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Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students ...
Stephen L. Glass, John A. McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Classics, longest-serving faculty member of the College, 1964–2011 [4] Judith Grabiner , Mathematics, history of mathematics and science; awarded the 2014 Beckenback Book Prize for A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings (MAA Spectrum, 2010); inaugural ...
Pitzer College — a private residential liberal arts college and member of the Claremont Colleges, located in Claremont, Los Angeles County, Southern California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
The college competed with Claremont Men's College (CMC) for a decade beginning in 1946, and joined with Pitzer in 1970. Pomona-Pitzer's mascot is Cecil the Sagehen, a greater sage-grouse . Its primary rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas , the joint team of the three other undergraduate Claremont Colleges.
People who received degrees or took classes at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Pages in category "Pitzer College alumni" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
Russell Kelly Pitzer (September 3, 1878 – July 1978) was an American orange grower and philanthropist. He was the founder of Pitzer College in Claremont, California, an early benefactor of the Pomona Valley Community Hospital (now the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center) in Pomona, and a noted philanthropist of other local causes in the Pomona Valley.
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