List of Pomona College people

This list of Pomona College people includes notable graduates, non-graduating attendees, and past and present faculty, staff, and administrators of Pomona College, an elite[2] liberal arts college in Claremont, California and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges.[3]

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The class of 1894, Pomona's first graduating class, had 11 members.[1]

Since its founding in 1887, Pomona has graduated 127 classes of students and today has approximately 25,000 living alumni.[4] As of 2020, the college enrolls approximately 1,670 students,[5] and employs 250 faculty members[6] and 271 administrative staff.[7]

Notable graduates and attendees

Arts and letters

Art

• Roger Edward Kuntz, class of 1948 – landscape painter[8]
• Barbara T. Smith, class of 1953 – artist[9]
• Helen Pashgian, class of 1956 – Light and Space artist[10]
• James Strombotne, class of 1956 – painter[11]
• Lewis Baltz, class of 1965 – photographer
• James Turrell, class of 1965 – Light and Space artist, known for skyspaces and Roden Crater land art project[12][13]
• Judy Fiskin, class of 1966 – photographer and video artist[14]
• Mary GrandPre, 1960s – illustrator, best known for her work on the US editions of the Harry Potter books[15]
• Chris Burden, class of 1969 – performance, sculpture, and installation artist[16][17][18]
• Peter Shelton, class of 1973 – sculptor[19]
• Miko Lim, class of 2002 – director and photographer[20]

Film and television

Actor Richard Chamberlain, class of 1956

• Amanda Blake, (attended) – actress[21]
• Art Clokey (attended through 1943) – stop-motion clay animator and creator of Gumby[22][23]
• Joel McCrea, class of 1928 – film actor (Sullivan's Travels, Foreign Correspondent)[24]
• John Whitney, Sr., 1930s – early computer animation filmmaker[25]
• Robert Taylor, class of 1933 – film actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe)[26]
• Richard Chamberlain, class of 1956 – film and theatre actor (Dr. Kildare, Shōgun, The Thorn Birds),[27] three-time Golden Globe winner[28]
• Robert Towne, class of 1956 – Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Chinatown; nominated for The Last Detail and Shampoo)[28]
• Anthony Zerbe, class of 1958 – Emmy-winning character actor (Will Penny, The Omega Man, Licence to Kill)[29]
• David S. Ward, class of 1967 – film director (Major League) and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (The Sting)[30]
• Robert Blalack, class of 1970 – Academy Award Visual Effects (Star Wars), and Emmy Visual Effects (The Day After)
• Scott Paulin, class of 1971 – actor (The Right Stuff), husband of actress Wendy Phillips[31]
• Lynda Obst, class of 1972 – film and television producer[32]
• George C. Wolfe, class of 1976 – two-time Tony Award-winning play director, playwright and film director (Nights in Rodanthe)[33]
• Allison Jones, class of 1977 – Emmy Award-winning casting director[34][35]
• Rosalind Chao, class of 1978 – actress (The Joy Luck Club, Star Trek: The Next Generation)[36]
• Ted Field, class of 1979 – media mogul and film producer[37]
• Paul Guay, class of 1979 – screenwriter (Liar Liar, Heartbreakers, The Little Rascals)
• Joe Menosky, class of 1979 – television writer (Star Trek franchise)
• Melissa Jo Peltier, class of 1983 – television writer and producer (Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan)
• Jim Taylor, class of 1984 – Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Sideways); frequent writing partner of Alexander Payne[38]
• Viveca Paulin, class of 1991 – actor, wife of comedian Will Ferrell
• Kelly Perine, class of 1991 – television actor
• Alison Rosen, class of 1997 – TV and internet personality
• Sylvain White, class of 1998 – film director (Stomp the Yard)[39]

Music

Actor and musician Kris Kristofferson, class of 1958

Avante-garde composer John Cage, attended 1930 to 1932

• John Cage (attended 1930–1932) – avante-garde composer, musician, and poet[40][41]
• Vladimir Ussachevsky, class of 1935 – composer of electronic music[42]
• Kris Kristofferson, class of 1958 – writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician[29]
• Douglas Leedy, class of 1959 – composer and music scholar
• Frank Zappa (auditor, c. 1959) – prolific musician, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[43]
• Lucy Shelton, class of 1965 – soprano
• David Noon, class of 1968 – composer[44]
• Robert Shaw, class of 1938 – fourteen-time Grammy-winning conductor[45]
• David Murray, class of 1977 – jazz musician
• Frank Albinder, class of 1980 – conductor, former director of Chanticleer
• Eric Friedl, class of 1988 – musician, The Oblivians, owner of Goner Records[46]
• Christine Fan, attended 1990s – American-born Taiwanese singer and actress[47]
• Chris Cain, class of 1999 – musician, We Are Scientists
• Keith Murray, class of 1999 – musician, We Are Scientists

