Thacher Magazine Fall 2009

The Magazine of The Thacher School * Fall 2009

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Cultivating Community On and off campus, members of Casa de Piedra’s extended family actively sow the seeds and reap the fruits of community. Learn about some of the ways we nurture, improve, and reflect upon the places that matter to us.

Also: Report on Giving for 2008-2009

Fall 2009 * Volume 3, Number 2

CONTENTS 10 • Armchair Wandering

In which directions do Ms. Mully’s thoughts wander as she wends her way from home to home at sabbatical’s end?

12 • Cultivating Community

What does it take to grow and sustain a healthy community? In this issue we take a look at a few of the many ways—both tangible and intangible—we work together to maintain and improve Thacher and the other communities that matter to us.

49 • Report on Giving: 2008-2009 10 on & off campus

Alumni & community News

01 • View From Olympus

24 • Gatherings

To cultivate community you need to cultivate leaders.

02 • Up Front About this issue.

03 • Readers Respond We read your letters and e-mails.

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04 • The Pergola An assemblage of noteworthy School and community intelligence.

Reunion 2009 and other events and news involving the extended Thacher community.

28 • Class Notes, etc.

Alumni news, milestones, and news from faculty, staff, and friends.

47 • In Memoriam 73 • The Best We Can Do How Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988 supports her communities.

FRONT COVER

In this issue we sharpen our pencils to get at the roots and fruits of community. To illustrate our theme we turned to Heads of State, an award-winning duo of illustrators who specialize in turning abstract ideas into simple, concrete images for clients that include The New York Times and Wilco.

BAck COVER

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You can take it with you: Brian Pidduck CdeP 1992 captures community on the trail.

view from olympus…

D photo: Brian Pidduck CdeP 1992

Cultivating Leaders During our sabbatical, Joy and I volunteered at the African Leadership Academy* (ALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa, a brand new boarding school whose mission is to recruit and educate the best and brightest from all 54 countries of the African continent. We were invited by Fred Swaniker, the school’s founder, who had visited Thacher and, based upon the community he found here, concluded that we might be able to offer some advice to a young school. I hope they were not disappointed. Joy and I certainly were not, for we gained at least as much as we imparted.

The kids at ALA are brilliant, smiling, eager, and ambitious. They know why they are there: to learn how to lift their countries; to build businesses; to provide visionary and ethical leadership; to make scientific discoveries.

Each vows to make a difference.

Their personal stories defy description. To a one—and we spent time living the school life with them, morning, noon, and night—the students at this school had amazing and heartrending stories to tell about their backgrounds and how they arrived at their new school. Joy and I were deeply moved by what they had to share with their classmates and us.

Many arrived in Johannesburg never having left their homes before.

Most had never been on an airplane; some had come from such poverty that they never owned schoolbooks. For some, the uniforms the school provided were the extent of their clothing options.

The diversity was astounding and exciting: Many were French speakers, others spoke spotty English and were fluent only in their native regional dialect; some were devout Muslim, others Christian; some, from South Africa, were Hindu. Others observed the local religious traditions of their tribes. Several came from polygamous families. All had to learn English at ALA regardless of background.

But differences aside, they all shared the best and highest motivation: They wanted to help transform their nations and the African continent into a model of economic dynamism and environmental responsibility.

And they are overtly, ebulliently fired up about their futures. One young woman from Morocco told me: “The 19th century belonged to the British; the 20th century to the U.S.; the 21st century seems to be the Chinese Century. But we in Africa are confident that the 22nd century will be the African Century, and those of us here in at the ALA are determined to make sure that this dream comes true.”

I loved her confidence and energy, to say the least. Truthfully, we were knocked sideways by the intelligence, charisma, and enthusiasm of every one of these ALA students.

At Fall Family Weekend I spoke about another one of these students.

His name is William Kamkwamba and he is from Malawi. Several years ago, William was one enterprising and capable 14-year-old whose family could not afford to send him to school.

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So this, in the words of someone who knows him well, is what William does:

He finds an elementary physics textbook in a local library and sees diagrams of windmills—he cannot even read the English text. From this bit of information, with astounding focus and persistence, he manages to build his own version from scraps of wire, an old bicycle hub, and flattened PVC pipe for blades. He has zero resources—not even a soldering iron, which would be useless in any case since there is no electricity in his household. But he is a natural engineer, and even with no guidance or help, he succeeds in making an operating windmill which powers a few lightbulbs for home and village, charges cell phones, operates a water pump— all of which make a real difference in village life.

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Well, William is discovered via the Internet, invited to attend a conference on village energy, he is recruited to the ALA. They encourage him to write about his experience, and his book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, rockets up the Amazon sales list.

(The words I quoted above were written by Wiliam’s co-author, Brian Mealer.)

So William came out of nowhere, and through pluck, determination, and some good luck found a school to mentor him. I have every confidence we are going to hear a lot more from William and all of his classmates.

We have our William Kamkwambas at Thacher too. It is our job as parents and faculty to set them on their trajectories to improve this world.

This is why we are here. They have not yet built or even imagined their windmills, but they will. And our job is to guide them.

More than anything, I return to Thacher inspired by my travels and ready to go to work to help Thacher students harness their leadership energies. It is important work. It is great work.

Michael K. Mulligan, Head of School

*For more about this and the rest of our sabbatical experience, turn to page 16.

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up front…

H Tappan Wilder (L) displays a poster of the stamp bearing his uncle’s image; a fleeting community in microcosm, passengers on a train are serenaded by the planets in The Pullman Car Hiawatha.

2 FALL 2009

Healthy, happy communities never just happen, but, where they exist, they often seem effortless and even inevitable. Well, they aren’t. So we set out with this issue to reveal some of the thought and effort that go into making Thacher the healthiest, happiest, most successful community it can be.

These days at Thacher, it’s hard to talk about portraying community without thinking of Thornton Wilder CdeP 1915. Earlier this month, the Thacher Masquers completed their fall production, an entertaining and thought-provoking staging of two Wilder one-acts that were precursors to Our Town. In conjunction with these performances, Tappan Wilder, son of Thornton’s brother Amos CdeP 1913, spent a few days on campus discussing his uncle’s work.

Perhaps that explains why I’m tempted to say that the approach this issue takes to capturing Thacher bears some similarities to the way Our Town captures Grover’s Corners.

In the following pages, we portray our community and the activity that sustains it through means that are organic and partial rather than systematic and comprehensive. Like the Wilder plays, we approach our subject from a variety of different perspectives, opening up the floor to a range of voices. But there is much we leave out and, in the end, you must draw on your imagination or your memory to complete the picture.

In contrast to Wilder’s famously spare sets, however, we offer some visual information in the form of photos— students, teachers, administrators, and even some campus scenes without people in them—that attest to the unique vitality and character of the Thacher community.

Where Our Town makes use of a professor from the state university to deliver the geological, meteorological, and athropological data on Grovers’ Corners, we offer a statistical view via the results of student/parent

surveys used by administrators to monitor important elements of campus culture, including levels of student and parent satisfaction.

Looking outward is also important for any community, and the Mulligans’ sabbatical last year allowed them many chances to explore, learn, and contribute outside the Thacher bubble. Now that they are home, they talk in this issue about what they experienced and how important sabbaticals are to the continued vitality of learning communities.

