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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Mary Jo Oliver, a longtime professor and the first female chair in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, has died. She was 85. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Oliver attended Oklahoma A&M University and received a bachelor’s degree in…
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Frederick J. Baker, professor emeritus in the Department of Education, died in his Claremont home on Sept. 15 after a two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 73. Baker taught at Cal Poly Pomona from 1988 to 2004, serving as…
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G.S. “Don” Morris, professor emeritus of kinesiology and health promotion and co-founder of the Cal Poly Pomona Motor Development Clinic, died Aug. 21. He was 67. Morris died at UCLA Medical Center of melanoma, according to The Panther newspaper at…
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