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P316-347 Foundation Section 1 P316-347_Foundation1-APR18_Lr1_qxd_P316-347 4/18/18 12:31 PM Page 316 {}MIKE CURB : 50 Years CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION The Curb Family Legacy of Giving Over the course of generations, the Curb family has dedicated their lives ment industry. his goals for music education and historical music preservation. to helping others. “The most important thing we can do to encourage these Mike and the Mike Curb Family Foundation contributed to a future businessmen and women is to develop educational oppor - number of organizations and projects when they lived in tunities,” says Linda Curb. “It’s important that we preserve the California, and he served on several non-profit boards of direc - Charles McLeod Curb, Mike Curb’s grandfather, spent 50 exposed to the music that would be the focus of his incredible history and the future of the industry so that these young people tors. He was particularly impressed with the growth of California years as a Baptist minister and missionary in Texas and career. will have the opportunities they deserve.” State University, which is located in the San Fernando Valley Oklahoma. Eloisa Salazar, Mike’s maternal grandmother, worked Curb’s success in the music industry enabled him to become There’s more to a business where he grew up, and where he her way through college as a Spanish translator before meeting a philanthropist for more than 100 different projects for educa - and a life than just making money made his first recordings. Today, her future husband, Charles Stout, at a church near her home in tional and charitable organizations. — there is also the question of what in addition to the Curb Chair for Laredo, Texas. They were married in San Antonio while he was “While Linda and I have been financially able to contribute to can be done with the profits. Mike Music Industry Studies, the Mike serving in the Army during World War I and later moved to organizations and institutions, my parents, grandparents and Curb has been fortunate as an Curb College of Arts, Media and Kentucky, then Pittsburgh, where he worked with the YMCA. earlier ancestors spent their lives giving through service and vol - entrepreneur, and after he had Communication has become one After his retirement from the YMCA, Charles Stout served as a unteer work to worthy organizations and causes,” he says. “My invested money in various ways to of the largest colleges within probation officer for the Juvenile Court in Pittsburgh. ancestral family may not have had a lot of money, but I’ve always assure that his family and record California State University. More Mike’s father, Charles Curb, was an FBI agent, and his felt that their hard work and volunteerism was a much greater company had sufficient resources than 4,500 of the university’s assignments carried the family across the nation. When Mike was contribution. It certainly served as an inspiration for me.” for the future, Mike and Linda 35,000 students attend the Curb a young boy, they landed in southeast Los Angeles (Compton), The Mike Curb Family Foundation has contributed to a vari - made a decision to invest in educa - College, and more than half of where Mike started his education in a racially mixed public ele - ety of causes, but with a special emphasis on education. Through tional organizations and charitable those students are minorities. mentary school. their involvement in education, the Curbs have met many young projects that benefited the com - “It is impossible to imagine Charles and Stella Curb were dedicated parents who raised people with the desire and dedication to be part of an entrepre - munities where they lived and California, and particularly Los their children in a home where they were taught the importance of neurial business, and to develop the skills that will allow them to worked. The vision was to direct Angeles, without the educational giving and service. And it was there, in Compton, where Mike was play an important role in the future of the music and entertain - many of his contributions toward opportunities that are available at Mike and Linda Curb [ 316 ] [ 317 ] P316-347_Foundation1-APR18_Lr1_qxd_P316-347 4/18/18 12:31 PM Page 318 CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION largest independent record company, was Bradford, and the associate dean, Joe wired for the Internet. Mike confessed Blackburn, to help develop a creative course Dean Robert Bucker and Mike Curb in front of the birthplace of Curb Records at California State The Valley Performing Arts Center at California State, home of the Curb College Broadcast Studios that his company was not online and that involving graduate education for digital and University he wasn’t very familiar with the technolo - entrepreneurship. The vision is a music and Megan Curb receiving her three-degree diploma this university,” Curb