by Madeleine Farr The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism held its annual conference for student journalists May 30 in New York City. As one of Claremont’s many aspiring student journalists — and, luckily, a lifelong Brooklynite — I had the pleasure of attending....
by Mick Rhodes | editor@claremont-courier.com It’s a brilliant sunny Monday morning at Condit Elementary School in Claremont. Summer is knocking at the door, as are a dozen kids waiting outside the cafeteria. Sonja Lakin turns the lock, and the early risers file in...
Beloved stepmother, longtime Claremont Colleges employee Phyllis Jean Huss, 96, of Boise, Idaho, died peacefully on May 27. Phyllis was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to Leland and Ruth (Clayton) Blythe on August 28, 1928. She married Robert Kehoe in 1951. That marriage...
Family man, artist, preservationist, contractor “Surrounded by family and love, Brian passed peacefully on Monday, May 26,” his family shared. “A gifted, creative, and passionate artist, Brian was also devoted to his family who remember him as also a Renaissance man,...
Grandmother, pastor, traveler, artist Virginia Kennedy Bergfalk died peacefully on April 17 due to complications from diverticulitis and pneumonia infections. In the five weeks preceding her death, she was blessed to have been visited by all three of her daughters and...
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