- Richard Preston
Richard Preston (b. August 5, 1954) is a "New Yorker" writer and bestselling author of books about alarming infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism. Whether journalistic or fictional, his writings are based on thorough background research and extensive interviews. Richard Preston attended Pomona College, in southern California, and received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. - Richard Chamberlain
George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show "Dr. Kildare" (1961-1966). - Roy E. Disney
Roy Edward Disney, KCSG, (born January 10, 1930) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt founded. He is still a major shareholder (over 16 million shares), and currently serves as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005. - Eddie Dombrower
Eddie Dombrower (born 1957) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known as the co-creator of the seminal baseball games "Earl Weaver Baseball" and "Intellivision World Series Baseball". He is also recognized for designing the first dance notation computer software, "DOM". Dombrower studied both dance and mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. - Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child. A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to his collaborations with Child, he has written a novel and several non-fiction books of his own, mainly dealing with the history of the American Southwest. - Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18 , 1949 ) is executive editor of The New York Times . Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian , the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and at The Dallas Times Herald . - Mary Schmich
Mary Theresa Schmich is a columnist for the "Chicago Tribune". Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Schmich grew up in Georgia, attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and earned a B.A. from Pomona College. After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, Schmich attended journalism school at Stanford. She has worked as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune, at the Orlando Sentinel and, … - Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, … - Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena, California, USA) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and social class, among others. Fussell was drafted into the Army in 1943, at age 19. In October 1944 he landed in France, as part of the 103rd Infantry Division. - Scott Swanson
Scott Swanson (born 1977), is an American blogger, and employee of ViTrue, Inc., residing in San Francisco, CA. Swanson is best known for media appearances where he speaks on internet advertising, and user-generated marketing programs. Since 2002, Swanson has appeared as a speaker at conferences including AD:TECH, the Montgomery Technology Conference, OMMA: Hollywood, The Digital Media Summit, and Digital Hollywood. - Sylvain White
Sylvain White is a film director. Son of an American professional basketball player and a French flight attendant, Sylvain White was born in France and grew up mostly in Paris. After attending La Sorbonne University for law, he earned a scholarship to Pomona College in California, where he graduated with honors in both Media Studies and Film and Video Production. - James Strombotne
James S. Strombotne (born 1934) is an American painter. He was born in Watertown, South Dakota, but was raised and educated in Southern California, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1956 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate School in 1959. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to study in Italy, and in 1962 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study in Rome. - Keith Murray
Keith Murray is a Pomona College alum and lead vocalist/guitarist for the indie rock trio, We Are Scientists. We Are Scientists rose to fame when they were noticed by NME magazine and were asked to join Mystery Jets, Maxïmo Park, and Arctic Monkeys on the NME awards tour 2006. During the NME tour, the group developed a working relationship with the Arctic Monkeys, and toured together later that year. - Donald McKenna
Donald Carnegie McKenna was an American philanthropist and scholar best remembered for his contributions to the liberal arts college in Claremont, California which now bears his name: Claremont McKenna College. McKenna's family moved to Claremont in 1918. There he met and, on June 7, 1928, married Bernice Waller. He went on to graduate from Pomona College (which his grandfather had helped to found) in 1929. - Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra is an emerging Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer Melanie Abrams and the couple both teach creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra currently divides his time between Mumbai and Oakland, California. - Art Clokey
Art Clokey (born Arthur Farrington, October 12, 1921, Detroit, Michigan) is a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called "Gumbasia", influenced by his professor Slavko Vorkapich at the University of Southern California. When Clokey was 9 years old, his parents divorced and he stayed with his father. After his father died in a car accident, he went to live with his mother in California, … - Joe Menosky
Joe Menosky is a television writer known for his work on the various "Star Trek" series. Menosky joined the writing staff for Season 4 of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and also wrote for several episodes for "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager". As a writer on "Voyager", he usually co-wrote with Brannon Braga. Menosky is the writer credited with starting the trend of trying to work the number 47 into every script. - Ved Mehta
Ved Mehta is a man of the world because he had no choice. Blind since age 4, rootless since his teens, Mehta, a California-educated native of India and author of 18 wide-ranging books, has lived on three continents through the whims of history and personal fate. - Esther Brimmer
Esther Brimmer (US) is Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. She received her D.Phil. (Ph. D.) and Master's degrees in International Relations from the University of Oxford, UK, and her B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA. - Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie recalled in Emerge that the simple act of registering to vote often brought disastrous consequences to those brave enough to do it: "Their names would be published in the newspaper with their addresses and phone numbers, and they would be harassed by phone calls, people driving by, throwing rocks, eggs, firebombs.... Or the banks would call in mortgages with no notice. People got fired from their jobs immediately. - R. Stanton Hales
R. Stanton Hales was The College of Wooster's 10th president, serving from 1995-2007. Prior to his appointment as president, he served as vice president for academic affairs at Wooster from 1990 to 1995. He is also a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. A native of Pasadena, Calif., Hales was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pomona College in 1964. - Chen Han-Seng
Chen Han-seng (February 5 1897-March 132004) was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He studied at Pomona College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1920, and he then pursued a M.A. in history at The University of Chicago. In Spring of 1922, he enrolled at Harvard University for his history PhD, as he excelled in his studies that he even assisted Charles Haskins. - Vladimir Ussachevsky
