by Enthusiast | Sep 1, 2017 | Claremont Obituaries
Longtime Scripps professor, Pomona grad After living 68 of her 91 years in Claremont, Margaret Siler Faust died August 17 from a heart attack. She was born in Tientsin, China, where her parents were missionaries. Her first language was Chinese. The youngest of five...
by Enthusiast | Sep 1, 2017 | Claremont Obituaries
Minister, civil rights, peace activist, grandfather Rhodes Thompson Jr. died August 13 at Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont, where he resided for 23 years with his wife of 65 years, Lois Long Thompson. He was 89. Though Mr. Thompson had suffered from...
by Enthusiast | Sep 1, 2017 | Opinion
by Jan Wheatcroft I am a born and bred Angeleno. I lived my first 10 years in Hollywood with my mother. My father had moved to New York and visited me a few times a year when he came to Los Angeles on business. He stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel and I loved to visit...
by Enthusiast | Sep 1, 2017 | Opinion
by Mellissa Martinez Last week I tuned into the heavily-promoted boxing match between retired world champion Floyd Mayweather and feisty, Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor. Although not a boxing enthusiast, I was intrigued by the odd pairing. Even so, I went...
by Enthusiast | Sep 1, 2017 | Opinion
Creeping parochialism Dear Editor: Don Fisher and Brian Desatnik both responded via letter to the recent COURIER Almanac article, “”College Creep: Fact or Fiction?” each objecting, in his own way, to the concept of college creep. College...
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