Assistant Director of the Campus Center Angela Crisp-Sears will not be returning to Pomona next year. Crisp-Sears, who supervises CCLA and all ASPC programming as well as Metate, the Pomona College yearbook, will be moving to North Carolina. She first arrived in July of 1998 and has been at Pomona for three academic years.

Crisp-Sears will move to "the ‘Triangle,’" as she puts it, of North Carolina–the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. She is moving because her husband, Jesse, has been transferred there.

"Currently, I don’t have a plan for ‘doing’ anything, other than moving, settling into a new town and catching up with friends and family who live in that area," she said.

Asked how she felt about the move, Crisp-Sears said, "After the initial shock (this happened rather suddenly) and then the hard job of telling all the students I work with, I am very excited about [it]."

Student members of CCLA, who work very closely with Crisp-Sears in all of their programming, have all expressed sadness about Crisp-Sears’ departure.

"Angela has brought a lot of positive changes to campus and to CCLA," said Commissioner of Campus Events Julie Kern ’01. "It’s really a loss for the school."

"Angela is a tremendous asset to this college. Her leaving represents a loss not only to CCLA and the Campus Center staff, but to the greater Pomona community as well. Her dedication, affability and enthusiasm have set an impressive precedent for whoever becomes her replacement," agreed Deputy Commissioner of Campus Events Phil Kopczynski ’03.

The admiration is mutual. "Without question, I will miss the students the most," she said. She expressed optimism regarding CCLA’s performance in her absence. "I am sorry that I won’t be able to see firsthand the things that [Commissioner of Campus Events-Elect] Liz Fasse [’02]and her CCLA will plan and achieve in the coming year," she said.

What won’t she miss? "Dealing with the Claremont Police Department when they come to shut down a party–just kidding!"

"I guess I’m looking forward to a less hectic schedule and more time at home on the weekends," she said.

A search has already begun to find a replacement for next year.