[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1968]
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         COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WEBB SCHOOLS

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                           HON. DAVID DREIER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, October 8, 1997

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, in 1922, in the foothills of the San Gabriel 
Mountains, Vivian and Thompson Webb opened the Webb School of 
California, an all boys high school dedicated to developing men of 
character. In 1981, the Vivian Webb School for girls was established to 
reinforce the traditions of service, leadership, and honor upon which 
the school was founded. As the Webb Schools celebrate their 75th 
anniversary on October 25, I want to recognize the faculty and staff 
for their commitment to educational excellence and the highest standard 
of academic achievement.
  The Webb Schools have provided several generations of students with a 
strong foundation for leadership, personal advancement, and ethical and 
social responsibility. Many of the schools' 3,080 alumni have gone on 
to distinguished careers in business, government, medicine, education, 
media, the law, and the arts.
  Today, the academic curriculum offers students from 12 States and 11 
countries a choice of 71 different courses in English, literature, 
mathematics, languages, history, fine arts, and the sciences. Of the 
Webb graduates, 100 percent go on to 4 year colleges and universities, 
including such highly selective institutions as Harvard, Stanford, 
Yale, Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Pepperdine, Purdue, Northwestern, 
Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst, Boston College, Boston University, the 
Claremont Colleges, UCLA, USC, and UC Berkeley.
  Webb students have a combined SAT median score of 1320, and they 
excel in State, regional, and national competitions. Webb students 
received the 1994 Tapestry Award from Toyota Motor Corp. for designing 
a multimedia exhibit explaining the physics of dinosaur motion. A team 
of students placed second in the 1996 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision 
Awards, the largest K-12 science contest in the world, with a design 
for a self-powered artificial heart. Webb students also placed first in 
California and third in the country in the 1996 National Physics Bowl, 
and they finished in the top 10 nationally in the 1996 and 1997 
National French Contests.
  An example of the technical skill and creativity of Webb students can 
be seen in the Web site they created on the Internet at www.webb.org. The Webb Schools are committed to the application of computers and 
related technologies in education to prepare their students for the 
academic rigors of post-secondary education, and to ensure that they 
can compete and prosper in the 21st century information economy.
  Mr. Speaker, in June, I had the honor of giving the commencement 
address to the Webb School of California's 1997 graduating class. I 
told the students that they will always be able to think back to the 
day of their graduation and draw upon the inspiration of a job well 
done. Today, as we approach the 75th anniversary of the Webb Schools, I 
want to echo those sentiments to the faculty, staff, and alumni. They 
have done a tremendous job of carrying out Vivian and Thompson Webb's 
founding vision of an institution dedicated to distinguished academic 
achievement, and unwavering ethical behavior and personal 
responsibility.

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