Claremont School News
Pomona College has entered into exclusive talks regarding the possible purchase of Claremont Graduate University. “This collaboration would preserve CGU’s important role in the consortium while positioning both schools to innovate and thrive in an evolving higher education landscape,” read a post on Pomona’s webpage. Pictured here is CGU’s Harper Hall. Photo/courtesy of CGU
If the job of a commencement speaker is to offer food for thought, Pomona College offered a feast at its 121s commencement, held last Sunday in the school’s Marston Quadrangle. Four distinguished guests—Obama adviser Valerie B. Jarrett, Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, Homeboy Industries founder Father Gregory Boyle and mathematics professor Michael Starbird—took to the podium […]
At the Thursday, May 1 gathering of the Claremont Unified School District Board of Education, local educator Debbie Plumley received some much-deserved recognition. Ms. Plumley, who teaches third grade at Sumner Elementary School, was recognized as the district’s 2014 Teacher of the Year. There is a longstanding tradition of colleagues pulling the wool over the […]
Condit Elementary School principal Christine Malally is nearly hit by a whipped cream pie thrown by Abby Moran, one of the upper grade winners of the annual Spell-A-Thon competition sponsored by the Condit PFA. As is a Condit tradition, the other winners, Danielle Pic’l and Aaron Patterson also got to throw pies at their principal. […]
For almost two hours last Thursday, one woman held a gymnasium full of middle school students transfixed with the unbelievable tale of how a group of teenagers changed their lives with the simple power of the written word. During two assemblies at El Roble Intermediate School, Erin Gruwell related how, as a first year English […]
Winter in the United States and Canada marks the migration of the beautiful Monarch butterfly to Mexico. March signals the return of the swallows to Capistrano. Locally, May will bring the stunning sixth annual Art Showcase of Claremont High School advanced art students to the Village of Claremont. This year’s showcase will open with an […]
A well-known Claremont couple is splitting up. On Monday, April 21, the Claremont School of Theology sent out a press release announcing it is ending its relationship with Claremont Lincoln University. Trustees of the Claremont School of Theology “ask all who care for the seminary to hold both schools in prayer as they move forward […]
A passionate love for poetry was the order of the day on Thursday, April 10 when the Claremont Graduate University presented the 2014 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. The annual Kingsley Tufts award, which is awarded to a mid-career poet who has not yet reached the pinnacle of their success and carries a $100,000 […]
On Wednesday, the students of Sycamore School traveled around the world. The journey, which took kids to locations as far-flung as France, Bolivia and the Philippines, came courtesy of the Claremont elementary school’s 39th annual International/Multicultural Day. The event began with an opening ceremony, in which the day’s presenters took to the stage, some of […]
Technology is “dragging us, kicking and screaming, into a brave new world order,” punk legend Exene Cervenca told students and community members at Pitzer College’s Benson Auditorium last Tuesday. Ms. Cervenka painted a bleak picture of the present, in which the earth has been spoiled by man-made ecological disasters, toddlers play with iPads instead of […]
A very real danger just got more real for Claremont High School students. Last week, the local teens got a lesson in the importance of sober driving when they were exposed to a simulated crash and its grim aftermath. The event was part of Every 15 Minutes, a program aimed at preventing young people around […]
How does your garden grow? In the case of schools in the Claremont Unified School District, the answer is beautifully. District Garden Coordinator Dessa D’Aquila has been able to put in more hours this year than in the past—anywhere from 30 to 36 hours a week when school is in session—thanks to a combination of […]
A CUSD parent took a moment at the Thursday, March 20 school board meeting to address his concerns about the handling of last week’s gun scare at Claremont High School. The day before the meeting, graffiti was found scrawled in a boys bathroom in the 800 quad of the CHS campus, indicating that a student […]
The grounds of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden served as a living classroom for 68 Oakmont Elementary School upper graders on Monday, who visited the campus as part of the Claremont Museum of Art’s expanding ARTstART program. ARTstART, launched in the fall of 2011, trains college and Claremont High School students in the realm of […]
The Claremont High School Theatre Department will present its annual children’s musical on Friday and Saturday, March 21 and March 22. This year’s production is 101 Dalmatians, a short, high-energy adaptation of the classic Disney movie. It centers on the efforts of evil fashionista Cruella de Vil to get her hands on a litter of […]
Oakmont students Lyndsay Wiedefeld, Cyrus Guerra and Isaac Perez draw pictures of flowers on Monday during an ARTstART field trip to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The event, sponsored by the Claremont Museum of Art, partnered High School and elementary students in an art learning program designed by the older students.
Books were the order of the day on Monday at Mountain View, when the local elementary school commemorated the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day. The nationwide reading extravaganza is celebrated each year in conjunction with the March 2 birthday of acclaimed children’s author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. First, it was […]