We’re grateful for thoughtful contributions by members of the Thacher community who bring their perspectives to the conversation. Monique DeVane, trustee and new Thacher parent, shares her experience dropping off a child at School and finding a deep appreciation for the way this community holds and transmits its values. Dan Gregory CdeP 1969, who also served on the Board and saw his daughters through Thacher, puts on his architectural historian hat to reflect on the way our built environment reflects Thacher’s traditions and values even as it moves us forward in new directions. And because our students carry an appreciation for community with them into their lives, we hear from several alumni who have found powerful ways to cultivate and appreciate community in their worlds.

You’ll also note that this issue of the magazine is substantially thicker than the usual 40 pages. Normally, the Annual Fund Report is mailed as a separate item, but we are experimenting this year by including it in this issue of the magazine. Given our theme, it makes sense. There are few more tangible ways of cultivating and sustaining this community than that exemplified by the many names listed on those pages.

Enjoy the issue.

Christopher J. Land, Editor

readers respond… paternal Addendum

Opportunities and Contributions After reading the spring Thacher magazine I really want to express how impressed I am at what is available to and for the students.

They have obviously taken advantage of the opportunities.

It is exciting to see and read what so many of the alumni are contributing to the world of many sciences. You have your own MIT for high school students. Great to read what is going on.

The magazine is so well done.

Ginevra “Giny” M. Hunter Wife of Phelps Hunter CdeP 1924

vacation reading Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the last issue of the Thacher magazine and also offer my services as a volunteer. I am a Thacher alumna (CdeP 1991), a visual artist (photographer), and the managing editor at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Among other responsibilities, I produce all of the museum’s periodical publications, both print and online. I happened to be about to go on vacation when the last issue of the magazine hit my mailbox, so I actually got to read it. You did a great job of connecting alumni to the School today, the Thacher values that haven’t changed much over time, and the broader social context/ why it matters.

Apollonia Morrill CdeP 1991

I have just put down the Spring 2009 Edition of the Magazine of the Thacher School with its focus on Science and Society, and saw Matt’s comments in the Class Notes re his graduation from the USC School of Law and his intent to pursue a career in climate change law and renewable energy.

What Matt didn’t include in his comments (his pervasive modesty gets in the way) is that he authored an article dealing with climate change law which was published in the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice.

I have enclosed a copy of his article. The article was written in 2008, and so Matt was one of those in the front of the pack in addressing the economic issues of climate change law.

I thought perhaps his article could find a place in the School Library. Although it doesn’t qualify as literature, legal writing being what it is, the scholarship is the product of his Thacher teachers and experience.

Barton L. Schuman Father of Matthew Schuman CdeP 2000 Ed. Note: Matthew Schuman’s journal article now resides in the Thacher authors collection in the School Archives.

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The Magazine of The Thacher School Volume 3, Issue 2 Fall 2009 Editor Christopher J. Land Associate EditorS Amy Elmore Jane D. McCarthy Alumni Editor Suzie Nixon Bohnett Class Notes Editor Diane Murphy Archivist Bonnie LaForge Design Charles Hess, design director Corky Retson, designer Contributors Brianna Bohnett ‘10, Thomas Cole CdeP 1987, Bill Crawford CdeP 1953, Monique DeVane, Dan Gregory CdeP 1969, Kurt Meyer, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, Cam Spaulding CdeP 1992 Photography and Illustration Benny Chan, Phil Channing, Doug Ellis, Heads of State, Christopher Land, Robert Leiter, Aida Ohanjanian, Brian Pidduck CdeP 1992, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, Cam Spaulding CdeP 1992 Head of School Michael K. Mulligan Director of Development Rick Wilson Director of Admission William P. McMahon

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The Pergola…

Home on the Hill At the grand opening of the new Hill Dormitories, Head of School Michael Mulligan spoke to the School community and guests while standing on the bottom level of the cloistered amphitheater courtyard. There, he repeated Churchill’s famous take on the relationship between people and architecture: “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” He noted the principle of connectedness expressed in the porches, the bridges, the expansive common room, and doors opening—as they do over most of the campus—to the outdoors and to neighbors across the way.

The aptly named dorm integrates three spacious faculty homes into its terraced site on the high side of campus. “The Hill has turned out to be a really communal dorm,” says Hailey Everett ’13, who then adds, “plus, the hike isn’t so bad after the first week or two!”

Family Weekend 2009

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eneath clear blue skies, this year’s Fall Family Weekend included the usual flurry of activities: class barbecues, teacher conferences, classroom visits, performances, art exhibitions, athletic competitions, and even some time for families to check in with one another. New to the mix this year was Horse Ball, an established equestrian sport that combines elements of polo, rugby, and basketball. Four faculty members took on four students in a brief exhibition match which the students won, 3-1.

See the website’s Media Gallery for photos.

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Where the wilder things are

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With no tents to break down, you get to sleep in a little later, as these Toads demonstrate during Mr. Pidduck’s Extra-Day Trip to Mineral King.

HE THACHER Masquers submitted entertaining and thought-provoking performances of two one-act plays by Thornton Wilder CdeP 1915: The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden and Pullman Car Hiawatha. In connection with these productions, Tappan Wilder, executor of the Wilder literary estate and son of Thornton’s brother Amos CdeP 1913, spent a few days on campus discussing his uncle’s work, visiting classes, and sharing stories of his family’s ties to Thacher. Pictured at right (L to R) are seniors Lauren Rosenfeld, Sarah Boneysteele, and Jackson Berler in Pullman Car Hiawatha.

FROM THE TOAD BLOGS

photoS: Aida Ohanjanian, Brian Pidduck CdeP 1992

For Now, Four Goals As I look out to the valley, the sun sets and the night slowly settles in. This week has been a lot about reflection. Midterm grades have been released, and they are always cause for looking back. I reflect on my last few weeks here at school. It has been a whirlwind of friends, homework, horses, and nonstop activity.

Looking back, I have made up the following four goals.

1. To give everything I can to anything that I do. Thacher is a place where you are your biggest motivator. No one is going to stand next to you and make sure your homework is done or that you’ve done your laundry (I am still surprised at the amount of kids who still cannot do laundry very well). Be passionate; work hard. These are such impor-

tant steps in succeeding.

2. To love everything that I do. A positive attitude is so important, especially when trying new things. I have learned that you are your greatest enemy, and you are the only one who can bring yourself down. This fall I have started riding English for the first time.

Never before had I jumped anything over a foot, but in our first lesson, we jumped about 2’6”. These days we are jumping 3’4” and I am definitely struggling. Without a positive attitude and a drive to succeed, I would have quit long ago. Now that I’ve stuck with it, I’ve grown to really love it.

3. Live every day like it’s my last. I know this is sooo clichéd, but being at Thacher has really taught me to seize the moment. Such

amazing opportunities are thrown at you and only you can be the one to seize them. A little-known secret at Thacher is Community Service singing. We go once a week to different homes for the elderly in Ojai and sing.

Singing with such a talented group of people is so much fun, but also the look on our audience’s faces is astounding. I never would’ve had the pleasure of community service singing if it wasn’t for simply replying to an e-mail that often gets overlooked in the busyness of day-to-day life.

So, as the streetlamps flicker on and the fog descends on the valley, I know that Thacher is such a special opportunity, and I would be such a fool not to take advantage of it.

—Chris Yih ’12

Read more Toad Blogs at www.thacher.org.

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The Pergola…

Numeracy: A Ribbon Around the World.

Suppose you tie a taut red ribbon around the earth at the equator. Then, you add three feet to its length and suspend it uniformly just above the surface of the earth all the way around. How small (if measurable at all) would be the size of the gap between the ribbon and the earth’s surface?

