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Striving for excellence in one area helps bolster success in the other.
– Dr. Andy Farke Museum Director
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Striving for excellence in one area helps bolster success in the other.
– Dr. Andy Farke Museum Director
The success of The Centennial Campaign is dependent on a community of generous alumni, parents and friends who give generously and selflessly year after year to support the Webb experience for today’s students and future generations.
Project Will Reimagine Fawcett Library
The Webb Schools are embarking on a $1 million reimagination of the 11,000-square-foot W. Russell Fawcett Library to create flexible learning spaces, a digital media innovation lab and a digital gallery, and add innovation tools to foster collaboration and creativity.
Centennial Campaign Donations Help Secure $100K Grant
The Webb Schools have received a $100,000 grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation to drive efforts to strengthen student, staff and faculty diversity. The foundation is dedicated to improving secondary education by supporting U.S. independent schools. Since its founding...
$8.4 Million Gift From Wayne “Skip” Hanson ’59 Bolsters Webb Schools Scholarships
A bequest from the late Wayne “Skip” Hanson ’59 boosts Webb’s endowment to $60 million, its highest level ever. The gift will be used to significantly strengthen Webb’s generous scholarship program.
Hornbuckle Family Establishes $500,000 Fund For Financial Aid
Webb's mission statement sounds a unique and distinctive call, "To provide an exemplary learning community that inspires boys and girls to become men and women who: think boldly, mindfully and creatively; act with honor and moral courage; lead with distinction; serve...
Doug Myles P ’80, Alf Life Trustee Makes Leadership Gift to Alf Museum
“This endowed gift will not only alleviate annual budget concerns for the Alf Museum by producing a steady and reliable revenue stream, but it will ensure the museum is able to recruit and retain a world-class staff, maintain state-of-the-art facilities and underwrite groundbreaking student research.“ – Doug Myles P ’80
Trustee Blake Brown ’68 Makes Leadership Gift Providing Momentum and Flexibility
“We wanted to reserve the balance of this commitment so that Webb could respond to a unique opportunity that would further advance Webb in a way that will present itself, not necessarily today but in the next few years. Our investment is to support and celebrate Webb’s future and we hope many others will join with us.” — Blake ‘68 and Andrea Brown
Trustee Deval Dvivedi ’00 and Wife Snigdha Create 21st Century Endowed Scholarship Fund and Support The Webb Fund
“Those of us who have graduated in the past 20 years feel a deep passion for Webb and for the world that Webb students will lead, and we have an opportunity and a responsibility to demonstrate that support.” — Deval Dvivedi ‘00
Sun Family Created Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts
This specific fund affords the performing arts department the chance to take advantage of new opportunities such as inviting visiting soloists, providing travel to concerts and more for our Webb singers and musicians.
Wayne “Skip” Hanson ’59 Creates a Home for Future Generations of Bertha M. Lynch Scholars
In 1990, Skip Hanson, along with his brother, Robert M. Hanson ’62, and their father, Wayne A. Hanson, created The Bertha M. Lynch Principes Non Homines Scholarship in memory of the Hansons’ maternal grandmother. Given Hanson’s strong inclination to not only demonstrate leadership, but to nurture it in others, this scholarship is awarded to students with the following attributes: admirable qualities of character, academic excellence, financial need, the potential to contribute positively to the spirit and life of the Webb community (athletics, performing arts, publications, etc.) and demonstrated leadership potential
Sanjay ’87 and Melissa ’87, P ’21 Dholakia, and Sameer ’91 Dholakia Create Family Scholarship Fund
“My mother used to tell us, ‘You can’t take anything with you when you leave this earth. The measure of your life is in the number of people you help.’ ” — Sanjay Dholakia ‘87
Pak Fu King P ’19 Makes $2 Million Gift to The Centennial Campaign
Pak Fu King has designated the largest portion of this gift to help renovate and upgrade Webb’s Les Perry Gymnasium, home to Webb’s basketball, volleyball, wrestling and badminton teams, as well as the McCarthy Fitness Center and the Jack Wertheim ’52 Team Room.
McDermott ’83 Family Creates Endowment Fund for Excellence in Mandarin
“We hope to inspire more Americans (with no family connection to China like me) to learn the language. I feel extremely grateful to my parents for giving me the opportunity to study Chinese. It was life changing.” — Michael McDermott ‘83
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