Claremont School News
Claremont Graduate University celebrates its 100th birthday Tuesday, October 14 with a free and open to the public founders day event, featuring noon tree planting ceremony with CGU Interim President Michelle Bligh, Claremont Mayor Corey Calaycay, and Claremont Colleges Services CEO Stig Lanesskog, at Harper Hall 150 E. 10th St., Claremont. To register or for more info, go to admissions.cgu.edu/register.
Former Claremont Unified School District Board of Education President Steven Llanusa has pled not guilty to three misdemeanor counts stemming from a holiday party at his residence in December.
It was a busy weekend in Claremont, including prep work for May 13 and 14 graduation ceremonies at the Colleges, a Claremont-Mudd-Scripps/Pomona-Pitzer softball doubleheader, and local students taking part in Claremont Lewis Museum of Art’s ARTstART program. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
Pitzer Professor of Sociology Alicia Bonaparte was one of the organizers of the Midwifery Is Public Health conference at Pitzer College. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
The controversial move to fill the Trustee Area 4 seat on the Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education via special election was made still more interesting this week when the man behind the push for the contest threw his hat into the ring.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society’s Beta Mu chapter recently awarded 13 local area high school seniors its 2023 Citizenship Awards at Trinity United Methodist Church in Pomona. Each student received a framed certificate, a citizenship pin, and a $200 check. The annual scholarship is presented to students from the Pomona, Bonita, and Claremont unified school […]
A dedication of Claremont Graduate University’s new $20 million Yuhaaviatam Center for Health Studies is set for May 11.
Claremont High boys varsity tennis players Caleb Settles (singles) and Lance Lao and Mateen Ghafarshad (doubles) took home Palomares League titles Wednesday at The Claremont Club.
The Claremont Faculty Association’s political action committee, led by CFA President Brian D’Ambrosia-Donner, pictured, has endorsed Alex McDonald in the July 25 special election for the open Trustee Area 4 seat on the Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education.
Pitzer College’s Michelle Muturi, and Elisa Velasco, from Pomona College, recently received perhaps the biggest prize of their undergraduate careers: the 2023 Napier Initiative Award.
Claremont High School teacher Ryan Easton has been named Claremont Unified School District’s teacher of the year for 2023-24.
It’s official: Claremont School of Theology is moving, a lease has been signed, and after 66 years in Claremont it’s all systems go for the graduate institution’s new Los Angeles location.
The school is moving to Westwood United Methodist Church, 10497 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, and will remain Claremont School of Theology despite its new location.
The long-anticipated move, while disappointing to some Claremont residents, comes as no surprise. The school had long been seeking to sell all or a portion of its 16.4-acre Claremont campus.
After a three-year hiatus during the pandemic, Claremont Colleges student organization Food Recovery Network, which provides leftover dining hall food to people in need, recently relaunched.
“The big goal for [FRN] is, one, to help feed people in the local community that need the help and, two, to reduce the amount of food waste going in the landfill,” said Pomona College Campus Executive Chef Travis Ellis.
“Back in the misty eons of time …” So begins the induction ceremony into the International Thespian Society, a dream for any middle or high school student in love with theater and the arts.
The International Thespian Society, now with over 2.4 million members, was founded in 1929 and remains a mainstay for student artists around the world. To be a member, you must earn a certain amount of thespian “points.” Points are earned by participating in your school’s theater productions and completing one or more of the many associated jobs necessary for the show to proceed.
At 8:30 a.m. March 23 a male El Roble student was riding his bicycle southbound in the bike lane on Mountain Avenue when a male driver, who was also headed south, attempted to overtake the boy and make a right turn into Claremont Presbyterian Church. There was insufficient time for the driver to make the turn and the boy collided with the car. The boy was wearing a helmet and gloves and was not seriously injured.
Scripps College president Suzanne Keen has resigned after just eight months on the job.
“In conversation with Board leadership, I have made the decision to step down as president of Scripps College,” Keen wrote in a brief statement. “I am very sorry for the disappointment that this news causes.”
Keen wrote she was grateful for the short stint as Scripps’ president and that she “sorely missed teaching,” her “core vocation.”