Send your answers to Kurt Meyer via e-mail (kmeyer@thacher.org), or via U.S. mail at the School address.

Answer to Science in the Sierra: A Camping Conundrum Correct answers were submitted by Michael Blatt CdeP 1977, Paul Boyce Bressie CdeP 1986, Lee Mothershead CdeP 1956, and Joe Glasgow CdeP 1946. Special honors go to Joe, who submitted the first correct answer.

These respondents all correctly observed that the rock’s weight displaces a greater volume of water when in the boat than it does when the rock is in the lake, because the rock is denser than water.

Scoreboards SPRING SPORTS

LACROSSE VARSITY GIRLS Record: 8-6 (4-2 league) Captains: Eloise Callander ’09, Jensen Pease ‘09 Highlights: This team balanced solid defense with a strong attack, as five different players notched hat tricks over the course of the season. After qualifying for the regional playoffs, Thacher lost to number one seed Redondo Beach and went on to win the consolation round against La Cañada High School.

JUNIOR VARSITY GIRLS Record: 3-2-1 (3-1-1 league) Captains: Noelani Nasser ’11, Melissa Skan ‘11 Highlights: After opening the season with a 6-6 tie at home against Condor League foe Midland, the team ultimately earned a satisfying 7-1 victory on the road to redeem the tie, ending the season on a very positive note.

Find More news on the web Visit www.thacher.org for more detailed and up-todate news and multimedia including:

• Up the Hill: House and home A new dormitory wins fans.

• XOXO in Person All about Fall Family Weekend 2009

• Talk About Talent!

Meet Thacher’s newest faculty members.

• The Wild(erness) Bunch Fall EDTs in words and images.

• Scholar Honor Thacher students recognized by College Board.

• @Assembly and Around Campus Weekly tidbits of Thacher life.

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VARSITY BOYS Record: 10-2 (6-0 league) Captains: Quinn McMahon ‘09, Matt Larson ‘09 Highlights: Thacher began its season with two heartbreaking losses and then went on to a ten game winning streak, which included outscoring opponents 57-12 in one five game stretch. The team punctuated its Condor League title with an 11-2 win over Cate on their Family Weekend, and wrapped things up with a hard won 12-7 victory over Oaks Christian under the lights on the road.

DANCE ENSEMBLE Highlights: The group, which works on pieces throughout the winter as well as the spring, performed at Celebrate Dance, a shared concert with Nordhoff Dancers, Santa Barbara City College dancers, and performers from dance studios in Ventura and Santa Barbara. On our own stage, the Thacher women’s chorus sang “Adeimus” by Karl Jenkins while the dance ensemble performed to the song. They also unveiled “Newman’s Suite,” a seven section modern dance piece from films scored by Thomas Newman.

ROCK CLIMBING Most Improved Climber: Emily Kirkland ‘09 Highlights: Five intrepid climbers headed out to local climbing areas Portrero John Wall and Foothill Crag, both located in the Los Padres National Forest. When a winter storm blew through the Sierras, the group jumped at the opportunity to ski at Mammoth and to boulder in Owens River Valley.

JUNIOR VARSITY BOYS Record: 5-3 (4-2 league) Captains: Talal Gedeon Achi ’09, Will Shenton ‘09 Highlights: With a focus on participation and teamwork, this team avenged an early loss to Midland with a hard fought 4-1 victory. They finished the season with a tough, one-goal loss to OVS, and giving OVS a rousing cheer at the end of the game. It was, in the words of Coach Manson, “The best example of Thacher sportsmanship.”

FRESHMAN BOYS Record: 4-1 league Highlights: A great core of freshman boys came together to gain a lot of experience over the course of the season, as they beat OVS’s varsity team 9-4 and blanked Cate 9-0.

BASEBALL Record: 10-10 (6-3 league) Captains: Robert DeWitt ’09, Joel Reimer ‘10 Highlights: After a humble beginning, this resilient group of Toads proved their chutzpah, improving greatly during the season. The squad earned a convincing win over the Dunn Earwigs, swept a doubleheader vs. OVS, and advanced to the CIF playoffs. Their first-round game featured a commanding 20-hit win over Shandon, while they next notched an exciting come-from-behind win over Hillcrest Christian. Only top-ranked Cornerstone Christian could stop their momentum in the quarterfinals.

TENNIS VARSITY BOYS Record: 8-6 (4-2 league) Captain: Andrew Pollett ‘09 Highlights: This successful season featured a decisive win against Division IV perennial powerhouse Viewpoint and victories against local rivals Nordhoff and Villanova. The team advanced to the CIF quarterfinals, beating Villanova for a second time on the season as well as Mark Kepple before bowing to Cerritos.

TRACK AND FIELD Captains: Kristen Findley ’09, Natalie Camp ‘09 Highlights: Several great individual performances highlighted one of the most successful seasons ever. The boys’ team won the Condor League title while the girls’ team finished second. Kristen Findley ran a five-minute mile at the CIF Southern Section finals and an 11:16 2-mile at the CIF Southern Section prelims, both School records. She was also Condor League MVP for the third year in a row.

Natalie Camp garnered three second-place finishes in three events in the League finals while also running a leg on the 4x400 relay team. Austin Krause ’10 won the long jump and the triple jump at the Condor League meet and set a School record in the triple jump (42” 1’), finishing seventh at the CIF Southern Section Finals for Division IV. These three competitors were mainstays on a team filled with great camaraderie and enthusiasm.

The Pergola…

Meet Thacher’s Newest Administrator

BlurB & Squib Books

Arriving in Olympus this fall was Connie R. Hanstedt, CPA, the School’s new director of finance and operations.

“Connie brings a wealth of experience from her position as business officer at HarvardWestlake,” said Head of School Michael K. Mulligan. “We are fortunate to have enticed her to come to Thacher and look forward to her wise management of the Thacher finances.

Thoughtful, exacting, and savvy in the ways of the budget and finance, she is also a lover of the outdoors and Ojai: This is a great match.”

Once settled into her new role, Connie looks forward to learning the trails around campus and exploring the backcountry with students.

See page 46 for more about Connie.

Karl Kroeber CdeP 1967 has published a new book. First Light, from Yosemite Association/Heyday Books, is a collection of 75 photographs and a variety of written reflections drawn from five annual summer trips deep into Yosemite’s backcountry. Co-authored with four other photographers, the book is dedicated to Ike Livermore CdeP 1928 and 80 percent of the royalties benefit The Yosemite Fund. More information can be found at: www.karlkroeber.com.

Fred Lamb CdeP 1940, who taught at Thacher 1954-1991, left the School with many legacies, including the publishing rights to historical-adventure fiction written by his prolific father, Harold Lamb. The two newest titles, recently brought forth by Bison Books, are Swords From the West, and Swords From the Desert. The modest royalties from these publications go to Thacher.

Film William Bryant Logan CdeP 1970 was shocked to learn that the people who promised to make a movie of his book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, actually did so. Not only that, Dirt! The Movie was screened this past winter at the Sundance Film Festival. (You can find out more at www.dirtthemovie.org.)

Journalism For much of 2008, Todd Oppenheimer CdeP 1971 found himself living a journalist’s dream, with an assignment for The New Yorker magazine to explore a curious American subculture of bladesmithing, as it applies to the art of culinary knifemaking. The story was published on November 24, 2008, in magazine’s annual food issue under the title, “Sharper: Bob Kramer and the Secret Life of Knives.” Says Oppenheimer: “I couldn’t have done it without Fred Goode’s constant scold during my sophomore year: ‘Oppie, your writing would get a lot better if you cut out every second and third sentence.’”

