Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana, 1924-2002

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Summary

Title:
Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana
Dates:
1924-2002
Abstract:
This collection contains materials belonging to Edith E. Moore ('26) and C. Raymond Fowler ('50) primarily relating to student life at Pomona College. Materials include event programs and ephemera, photographs, postcards, class officer meeting minutes, and reunion materials for the Pomona College Class of 1950.
Extent:
0.6 Linear Feet (1 document box, 1 half-size document box)
Language:
Languages represented in collection: English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana (PC-0048). Pomona College Archives, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana contains materials belonging to Edith E. Moore ('26) and her son C. Raymond Fowler ('50). Materials belonging to Edith Moore include programs for college events such as football games, Fraternity Day, theater and concert events on campus, and other assorted event ephemera. A collection of student portrait photographs and campus postcards are included along with programs and other items related to off-campus trips to Grauman's Egyptian Theater, The Playhouse at the Friday Morning Club Building, and Morosco Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as the Mission Inn in Riverside. Materials belonging to C. Raymond Fowler include meeting minutes of the class officers of the Pericleans Class of 1950 from 1946-1950 and a Class of 1950 newsletter. Also included in the collection are materials and photographs related to the Class of 1950 reunions in 1990, 1995, and 2000, along with materials related to the Class of 1952's 50th reunion event.

Biographical / historical:

Edith E. Moore graduated from Pomona College in 1926 with a major in social economics. Her son C. Raymond Fowler also attended Pomona College, graduating in 1950. Fowler would go on to earn his master's degree in theology and served for a time as assistant minister of the Claremont Church, now Claremont United Church of Christ. He married fellow Pomona College alumna Barbara Blakely ('52).

Acquisition information:
Gift of Michael G. O'Malley '78 and Lauren (Fowler) O'Malley '79, 2016.
Arrangement:

Folders are arranged chronologically by date.

Accruals:

Additions to the collection are not anticipated.

Physical location:
Please consult repository.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Sean Stanley
Date Prepared:
© 2021
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-08-20 14:29:34 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to the Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana (PC-0048). Pomona College Archives, Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.

Location of this collection:
333 N. College Way
Claremont, CA 91711, US
Contact:
(909) 621-8138
archives@pomona.edu
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