Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana
Sean Stanley
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
800 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 607-3977
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu
URL: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana
Dates: 1924-2002
Collection number: PC.0048
Extent:
0.6 Linear Feet
(1 document box, 1 half-size document box)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont
Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711.
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.
Physical Location: Please consult repository.
Language of Material: Languages represented in
collection: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Michael G. O'Malley '78 and Lauren (Fowler) O'Malley '79, 2016.
Accruals
Additions to the collection are not anticipated.
Biography / Administrative History
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).
Scope and Contents of the Collection
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.
Oragnization and Arrangement
Folders are arranged chronologically by date.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
Subject Terms
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
College students
Class reunions
Football
Genre and Form of Materials
Concert programs
Ephemera
Photographs
Postcards
Programs
Theater programs
Box 1, Folder 2
Fraternity Day program
1924
Box 1, Folder 4
Dance cards
1924, undated
Box 1, Folder 5
Off campus events
1924, undated
Box 1, Folder 6
Theatre programs
1924-1925, undated
Box 1, Folder 8
Commencement card
undated
Box 1, Folder 9
Claremont Inn Traditions
undated
Box 1, Folder 10
Student photographs
undated
Box 1, Folder 12
Class of 1950 meeting minutes
1946-1950
Box 1, Folder 13
Class of 1950 newsletter
1950
Note
"Perils of the Pericleans, Class of 1950," The New Sagehen (Spring Issue 1950, Vol. II,
No. 3) - photocopy
Box 2, Folder 1
Class of 1950 reunion
1990
Box 2, Folder 2
Class of 1950 reunion photographs
1990
Box 2, Folder 3
Class of 1950 reunion
1995
Box 2, Folder 4
Class of 1950 reunion
2000
Box 2, Folder 5
Class of 1952 reunion
2002