Journalism and non-fiction writing

Executive Editor of The New York Times Bill Keller, class of 1970

• Relman Morin, class of 1929, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Associated Press[48][29]
• Paul Fussell, class of 1947 – cultural and literary historian[49][33]
• H. Arnold Barton, class of 1953 – historian of Scandinavian history[50]
• Terry Drinkwater, class of 1958 – CBS News correspondent[51]
• Doug McConnell, class of 1967 – television journalist[52]
• Bill Keller, class of 1970 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of The New York Times[53][54]
• Verlyn Klinkenborg, class of 1974 – non-fiction writer[55]
• Mary Schmich, class of 1975 – columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2012 for Commentary[56][57]
• Lynn Walford, class of 1979 – automotive technology writer[58]
• Richard Pérez-Peña, class of 1984 – reporter for The New York Times[59]
• Zafar Sobhan, class of 1992[60] – Bangladeshi journalist and editor of the Dhaka Tribune[61]
• Ashlee Vance, class of 2000 – reporter for The New York Times, best-selling author and TV host[62]

Writing

• Richard Armour, class of 1927 – author, humorist, professor
• Ved Mehta, class of 1956 – Indian writer[63]
• William Irwin Thompson, class of 1962 – poet, cultural historian, cultural critic
• Garrett Hongo, class of 1973 – Japanese-American poet
• Louis Menand, class of 1973 – writer, The Metaphysical Club
• Richard Preston, class of 1976 – writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author of The Hot Zone[33]
• Douglas Preston, class of 1978 – writer for The New Yorker and Smithsonian, bestselling thriller author[64]
• Vikram Chandra, class of 1984 – Indian-American writer[38]

Other

Self-help author Marianne Williamson, attended 1970 to 1972[32]

• Clara Breed, class of 1927 – librarian who opposed Japanese internment during World War II and supported children sent to camps[65]
• David Ossman (transferred in 1956) – writer and comedian best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre[66][28]
• Twyla Tharp (transferred in 1960) – Emmy and Tony award-winning dancer and choreographer[67][68]
• Marianne Williamson (attended 1970–1972) – author, lecturer, activist, and 2020 presidential candidate[69][32]
• 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 and operator of the Vanguard News Network, an antisemitic, white supremacist website[70]

Government and law

U.S. Senators and Congresspeople

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), class of 1994

• Alan Cranston, transferred c. 1934 – Democratic U.S. Senator for California (1969–1993)[71][72]
• Brian Schatz, class of 1994 – Democratic U.S. Senator for Hawaii (2012–present)[73][74]

Federal officials

• Leslie A. Wheeler, class of 1921[75] – U.S. government official and diplomat who helped liberalize international agricultural trade
• William B. Bader, class of 1953 – 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

State and city officials

• Silsby Spalding (preparatory school, c. 1904) – first mayor of Beverly Hills, California[76][77]
• Mark Wyland, class of 1968 – California Senator
• Richard "Tick" Segerblom, class of 1970 – Nevada Senator
• Ellen Bard, class of 1971 – member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives[78]
• Christina Garcia, class of 1999 – California assemblyperson[79]

Judges

• James Marshall Carter, class of 1924 – Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[80]
• 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 – first Latino on the California Supreme Court, advocate for civil rights of farm workers; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000[81]
• 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[82]
• George H. Wu, class of 1969 – Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California
• Halim Dhanidina, class of 1994 – Judge, California Court of Appeal for the Second District; first Muslim judge in the state of California

Diplomats

• Hugh S. Gibson, attended c. 1900 – U.S. interwar diplomat, ambassador, proponent of the professionalization of the Foreign Service[83]
• Julian Nava, class of 1951 – first Mexican-American to become the US Ambassador to Mexico[84]

Activists

Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, class of 1968

• Virginia Prince, class of 1935 – transgender rights activist and founder of Transvestia Magazine
• Myrlie Evers, class of 1968 – activist, first full-time chairman of the NAACP[85][86]
• John Payton, class of 1973 – civil rights attorney and president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund (co-founded Black Student Union at Pomona)[87]

Military

• James Howard, class of 1937 – Brigadier General, member of the Flying Tigers and the only fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor[88]

