Pomona College had a record year for fundraising in 2024, it announced Monday.

Alumni, families and friends of the college gave a record $57 million in gifts and pledges, which will go to financial aid support, academic resources, research and internship opportunities, athletics and extracurricular activities, new scholarships, faculty innovations, global learning programs, and other programs.

Sam and Emily Glick pledged $2.47 million in support of financial aid and other resources for future students from middle-income families. Sam is the outgoing chair of the school’s board of trustees. The gift will amplify outreach to middle-income students and support financial aid for such students who are admitted and targeted programs and res ources for career development and academic enrichment, according to a news release.

In September, class of 1959 alumna Sue Berryman pledged $10 million to establish six funds targeting humanities, music, scholarships, and faculty innovation: the Frances Bowers Berryman ’30 Fund for Humanities Study; the John Jordan Berryman ’28 Fund for the Glee Club and Fund for Musical Instruments; the Ellen Evelyn Bowers ’31 Scholarship Fund; the Global Student Haven Outreach Fund; and the Sue Ellen Berryman ’59 Presidential Innovation Fund.

Pomona received a $2.5 million gift — $2 million from The H. Russell Smith Foundation and $500,000 from class of 1968 alumnus Stewart R. Smith — to form the new Stewart Smith Interdisciplinary Global Engagement Fund. It will support the Global Pomona Project and the planned Center for Global Engagement, and education programs for students.

Pomona College Trustee Emeritus Ranney E. Draper, a class of 1960 graduate and former Pomona-Pitzer football captain and track athlete, gave a $1 million challenge gift toward a $2.2 million renovation for Merritt Field.

In November, class of 1983 alumnus David Sklar and his wife Susan Acevedo endowed $1 million for a scholarship fund in honor of their parents, Rita and Herbert Sklar and Margarita and Jesus Acevedo, to aid low-income California students who plan on pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics at Pomona.

More info is at pomona.edu/news.