Webb School - Sawney Yearbook (Bell Buckle, TN)

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My two years here at Webb were short, but have meant a lot to me in many ways. It was very hard for me to adjust to the Webb customs at first, but with the help of Keith Barton and Holt Hall my junior year was one of my most mem- orable years of school. It took me a year to really get involved in Webb and I know it will help me in the long-run. I will remember you, Webb, always-your good times, your bad times. I will remember basketball, declamations, Mr. Holliman's Vietnam stories, Mr. Lagler's view of democracy, and Mr. Rupley's excuses for giving me a tlunking grade in English. Live on Webb! 1 Sanity is a madness put to good usesg waking life is a dream controlled. -George Santayana They who travel in pursuit of wisdom walk only in a circle, and, af- ter all their labor, at last return to their pristine ignorance. -Goldsmith Who is not prepared today will he less so to- morrow. -Ovid

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leave it to the sentimentalists who have never experienced the extreme drive to succeed that The Webb School has in- stilled in me. When one examines his past, he finds that the incidents most prevalent are those of experience and example. If these experiences are to be instru- mental in a successful life, the Webb School has constructed the firm founda- tion of my life-the cornerstone of lead- ership. After establishing such a foun- dation, Webb took time out to help me produce mature characteristics-a pro- cess that should never end, especially for me. One may ask, What is Webb? When I first arrived five years ago, Webb was a Big Roomin which I studied and a gym in Which I played basketball. In reality, Webb is simply people- friends and enemies. Of course, Webb has possibly given me the best educa- tion one could receive in the South, but more than that are those who helped me through this rigorous strain. In short, Webb will fulfill the life of any individ- ual who will receive it. Like any Webb man, I should and will thank Webb School for its many contributions, but I will not linger on with praise, The future is the only im- portant factor now. The past-well, I So little done, so much to do! L -Cecil john Rhodes 37

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Webb is a growing up place. In the past five years Webb has been a home and a growing up place for me. At Webb I have experienced the worst and the best times of my life thus far. Here I have found what is probably the closest thingl will ever have to a fa- ther. I have put my faith in others and have had faith put into me, and I have seen each result in great success and horrible failure. Although all of this has helped me mature, the greatest lesson Webb has taught me is to be strong for the powerless innocents are often harrassed, threatened, and abused by those hypocrites with power. Manipulation! Manipulation has been the game for those with such hypocriti- cal powers. In the Watergate era Webb became a microcosm of the rest of the repulsively corrupt nation, but in this . microcosm nothing could be done by the innocents that were being swept away by the continuous stream of corruption. Many have been swept into this mael- strom, few have emerged., Some HAVE emerged and would never allow them- selves to go under again. I have manipulated and have been manipulated. Hope- fully I have learned and will never submerge again. This manipulation is a fool's game with rules favoring the sick. I only ask that those of you who can, please avoid it like the plague. There is no need for purging if you are pure. Be pure, question until you understand all that concerns you. Webb-a growing up place. Buildings have nothing to do with maturing, peo- ple do. Many have contributed to my maturing or at least my attempt to mature. Although some are no longer around, I love each of them dearly for their part! the Laglers, The Norvells, Mr. Stuckey, Knox, Karen, Moore, Stan, Conway, Mr. Boyd, Coarch , Mr. Morgan, Anne, Billy, McLafferty, T , Raymond, all the Barbers, Bunny, Mary Kate, Casey, Stark, Sput, the soccer teams, even the Benten Gang for personal insight, and a little brother that I have never lived with before. You're the bait and you're the hook, someone's bound to take a look . . . -Steve Tyler fAerosmith5 You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -john Morley ML