Pomona College alumna Dr. Marjorie E. Belknap ’47, whose career as a physician and elder-care advocate spanned decades, recently awarded her alma mater an $8.6 million bequest.
Tag: World War 2
Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis
Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.
Ye Olde Student Life: TSL Seethes at British Wartime Plea for Help
It’s an eerie feeling to look at the TSL issue immediately before 9/11, or before the assassination of JFK, or before Pearl Harbor. These issues are utterly, utterly normal, a fact which makes complete sense, but which also serves to highlight just how blindsided we were by those events. However,
Ye Olde Student Life: Pomona Rebels Against Japanese Internment
President Trump’s recent executive order banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations was viewed by many 5C students as xenophobic. I unearthed in TSL’s February 13, 1943 issue another instance where we rebelled against the xenophobia of the nation as a whole, which during World War Two resulted in the internment