This Thursday PBA will celebrate its premier annual event, Free Enterprise Day, which has honored enterprising individuals since 1984.This year's medalist is Dr. John M. Gregory, Managing Partner of SJ Strategic Investments and son of Lloyd L. Gregory, namesake of Palm Beach Atlantic University's pharmacy building.
Past recipients have included such names as Marshall E. Rinker, Sr., William G. Lassiter, Jr., and Carl DeSantis.
While the event transpires Thursday morning, PBA has already made plans to honor individuals in the future, including those mentioned below:
- Mr. John D. & Mrs. Catherine T. MacArthur
- Dr. Donald E. & Mrs. Bebe Warren
- Mr. Kenneth & Mrs. Laura Baxter
- Mr. Theodore & Mrs. Vivian Johnson
- Mrs. Helen Weyenberg
- Mrs. Vera Lea Rinker
- Mr. Henry M. Flagler
- Mrs. Helen Fraser
- Mrs. Bertha Borbé
- Mr. Oedipus Okeechobee
- Dr. John P. Greene III
- Dr. Gertrude P. Pembroke
- Dr. Arnold Lakeview
- Mrs. Eustice Oceanview
- Ms. Meredith Mango
- Dr. Walt Superdorm
34 comments:
Clever Bacon - I honestly had to read it twice (as I had forgotten the title) before getting the satirical brilliance - smart and extremely relevant - Keep it up.
great. post.
- Mrs. Eustice Oceanview
- Ms. Meredith Mango
- Dr. Walt Superdorm
LOL
I'm very pleased that PBA is finally honoring Dr. Superdorm in a way that is proper considering a man of his reputation and list of accomplishments. Thanks to his invention of a truly genius washer and dryer system adapted for dormitory life, us college students never have to worry about our clothes being either under-dried or having the shit cooked out of them. Thanks to his system, they will somehow be both. Further, his research into a software system to help residence life professionals find appropriate roommates based off of an easily defrauded survey virtually guarantees your college experience will be disturbing and filled with awkward silences after your roommate displays their chosen neurosis.
I'm very sad, however, that there was no mention of Dr. Viking Arms, who is rumored to have made some very interesting long term investments into research for finding a way to ensure that every single PBA student somehow falls victim to a horrible bowel disease, even if they somehow elude the Caf.
I love it, Bacon - - PBA has to do something to offset the lack of future alumni giving ;-)
Maybe they could kick you out KW so your snide comments don't influence the masses. No dissention; isn't that the motto here.
either PBA or Castro's Cuba... I forget which
On guy who obviously didn't give a lot of money...Mr. Art Building.
Mr. Building is cheap, and should be ashamed of himself!
Wow anon, you are hilarious! I actually LOL'd at that comment
I noticed that Mrs. Smokerswall-Hotdogstand strangely didn't receive an invitation.
They MUST be honoring her NEXT year. They wouldn't want to miss out on honoring such a landmark free enterprise citizen ??!!
excellent point anonymous...I went to that hotdog stand the only day it was there and it was amazing, and cheap. Apparently that is not the type of free-enterprise we encourage 'round here. Lol.
If I recall correctly, The guy that won last year was a guy who "made it big" by paving over precious Florida habitat in Orlando for an Evil Empire (Disneyworld/Epcott).
Later,
KW
PBA donor Mr. Art Building responds:
"Hey, c'mon kids...I bought that old house for the school in 1969, and I'm darned proud of it!I even had it fumigated before turning it over. The trustees, administration and faculty have gotten a lot of good use out of it over the years, and with a little TLC, the school could keep it up for a couple of more decades, God willing, and the termites keep holding hands. Yall just keep saying your prayers,
re- paint it every few years, call roto-rooter and the bug man on a regular basis, and everything will be just fine. All the improvements that have been put in my little house shows just how important the arts and humanities programs are to PBA...and don't forget, my contribution is the last thing on campus that remains in its original condition. Alums can return on homecoming and look with pride at what I gave to the school, and it will remind them of how it was when they attended PBA. That gives it added value, don't you think?"
