{"id":4339,"date":"2023-10-20T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/?page_id=4339"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:59:24","slug":"bot-forbing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/bot-forbing\/","title":{"rendered":"BOT Forbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-secondary\">\n  <div class=\"relative bg-black\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adhere object-cover\" src=\"\/media\/university\/050323-pomona-campus-from-hec-001.jpg\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A tropical courtyard with palm trees.\">\n      <div class=\"adhere gradient-overlay\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"relative container pt-56 md:pt-112 pb-144 md:pb-192\">\n      <div class=\"md:flex md:justify-between px-12\">\n        <div class=\"sm:w-8\/12 md:w-6\/12 xl:w-5\/12 px-12\">\n                      <div class=\"mb-20\">\n              <div class=\"block font-sans font-bold text-14 text-white leading-130\">\n  <span class=\"inline-block\">\n    <a href=\"\/\" class=\"block hover:underline\">WesternU<\/a>\n  <\/span>\n      <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">About WesternU<\/a>\n          <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Governance<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Board of Trustees<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n    <span class=\"inline-block\">John Forbing<\/span>\n  <\/div>            <\/div>\n                                        <h1 class=\"t-h1-sans  text-white\">John Forbing<\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"relative my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"lg:flex px-12 lg:justify-start\">\n              <div class=\"w-full lg:w-5\/12 2xl:w-4\/12 -mt-80 md:-mt-112 mb-48 px-12 lg:pr-32\">\n                              <nav class=\"py-28 px-40 2xl:px-64 rounded-5 md:rounded-8 bg-gray-darker text-white mb-40\">\n            <ul>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Governance<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Board of Trustees<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/president\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/ueot\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">University Executive Operations Team<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/deans-council\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Deans\u2019 Council<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"\/university\/governance\/academic-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Senate<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/staff-council\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Staff Council<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"\/students\/student-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Government Association<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                          <\/ul>\n          <\/nav>\n                            <\/div>\n      \n      \n                  \n                  \n      <div class=\"w-full px-24 wysiwyg-content lg:w-7\/12 2xl:w-7\/12\">\n        <h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4346 alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/university\/john-forbing.jpg\" alt=\"A bearded businessman.\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\" \/>John Forbing<br \/>\nMember, Board of Trustees<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">John Forbing has been a friend and supporter of WesternU for more than 30 years. In 1985, he joined COMPatriots, an organization of Pomona business and professional people who came together to foster good relations between town and gown, help educate the community about the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and the osteopathic medical profession and sponsor various fundraising activities. Mr. Forbing graduated from Seattle Pacific College in Seattle, Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics\/Business. He has served the Pomona area as a State Farm Insurance Agent since 1975.<\/p>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions\/5713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}