says. “California State has had incredible Evelyn and Mo Ostin Center. It was ironic that this occurred 50 gy. At that time, in the early 1990s, the from Chancellor Gordon Gee at Vanderbilt entertainment concentration as part of the University presidents, Dr. Jolene Koester and Dr. Dianne Harrison, who years after Mo Ostin signed Mike Curb’s college band to Internet was in its infancy. Dean Geisel graduate business program at Vanderbilt, with have a vision for this university that is exactly in line with the goals Warner/Reprise Records where Ostin served as chairman for 40 asked, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our the goal of developing future industry leaders. of the Curb Foundation. Dean Bob Bucker and Dean Jay Kvapil years. The Mike Curb Music and Technology Lab is part of the students at the Owen School at Vanderbilt Both of Mike and Linda’s daughters are have done an outstanding job after the retirement of Bill Toutant, Herb Alpert School of Music under the direction of Dean Chris put Curb Records on the Internet?” Mike Vanderbilt graduates. Their daughter who devoted much of his adult life to building this college. Waterman and Chancellor Gene Block.” was excited by the concept, and the dean Courtney concentrated on a major that includ - Dean Bucker also served as executive director of the Valley After Mike and his family moved to Nashville, there was a selected several Vanderbilt students in the ed the creative, holistic approach to business, Performing Arts Center, which is the home for the broadcast stu - point at which he questioned whether he should cut back on his MBA program to develop a plan to make it which she now practices in her role as director dios at the Curb College. The Center, which opened in 2011, is a professional life. Should he sell out like so many others had done? happen. of human resources at Curb Records. Their magnificent performance venue, as well as a wonderful laborato - In asking these questions, Mike realized that people were excited Curb Records soon hired students other daughter, Megan, studied education ry for Curb College students to learn valuable production tech - to have Curb Records in Nashville. The Nashville business, char - who were in charge of the project, and this with a special emphasis on innovative Courtney Curb gets her Vanderbilt diploma from niques and explore various aspects of the entertainment industry. itable, and educational communities were receptive to partnering was the beginning of a creative relation - Chancellor Gee approaches to students with special educa - Mike Curb made the lead gift that launched the development of with the Mike Curb Family Foundation, and the record business ship with Vanderbilt that over the years tional needs. She has spent most of her career this outstanding facility. was a way to keep funding the Foundation. has allowed the Curb Foundation and the Curb family to play a as a teacher helping underserved students, including minority “In 2010, we extended our Curb Studio programs to include The Curb Foundation’s first connection with Vanderbilt major role in the development of the creative campus concept at students and those from low-income families. Both of their classrooms and studio facilities to help build an arts and music University started on an airplane a year or two after Mike and his Vanderbilt. Curb’s attorney, Tom Sherrard, Curb Records’ Vice daughters also received master’s degrees from Vanderbilt, and business program at the California State Channel Islands family moved to Nashville. Mike was sitting next to Dean Marty President of Finance Jeff Edmondson and Mike have all enjoyed both of them married young men who each earned bachelor’s and Campus, under the direction of President Dick Rush. In 2012 we Geisel of Vanderbilt’s Owen Business School and the dean asked working with the current dean of the Owen Graduate School, Jim master’s degrees from Vanderbilt. Courtney married Taylor extended our Curb Music Business program to UCLA as part of the whether Curb’s company, which at the time was Tennessee’s [ 318 ] [ 319 ] P316-347_Foundation1-APR18_Lr1_qxd_P316-347 4/18/18 12:32 PM Page 320 {}MIKE CURB : 50 Years CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION Childress, who has been an executive administrator at Daytona The Mike Curb Family Foundation also encouraged and Vanderbilt colleges with additional creative education, and I State College, after having had a successful career as a baseball worked with LeAnn Rimes to develop the LeAnn Rimes Adventure believe we can get there.” coach. Megan married Brian Cox, who earned a medical degree Gym at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Thanks to the leadership Mike was honored when Chancellor Nick Zeppos chose the from the University of Texas Medical School, in addition to his of the hospital’s chief executive officers, Dr. Kevin B.
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