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Pomona College
Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings since their inception. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California, by a group of...
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Tricia Tomlinson
As Vice President of Human Resources, Tricia Tomlinson has worldwide
responsibility for all human resources functions and activities as well
as driving the culture, environment, organizational systems and
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Tom Purcell
Tom Purcell is an executive with over 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry. At 3jam, he is responsible for building and growing worldwide business partnerships.Prior to 3jam, Tom helped build the underpinnings for EarthLink &...
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Ron Sege
Ron Sege is President and Chief Executive Officer
of Tropos Networks. He has over 20 years of experience managing
high-growth businesses in the networking industry, bringing exceptional
business acumen and an exemplary track record of leading...
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Mark Zoeckler
Mark serves as Vice President, Professional Services for CrownPeak and oversees CrownPeak's teams of implementation and consulting professionals which serve CrownPeak’s diverse client base. Prior to joining CrownPeak, Mark was Vice President,...
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Roger Revelle
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (March 7, 1909 — July 15, 1991) was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the...
Marcia J. Bates
Marcia J. Bates (born 1942) is Professor VI Emerita of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and...
Norris Bradbury
Norris Edwin Bradbury (May 30, 1909 - August 20, 1997), was an American physicist who was born in Santa Barbara, California. He served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years (1945 - 1970), succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer,...
Patricia E. Yarrington
Patricia E. Yarrington is vice president and treasurer of Chevron Corp., a position she assumed in May 2007.
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Karen N. Horn
Karen N. Horn, Ph.D., is a senior managing director of Brock Capital Group LLC, an advisory and investment firm, a position she has held since 2003. Ms. Horn has been a Fannie Mae director since September 2006.
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Barbara T. Smith
Barbara Turner Smith is an American artist known for her performance work in the late 1960s. She studied painting, art history and religion as an undergraduate at Pomona College, being graduated in 1953, and she received her MFA from University of...
Bernard Chan
Bernard Charnwut Chan (born 1965 in Hong Kong with family roots in Chaoyang, Guangdong, Chinese: 陳智思, also known by his Thai name Charnwut Sophonpanich), GBS JP is a Hong Kong politician and businessman. He is the grandson of Chin Sophonpanich, the...
Charles Scripps
Charles E. Scripps (January 27, 1920 – February 3, 2007) was chairman of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company, a media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, Edward W. Scripps. Under his leadership the company was transformed from a family-owned...
Garrett Hongo
Garrett Hongo (born 1951, Volcano, Hawai'i) is a Japanese American poet. He has attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine. He is a...
Lynda Obst
Lynda Rosen Obst (born April 14, 1950) is a feature film producer. She was born in New York and is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She worked as an editor at The New York Times before moving to Los Angeles with her then-husband David...
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Verlyn Klineborg is an American journalist and member of the editorial board of The New York Times.
Klinkenborg was born in Colorado in 1952 and raised in Iowa and California. He graduated from Pomona College and received a Ph.D. in English...
David S. Ward
David Stephen Ward (born 25 October 1945) is an American film director and award-winning screen writer.
Ward has degrees from Pomona College (BA), as well as both USC and the UCLA Film School (MFA). He was employed at an educational film production...
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams (born March 17, 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi) née Myrlie Beasley is an American activist. She was the first full-time chairman of the NAACP and is the former widow of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers. She met him...
Keith Murray
Keith Austin Murray (born May 10, 1977) is lead vocalist/guitarist of the indie rock band We Are Scientists, with Chris Cain (bass).
He was nominated for World's Sexiest Vegetarian 2007, losing out to Davey Havok of AFI.
He contributed backing...
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...
Chen Han-seng
Chen Han-seng (Simplified Chinese: 陈翰笙; Pinyin: Chén Hànshēng) (February 5, 1897–March 13, 2004) was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, and also a member of legendary Soviet master-spy Richard Sorge's...
Julian Nava
Julian Nava (born June 19, 1927) is an American educator and diplomat.
Nava was born to Mexican immigrants in 1927 and is one of 7 children in Los Angeles, California. The actor, singer and artist known as Marxel is Nava's great nephew from his...
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...
Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer Melanie Abrams, who, like Chandra, teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra...