Music Murry Orrick CdeP 1977 recently wrote and produced a CD called “Let’s Go Green Kids,” available on iTunes and Amazon. See and hear more at www.letsgogreenkids.com.

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Early thoughts on community at Casa de Piedra:

“The place has not been given the title of school. While it is a school as far as progress in study goes, it is hoped that it will always preserve distinctly the more normal life of a household and a ranch.”

—Sherman Day Thacher (1891)

FROM THE ARCHIVES 100... 50... 25.... YEARS AGO AT THACHER A Backward Glance Through the Pages of CdeP Publications

TWIN PEEKS

100 September 1909: The boys return to campus for a new school year to discover that their beloved shacks, but one, have been destroyed by fire. The editors of El Archivero noted a “Great boom in Thacher Canyon real estate” as residences were “springing up like mushrooms.” The famed “shacks,” located at the top of the hill of the campus and into Horn Canyon, were the hub of social life at Thacher for years, complete with appraisals by Sherman Day and later Anson Thacher to determine “value.” The tradition came to an end in the early 70s.

October 1909: The boys enjoyed the Fourth Annual New Year’s Banquet, held “at the earliest available time after the opening of school.” It featured “more speakers than ever before, and everyone got up feeling greatly refreshed by the nap.”

50 October 1959: Mr. Shagam comments to his fifth team soccer players: “Those of you who were put on the fifth team should not feel badly. A lot of you are definitely fourth team caliber.”

Fall 1959: Members of Thacher’s Pack and Saddle Club take on their main project—the long-needed reflooring of Patton’s Cabin in the Sespe. Several members trucked to Sespe, cleaned the cabin, and laid the floor under the direction of Ellis Carruthers.

25 Spring 1984: Thacher finished its sixth year of coeducation with its first female School Chair, Yasmin Tong CdeP 1984, at the helm. In her New Year’s Banquet speech, she says, “The most vital part of the Thacher experience…is human. This human aspect, wherein we deal with people and exchange ideas, provides the most important learning that can possibly take place. So do not be afraid to know people, their criticisms, or their friendship.”

10 November 1999: In an issue of the Thacher Notes, students are polled on what buildings they would like to see added to campus. Iyana Reid CdeP 2001 remarks that she would like to see a “performing arts center, because we have many art-inclined students on campus,” while Tyler Caldwell CdeP 2003 says, “A bigger, better SUB [student union building] with lots of pool tables and couches because it unites all the grades.”

5 September 2004: The school year opens with an air of expectation, as the Milligan Center for Performing Arts and the Thacher Commons are well under construction and slated to open by the fall of 2005. The 2004-2005 El Archivero features a construction theme, and building plans and photos of steel girders separate each section of the book.

Although the location of the track has shifted some, Twin Peaks still presides over the races. Here, Anson S. Thacher CdeP 1923 (above) finishes decades before Connor H. Church CdeP 2009.

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armchair wandering…

Something You Haven’t to Deserve

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By Joy Sawyer-Mulligan

lues were piling up: On snailmail envelopes, I’d scrawl “P.O. Box 506, Driggs, ID 83422” as my return address without thinking. A measley two sticks of butter softening in a bowl for cookie-baking looked kind of normal. The alarm-set button on the clock was an eighth-inch thick with dust. On evening walks, at the turning-back moment, we’d chirp to the dogs, “Let’s go home!”—and off they’d trot, not to a sprawling, redwood-shingled house at the edge of a school campus, but to a little log house on a hill in an alfalfa field. The Rocky Mountain air felt natural and right in our lungs, acclimated to a mile-plus of altitude.

Other signs: Snippets in The New Yorker were beginning to bring students in the Class of 2010 to mind—possible fodder for Senior Tributes 11 months away. Pillow talk was tending toward the “What if this year, instead of. . .” –rather than to river conditions on the Snake. I’d find myself unwittingly wheeling down the supermarket’s school supplies aisle.

It’s teye-teye-tiiiiiime! yipped the Kiln Creek coyotes.

So on August 18, I started my 1,600-mile journey back to Thacher.

Though we’d stopped in three times during our eight-month sabbatical, alighting for a day or two for a special event before back to adventuring, this return would be different. I hadn’t been this long away since I left “for good” in 1981 after three years—early coeducation at Thacher and, for this 14th-generation New Englander, A Brief Grand Experiment West of 495. (I was raised there, but I grew up here.)

Since driving out the gate exactly eight months earlier, Michael and I’d been on three other continents and had our noses in so many books that the bedside table-bookcase was looking like itself again. We’d refreshed old friendships, made new ones with neighbors down the road and with teaching colleagues thousands of miles distant. We’d spent time watching our daughter in her latest life chapter—at a university over 100 times Thacher’s size in a city far, far bigger than Ojai—and, miraculously, celebrated her 19th birthday with her birth mother, siblings, aunts, uncles, and grandparents—a vibrant extended family. We’d walked ancestral piney woods in New Hampshire and sailed broad reaches along the Massachusetts coastline, and had navigated happily into previously unknown

coves of filial relationship. We’d studied in separate programs—I in the desert at the Santa Fe Photography Workshop, Michael on the shores of the Charles at Harvard’s Evolving Vision Leadership Seminar. We’d had days crowded with physical and intellectual activity—hiking, reading, writing, photographing, discussing, debating—days with hoopla and noise, and days of absolute, ringing silence.

How? Because Michael and I had scored the biggest box under the Christmas spruce, labeled with both our names. In it, the nothing and the everything of time freely given. A sabbatical is precisely that: days and days of relief from the ceaseless demands of the boarding school life, a chance to snatch one spinning plate after another off the stick and into your tired hand, stack them up, and walk away into another world. It’s time to stretch muscles and mind, to laze, to dive deep or do nothing at all—so that you come out the other side energized, enlivened, and ready to pour all of that good stuff back into your work.

To go west, I’d first be going a few hundred miles east—to Denver to see Annie—then a U-turn, western Colorado, a sharp left at Utah, a smidgen of Arizona, enough of Nevada for me, and on to Ojai.

When the driving grows monotonous and I catch myself thinking ahead to something more stimulating—a swim in the motel pool at day’s end, or a roadside cup of tea off the highway—I remember the lesson I swore I’d keep practicing, that I vowed to bring back into Life After Sabbatical and hang onto: being fully now. I aim to be like neurosurgeon Henry Perowne of Ian McEwan’s story Saturday: “For the past two hours, he’s been in a dream of absorption that has dissolved all sense of time, and all awareness of the other parts of his life.

Even his awareness of his own existence has vanished. He’s been delivered into a pure present, free of the weight of the past or any anxieties about the future. In retrospect, though never at the time, it feels like profound happiness.” Me, too! I pledge.

