| # | Name | Comments |
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| 5001 | Loretta Pesket Bradshaw | |
| 5002 | Nancy Louise Mason |
| 5003 | Heather Bailey | |
| 5004 | Edith Falknor Theriot | I can not imagine any reason good enough to sell and develop our Arrowmont School |
| 5005 | Cynthia Latona Hanthorn | Be an Angel Emily..... let Arrowmont soar! |
| 5006 | dwayne owens | |
| 5007 | Donna Crocker Johnston, OH Epsilon, 1948 | ARROWMONT MUST STAY AS THE HIGH STANDARD CRAFT SCHOOL AND PART OF THE HERITAGE THAT PI BETA PHI INTENDED... |
| 5008 | J. Gregg | |
| 5009 | Anonymous | We ask that Pi Beta Phi reconsider their plan to sell the property where Arrowmont is located. This property is very important to the history of Gatlinburg and once it is sold, it is gone forever. |
| 5010 | Joan Fox LaCasse | |
| 5011 | Jamie Tubbesing | |
| 5012 | Karen Richards | |
| 5013 | Jane Rehschuh Gilkison | Please do not sell Arrowmont property without a vote of the 2008 convention delegates. This should not be a unilateral decision! It is too important to be decided by a few! |
| 5014 | Jennifer Roberts | |
| 5015 | Kathy Price | My son earned a scolarship for artwork this spring and will again be attending. I understand that the school would still exist and be moved but that would be a shame. Arrowmont is a part of the charm of Gatlinburg and I would like to see it remain that way. |
| 5016 | Meryl Truett | How can we help? |
| 5017 | Allison Hawkins | |
| 5018 | Candice Hensley | |
| 5019 | Melanie Milam Roth | Both my mother and I have contributed to Arrowmont for many years. My sister, who is a professional artist, attended classes there and is highly complimentary of the school.
A sale of Arrowmont property for development would be very short sided of Grand Council. If the property is sold, I will no longer feel that the Pi Beta Phis Fraternity or Foundation is worthly of my donations.
Melanie Milam Roth Newcomb 1977 |
| 5020 | Rolfe Godshalk | I twice attended Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. It is unthinkable that Pi Beta Phi would sell this highly respected school for any reason other than being unable to financially maintain the school and grounds. If this is the case members should be told and consulted. |
| 5021 | Heather MacCulloch | |
| 5022 | amy bines | |
| 5023 | naomi mccurdy | |
| 5024 | Kevin Burris | It would be a huge detrimenet to our entire region to lose this valuable jewel from our crown. |
| 5025 | Sandi Swilley | I do NOT support the sale of this wonderful property and art enclave. |
| 5026 | Renee Hoyos | I cannot believe that 7 people made such a sweeping decision regarding this property without informing their membership, much less the leadership of Arrowmont. If they indeed have such authority in their bylaws/charter, that should change at the next membership meeting.
I just spent three days at Arrowmont and to sell that beautiful property to developers to put another strip mall or high end cabins is a shame. |
| 5027 | Cynthia w. Falkner | Alabama Beta who has observed the loss of beauty due to the increased commercial and tourist growth over my lifetime. Took my young daughters many times to Gatlinburg, visiting from Dallas, long before they decided to become Pi Phi at OU and Alabama.
Very sad that this is even being considered, and oppose selling. |
| 5028 | Brad Hill |
| 5029 | Mary Pom Claiborne | Arrowmont is a treasure for Gatlinburg that must be preserved. The community invested heavily in a visioning process that supports its genuine culture. The removal of Arrowmont would be a travesty for both the community and the school |
| 5030 | Sandra Jacobsen |
| 5031 | Thomas A. Deakins | This is such an asset to the comuunity, state and nation. Preserve this location so artists may practice their passion, and allow young artists the chance to hone / express their talents. |
| 5032 | Charly McCoig | Please dont sell.....we live here and it has been a tradition of my family and my husbands family to visit every month to see all the new art work...Our daughter is 2 and has been there 15 to 20 times....its sad to think that some one would rather have the money then to share a lifetime of memories...if u do move it theres no way it will ever be the same......PLEASE RECONSIDER |
| 5033 | Ken & Juanita Mundy |
| 5034 | Ed Huml | |
| 5035 | Julia Sermersheim | I am very upset to see what is being planned for Arrowmont.....another trashy entertainment for the trashy people who come to the area. Who cares that Pigeon Forge and Sevierville are getting more tourists. Try to preserve the beauty of the area by making Gatlinburg a place that is not filled with fast food and t-shirt shops that sell product with filthy words on the shirts. When I was at Arrowmont I would take walks in the mornings before the tourists got up. The flowers, trees, the stream with heron flying through the air were wonderful to enjoy. Take the area back to beauty. Eliminate the trash and allow Arrowmont to be the cornerstone for the development of the area. Thank you for allowing me to express my thoughts on the subject. |
| 5036 | Betsey-Rose Weiss | |
| 5037 | Lee Congleton | |
| 5038 | Jane Wilkerson Yount |
| 5039 | Carolyn Gustafson |
| 5040 | Louise Napier | The idea that Arrowmont may cease to exist is very distressing. It has been extremely rewarding and benefical to me as both artist and art teacher. I have recommended many friends and students to Arrowmont because it has been such an outstanding art school with great facilities. To consider replacing it with yet another commercial wasteland is shameful. |
| 5041 | Dave Yoder | |
| 5042 | Janet Hall | |
| 5043 | Marjorie van de Sande | All members deserve to have input into such a decision. This should be discussed at convention. |
| 5044 | Anonymous |
| 5045 | Byron King |
| 5046 | Natalie Squillante | |
| 5047 | Anonymous | |
| 5048 | Estill Putney |
| 5049 | Anonymous | Arrowmount is where I go to fill my soul. My passion for stone carving began there. The community of artists became my lost tribe in the chaos of todays society. It is my hope for the civility of our future.
My children were raised in a rural southwest Virginia community that turned its back on its art culture and feared the word art. I struggled for four years to write grants, bring-artists-in-residence, and establish an art festival celebrating the creative energy in the community, but it was already lost and still ignores its last kindling. Arrowmount has brought this to Gatlinburg and honors the richness of the individual spirits that define a community. It gives voice to the creative forces that define us all. Children come into ths world with it. We drive it out of them to the point that they loose who they are in this world. They are transformed into consummers and have little left to give because thay no longer are allowed to know their true selves.
Look at todays economy. We were sold the idea of that freedom as Americans is to consume all we could and dominate resources for our disposal at whatever price. The basket is empty. We now know fear and are lost. It is time to redefine who we are, one soul at a time. Do not sell out on one of the few remaining threads that connect us as a community in exchange for on more souvenier. |
| 5050 | Deborah Acuff | |