Since the first day they started building that “temple” it was all about all the extras we’ll have and where everything came from “i.e. Hand Picked Marble from India” but let’s face it….did it really NEED all of the top of the line items such as that handpicked marble, Custom Made Carpet in the lower lobby (in my opinion really UGLY carpeting and design), and did we REALLY have to have Philip Johnson-Alan Ritchie Architects design the building at, I can only assume, a VERY great deal of money to hire them?
The answer to all of these questions is of course NO! They could have had just as beautiful a building without all of the extras, maybe then they wouldn’t have had to close.
What I REALLY want to know is…Where Jamanis and Veri are in all of this? NOT ONE MENTION of any kind of comment from them…or that anyone has TRIED to contact them. It seems, from all of the stories I’ve been reading, that most of them blame has come upon the Boards of Trustees, when it was Jamanis and Veri who ran the ship into the ground with their TOTAL OVER SPENDING and 100% LACK OF BUSINESS SENSE that has gotten us to where we are right now.
In the end I will admit it is a REAL shame this has happened….there are WONDERFUL teachers there and some of the most talented kids I’ve ever heard play….it’s just a shame that in the end they are the ones that are going to suffer for the stupidity of others and their egos.
EDITOR: Certainly the blame needs to be spread around.
It’s just like the mortgage crisis – the professional money handlers, the banks, allowed too much credit. Hopefully we won’t have to bail out their unprofessional behavior as we have with the big banks.
Perhaps that was PAM’s mistake – they weren’t too big to fail!