So in eastern Wyoming, I consciously register the ribbons of wooden snow fences leaning, shaped by past winds, but in this moment, just there. So, too, the shapes of Medicine Bow’s boulders, stacked stolid or precariously—either way, phantasmagorical even in the brash afternoon light. Then Colorado, banks of roadside sunflowers bend in the stiff summer wind. Two nights with Annie, then the road again. Over Vail Pass and down, runaway truck ramps, gravel thick and pointing straight uphill. I recall a friend’s tale about someone’s wanting to try it—would it really

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Valley to valley (L to R): The road ahead somewhere in Colorado; Michael and friends on the porch in Alta, Wyoming; the quieter, western slope of the Tetons; Ojai’s Topa Topas in winter.

stop his pickup? It did. Decidedly. (Talk about the Now!) Into Utah at Cove Fort, to catch the wide swath of I-15, and for miles (confession), I ditch the Now for the recent Then. My mind seeks some thread connecting it all—the gut-laughter with family and friends of every age and era, the quiet conversations with Michael by the fire lingering over soup I’d spent the whole, blessed afternoon making, the struggle with effective aperture and shutter speed alongside others new to the digital game, the sense of comfortableness and purpose Michael and I felt after only a few hours among the students and faculty of the African Leadership Academy, the wordless wonder of rocking to sleep the child of two former Thacher students, now married and forging their way in the world, and the sensation of a stretched heart while sitting among the blood kin of my own child.

The answer’s obvious. My sabbatical was a variation on the theme that thrums through all my work—and play—at Thacher. For me, it is, simply, purely, about relationships. In both the being and the doing of these endless-now-ended months, I’ve come into clearer, more expansive, more substantial connection with the people of my world. I see this with a mind clearer, more activated than it’s been in years.

Beyond Las Vegas, the behemoth neon signs amaze—Buffalo Bill’s flashing on one side, Nevada Landing on the other—an otherworldly portal to the last of the seven states I’ll traverse. They return me to the present; I’m listening to Wallace Stegner’s A Sense of Place and feeling the rise and fall in my belly from the notoriously rolling Pearblossom Highway from Victorville to Palmdale, low-to-the-ground telephone poles mocked by bent, arthritic Joshua trees beyond. In the Santa Clara River Valley, bougainvillea and roses climb fences—pretty, pink.

Stegner is asserting something I have to rewind to catch fully: “I doubt that character and conduct are much shaped by landscape,” he says. “We manage to breed saints, brutes, barbarians, and mudheads in all sorts of topographies and climates. But what country does to our way of seeing is another matter, at least for me. By and large, I do not know what I like. I like what I know. I respond to the forms and colors and light I was trained to respond to. I acknowledge what revives my memory.”

Valley to valley to valley. On the 150, Sulphur Mountain’s odiferous assault, mare’s tails and cumulus rearing up behind bluffs ashimmer in the heat. Across the Upper Ojai, past the bigger-than-life barnside face— Edith’s Walnut Factory. Black Mountain Ranch a tawny expanse. Past Dennison Park, down a third of the switchbacks, and there it is: Shangri-

la below. I remember this as the overlook one Thacher mom told me was the perfect place to go to cry after you drop your child off in September. Unbidden, a smile comes as I think of her, her kids/my students, the legions of parents who might have sighed right here. Stegner again: “This is not my native country, but everything in it tells me who I am.”

I make the sharp right at Boccali’s (Papa Romano’s before, when I first arrived three decades ago; before that, The Popstand). I slow on the curves of Reeves, because the road makes me, and because I don’t want to rush the last two miles. The corn is high now, will be picked and then the stalks sheaved for Halloween hayrides. Left at the bottom of McAndrew, up again, past orange trees replanted after that rogue frost a few years ago, now in luxuriant growth.

The liquidambers edging Topa Topa Ranch reach to the unmitigated blue of sky, the Los Padres foothills shoulder down, extending arms. Then the dip at the terminus of Grand, a half mile and the rock pillars announce the ranch and the School, telling me I’m home. (A few years back, I asked an alumna, visiting after two years away, what it felt like driving up Thacher Road. She was silent for a moment, then said, “It almost hurts to love a place this much.”)

I get it.

Home is not so much to me “the place where, when you have to go there,/ they have to take you in” as one of Robert Frost’s characters asserts, but, as the next line reads, wife responding to husband, “I should have called it/ Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.” I am grateful for the serendipity that brought me here to do work I love, to live among principled, happy colleagues and hard-working, fun-loving students, and to rise each day with someone who shares my passion and gratitude. Out loud, every day, thankful.

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Communities are created and sustained as much by the intangible forces that bind them— history, traditions, a common language or set of beliefs—as by the more tangible infrastructure that allows its members to live together. In many cases, as at Thacher, the community derives its individual character from the confluence of these tangible and intangible elements; the built environment reflects fundamental values, ethos reflects place, and traditions ensure that new members of the community inherit and maintain a common purpose. This issue of Thacher Magazine, while it cannot claim to offer anything like a thorough ethnography, here presents a handful of thoughtful perspectives on the nature of community—especially our comunity—and some of the ways we experience and nurture it.

The Examined School: Survey Results Give Thacher High Marks

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work validated by survey results like these.” elective college preparatory schools (including According to the 2009 ISGP survey results, “The Thacher School is the Thacher) like to tout data that shows how selective they are, how very best of all 23 schools, with six grades of A and no grade of C. Earning well their students perform on tests, and where their graduates one grade of A is unusual for a school. Earning six grades of A is truly outgo to college. But when it comes to other important indicators standing and exemplary.” The study surveyed students’ level of comfort of a school’s effectiveness—such as the health of the student community at school; perceptions of equity, stress, and health; body attitudes and as it relates to stress levels, diet, sexual behaviors, and substance use— behaviors; lack of pressure regarding substance use and sex; and respect objective data can be harder to come by. And when such data is available, and diversity. Among the 23 schools that participated in this year’s survey there is not always cause for celebration. were Cate School, Deerfield Academy, The Hotchkiss School, Milton Thacher is the exception, as two recent surveys prove, providing clear Academy, St. Paul’s School, The Taft School, and The Webb Schools. feedback on Thacher’s performance in these areas. The results were very Freshman girls gave Thacher the highest scores of any school for their good. Thacher was ranked first among a list of topflight schools in a survey level of comfort, their perceptions of equity, their lack of stress, and their conducted by the Independent School Gender Project (ISGP) that mearatings of Thacher as a respectful community that values diversity and sures student perceptions of school and community life. Another survey does not tolerate harassment. In addition, they report healthier eating conducted during the 2008-2009 school year by Pacific Consulting Group behaviors and attitudes about their bodies than most ninth-grade girls in of Palo Alto measured extremely high satisfaction levels among Thacher independent schools. Ninth-grade boys also scored very high on five of the parents and students and showed that substance use by students is practisix subscales. Likewise, Thacher’s senior girls were notable in exceeding cally nonexistent at Thacher.

“The perceptions tabulated in these surveys are why we have the low- the national average, reporting behaviors and attitudes that make Thacher unique in fostering a positive body image in senior girls. Of all schools, est attrition rate of any top boarding school,” comments Head of School Thacher received the highest ratings from senior girls on the Michael K. Mulligan. “But it’s something our faculty and staff all work at “respect” subscale. every day. We handpick the best students, attract and keep the best The ISGP was established in 1997 to “create a framework of research, teachers, and work together day in and day out to create a culture in which assessment, and strategies for change through which schools can adeach student is known, is supported, and is challenged to be his or her dress gender-based practices and attitudes affecting girls and women in very best. I’m not saying it’s always easy, but it sure is nice to have this 12 fall 2009

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Sophomore boys (left) catch up at the end of the day in the Los Padres room of their prefect and (right) two sophomore girls divvy up the last of the brownie batter in the new Hill Dormitories kitchen.

order to promote whole and healthy environments for both females and males in our schools.”

