Gregarious, outgoing and possessing an easy laugh, James Bell didn’t have trouble relating to students when he arrived at Cal Poly Pomona in 1968. “He was very kind, very sweet, thoughtful, meticulous in detail, really fair-minded,” recalled daughter Elena Bell…
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Professor Emeritus Fred Meeker loved Cal Poly Pomona so much that after nearly three decades of teaching in the Department of Psychology and Sociology, he kept serving students one-day a week as a docent at the University Library. Known for…
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Takeo Uesugi, a professor emeritus of landscape architecture and designer of Cal Poly Pomona’s Aratani Japanese Garden, died from cancer Jan. 26. He was 75. The world-renowned architect immigrated to the United States in 1962 from his native Japan. A…
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Robert V. Stumpf’s interest in computers started while he was stationed in White Sands, New Mexico, to track missiles for the U.S. Army in the early 1960s. That passion for computers in the nascent industry would lead to graduate school…
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For Debra Brum, Cal Poly Pomona was more than a place where she earned two master’s degrees and served as a professor and administrator. It was also a place where she became a mentor to colleagues, made lifelong friends and…
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Gloria Ricci Lothrop, a pioneering California historian who was the first female professor hired to teach in Cal Poly Pomona’s history department, died Feb. 2 in Arcadia after battling chronic pulmonary disease and pneumonia. She was 80. Lothrop joined the…
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Edwin Klewer, a retired Cal Poly Pomona International Business and Marketing (IBM) professor who taught at the university for nearly 25 years, died Jan. 4 surrounded by his family. He was 74. The Upland resident began teaching at the university…
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Wendy Sue Nasmyth, a longtime Cal Poly Pomona staff member, died on Dec. 25 in Whittier at the age of 61. As the facilities coordinator within Intercollegiate Athletics and Kinesiology for 18 years, Wendy made many friends. “Wendy was a…
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Longtime Cal Poly Pomona employee Vaughn Lucas died Monday, Jan. 19, after battling cancer. He was 60. An instructional support assistant in academic technology, Lucas worked for the university for 27 years. He also served as a lecturer, teaching classes…
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Elhami Ibrahim, a retired Cal Poly Pomona associate vice president of Academic Programs and a former longtime engineering professor, has died. He was 72. Dr. Ibrahim, a native of Egypt, was among the first group of students that then-Egyptian President…
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