Claremont School News

Members of the Claremont High School choir rehearse some of the music they will perform during The Music of Motown show Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the CHS Theatre, 1601 N. Indian Hill Boulevard. The choir is raising money so that the concert singers can travel to New York in the spring to perform at […]

Change, it’s been said, is the only thing on which we can truly depend. Sometimes things go south, but more often they get better. One small step toward the light was achieved this month when students at Claremont’s Sumner Danbury Elementary School got access to their brand new, fully inclusive playground. “It’s been really wonderful […]

One of Claremont’s more interesting demographic anomalies is that a near equal percentage of the city’s population—34,478 at the latest census—are under 18 years of age as are over 65. Those numbers—18.5 percent minors and 16.5 percent seniors—don’t often interface; The kids are busy being kids, and the older folks are busy staying active and […]

Temple Beth Israel is hosting a celebration this Sunday to honor Deborah Pruitt for her 30 years of service to the preschool. Not only that, but a proclamation was issued by the LA County board of supervisors, which stated in part: “Since her leadership at the preschool began in 1989, Deborah has helped shape the […]

Dream jobs are hard to come by. Most folks toil in unfulfilling work, pay the bills and mark the days until their next vacation. Some though, get lucky, and their work and passion intersect. You can count El Roble Intermediate School’s new music director Jeff Brown among the fortunate few. “This is the job that […]

There are big things coming to Claremont High School—literally. Demolition of the old student center took place this week, making was for a new state-of-the-art facility. The student center will be completed in time for the graduating class of 2021. It will take the place of the previous center, in addition to taking up some […]

Nathan Han celebrates after receiving his diploma on Thursday during Claremont High School’s commencement. The graduates had almost perfect weather for the ceremony where 572 graduated from Claremont High, 17 from San Antonio High and 30 from Claremont Adult School. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff  

Senior Dorian Logue delivers a speech he called New Chapters, during an interfaith Baccalaureate for Claremont and San Antonio high schools on Sunday at Claremont United Church of Christ. The service featured music performed by the graduates, a speech from Reverend Donn Dirckx and a prayer for the graduates. The joint CHS, SAHS and Claremont […]

It’ll be a big moment for the roughly 580 kids who will receive their diplomas next week at Claremont High School’s graduation, but perhaps none will feel the emotional heft of the experience quite as profoundly as Alexander Harris. The 18-year-old will step across the stage, take his hard-earned degree, smile for the obligatory photo, […]

Anyone who ventured to the Village this weekend no doubt noticed that the Claremont Colleges were in the midst of their two-day graduation marathon. The festivities across the Colleges were complete with parents bearing gifts, smiling graduates and the various commencement addresses. Claremont definitely attracts well known and inspiring talent. However, the commencement addresses tend […]

Next weekend Claremont will show why it’s the City of PhDs with no less than seven graduations—five Saturday—on May 18 and 19. As the Colleges wrap up midterm exams this week, schools are announcing speakers for these commencement exercises. The speaker lineup is as follows: Pomona College Sunday, May 19, 10 a.m. at Marston Quadrangle […]

The Claremont Educational Foundation has its eye on increasing CEF’s fundraising capacity by finding large donors and applying for grants for CEF, its recently-hired Development Director Greg Glass told the COURIER. CEF plans to establish specific fundraising initiatives for particular projects—rather than distributing all donations among Claremont schools—with the hope of attracting and recruiting wealthy […]

Madagascar Jr. starts with a bang as each character announces themselves in the opening number. Mountain View Elementary students sat in rows this week on the multipurpose room floor and watched the story unfold with smiles on their faces. In the song, the audience is introduced to the members of Central Park Zoo: Marty the […]

El Roble Intermediate School’s instrumental music program has had a series of setbacks in recent weeks, including the loss of its enthusiastic young band director, Taylor Estep, and the cancellation of an ambitious—some say overly ambitious—trip to London planned for later this year. Mr. Estep resigned in March. He declined comment to the COURIER for […]

Anyone passing by Condit Elementary School Monday morning might have done a double-take, as the play yard was filled with students and actors dressed in colonial-era garb, and a fifer was playing a period correct tune. No, it wasn’t Little House on the Prairie day, just a newly expanded version of a longtime Condit tradition. […]

Pomona College announced that Janet Inskeep Benton, a 1979 graduate of the college and long-time supporter of the arts, has donated $15 million for the college’s new museum. Scheduled to open in fall 2020, the recently-named Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College or “The Benton,” is a 33,000-square-foot facility currently under construction on College […]