Charles Scripps, class of 1943 - chairman of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company
- Bryan White, class of 1984 - Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock Alternative Advisors
Science
- Norris Bradbury, class of 1929 - physicist
- Steven Clarke, class of 1970 - biochemist
- Jennifer Anne Doudna, class of 1985 - biochemist
- Edmund Jaeger (attended) - noted naturalist[11]
- Milton S. Livingston, class of 1926 - physicist
- J. Andrew McCammon, class of 1969 - physical chemist
- Roger Revelle, class of 1929 - scientist and scholar; one of the first to study global warming, and mentor to Al Gore at Harvard
Religion
- Gladwyn M. Childs, class of 1919 - minister
- Charles E. Fuller, class of 1910 - clergyman and radio evangelist
- Fr. Seraphim (Eugene) Rose, class of 1956 - Russian Orthodox hieromonk
Philanthropy
- Libby Armintrout, class of 1986 - philanthropist and sister of Bill Gates
- Donald McKenna, class of 1929 - philanthropist and scholar; his grandfather helped to found Pomona College; the liberal arts school Claremont McKenna College, also bears his name
Academia
College presidents
- John V. Lombardi, class of 1963 - fifth president of the Louisiana State University System
- Dr. David Lewis Outcalt, class of 1956 - Chancellor, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay and Chancellor University of Alaska - Anchorage
- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, class of 1968 - current president of Kalamazoo College
- Russell K. Pitzer, class of 1900 - founder of Pitzer College
Professors and academics
- Chen Han-seng, class of 1920 - Chinese sociologist[12]
- Matthew K. Franklin, class of 1983 - cryptographer
- David Keirsey, class of 1947 - psychologist
- Ellis Batten Page - professor, scientist and widely acknowledged as the father of automated essay scoring; developed Project Essay Grade (PEG™) software
- Vijay Prashad, class of 1989 - history professor at Trinity College (Connecticut)
- Michael Starbird, class of 1970 - mathematics professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Robyn R. Warhol, class of 1977 - distinguished professor of English at Ohio State University and author
- Tamily Weissman, class of 1992 - neurobiology professor at Lewis and Clark College
Athletics
- Mike Budenholzer, class of 1993 - Head Coach of the Atlanta Hawks
- Penny Lee Dean - long distance swimmer and world record-holder for the fastest swim across the English Channel in 1978
- Darlene Hard, former amateur tennis player
- Will Leer, class of 2007 - professional track and field athlete specializing in the 1500 meters
- Marilyn Ramenofsky, class of 1969 - former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and world record-holder
Notable faculty
- Matthew Bradley - musician
- Susana Chavez-Silverman - writer
- Fannie Charles Dillon - composer
- James Grant – painter, sculptor
- Karl Kohn – composer
- Jonathan Lethem - novelist, author of Fortress of Solitude
- Robert Mezey – poet
- Salvador Plascencia - novelist, author of The People of Paper
- Gregg Popovich - head basketball coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs
- David Foster Wallace – novelist, author of Infinite Jest
Presidents of Pomona College
- Cyrus G. Baldwin, 1890 - 1897[13]
- Franklin LaDu Ferguson, 1897 - 1901
- George A. Gates, 1901 - 1910
- James A. Blaisdell, 1910 - 1928
- Charles K. Edmunds, 1928 - 1941
- E. Wilson Lyon, 1941 - 1969
- David Alexander, 1969 - 1991
- Peter W. Stanley, 1991 - 2003
- David W. Oxtoby, 2003 - present
References
- ^ Pomona College Alumni Directory 2000 (RGGN-W129-PP-17.3).
- ^ "Filmography: Films, movies, series, documentaries". Richard Chamberlain, Actor and Beyond. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ^ "Alex Linder". Intelligence Files. Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ In Memoriam: Alan MacGregor Cranston, Global Security Institute, retrieved January 24, 2012
- ^ "Ellen M. Bard (Republican)". Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Archived from the original on 2004-02-04.
- ^ Claremont Colleges Digital Library: Students on steps of the Fulkerson's house in Claremont, California, 1904
- ^ Digital Library: Student residence interior with students smoking pipes, Pomona College, 1904
- ^ "Criminal Justice Memorial", About SDCBA, San Diego County Bar Association, retrieved January 24, 2012
- ^ "Myrlie Evers-Williams", The Mississippi Writers Page, University of Mississippi, retrieved January 24, 2012
- ^ "Welcome a-Board", Pomona College Magazine, Pomona College, retrieved January 24, 2012
- ^ Ryckman, Raymond E.; Zackrison, James L. (1998). Son of the Living Desert - Edmund C. Jaeger, 1887-1983: Ecologist, Educator, Environmentalist, Biologist, and Philanthropist. Loma Linda, California: R.E. Ryckman. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-9663563-0-4. OCLC 39497413.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help) LCC QH31.J33 R97 1998 University of California, Riverside, Science Library - ^ Gittings, John (1 April 2004). "Chen Han-seng: Chinese social scientist who witnessed a century of change". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ Presidents of Pomona College