Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of that work was done for William Zeckendorf's Webb and Knapp firm. In 1955 Pei founded his own firm, I. M. Pei and Associates. A great deal of his early work was in city planning, but the two buildings that impressed Walton and Mrs. Kennedy were a weather research station set against the mountains in Boulder, Colo., and the Newhouse Communications Center in Syracuse...
...Bilges. The college offers no electives, no languages, and only one humanities course, a three-year smattering of history, literature and art. School begins in August, allowing time for a ten-week "work term" in the win ter. Last week, while most U.S. college students were home for Christmas, Webb freshmen worked as ship fitters in yards from Puget Sound to Newport News. Sophomores were off at sea as grease monkeys on freighters; upperclassmen were apprenticed to firms of naval architects and marine engineers. "We want them to clean bilges and stand watches," says Alexander. "These men are all headed...
...Webb man who headed for top management and got there is Edward Teale ('34), president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., which built the nuclear-powered ship Savannah. Owen Oakley ('37) is director of preliminary ship design for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, where John Nachtsheim ('47) is chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson...
...Beards. A Webb student is invariably expelled if he flunks two courses. Competition is sharp, honed by the familiarity of living together in a stately Glen Cove mansion that lies between the Soviet U.N. delegation's weekend estate and Bobby Kennedy's new residence. "You know every one of your classmates," says Roger R. Compton, a 1961 graduate and now a research associate. "And you're out to beat every one of them." In the current freshman class of 20, eight scored 770 or better in a math achievement test with a top score...
...Webb makes no apologies for its narrow specialization or rigor. Undergraduates seem to thrive on the combination. A spartan student government has banned beards, liquor on campus, and visits by girls to dorms. Student courts can penalize a student for coming late to class or expel him for cheating on the honor system. "Most of us realize what a tremendous gift this is," says Senior Karl L. Kirkman of Catonsville, Md. "We would hate to have it spoiled for the next...