Skip To Content
Filter search
Cal Poly Pomona
  • LIBRARY
  • ONLINE SERVICES
  • DIRECTORY
  • MAPS
  • CALENDAR
  • About Cal Poly Pomona
  • Cal Poly Pomona Overview
  • Visitor Information
  • Campus Maps & Tours
  • News
  • Events
  • Administration
  • Annual Security Report
  • Campus Safety Plan
  • Admissions
  • Undergraduate Admissions
  • Graduate Admissions
  • International Admissions
  • Continuing Education Admissions
  • Military & Veterans Admissions
  • Financial Aid & Scholarships
  • Student Accounts & Fees
  • Outreach, Recruitment, & Educational Partnerships
  • Academics
  • Colleges & Departments
  • Majors & Degrees
  • University Catalog & Academic Schedules
  • University Library
  • Research
  • Academic Resources
  • Registrar
  • Campus Life
  • Student Services
  • Student Activities
  • Recreation & Fitness
  • Health & Wellness
  • Housing & Dining
  • Diversity
  • Calendars & Events
  • Campus Safety & Emergency Info
  • Athletics
  • Visit Athletics Website
  • Alumni
  • Visit Alumni Website
  • Giving
  • Why Give
  • Ways to Give
  • Where to Give

PolyCentric University News Center

Main Menu
  • About Our University
  • Admissions
  • Academics
  • Campus Life
  • Athletics
  • Giving
  • Expand/Collapse Menu
Browse: Home / 2016 / October / In Memoriam: Marcelino Vera

PolyCentric

University News Center

Menu

Skip to content
  • About
    • Submissions
    • Contact
    • Department of Strategic Communications
    • PolyCentric
  • News
    • Browse by Topic
    • View All Stories
    • In Memoriam
    • Archives
  • Achievements
  • Announcements
  • Multimedia
    • Videos
    • Photos
  • Social Media Directory
  • Events
  • For the Media

In Memoriam: Marcelino Vera

Posted on October 17, 2016

Marcelino Vera, a former equipment technician for the athletics department, has died. He was 98.
Marcelino Vera, a former equipment technician for the athletics department, has died. He was 98.

Marcelino Vera, a former equipment technician for the athletics department who worked with legendary Cal Poly Pomona coaches Roman Gabriel and John Scolinos, has died. He was 98.

Vera came to work at the university in the 1970s, assisting the Bronco football, basketball and baseball teams as the equipment director for 10 years.

Mike Esquivel, an instructional support assistant for athletics, knew Vera when Esquivel was a student-athlete at the university.

“He was a great guy who I admired, and he was a hard worker,” says Esquivel, who has worked at the university since 1983. “When I was a football player, he would take care of me. Anytime new shirts or gear arrived, he would catch me and say, ‘Mike, come here. Try out these new lineman shoulder pads.’ Also he would give me new extra socks, jocks and schimmel shirts, half t-shirts that go under the shoulder pads.”

Vera had a passion for sports, especially golf. He was a single handicap player, competing in tournaments throughout Southern California until age 84. He was one of the original incorporators of the Latin American Golf Association.

The La Verne resident was the son of one of the first Mexican American families to settle in the Pomona Valley, according to his family. Vera grew up in San Dimas and in the 1940s and later owned a barbershop in Los Angeles’s Lincoln Heights community. In the mid 1950s, he relocated his business to San Dimas, operating Marcelino’s barbershop in his hometown’s downtown area for 40 years before retiring and handing it off to his son Roger.

Vera also was civically active in San Dimas, serving on several city committees and commissions. He was one of the founders of the San Dimas Little League. He also served on the task force in 1955 that created the Holy Name of Mary Parish and remained active in his church throughout his life.

“No one had a bad word to say about him,” says Carol Vera, his daughter-in-law and an administrative assistant in Cal Poly Pomona’s geological sciences department. “He always had a smile on his face. He made friends everywhere he went.”

He is survived by his wife of more than 72 years Mary, sons Ronald (Christina), Gabriel (Carol), George (Margaret), Roger (Lorraine) and Joseph (Carolina), and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, friends are urged to make donations in his name to the charity of their choice.

Services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Todd Memorial Chapel, 570 N. Garey Ave. in Pomona, and a Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. on Wednesday Oct. 19 at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, 724 E. Bonita Ave. in San Dimas, will celebrate his memory. Burial services will follow the mass at Forest Lawn Covina Hills, 21300 Via Verde Drive. A memorial reception for family and friends will be held at San Dimas Canyon Golf Clubhouse, 2100 Terrebonne Ave., from noon to 5 p.m.

 

Posted in In Memoriam, News | Tags Bronco Athletics, Cal Poly Pomona, Faculty and Staff, John Scolinos

POPULAR

  • CLASS Dean Iris Levine

    CLASS Act: Dean Levine Sets High Bar for Herself and Others

    504 views / Posted January 11, 2021
  • Graphic with illustration of Martin Luther King Jr.

    MLK Day Celebrations Include Student-Centric Volunteer Opportunities

    246 views / Posted January 14, 2021
  • A group photo of Cal Poly Pomona’s Reading, Advising, and Mentoring Program

    RAMP Receives $2.2 Million Grant For Underrepresented Students

    209 views / Posted January 15, 2021
  • Expanded Early Exit Program Info Session

    50 views / Posted January 5, 2021
  • 10 rock stars with impressive college degrees

    50 views / Posted January 12, 2021

Picture of the Day »

Toy Drive

Toy Drive

Cal Poly Pomona in the News »

College students reflect on their first semester experiences

Mailani Matsuno, who is taking classes from her home in Guam, interviewed about her reasons for studying from home and adjusting to the time differences between home and her classes.…

Honoring California architecture students through scholarship at the 2020 2×8 Virtual Exhibition


NMSU student research outlines problems in private immigration detention facilities


Out of work during the pandemic, Riverside woman starts charcuterie business, Mel’s Boozy Bites


10 rock stars with impressive college degrees


Tags
Bronco Athletics, Cal Poly Pomona, Faculty and Staff, John Scolinos
About Cal Poly Pomona Feedback Privacy Accessibility Document Readers

3801 West Temple Avenue,Pomona, CA 91768

©2018 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

All Rights Reserved