"I had coffee this morning -- tea, actually -- with David W. Oxtoby, president of Pomona College.
Pomona, founded in 1887, is the top liberal arts school in California and one of the best in the nation, with a record 6,700 applications this year for 380 seats in the freshman class. It's the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Students can swim in the Pacific Ocean in the morning, then drive to the mountains and ski.
('Must be rather tiring,' as television's Basil Fawlty once observed.)
He was on his way out of town ahead of the 'high-impact storm' bearing down on us.
Oxtoby has been president of Pomona since 2003. He is a well-known physical chemist, trained at Harvard and Berkeley, previously Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He still teaches a course in environmental chemistry."
Pomona, founded in 1887, is the top liberal arts school in California and one of the best in the nation, with a record 6,700 applications this year for 380 seats in the freshman class. It's the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Students can swim in the Pacific Ocean in the morning, then drive to the mountains and ski.
('Must be rather tiring,' as television's Basil Fawlty once observed.)
He was on his way out of town ahead of the 'high-impact storm' bearing down on us.
Oxtoby has been president of Pomona since 2003. He is a well-known physical chemist, trained at Harvard and Berkeley, previously Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He still teaches a course in environmental chemistry."