This year’s Founder’s Day was celebrated on Friday, April 27, 2018. On Founder’s Day, the entire Webb campus comes together to dedicate an afternoon to honoring the philanthropic efforts of William H. Webb by participating in beautification projects around campus.

This year’s projects included giving Dr. Stein’s office a fresh coat of paint, beach clean-up, planting flower beds, shelf moving in the library, and building benches for the tennis courts, vanity side tables for the guest rooms, and student store shelves. Photos that were taken throughout the day are available on Smugmug.

After the projects were completed, a formal dinner was held in the Visconti Reception Room, where Sarah Wickenheiser ’08 served as keynote speaker. Wickenheiser, a graduate of Webb’s 2008 class, is a civilian engineer at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland where she serves as a project manager where she oversees preliminary and detail design engineering efforts during major maintenance availabilities for a variety of vessels.

She has recently made headlines for being the recipient of both the 2017 Coast Guard Engineer of the Year and DC Council for Engineering and Architecture Societies Young Engineer of the Year awards.

The entire dinner can be viewed on Webb Institute’s Vimeo channel.

A special thank you to the Director of Facilities, John Ferrante, and his crew, for setting up all of the projects for the students, faculty, and administration.

View this year’s video!

Founder’s Day 2018 from Webb Institute on Vimeo.