Business

Senior Disney executive Roy E. Disney, class of 1951

• Donald McKenna, class of 1929 – business and philanthropist, known for donations to nearby Claremont McKenna College
• Charles Scripps, class of 1943 – chairman of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company
• Richard C. Seaver, class of 1946 – oil drilling executive and philanthropist[89]
• Roy E. Disney, class of 1951 – executive at The Walt Disney Company; nephew of Walt Disney[48]
• Frank Wells, class of 1952 – president of The Walt Disney Company and mountaineer[90][81]
• Kent Brownridge, class of 1962 – general manager of Rolling Stone and CEO of Dennis Publishing and Alpha Media Group[91][92][93]
• Richard Fairbank, transferred c. 1970 – founder and chairman of Capital One
• Cathy Corison, class of 1975 – winemaker[94]
• Hashim Djojohadikusumo, class of 1976 – Indonesian entrepreneur and brother of former Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto
• Lynn Forester de Rothschild, class of 1976[95] – CEO of E.L. Rothschild[96]
• Bryan White, class of 1984 – co-founder of BlackRock's multi-billion dollar hedge fund investments business[97] and Sahsen Ventures[98]
• Libby Armintrout, class of 1986 – philanthropist and sister of Bill Gates[99]
• Bernard Chan, class of 1988 – Convenor of the Hong Kong Executive Council and President of Asia Financial Holdings[100]
• Osman Kibar, class of 1992 – billionaire founder of biotech firm Samumed[101]
• Laszlo Bock, class of 1993 – Former Senior Vice President, People Operations, Google, and co-founder and CEO of Humu
• Adam Bowen, class of 1998 – Founder and Chief Technology Officer of JUUL
• 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"
• Maya Horgan Famodu, class of 2012 – founder of Ingressive and named in Forbes Africa's "30 Under 30" list in 2018[102]

Science

Jennifer Doudna, class of 1985, has been a leading figure in the development of CRISPR-based gene engineering, one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology.[103]

• Edmund Jaeger (attended 1900s) – desert ecologist[104]
• Milton S. Livingston, class of 1926 – physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron[105]
• Norris Bradbury, class of 1929 – physicist, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945 to 1970[106]
• Roger Revelle, class of 1929 – scientist and scholar; one of the first to study global warming, and mentor to Al Gore at Harvard[107]
• Edward A. Knapp, class of 1954 – physicist, director of the National Science Foundation[108]
• Ann Hardy, class of 1955 – computer scientist, known for pioneering work on time-sharing[109]
• Edwin C. Krupp, class of 1961 – astronomer, archeoastronomer, director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles
• J. Andrew McCammon, class of 1969 – physical chemist
• Steven Clarke, class of 1970 – biochemist
• Anna María Nápoles, class of 1980 – behavioral epidemiologist and science administrator[110]
• Jennifer Doudna, class of 1985 – biochemist, known for pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing[103][111][112]
• Amalie Frischknecht, class of 1992 – polymer physicist

Religion

• Charles E. Fuller, class of 1910 – clergyman and radio evangelist
• Gladwyn M. Childs, class of 1919 – minister
• Fr. Seraphim (Eugene) Rose, class of 1956 – Russian Orthodox hieromonk

Academia

College presidents

• David Prescott Barrows, class of 1894 – ninth president of the University of California, anthropologist, and first editor of The Student Life[113][114]
• Russell K. Pitzer, class of 1900 – founder of Pitzer College
• David Lewis Outcalt, class of 1956 – chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and University of Alaska Anchorage
• John V. Lombardi, class of 1963 – fifth president of the Louisiana State University System
• R. Stanton Hales, class of 1964 – 10th president of the College of Wooster[115] and two-time U.S. badminton men's singles champion[18]
• Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, class of 1969 – 17th president of Kalamazoo College[116]
• Anne M. Houtman, class of 1983 – 20th president of Earlham College[117]

Professors and academics

A statue depicting Chinese sociologist Chen Hansheng, class of 1920, conducting a field interview with a peasant farmer in Baoding

• Carl Irving Wheat, class of 1915 – lawyer, historian, and cartographer of the American West
• Chen Hansheng, class of 1920 – Chinese sociologist considered a father of Chinese modern social science[118]
• David Keirsey, class of 1947 – psychologist who developed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality questionnaire[119]
• Ellis Batten Page, class of 1947 – professor and scientist, widely acknowledged as the father of automated essay scoring[120]
• Michael Starbird, class of 1970 – mathematics professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Louis Menand, class of 1973 – critic and essayist, professor of English at Harvard University.
• Robyn R. Warhol, class of 1977 – distinguished professor of English at Ohio State University and author
• Matthew K. Franklin, class of 1983 – cryptographer
• Joanne B. Freeman, class of 1984 – historian
• Vijay Prashad, class of 1989 – history professor at Trinity College (Connecticut)
• Tamily Weissman, class of 1992 – neurobiology professor at Lewis and Clark College

Athletics

NBA Championship head coach of the San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich coached the Pomona men's basketball team from 1979 to 1987.

