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Alumna Donates
Largest Single Gift of $10 Million
Merging a lifelong interest in the workings of the human mind
with her long-time support
of her alma mater, Lillian Lincoln Howell ’43 of Hillsborough, Calif.,
has made a gift of
$10 million to Pomona College for the construction of the two new
academic buildings that
will house, among other disciplines, a range of programs involving the
study of the mind
and brain.
The donation is the largest single gift from a living donor ever
received by the College.
“This gift will enable faculty from all of these departments to deepen
their engagement
with teaching and scholarship, to bring additional students into their
research laboratories and to introduce new generations of Pomona
students to the excitement of their fields,” said President David Oxtoby.
“We are deeply grateful to Lillian Howell for her farsighted generosity
to Pomona College and its faculty and students.”
In recognition of the importance of this naming gift, one of the new
buildings will be
named the Lincoln Building, to honor Howell’s family, including her
father, John C. Lincoln, who founded the Lincoln Electric Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, and her son, Lincoln C. Howell. The other building will
be named the Edmunds Building in honor of Charles K.
Edmunds, the fifth president of Pomona College, to whom Howell has said
she owes a special debt of gratitude for his support during her first
years at Pomona.
While an undergraduate at Pomona from 1939 to 1943, Howell studied
science and philosophy and enrolled in a variety of courses, including
psychology. She also wrote poetry. “Over the years,” she said, “new
fields of study have emerged, including neuroscience and
cognitive science, that are of immense interest to me. With the new
buildings, all programs at Pomona involving the science of the mind will
be located together. It will be very exciting.”
As owner of the Lincoln Broadcasting Company, she became the first woman
to develop a
television station in a top-10 market, with the founding of San
Francisco’s KTSF in 1976.
One of the nation’s first multi-ethnic stations, KTSF today offers news
and entertainment
programming in 12 languages, reaching an audience of about 1.4 million
viewers.
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