Please Get It Straight

When I was handling public information for the Claremont Graduate School I just smiled through my tears when newspapers fouled up our name. But now that I’ve retired, I’ll snarl a bit.

In the otherwise splendid article, “Peter Drucker: Guiding Light to Management” (April 14) Drucker was identified as a professor at “Southern California’s Claremont College.”

There is no institution called Claremont College. Drucker works for the Claremont Graduate School. It is one of the Claremont Colleges (there are six).

The colleges don’t make things easy: There are individual names of six (Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd and the aforementioned CGS); there is a central institution called Claremont University Center that runs such things as the central library system, business office and steam plant and also operates CGS; there is the general name for the whole works: the Claremont Colleges.

(I used to promise people an honorary master’s degree if they could get it all straight.)

HARRISON STEPHENS

Claremont