[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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           RECOGNITION OF THE WEBB SCHOOL'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY

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                       HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR.

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 21, 1997

  Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 
75th anniversary of the Webb School.
  Founded in 1922 by Thompson and Vivian Webb in Claremont, CA, the 
school has maintained a tradition of academic excellence throughout its 
history.
  Though initially an all male school, the Vivian Webb School for girls 
was opened in the fall of 1984. The school now also includes the 
Raymond Alf Museum. Founded after a student's discovery of a fossil of 
a previously unknown prehistoric pig, it is the only museum of 
paleontology located on a high school campus. The museum houses over 
80,000 specimens, 90 percent of which were collected by

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Webb students, and draws over 10,000 visitors annually.
  Currently, there are 158 girls and 167 boys enrolled in the school 
from 12 States and 11 countries. One hundred percent of Webb graduates 
go on to attend 4-year colleges and universities including Harvard, 
Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Duke, the Claremont 
Colleges, UCLA, USC, and UC Berkeley.
  Students of the Webb School also have an outstanding awards record. 
For designing a multimedia exhibit explaining the physics of dinosaur 
motion, Webb students received the 1994 Tapestry Award from Toyota 
Motor Corp. Webb also placed second in the 1996 Toshiba/NSTA 
ExploraVision Awards, with a design for a self-powered artificial 
heart. The chair of the science department, John Ball, was recognized 
as one of the top 100 math and science teachers in the country in the 
1996 Tandy Technology Scholar competition. In the 1996 National Physics 
Bowl, Webb placed first in California and third in the Nation.
  I would like to offer my congratulations to this outstanding 
institution on its 75th anniversary. May it continue to provide an 
excellent education for its students.

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