Vladimir Kirilovitch Ussachevsky (Hailar, Manchuria, November 3, 1911 - New York, New York, January 2, 1990) was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music. Born to Russian parents in Manchuria (now Inner Mongolia, China), Ussachevsky emigrated to the United States in 1931 and studied music at Pomona College in Claremont, California (B.A., 1935), as well as at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (M.M., 1936, Ph.D., 1939). - Doug McConnell
Doug McConnell is a television journalist who has focused on environmental issues, with programs on the air continuously since 1982. He has created, produced and hosted many series, special programs, and news projects for local, national and international distribution. His broadcast awards include multiple Emmys, an Iris, and a Gabriel. - Mark Wyland
Mark Bryan Wyland (born October 27, 1946 in Escondido, California) is a U.S. Republican politician from the state of California, who represents the 38th District in the California State Senate. Wyland grew up in Escondido, California, where he co-owned a family business. Wyland has a BA in international relations from Pomona College and an MA in political science from Columbia University. Before his election to the California State Assembly, … - Henry D. Sokolski
Henry D. Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policymakers, scholars and the media. Sokolski served from 1989 to 1993 as the Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and later received the Secretary of Defense's Medal for Outstanding Public Service. - Denise Moreno Ducheny
Denise Moreno Ducheny (born March 21, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is a Democratic politician from San Diego, California. Denise Ducheny was born in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with a BA in History from Pomona College. She earned her JD in 1979 from Southwestern University School of Law. After graduation, she practiced law from 1979 in south San Diego, California. Ducheny served in the California State Assembly in 1994 to 2000. - Jonathan Singer
Jonathan Hershel Singer (born April 15, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is the senior writer for the popular progressive blog MyDD, which has been credited as being "the first major liberal blog." Singer is perhaps best known for his various interviews with prominent politicians, first for his own site, "Basie!", and then later for MyDD, where he has been an editor since November 2005. - Brian Tucker
Brian E. Tucker is a a disaster prevention specialist and seismologist. He is the founder (1991) and president of Palo Alto-based GeoHazards International (GHI), the only not-for-profit, non-governmental agency dedicated to preventing structural failures in developing countries. In 2001 he was awarded the Gorakha Dakshin Bahu Award for service to Nepal by the King of Nepal and he was a 2002 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". - Brian E. Schatz
Brian E. Schatz (born October 20, 1972), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives since 1998. He represents the 25th district, which includes Makiki, McCully, and Tantalus on the island of Oahu. - Lynn Walford
Lynn Walford is a Los Angeles writer, copywriter and author. Her work includes numerous news releases, brochures, magazine articles and a book. Walford is graduate of Pomona College and is the treasurer of The Book Publicists of Southern California. She was formerly on the board of directors of the Independent Writers of Southern California. She presently runs Freelance Writer Now, which has been reviewed by the "Insider Pages" with a five star rating. - Thomas E. Crow
Thomas E. Crow (born 1948) is an American art historian and art critic who is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. Crow was born in Chicago in 1948, and moved to San Diego, California in 1961. He received a B.A. from Pomona College in 1969, and his M.A. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1978, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. In his early career, Crow focused on eighteenth-century French art. - Josh Resnick
Josh Resnick is an American video game producer. He is the co-founder of game developer Pandemic Studios. Before founding Pandemic, Josh spent four years at Activision as a Producer. His credits there include Mechwarrior 2 1995, which sold over 1 million copies worldwide, and Dark Reign (1997), a successful RTS game. Josh also led the Strategy division of Activision's product development department, which produced Battlezone (1998. - Donald H. Pflueger
Dr. Donald H. Pflueger (1923-1994, from Glendora, California) was a historian, educator and author. His parents, the G. H. Pfluegers, were early citrus ranchers, and their river rock family home is still located on the northeast corner of Pflueger Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, in Glendora. Pflueger attended Pomona College, in Claremont, California and Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. Known as a prolific author of local histories, … - Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki is an author and United Methodist professor emerita of theology at Claremont School of Theology. She is also co-director of the "Center for Process Studies" at Claremont. Suchocki earned a BA in Philosophy from Pomona College in 1970, and both MA and PhD in religion from Claremont School of Theology in 1974. She taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1977 to 1983. - Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff (1899-1968) was a seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. After graduating from Pomona College in 1921, Benioff began his career with the idea of being an astronomer and worked for a time at Mount Wilson Observatory, but when he found that astronomers work at night and sleep in the daytime, he quickly switched to seismology. - Frederick Sumner Brackett
Frederick Sumner Brackett (August 1, 1896 - January 28, 1988), American physicist and spectroscopist. Born Claremont, California. He graduated from Pomona College and worked as an observer at Mount Wilson Observatory until 1920. He observed the infra-red radiation of the Sun. He received a doctorate in physics from the Johns Hopkins University 1922. Applying a hydrogen filled discharge tube, he discovered the hydrogen Brackett lines in 1922, … - David D. Keck
David Daniel Keck (October 24 1903 - March 10 1995) was an American botanist who was notable for his work on angiosperm taxonomy and genetics. Keck was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed undergraduate studies at Pomona College in 1925 and was awarded a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California in 1930. From 1925 to 1950 he was based at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, … - Will Hutchins
Will Hutchins (born May 51932, Los Angeles, CA), is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers western television series "Sugarfoot" (1957). Hutch, as he prefers to be known, attended Pomona College and UCLC, in addition to serving two years as a U.S. Army cryptographer in Paris. His ex-wife, Chris, is the sister of actor/comedian Carol Burnett. Other major appearances: ** 1966, "Spinout" (film). - Mary Lindenstein Walshok
Mary Lindenstein Walshok (b. 1942) is an American sociologist
|
| |