“The most happy fellow?” Really?
I do not know Paul Ware personally, but I’ve been appalled by the implicit (and often explicit) allegations on your pages that he should shoulder the blame for PAM’s demise, and that he somehow reneged on promises to the Academy. From what I’ve read, the man donated millions to PAM. When he tried to straighten things out, his efforts were rebuffed (remember the article about the consultant brought in to help fix the mess there—she was let go), and he finally decided not to throw any more good money after bad. No reasonable person can blame him for that.
Given the fact that many board members and successive boards didn’t see the need to press PAM’s leadership on what was really going on, one has to wonder if Mr. Ware, or any of the board members, was given accurate information on the true financial picture of the place or was being told repeatedly that donors lurked around the corner and all would be well if they continued to have faith.
No, the founders didn’t seem to have business acumen, as you state. But most people in that circumstance cede control to others who do. They didn’t seem willing to do so, as evidenced by quotes from those who tried to wrest control from them in order to save PAM.
One hopes they are living peaceful lives, even if they are doing so under more modest circumstances. And I hope that Mr. Ware has some peace now, too, knowing he did what he could for PAM while there, but ultimately must have come to the conclusion that the BEST thing he could do was to stop enabling horrendous business decisions with his continued support, even though walking away laid himself open to the kind of criticism he’s received from these pages.
I couldn’t agree with this person more. I have read so much on here and other pages “LNP” and it seems that it’s all been forced on the board members and they are the ones who failed, when in fact they tried to do AS BEST AS THEY COULD while dealing with Jamanis and Veri. I think a freshman Econ major could have run that business better then those two.
I think the funny thing of all is that within the first 6 months of Millersville taking over that building…they had OUTSIDE PUBLIC EVENTS that had NOTHING to do with Millersville…something the Academy SHOULD have been doing since day one when they moved in… BUT leave it to Jamanis and Veri to say “sorry for the first year the building is ours and we won’t be allowing anyone to rent the space..”
TRUST ME I KNOW FOR FACT as I tried to contact them (PAM) about a wedding reception. I was told that for the first year the Academy was not allowing any of the space to be rented out so as they could “get use” to their new building…
BTW…how long did the Academy last in that new building??? A little over a year??? Wouldn’t it have made A HECK of a lot of sense to allow people to rent out space when they’re were so many willing to pay??? Wouldn’t that have helped with some of the costs??
Another prime example of the “business sense” of Jamanis and Veri and their Elitism Attitude!