• Harry Kingman, class of 1913 – pitcher for the New York Yankees[121]
• Charles Daggs, class of 1923 – Olympic track and field athlete[122]
• Robert Maxwell, class of 1925 – Olympic hurdler and two-time national champion[123]
• Earl J. Merritt, class of 1925 – longtime football coach of the Sagehens who guided team to 95-59-9 record[124][125]
• David G. Freeman, class of 1942 – seven-time U.S. national badminton champion[126][127]
• Betty Hicks, class of 1947 – golfer, 1941 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year[128]
• Darlene Hard, class of 1961 – Grand Slam-winning tennis player[68]
• Marilyn Ramenofsky, class of 1969 – former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and world record-holder[13]
• Penny Lee Dean, class of 1977 – long-distance swimmer and world record-holder for the fastest swim across the English Channel in 1978; later coached the Pomona women's swimming and diving team for more than 25 years[82][33][35]
• Mike Budenholzer, class of 1993 – Head Coach of the Milwaukee Bucks
• Will Leer, class of 2007 – professional track and field athlete specializing in the 1500 meters
• Daniel Rosenbaum, class of 2019 – basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, former D3hoops.com All-American[129]

Notable faculty

Acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, professor at Pomona from 2002 to 2008

Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem, professor at Pomona from 2011 to present

• Lise Abrams – cognitive psychologist
• Martha Andresen-Wilder (1972–2006) – scholar of Renaissance literature[130]
• Michael Armacost (1960s) – diplomat, ambassador to Japan and the Philippines, and president of the Brookings Institution
• Frank Brackett (1888–1933) – mathematics and astronomy professor[131][132][133]
• Susana Chavez-Silverman – writer
• Fannie Charles Dillon (1910–1913) – composer
• Cecilia Conrad – economist, Managing Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program[134]
• Alice Mary Dowd (1855–1943) – educator, author
• James Grant – painter, sculptor
• Corwin Hansch – chemist
• Karl Kohn – composer
• Jonathan Lethem (2011–present) – novelist, author of Fortress of Solitude
• Ralph Lyman (1917–1948) – longtime head of Pomona's music department[135][136]
• Robert Mezey – poet
• Cameron Munter (2013–2015) – diplomat, ambassador to Serbia and Pakistan
• Salvador Plascencia – novelist, author of The People of Paper
• Gregg Popovich (1979–1988) – head basketball coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs[137]
• Leonard Pronko (1957–2014) – leading Western expert on Japanese dance-drama kabuki, awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1986[138][139]
• Claudia Rankine (2006–2015) – poet
• Frederick Sontag (1952–2009) – philosopher and theologian[63]
• David Foster Wallace (2002–2008) – novelist, author of Infinite Jest[140]
• Alfred Woodford (class of 1913, 1915–1955) – founder of Pomona's geology department[141][142]

Presidents of Pomona College

James Blaisdell, fourth president of Pomona College and founder of the Claremont Colleges

From 1888 to 1890, trustee Charles B. Sumner was the college's "financial agent with supervisory authority", and assumed many of the duties of a president.[133] The subsequent presidents are:

1. Cyrus G. Baldwin, 1890–1897[143]
2. Franklin La Du Ferguson, 1897–1901[143]
3. George A. Gates, 1902–1909[143]
4. James A. Blaisdell, 1910–1927[143]
5. Charles K. Edmunds, 1928–1941[143]
6. E. Wilson Lyon, 1941–1969[143]
7. David Alexander, 1969–1991[143]
8. Peter W. Stanley, 1991–2003[143]
9. David W. Oxtoby, 2003–2017[144]
10. G. Gabrielle Starr, 2017–present[145]

Baldwin (1890–97)

Ferguson (1897–1901)

Gates (1902–09)

Blaisdell (1910–27)

Edmunds (1928–41)

Lyon (1941–69)

Alexander (1969–91)

Stanley (1991–2003)

Oxtoby (2003–17)

Starr (2017–)

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Presidents of Pomona College (1887–present)

See also

• Category:Pomona College people

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