Best of CASE District VII Award
 

Institution: Pomona College

Title of entry: Pomona College Magazine

About this entry: At Pomona College Magazine, we aim to strengthen connections with alumni by telling distinctive stories about Pomona people and the college in the style of a general interest magazine. We have found that engagement and pride drive support of all kinds.

"The Myrlie Evers-Williams '68 Collection" issue commemorated the donation to the college of personal archives by alumna Evers-Williams, the civil rights leader and widow of Medgar Evers. Over six pages, we displayed two dozen artifacts, including the text of the invocation Evers-Williams gave at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, memorabilia from her Congressional campaign, family photos before her husband's assassination and a portrait with widows Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz taken by her son. Accompanying those was an evocative essay by Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr on her admiration for the woman who came to Pomona as a young widow and went on to be chairwoman of the NAACP. Other features were on an alumna who was a plaintiff in the DACA case that went to the Supreme Court and on an alumna historian whose research on Southern California's Bruce's Beach illuminated a landmark example of reparations for Black Americans.

In our "Harvest" issue, we changed the pace with a feast for the senses, profiling a trailblazing female winemaker, an art major who became a spice entrepreneur featured by national media and two biologists turned sustainable seafood purveyors. We also published a reprint of a faculty essay on boba that won a James Beard Award.