CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / CLAREMONT

By Larry Gordon

Oct. 15, 2009 12 AM PT

Pomona College has received a $7.5-million donation to help build a new residence hall with high levels of energy efficiency and the use of solar power, officials announced. The gift comes from Rick and Susan Sontag.

Susan Sontag is a Pomona alumna, and the couple have a daughter who graduated from Pomona. Rick’s late uncle taught in Pomona’s philosophy department over 50 years.

-- Larry Gordon

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Larry Gordon

Larry Gordon was a higher education writer for the Los Angeles Times and covered issues affecting colleges and universities in California and around the nation. He has been an assistant city editor and an urban affairs writer at The Times. He previously worked at the Bergen Record and Hudson Dispatch in his native New Jersey. He won a mid-career Fulbright grant to teach journalism in Bulgaria. Gordon has a bachelor’s from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He left The Times in 2015.

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