Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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IT'S A GREAT INVESTMEN' Fifty-five years ago a group of fifteen men, early settlers in southern California. formed the first Board of Trustees of Pomona College. and set about incorporating the school. Since that time. the board. working with its partners in the venture. the administrators and faculty. has been responsible for much of the swift and continuous expansion of Pomona. and for its widespread reputation. as one of the finest of liberal arts colleges. Because Pomona is privately endowed. improvements and additions to its campus are the results of the generosity of its many friends. General coordinators of funds and endowments and of college administration are the trustees. now thirty in number. They meet regularly. are represented in part by the hand- some headgear deposited outside the committee room lrightl. One of the most conspicuous results of endowment is the Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music lbelow. rightl which was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Appleton S. Bridges of San Diego. in memory of their daughter. who attended Pomona. Below left are seen some of the recent im- provements in the library. Thanks again to gifts of Pomona's friends. its main lobby. loan desk and read- ing rooms were renovated. typical of the debt Pomona owes to benefactors who come through with her needs. tr g . ,7g'L.-E,g,j,t

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AND It was in 1883 that the large group of Congregational churches in the valley de- cided southern California needed a college. Almost settling in Beaumont or Red- lands, the founders finally decided on North Pomona. named the college Pied- mont, changed to Pomona in deference to the home city. In rural Claremont. they then decided. was the freedom from distraction and dissipations of the city needed by college students. Holmes was dedicated in 1893. The chapel, which seated 300. was used as the community church. was nearly doubled in size in 1904. Nearly every department has once headquartered here. L 'THE STCRY OF IT! The founders of Pomona were in such a hurry to get it going in the fall of 1888 that they could not wait for the completion of the Central Building, got accommodations in Pomona in a five room cottage at the corner of White l Avenue and Fifth Street, of which this building is a replica. The vine- covered arbor was used as a recitation room, the hedges as vaulting bars. This was College avenue in about 1904, soon cj In 1893 everyone had thought Holmes would be eno physics, and the second floor for biology and cr 1