The ISGP survey findings were echoed by the results of the biennial student and parent survey process Thacher conducts with the help of Pacific Consulting Group. This year’s aggregate overall satisfaction ratings offer a very favorable assessment of Thacher’s performance: Parent satisfaction averaged 6.6 on a 7-point scale; student satisfaction averaged 6.21 out of 7.

The survey also returned good news with regard to many important dimensions of student life. For example, the survey asked students to estimate the number of their peers who engage in drug or alcohol use on campus. The average estimate was less than 1 percent.

Free response items put these figures into words. According to one freshman girl, “Thacher is a campus full of kind, caring people who are sincerely interested in your development as a person, student, and friend.”

Another puts it this way: “Compared to back home, Thacher is like a safe haven for me. The pressures I feel are positive here.”

“We don’t think families should have to choose between a rigorous academic program and a nurturing community,” said Michael.

“We believe we offer both here at Thacher, and the recent survey results confirm it. Of course, we don’t take these findings for granted; they are the fruit of our ongoing efforts to create these conditions on campus. These surveys are so valuable to us because, in addition to helping us measure success, they guide our attention to the things

we could be doing better.”

This year’s surveys have focused the administration’s attention on areas of personal development and health. Parent feedback indicates that Thacher needs to take a look at the pace of student life and the balance of academic and extracurricular activities. Students share these concerns and seek better opportunities for nutritious eating and sleep. The school is also acting on survey input by making plans to provide more leadership opportunities for upperclass students, especially girls. “That’s why we do this survey again and again. These are things we can and will address,” said Michael.

This spirit of self-examination and continuous improvement has long been a part of the Thacher ethos. For proof, just read Sherman Day Thacher’s letters to Horace Taft, his dear friend, confidant, and colleague in the boarding school business. Or open Roy Makepeace’s Sherman Thacher and his School or Jack Huyler’s The Stamp of the School. (All are available through the Thacher Library.) Or listen to the annual first-day-of-classes reading aloud of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s poem, “The Chambered Nautilus,” by Head of School Michael Mulligan—a tradition started by SDT over a century ago to exhort us all—as individuals and as a community—to stretch and grow and move beyond our present shell chamber into successively larger and “more stately mansions.” (And by that we don’t mean the spanking new Hill Dormitories that now house the sophomore girls and their prefects—though some might call it stately indeed!) ­—Christopher J. Land The Thacher School 13

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Admission’s Aaron Mieszsanski and Marquis Warren ‘11 meet up during Study Hall to get things done; “King of the Hill“ Mr. Elmore and Bonnie Prince Charlie get a kick out of their new home; Zoey Poll ‘12 works in her cozy room.

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Student Survey Results of Note • Questionnaires were completed by 235 students in December 2008. Student perceptions of The Thacher School were very favorable. The current overall satisfaction rating of 6.21 (out of 7) was an increase from the survey of 2006-2007.

• Students are most satisfied with academic programs and departments; teachers and administrators; and facilities.

• The greatest opportunities for improving student satisfaction are in the areas of activities, clubs, and community life; student leadership; and grading and homework.

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out the year. Issues around grading and homework seem to indicate that students would like their grades to better represent the work they feel they put into them.

Finally, addressing the quantity of homework is always something to review across the curriculum.

Parent Survey Results of Note • Questionnaires were completed by 136 parents in January 2009. Parents gave Thacher an overall satisfaction rating of 6.6 on a 7-point scale.

• Parents are most satisfied with School culture and discipline; the Horse Program; and teachers and administrators.

• The greatest opportunities for improving parent satisfaction are in personal development and health, activities, clubs and community life, and community composition.

Overall, parents are highly satisfied with their experience of Thacher, but they are looking for more insight into how to ease the pace and create more balance in their children’s lives at Thacher. Students undertake a rigorous academic load along with a host of extracurricular activities and often can feel over extended. It is an ongoing discussion among the faculty as to how to best support Thacher students who strive to be their best. Like their children, parents are also looking to see an increase in cultural activities in surrounding cities on the weekends to provide more variety for their children.

Creating a student population from a greater variety of incomes is also a priority on their list for the School.

To address concerns about weekend activities, the Indoor Committee (the student committee that plans the weekend events) has begun to offer more opportunities for trips to the beach and cultural events on a more frequent basis this year. Weekend camping trips will be strongly encouraged, providing students with significant opportunities to enjoy the natural world surrounding our beautiful campus. The School Chair and Community Council is already busy at work planning how to communicate more effectively the good work they do behind the scenes to examine guidelines and policies and reevaluate what is working well and what is not. In our early faculty meetings, academic departments have already begun to assess the merits of their homework expectations and they will continue to discuss and shift the focus when appropriate.

Transmitting Community Monique DeVane (who, as Thacher’s assistant head for external affairs, helped launch the student and parent surveys a decade ago) reminds us that quantifying community, as useful as that may be, cannot tell the whole story. Returning to campus this fall as a first-time Thacher parent, Monique reflected on more enduring measures of community.

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eflecting on what we owe our children, the author and aviator Antoine de St-Exupery wrote, “Let us build memories in our children, lest they drag out joyless lives, lest they allow treasures to be lost because they have not been given the keys. We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.”

These words rang in my mind most recently as I had the pleasure of taking part in one of Thacher’s many start-of-school rituals, new student

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registration. Unlike years past, when I participated as a member of the faculty, this fall I was fully immersed in the role of “mom.” After a summer of anticipation, registration day arrived, and memories were most definitely being made as we traveled the long-short walk from the parking lot to the table at the Mulligans’. In this moment, and in the hours that followed, I was reassured in both new and familiar ways of how powerfully Thacher transmits its particular culture of community from one generation to the next.

Perhaps by design, perhaps by chance, our first hours at Thacher were loaded with invitations and insights into the School’s community. Watching Michael Mulligan dance to “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” in the Milligan Center, listening to Cam Schryver’s poetic explanation about the meaning of the Horse Program, leaning into the reassuring clasp of the dormitory faculty members’ hands as they took a bag or offered a hug, it was clear

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that Thacher’s adult community was rich in its shared understanding of the School’s purpose and promise.

Even more revealing of Thacher’s community, however, were the many seniors who stood out in their roles as welcomers and helpers. As each was matched with a nerve-wracked newcomer, the older students stepped up beautifully as guides, experts, and evidence of what might be possible.

The night before, at a welcome event for families from out of state, a group of prefects had each been asked to say a word about what, as new students, had most worried them. It was the perfect invitation. The students were striking in their poise and obvious accomplishments, but what they shared, with candor and humor, were their fears. You could almost feel the new students exhale and connect. By sharing their own vulnerabilities, these seniors demonstrated both confidence and empathy for what it is to enter a new place, full of expectations and anxiety and hope that one day, perhaps soon, it would feel like home.

Community is such a core element of Thacher’s fabric that it is almost impossible to pull apart the individual threads that comprise it. Familiar rituals, grand hopes, and small gestures all contribute to the sense of purpose and gracious warmth that Thacher radiates. And as much as it can be instructive to dissect and rate its different components through exercises such as the Student and Parent Survey, such instruments can never truly capture or measure the essence of a community. It exists as a gestalt of tradition, commitment, shared experience, and hundreds of visible and less visible personal choices made daily by people who want to be a part of something worthy, something bigger than themselves.

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At the beginning of winter break last year, Michael and Joy Sawyer-Mulligan began a sabbatical that ended just before school began this fall. Soon after their return, they sat down with us to talk about their time away.

