Webbites On A Roll

[plumbervol]

Hey Sky
The Catholic way to get property on Cedar Bluff is to get the Jewish owner of the Raquet Club to donate the property...........It has High Voltage Power Lines running down the middle of the flood plain that Blaine built up with soil he hauled in from Heaven knows where, but the price was right.

[Orange-SkyVolFan]

Hey Sky
The Catholic way to get property on Cedar Bluff is to get the Jewish owner of the Raquet Club to donate the property...........It has High Voltage Power Lines running down the middle of the flood plain that Blaine built up with soil he hauled in from Heaven knows where, but the price was right.

   Well, maybe they did pay less than Mr. Webb did.  I hope you get a couple of conversions out of that transaction.

[Link]

Woah! Woah! WOAH!!!!  Let's get real here, Sky.  Without some HUGE contributions from the Haslem, Debusk and other families in similar company, that joint wouldn't be what it is today. Yes, we pay our fair share and then some, but that didn't all happen on the backs of the parents only.

[KNOWLEDGE]

Woah! Woah! WOAH!!!!  Let's get real here, Sky.  Without some HUGE contributions from the Haslem, Debusk and other families in similar company, that joint wouldn't be what it is today. Yes, we pay our fair share and then some, but that didn't all happen on the backs of the parents only.

Link, are you saying there aren't any buildings on Webb's campus named after you?

[Link]

I have a porta-pottie out behind the maintenance shed with my name all over it.  Now, I'm not saying the school put it there.  More like "F*#K LINK!!!"  I'm having the security tapes reviewed to determine if it was Plumbervol "dedicating" the building to me after the game Friday night.

[Orange-SkyVolFan]

Woah! Woah! WOAH!!!!  Let's get real here, Sky.  Without some HUGE contributions from the Haslem, Debusk and other families in similar company, that joint wouldn't be what it is today. Yes, we pay our fair share and then some, but that didn't all happen on the backs of the parents only.

Where did I ever indicate that Mr. Webb paid for that school out of pocket?

Where did I ever indicate that Webb School was built only on the backs of parents?

Where did I ever say that Webb School did not have HUGE, generous donations from the Haslams, the Fausts, the Stowers, several medical professionals, and others I could name?

I know for a fact Mr. Webb went around town personally recruiting civic and business leaders to trust him with their children and their money when there was nothing there.  I know he recruited teachers who also trusted him with their children.  I know he recruited working families to pay the extra $ and trust him with their children and their money.

A friend of mine who knows the money, has helped build a successful private school, and is far more critical and cynical than you says that Mr. Webb was "the smartest man he has ever met."

I don't know all the new cash flow out there, but I know some and years ago I used to help raise a small amount of  funds for it every year.  I do know many whose generosity got it rolling and sustained it.  Hopefully, you won't limit the history of Webb School to the past 10 years.

Again, Catholic & CAK can do what they want, but Mr. Webb's leadership and model on how to build a school worked well.

BTW, Mr. Webb personally taught Bible Class--Saul to St. Paul.

[Link]

without relying on the church for funds

I fail to see the difference.  Both needed sources other than tuition paying families.

[Orange-SkyVolFan]

I fail to see the difference.  Both needed sources other than tuition paying families.

Well, duh.  My point was that Mr. Webb did not sit back and wait for church funds to build the school although he did hold his first classes in the basement of Sequoyah Hills Presbryterian Church.  He did not rely on the funds from the church.  He did rely on funds from the members of various churchs instead of the institutions themselves.

He did pay as he went through tuition and donations.  He would line up the funds as they do now with a capital campaign before they broke ground on the next building.

[Link]

You're barking up a very small tree, IMO.

[plumbervol]

We "raised" the money before building almost all projects as I understand it. But we used the pledge system. Build it and let the pledges come in as the outside Bonding company paid up front is how almost all building is done. Usually the pledges are for multi year..... UT has done the same thing!! I think everybody has had rough years because of the economy and changes in economic status.

OMG wrote a history of Holy Ghost Parish here in Knoxville, an ornate beautiful church located in Happy Hollow on Central Avenue. The money for the 2nd build was donate and pledged back in the 1920's. We all know what happened later in that decade... The point was that the folks in the parish paid the pledged debt over the next 30 years(Is that right OMG?)

Inside the church was some beautiful ornate Stain glass, marble and wood work, and carvings worth several million $$. They have plaques by the work and it reads like a who's who of Knoxville finance today! But the parish overall was made up of immigrant 2nd generation families who worked at the Coster Shop, Standard and Palm Beach Mills, Foote Mineral etc... People who did not have the money for such a project, but they did it anyway. I always wondered how life would have been different if the cash for the ornate items had been spent onthe building loans instead of on Stain Glass.... I know we went without AC until the 1980's and used only 1 light bulb per chandalier because of substandard wiring because of the process.