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Pomona
College to Hold 113th Commencement on May 14.
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Pomona College, one of the nation's premier liberal arts
colleges, will hold its 113th Annual
Commencement Exercises
on Sunday, May 14, beginning at 2:30 p.m. During the
ceremonies, which will be held at Bridges Auditorium (450 N.
College Way, Claremont), approximately 375 members of the
Class of 2006 will receive their undergraduate degrees.
 Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, president of Kalamazoo College in
Michigan, will give the keynote address and receive an
honorary degree during the event. A member of the Pomona
Class of 1969, she previously served as dean and vice
president at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. During her
10-year tenure, Salem strengthened its academic component by
renovating the science laboratories, creating a women in
science program, and establishing the Salem College Center
for Women Writers. She has also held teaching and
administration positions at Winston-Salem State University
and the University of Ife (now known as Obafemi Awolowo
University) in Nigeria. Her scholarly focus is in child
development and education in cross-cultural context, and she
has published widely in this area. While in Nigeria, she
served as a consultant for UNICEF (Nigeria) and designed a
series of baseline surveys that became the model for
assessing the status of children under five throughout the
country. Her honors and awards include the Kent Fellowship
and the Ford Foundation National Fellowship for graduate
study. After earning her B.A. in sociology from Pomona
College, she earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from the
Claremont Graduate University.
In addition to Wilson-Oyelaran, the Rev. William Sloane
Coffin (who will be honored posthumously) and Thomas
Crow will also receive honorary degrees for their important
achievements. Robert Mezey, professor of English emeritus,
will receive the Trustee Medal of Merit.
Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., a renowned peace activist
and former civil rights leader, served as chaplain of Yale
University from 1958-1976 and later as a senior minister of
the prominent Riverside Church in New York City for over 10
years. Coffin initially became famous at Yale University in
the 1960's for his opposition to the Vietnam War. For
several years, he served full-time as president of
SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action), the largest peace and
justice organization in the U.S. He fought in World War II,
worked for the CIA for three years, and has been
immortalized as Reverend Sloan in the Doonesbury comic
strip. Coffin is a prolific writer and is the author of
several books including Letters to a Young Doubter
(2005), Credo (2003), The Heart is a Little to the
Left (1999) and A Passion for the Possible
(1997).
Thomas Crow, Pomona Class of 1969 and an internationally
recognized art historian, is director of the Getty Research
Institute, one of the world’s largest research centers for
art history, comprising of an 800,000-volume library, an
expanding collection of primary source material for art
historians, an active visiting scholars program, and public
programs including exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and
conferences. A prolific author, Crow has written five books,
including the critically acclaimed The Intelligence of
Art (1999) and influential Modern Art in the Common
Culture (1996). He has been a contributing editor, since
1993, to Artforum magazine, and has served on the
editorial board of the journal Art History.
Crow also holds an appointment as a professor of art history
at the University of Southern California and has held
teaching positions at Yale University, California Institute
of the Arts, University of Chicago, Princeton University,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of
Sussex, England. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of art
at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978.
Award-winning poet Robert Mezey is the author of nine
volumes of collected poetry, most recently Collected Poems
1952-1999 (Random House 2000), and the editor of nine
additional editions and anthologies, including A Word
Like Fire: Selected Poetry of Dick Barnes (2005) and
Poems of the American West (2002). His work has also
appeared in numerous anthologies, journals and periodicals.
His work has been recognized with The Poet’s Prize for
Collected Poems, the Bassine Citation and the P.E.N. Poetry
Award for Evening Wind (1987), and the Lamont Poetry
Prize for The Lovemaker (1960), among others. He was
a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Pomona
College from 1976 until retiring in 1999.
Pomona College, founded in 1887, offers a comprehensive
program in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural
sciences. Its hallmarks include small classes, close
relationships between students and faculty, and a range of
opportunities for student research. For more information
about the college, visit the Pomona College Website at
www.pomona.edu.
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