Kelly Perine
Kelly Perine (born March 23, 1969) is an American television actor. Perine attended Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, Illinois, where he studied stage acting. He spent his undergraduate years at Pomona College in Claremont, California. After...
Ved Mehta
Ved Parkash Mehta (Born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. Because of the limited...
Don Daglow
Don Daglow (born circa 1953) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known for designing a series of pioneering simulation games and role-playing games, as well as the first computer baseball game...
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),...
Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston (born May 26, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child. He also has authored several non-fiction books, both alone and one with...
George C. Wolfe
George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film.
Wolfe was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, to Costello Wolfe, a government clerk, and Anna Lindsey, an educator. He attended an all-black private...
Mary GrandPré
Mary GrandPré (born 1954 in South Dakota) is an American illustrator, best known for her illustrations in the US editions of the Harry Potter books, published by Scholastic. She resides in Sarasota, Florida with her family.
Mary GrandPré was born in...
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor (born 1962 in Bellevue, Washington) is an Oscar-, Golden Globe- and BAFTA award-winning American screenwriter, best known as the writing partner of Alexander Payne. Together they have written:
Taylor is also one of the writers who worked...
David Keirsey
David West Keirsey (pronounced /ˈkɜrziː/, b. August 31, 1921, Oklahoma), is an internationally renowned psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications,...
Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose (August 13, 1934 - September 2, 1982), was a hieromonk (also called priest-monk) of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the United States, whose writings have helped spread Orthodox Christianity...
James Turrell
James Turrell (born 1943, Los Angeles) is an artist primarily concerned with light and space.
He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater. Located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell is turning this natural cinder volcanic crater into a...
Viveca Paulin
Viveca Paulin (born April 24, 1969) is a Swedish actress, born in Askim near Göteborg (Sweden), who married American comedic actor Will Ferrell in August 2000. She attended Pomona College. The couple have two children, Magnus Paulin Ferrell, born...
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell, Ph.D. (born March 22, 1924) 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...
Richard Preston
Richard Preston (born August 5, 1954) is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author best-known for his alarming books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism, although he has written other non-fiction works. Whether journalistic or...
Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949) is executive editor of The New York Times.
Keller is the son of former chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, George M. Keller. Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic schools St. Matthews and...
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea, (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.
McCrea was born in South Pasadena, California, the son of Thomas McCrea, who was an...
Alan Cranston
Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American journalist and Democratic Senator from California.
Cranston earned his high school diploma from the old Mountain View High School, where among other things, he was a Track...
Louis Menand
Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is a prominent American writer and academic, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
Menand was born in Syracuse,...
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:...
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961-1966).
Chamberlain was born George Richard Chamberlain in Beverly Hills, California,...
Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist.
He studied for his B.A. in visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and received his MFA at the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971.
Burden's...
Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor.
Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Ruth Adaline (née Stanhope) and Spangler Andrew Brugh, who was a farmer turned doctor. As a...
Mary Schmich
Mary Theresa Schmich (born 1953) 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...
Roy E. Disney
Roy Edward Disney, KCSG (born January 10, 1930) is a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded. He is still a shareholder (over 16 million shares or about 1%), and...
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
Art Clokey
Arthur C. (Art) Clokey ((pronounced "Cl-OH-key", 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...
Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director.
He is married to Luisa Gaule. His former father-in-law is late actor John Payne, star of the western series, The Restless Gun. Towne's daughter (with actress...
Douglas Bruce
Douglas Edward Bruce (born August 26, 1949) is a conservative activist and former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado.
A strict advocate for limited government, Bruce first rose to prominence as the author of Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights,...
Sylvain White
Sylvain White (born December 21, 1971) 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,...
Jason Beghe
Jason Beghe (born March 12, 1960) is an American film and television actor and critic of Scientology. As a young man he attended the Collegiate School in New York City, where he became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny. Beghe...
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,...
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...
Lynn Walford
Lynn Walford is a Los Angeles writer, copywriter and author. Her work includes numerous news releases, brochures, magazine articles and a book. Her most recent feature articles focus on Technology, Wireless, Financial Technology, Mobile Content, and...
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...
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...
Brian E. Schatz
Brian E. Schatz (born October 20, 1972), is Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He formerly served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1999 to 2006, where he represented the 25th legislative district.
Brian Schatz grew up in Hawaii,...
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...