THACHER: What was the genesis of your sabbatical?

MKM: The president of Thacher’s Board of Trustees, Justin Faggioli, came to me about halfway through the recently completed Campaign for Thacher and said, “Michael, you’ve been at this school more than 20 years, and you’ve been Head of School 16. When we complete this campaign, maybe it would be a great time for you and Joy to have some personal and professional development, away from Thacher.” I said, “Sounds like a good idea. Let’s get through the campaign and see what happens.” In my 33 years as an educator, I’ve had a leave to do graduate work, but never a sabbatical.

The initial offer was for a full year, similar to what faculty members receive, but Joy and I felt it would be best to meet the new kids and parents, get the year going, and then leave at Christmas. Otherwise, we’d return to what would essentially be a 50-percent-new school the following year.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Justin and the Trustees who made this possible and who, independent of school money, helped pay for the educational aspects of our experience.

Our thanks also go to Peter Robinson for ably leading the School during this period, to Kurt Meyer, who shifted into Peter’s role as Director of Studies, and to the rest of the faculty and administration for their forbearance and extra efforts in making it possible for us to go.

THACHER: Tell me about some of the high points.

MKM: First, we planned our time away by reminding ourselves of what we espouse philosophically for students and for faculty: a sense of intellectual challenge and rigor, a sense of physical well-being, time for spiritual insight and advancement, and time to travel and see and do new things.

We packed in a lot. I studied at Harvard with school leaders from around the world; we volunteered at a brand new international boarding school and helped it on its way; we read a wide array of literature—some of it just for fun; visited our daughter, parents, siblings, and extended families; traveled to Europe, Africa, and Asia to look at the world from a broader cultural vantage point; cooked homemade food; even went to a movie or two!

As well as giving me time for personal reflection and growth far away from the activities of school life, this sabbatical also allowed me to reflect on my professional work at Thacher and to study innovations in teaching that transcend the independent school model. My time at Harvard, for example, allowed me to explore the question: What is it that Thacher can and should learn about what the experts say about the best teaching in schools 16 fall 2009

THACHER: What did you see them doing at the community-building level that was new or distinct from what we might do here at Thacher?

MKM: They had a complete program developed by a think tank of consultants and educators focused on teaching leadership and its related skills via a whole curriculum. We sat in on a seminar on different leadership styles and how they work within the context of conflict resolution and negotiation. It’s made me want to engage the faculty here at Thacher in a conversation about how we might more directly teach leadership as a discipline in itself.

JSM: Here, we make the presumption that, by the time kids are juniors and seniors, they know how to lead by having watched powerful role models in older students. But, in fact, there are things that can and should be explicitly taught. At ALA there are rigorous academics, as at Thacher, but there’s also this leadership component, and a third element, entrepreneurship—again, taught via curriculum and mentors in the Johannesburg community. By the time kids are at the end of their first year of this twoyear program, they have put into motion a comprehensive project that they have been carefully mentored on—it’s not like the Senior Exhibition, because it’s a real project solving a discrete problem in a living community. That made us wonder whether there are more explicit, curricular approaches we might take toward preparing Thacher students to be leaders.

MKM: In other words, how do we do a better job of educating, training, and inspiring Thacher students to be strong leaders? I think we have a significant opportunity here, strategic and otherwise, to improve the Thacher education, and to send out graduates ready to lead.

Also, Thacher has historically been fairly indirect about the concept of giving back to the world and its community. We sort of assume that each student does it in his or her own way, finding their own inner spark.

Witnessing ALA’s approach has led me to wonder how we might finetune our program.

By the same token, there is only so much room in any school’s program, and choices must be made. ALA, for example, is a school that doesn’t offer art, or music, or drama, doesn’t offer sports or an outdoor program in any significant way. Some kids there struggled by not being able to express themselves in those important ways. One of our recommendations was to try to develop some outlets for them.

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around the world? (See sidebar on page 18 for some of the answers.)

During our visit to the School Year Abroad campus in Viterbo, Italy, we saw firsthand what it is like for Thacher kids to live in a foreign country with a host family—clearly, it can be a transformative experience.

Our visit to the African Leadership Academy gave us a chance to evaluate an entirely new boarding school with a unique mission and vision, and to see what the challenges are in configuring a school philosophically and practically. From the ground up, how do you set up school rules, discipline, counseling, academic, and extracurricular programs? ALA’s goal is to produce graduates who will return after university to help construct the communities of their home countries and their home cities, through science, medicine, law, economics, and political science.

JSM: It’s an incredibly bold and lofty vision that this place is founded on.

You take the continent of Africa and wonder, how do we find the best— most motivated, talented, idealistic, determined—200 kids on this continent? What’s amazing is that they’ve actually begun to do it.

Shelter? Sustenance? Regeneration? The themes of community intersect with those of sabbatical in these images, influenced by a photography workshop and the independent study that Joy pursued during her time away from Thacher.

JSM: Coming from Thacher, it was also clear to us that ALA faced some challenges in their residential program because they cannot accommodate enough faculty in the dormitory areas. We left them with a seven-page report, and one of our major recommendations was that they create more on-campus housing for faculty.

MKM: A central part of Thacher’s community-building happens in our dorm areas, which have powerful, adult, experienced leadership in the dorm heads. We’re not appointing our youngest faculty members to those jobs. The rest of the faculty is divided up among the dorms, each with its own culture. That’s where ALA has a lot of work to do, and where we’re well ahead of the game.

THACHER: What were you able to take away from your time at Harvard?

MKM: At the Harvard Principals’ Center, I studied with 145 school heads, principals, and superintendents from around the world. The Harvard Principals’ Center, the Gates Foundation, and others have now spent a number of years sending their experts around the world to the very best schools, public and private, in an effort to determine what works and what doesn’t, and what’s feasible and what’s not. The path to improving our schools

does not always lead where we think it will.

For example, the U.S. now ranks number 28 on the list of first-world nations, in education. Twenty-eighth! Who’s first? Finland. Does Finland have small classes? No. In Finland it’s all about teacher training. The top 2 percent of Finnish graduates go into education, meaning that their teachers are the crème de la crème.

All of this challenges some of our notions about teaching and the nature of great teaching and how it is recognized, how it is developed. A lot of teachers want to maintain the idea that their classrooms are their kingdoms—their private domain. But the experts tell us that the private classroom is not tenable. The evidence is that here is good teaching and there is not-so-good teaching and that the former can be studied and learned. And a walled-off classroom doesn’t help that. Moreover, collaborative work is very powerful for kids and for faculties together.

When teachers have opportunities to learn from one another, students benefit, and the school becomes stronger. Our faculty has already been experimenting with better forms of mentoring and more collaborative class formats and I’m enthusiastic about bringing some of this research to the conversation.

Sabbatical High Points: “Every day... was a very good day” January

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Iowa yoga and meditation retreat.

Back to Ojai and Thacher to meet the second visit kids and their parents. What a great crop!

Volunteering as consultants at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa (with time in Cape Town and Kruger National Park).

Thacher Commencement!

Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Back at the cabin to squeeze the last drops from summer and begin the long drive back to Ojai.

Joining Annie in Denver for some mom-anddaughter time.

A visit to the School Year Abroad campus in Viterbo, Italy.

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Sailing out of Narragansett Bay and along the New England coast.

Time in New England and Chicago with family and alum friends.

Visiting family in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Grandmaster lacrosse tournament in Vail, Colorado.

Santa Fe Photography Workshop, New Mexico.

