Professor Clarence H. Jackman was a major contributor to the Accounting Department during its formative years. He is remembered particularly for his successful efforts to develop and to improve the Accounting Internship Program. His dedication to the University and the Accounting Department will be long remembered, especially by those members of the alumni who were taught and mentored by him.

Professor Jackman received Bachelor of Science and Masters of Art degrees from Northwestern University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Bradley University. He joined the faculty at Cal Poly Pomona in September 1960, and later he was the Chair of the Business Department. In those days, the Business Department included all the courses offered in the business area, except Accounting. He taught financial statement analysis, business management, transportation, and managerial accounting. He actively promoted internships in Business and Marketing.

During the Summer of 1966, Professor Jackman transferred to the Accounting Department where he taught elementary, intermediate, and cost accounting. Here again he promoted student involvement in the Internship Program, but now it was for Accounting Majors. Clarence has been called the “Father of the Accounting Internship Program” by his peers and all of the alumni who knew him. His Internship Program has been used as a model at several colleges and universities. From 1975 until he retired in 1980, the Accounting Internship Program had grown in size so that by itself it was a full-time teaching position.

Clarence was considered to be a most conscientious and dependable instructor in the Accounting Department. He was an outstanding contributor to the academic programs of the Accounting Department and the College of Business Administration. He was, at one time, Assistant Department Chair, and also was very active on Department committees.

Clarence was an active member of the Citrus Belt Chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants and belonged to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was very active in the Pomona Valley Chapter (now the San Gabriel Valley Chapter) of the National Association of Accountants (now the Institute of Management Accountants). He held several offices including Chapter President, 1975-1976. During that year, the Pomona Valley Chapter won the inter-chapter competition of Southern California. He was a member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Society of Business Budgeting, and the Pomona Chapter of Industrial Supervisors. Through these organizations, Clarence was able to place Cal Poly Pomona students in many internships.

After his retirement in 1980, Clarence was very active in the Pomona Meals on Wheels Program. He worked in the kitchen and was a driver for three different routes. He was a member of the Trinity Community Church in Pomona, and served on the Church Council as Chairman of the Committee to Help Needy People.

Clarence was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 1989. He passed away in November 1991. Professor Jackman’s contributions to the Accounting Internship Program will be long remembered.

Professor Jackman’s family, through his daughter Joyce Jones, continues to provide significant monetary support for the Clarence H. Jackman Accounting Internship Program and the related Clarence H. Jackman Memorial Fund and the Clarence H. Jackman Internship Endowment Fund. A number of Accounting alumni also provide significant monetary support to the internship program.