The Webb Schools (now often simply "Webb") are private schools for grades 9–12, founded by Thompson Webb, located in Claremont, California . Up until 2022, it was separated into The Webb School of California for boys (established in 1922) and the Vivian Webb School for girls (established 1981). It is primarily a boarding school , but also enrolls a limited number of day students . The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a part of Webb.
19-561: Webb School may refer to: Webb School (Bell Buckle, Tennessee) , founded in 1870 by William R. "Sawney" Webb Webb School of Knoxville , a private day school in Knoxville, Tennessee, founded in 1955 The Webb Schools , two private schools in Claremont, California; The Webb School of California for Boys (1922) and The Vivian Webb School for Girls (1981) Webb School (Hancock County, Mississippi) ,
38-616: A Mediterranean style with small balconies on the second floor and a mezzanine balcony around the interior, won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects soon after its dedication. The original Webb School founded by Thompson Webb's father still operates in Tennessee. A son of Thompson and Vivian Webb, Howell Webb, founded the Foothill Country Day School in Claremont in 1954. A nephew, Robert Webb, started
57-506: A Mississippi Landmark See also [ edit ] Webbs Female Academy , Webbs, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP in Green County, Kentucky [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
76-569: A single-sex environment. Co-educational courses were introduced to upperclassmen. The official student newspaper of The Webb Schools is the Webb Canyon Chronicle . The Webb School's founder, Thompson Webb, was born in 1887 as the youngest of eight children. His father, William Robert “Sawney” Webb , had established the Webb School in Tennessee in 1870. Webb is the only high school in
95-462: Is "To turn out young people who are tireless workers and who know how to work effectively; who are accurate scholars, who know the finer points of morals and practice them in their daily living; who are always courteous [without the slightest trace of snobbery]." (Bracketed text was removed from the official mission of the school in the late 20th century but is commonly added to oral recitations by faculty and students.) William R. "Sawney" Webb started
114-558: Is a private coeducational college preparatory boarding and day school in Bell Buckle, Tennessee , founded in 1870. It has been called the oldest continuously operating boarding school in the South. Under founder Sawney Webb's leadership, the school produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other secondary school in the United States. As expressed by William R. Webb, the school's mission
133-633: The Webb School of Knoxville in Knoxville, Tennessee , respectively. The Webb Schools The school has a campus of approximately 150 acres (610,000 m ) in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains . In 2018, Webb purchased undeveloped land next to the existing campus and will now preserve the hillside and create a buffer between the campus and suburban development. There are 410 students and 57 faculty members, of which 25% hold doctorates, 80% hold advanced degrees and 74% live on campus (as of
152-441: The 2018-2019 school year). Annual tuition (as of the 2023-2024 school year) is $ 76,985 for boarding students and $ 54,750 for day students, including meals, books, and fees. For the 2019–20 school year, Webb offered $ 5.5 million in need-based aid to 35 percent of the families, with awards ranging from several thousand dollars to nearly the full cost of tuition. Until 2022, the majority of ninth- and tenth-grade classes were taught in
171-593: The United States with a nationally accredited museum, and the only high school in the world with a paleontology museum on campus. The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is named for long-time Webb science teacher Raymond M. Alf (1905–1999). In the late 1930s, Alf and several students found a fossil skull in the Mojave Desert in the Barstow area. This discovery of a new species of Miocene -age peccary , Dyseohyus fricki , inspired additional fossil-hunting trips in
190-512: The Webb School as a school for boys in Culleoka, Tennessee , in 1870. He was joined by his brother, John M. Webb, in 1873. After Vanderbilt University was founded in 1873, Webb School's "oldest and best boys" were able to enroll. Webb moved the school from Culleoka to its present-day location, a 145-acre campus in the small town of Bell Buckle, in 1886 after Culleoka incorporated and legalized
209-705: The cathedral at Coventry . The parents of Thomas Jackson donated the Thomas Jackson Library to the school as a memorial to their son, who graduated from Webb in 1930 but died of a heart attack while in his sophomore year at the California Institute of Technology . The library, dedicated in 1938, was designed by acclaimed architect Myron Hunt , who also built the Rose Bowl , the Pasadena main library, and Thompson and Vivian Webb's campus home. The building, in
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#1732852642570228-463: The chapel's first brick in 1939. He built the walls of the chapel with the help of students, parents, visitors, prospective students and even the governor of Tennessee. Near completion of the structure, Webb learned that sculptor Alec Miller was in the United States because of World War II, and lacked the funds to return to his native Scotland. Miller was well known in England because of his carvings for
247-486: The inspiration for the Vivian Webb Chapel, a monument to both his religious faith and his love for his wife. In 1937, with the help of a small cement mixer and two hired workers, Thompson began making 60-pound (27 kg) adobe bricks. After a year of turning out more than 10,000 mission-style bricks and drying them in the sun on the school's tennis courts, he began building the chapel's foundation in 1938, and laid
266-484: The library basement, the museum moved to its own campus building in 1968. Today the museum is professionally curated by Dr. Donald "Doc" Lofgren, and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums . The museum features one of the largest collections of fossil animal footprints in the world, and includes the original peccary skull found in 1937. The Alf Museum continues to sponsor paleontology field excursions over
285-428: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Webb_School&oldid=761818512 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Webb School (Bell Buckle, Tennessee) The Webb School
304-714: The sale of alcohol in the new city. Sawney Webb's son W. R. Webb Jr., known as "Son Will", joined the school as a teacher in 1897 and became co-principal of the school with his father and uncle in 1908, unable to establish his own career. After their deaths (John Webb died in 1916 of a stroke and Sawney Webb in 1926 of old age), he became headmaster and remained in that position until his retirement in 1952. Webb began admitting girls as boarding students in 1973, but earlier in its history Webb had allowed local girls to attend as day students. Sawney Webb's son and grandson later established The Webb Schools in Claremont, California , and
323-540: The summer of 2009. It took three years to completely excavate "Joe" from a ridge deep in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in Utah, including a helicopter lift out of the region. This extremely rare and important discovery provides groundbreaking information on how Parasaurolophus grew up. Fascinated by California missions , Thompson Webb took the mission at San Juan Capistrano as
342-623: The summers and has contributed to the discovery of new species like Gryposaurus monumentensis , in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. The fossils were removed and identified in collaboration with the University of Utah and the national monument. The latest in the museum's impressive discoveries includes "Joe," the baby Parasaurolophus . The dinosaur's 75 million-year-old fossilized remains were found by Webb student, Kevin M. Terris, in
361-456: The western United States with student groups. Alf continued his pursuit of paleontology by earning his master's degree from the University of Colorado . The fossil hunting continued when Alf returned to Webb and he subsequently created a small museum in the basement of Jackson Library to house his collection of thousands of fossils. As the collection eventually outgrew the shelves in Alf's classroom and
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