Sadly, the art building isn't in its original condition anymore because they knocked it down. :(
Mr. Art Building, Weyenberg is still up and in its original condition as well. A charming pair!
Time to serve us some fresh...
(you know what!)
Where ignorance is bliss, tis foolish to be wise!
Don't forget Mr. and Mrs. Would-Be Theater Donor
I think Mrs Would Be Theater Donor already tried to give the $ for a theater and somebody turned her $ down because she wouldn't make it into a communications building. She wanted to give to a theater.
Sad.
What does that mean, anon?
It's a long story of a lost opportunity for a new theatre involving a willing donor and an administration that didnt play their cards right. If anyone feels like typing it out, feel free.
Please do.
Why would I want to listen t a bunch of half truths?
Dear previous anonymous:
Are you saying that you have valid proof that this didn't happen?
I've never taken logic, but it seems to me that you can't prove something didn't happen. However, you should be able to prove if something did happen. Not to sound like someone from Jr. High, but where's your proof that it did?
With what I know of the administration, they don't usually say no to money. If someone was going to pay for a theater, why say no? My guess is they would have found a way to pay for the whole communications building if needed. There's no way they just said no to a whole theater.
I have no proof to back up my thinking, but I'm surely not going to believe some comments made on the Bacon. It's not exactly a bastion of credibility you know.
That's the best I can do logic wise. Your turn.
There was a donor, but with strings attached.
PBA didn't like the strings.
It's a complex issue.
Well, that settles it for me. Someone with the name Center Stage said it, so it must be true.
I don't mean to be rude because that sounds somewhat plausible, but come on, it's pretty vague. What were some of the strings.
All I know is that a university needs a theater if the theater department is going to survive.
What ever happened to the idea of Gatsby's over on US 1? Whatever happened to building it beside Rinker and the pharmacy building?
We won't be attracting many more theater students with what we've got now. I'm very thankful that the Chapel by the Lake has been used, and the theater faculty has done a tremendous job with what they've had to work with regarding space (which isn't much),but how long can we keeping jerking this department around? Remember, this has been in the planning stages for 3 or 4 years. If a donor did come along some time in last few years, it would be nice to know what those strings were, if anybody can explain. A little more explanation, please.
Let me take a wild guess at why we do not have a new theater. There are several schools within PBA that do not make any money for the school. Theater would probably be one of them. Think about it. Business majors graduate and go into business, they make money and then they can donate some of that money back to the school, nursing and pharmacy students graduate and do the same, theater students.... not making the big $$$ so they don't get a new building. Even if a big donor comes along, they would have to underwrite the whole project in order for PBA to consider it because the school doesn't want to spend any more money on something that is already losing money.
Education, Ministry, and Art are not getting any new buildings, they also are not making the school much money.
And the new business building for all those money-makers is..............
FAIL!
Umm... Business already has its own building. Its called the Rinker building, fairly large and in the middle of campus.
Further, the amount of money that was up for donation would not be enough for a new plot of land. That may sound trivial, but PBA has been scrapping for a very long time just to get the Quattlebaum Funeral Home and the "Crack house" by Smoker's Wall. That really is a difficult thing to get around, it just wouldn't be feasible for how PBA has planned to spend the other 60 some odd million they have in the bank.
Further, from a professional academic point of view, theatre programs are almost as a rule "underfunded" except in certain, particular schools simply for the massive rate of failure for people with such a degree to be able to work in that field in any significant level later on in life.
What about the Lab Family?
W/o their support Rat Lab Hall would not have been available to house PBA's student vermin.
This is a very old argument. See last year's Bacon. The theater department has been jerked around for years at PBA. We've been promised the world,and given nothing but leftovers. Good grief, even PBCC has a more thriving theater school than PBA. It's not for lack of interest or the quality teaching, but for lack of working space. Actors and directors need a space they can call their own. Dr. Mac went to a University that has four theaters. We can't even get one.
As for land, what about the grassy area between Pharmacy and Music? If you really wanted to be creative, you could use that space, have 4 or 5 levels of parking (needed) and put the theater/Comm. studios on top.
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