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TOUCHSTONES FOR excellent teaching The Harvard program presented some of the latest research on what works in the classroom. Mr. Mulligan shares his takeaways.

1. Provide immediate and accurate feedback.

Teachers should find routine ways to make quick and accurate assessments of what students know. Example: clicker technology for real-time polling of who knows what.

2. Offer routine practice interim assessments.

Do not throw kids into tests and exams without first giving them real, routine, and accurate practice. Would you take a team into a big game without some live scrimmages?

3. Elucidate difficult abstract concepts with concrete examples.

It’s easier said than done, but successful teachers are able to find the right metaphor, story, or illustration—“sticky ideas at critical inflection points”—to enable the struggling learner to grasp the gist of a difficult topic.

4. Say it with feeling.

Emotion and intellect are two sides of the same coin. Want your students to learn something critical and keep it for good? You must dial up the emotional index alongside the intellectual one because lessons learned with feeling are etched deeper in the memory.

5. Collaborate.

It’s the norm in the working world, why not in schools? Not only does it prepare students for team projects later in life, it opens the possibility of more expert voices and enlivens the material through give and take.

6. Teach like a coach.

It’s easy for teachers to inhabit a limiting mindset: “I teach, you learn; if you don’t know it, that is your fault and your problem.” A coach, however, takes some responsibility for a poor performance: “If you are not learning, I am not teaching.” Great teachers are great coaches.

7. Want to evaluate a teacher? Watch the students!

Watching students learn—and not watching teachers teach—is the key. How are students spending their classroom time? Where are their eyes? What are they writing? Watching the students will tell you if the teacher is actually teaching well.

Photos: aida Ohanjanian

THACHER: Joy, what were you able to bring back for your work?

JSM: In June, I headed to New Mexico to participate in a weeklong Santa Fe Photography Workshop. I was there with some amazingly creative and skilled people learning from master photographers. I was learning all the time. I don’t know that you’ll see any huge difference in my photos, but I hope that they’ll have some greater level of awareness in them, a sharper consciousness of how to tell the Thacher story.

Much of what I took away from the experience had little to do with photography. I was challenged there as a student. I wasn’t very good at just playing with my camera. I was incredibly humbled by the talent around me, by the speed at which others seemed to pick up skills and concepts.

And I realized that all of these are things my students feel. The biggest lesson was not my learning what an aperture was or how to play with exposure compensation, although I’m happy to know those things, finally. It was that being a struggling “kid” on the other side of the desk reminded me of the importance of being keenly aware of what my English students are bringing in the door and how it might be expressed in interactions I have with them inside the classroom as well as out.

MKM: In a related way, our experience has left me with an unequivocal affirmation of the importance of the sabbatical, because teaching can be a very insular thing. Unless you’re actually working with a team regularly, you might be doing the same thing year in and year out. In fact, they’ve learned that it’s very hard to get teachers to change how they teach— because even when you show them different methods, they end up doing it the same old way. A good sabbatical would, I think, be one where you can get out into a different educational setting for a sustained period of time, to really absorb new and different ways of understanding and teaching.

JSM: That—and the growth mindset we want to instill in our students. A sabbatical gives you the supreme opportunity to model the ideal of lifelong learning.

MKM: And given the powerful good that sabbaticals offer, it’s of great concern to me that Thacher’s program has been put on hold. Despite the fact that our School has weathered this great recession better than most of our peers, the endowment has suffered, and consequently, so has our operating income. One of the steps we had to take in response to this loss was to suspend the sabbatical program. And while we can do that temporarily, it would be a significant mistake not to find a way to finance this permanently for the long haul, because it’s such a cornerstone of the Thacher faculty experience.

In a paradoxical way, sabbaticals are one of the more important ways we cultivate community at Thacher. By allowing our faculty members this focused time out of the community, we welcome them back with new ideas and restored energy, which they in turn impart to the rest of us.

Every day of this sabbatical was a very good day; many were unforgettable. Our horizons were broadened; our learning, deepened; our family connections, strengthened. Our understanding of teaching and the education of adolescents is more refined and considered. Both of us are fired up, happy to be back, and looking forward to the work in front of Thacher and us. a

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Thacher is one community within any number of larger, often overlapping communities. Part of the Thacher education involves being exposed to the world—really, worlds—beyond our gates.

This is how we transmit and come to better understand the values upon which the campus community is based, especially that of service to a shared world.

This happens at many times and in many places throughout the year, but often quite powerfully at the annual Senior Banquet, when Thacher’s commencement speaker takes the podium. Last June, we heard from Thomas Cole CdeP 1987, who has gone forth to do his good work in the world and reported back to members of the class of 2009 and their families.

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hese are uncertain times in the world. The global financial crisis. The global hunger crisis. What does it mean for you? Indeed, what does it mean for all of us? As you move out of those stone gates tomorrow you are going to be tested. You’ll begin to take your own decisions, to make your own choices. Much of the support structure that’s gotten you through this wonderful place will slide into the background and you’ll be expected, even required, to step up. The author Natalie Goldberg calls this “stepping forward;” not waiting for someone to answer your requests or queries, not hoping or even expecting that someone might give you the awaited nod to continue, or the gentle push forward. As I graduated from Thacher, and even well into college, I was waiting for that someone—namely my mother or father—to guide me along life’s path, to steer me. I really thought that it would, or should, be like that. Basically, the trail had been marked my entire life. Yet there came a point when I realized I had to bushwhack, to cut my own trail.

I should tell you, I almost didn’t make it through Thacher. I lost my way a few times and in the process let more than a few people down.

It was a difficult experience, and humbling, but ultimately it taught me a lot about the values of this school, and the values of the people who make it a community.

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provides you with the tools, or the framework, to step out into the world with confidence. And that’s what needs to be done. During your tenure you’ve learned service and humility, compassion, community, and critical thought. To me this is the essence of what Thacher is all about, this is the glue that binds together all of the book knowledge you’ve spent the last four years acquiring. So wherever you go from here, be confident in the fact that you do have what it takes to make

photoS: PHIL BOWEN

The Practical Dreamer: Thacher Senior Banquet Speech

the right decisions, to know where to go. You are now ready to live what the Japanese poet Basho once implored: “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

So, pick an idea, or a passion, or an interest, and then follow it, explore, see what it means for you. It’s important to follow those whims and those voices that stem from intuition or derive from the more creative side, regardless of what people say in trying to convince you otherwise, those who say you can only be successful and content by earning a certain degree, landing the job, and falling in line with expectations. Feel confident in the choices you make, because they are your own, and because they derive from an experience such as this here at Thacher.

Yet let’s get back to what’s out beyond those gates. The scale of what faces us is profound.

Globally, 75 million children fail to complete primary school—either because they have to drop out or because they never got the chance to attend in the first place. In the U.S. nearly 2.5 million fourth graders don’t read at grade level, almost 70 percent of all fourth graders in public schools. Close to 10 million children a year die from what are largely preventable or treatable diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, newborn sepsis, malaria, or HIV/AIDS. With the global financial crisis wreaking havoc around the world, we’re seeing for the first time in a generation a marked increase in the number of the world’s poor and hungry. In the last year

Thomas Cole has been involved in educational work with Save the Children in the Karamoja Region of Uganda. “Rewrite the Future” is the organization’s global educational campaign in conflict-affected countries.

Speaking of Community Thacher graduates engage, sustain, and improve their communities in myriad ways. Turn to the Class Notes section, which begins on page 28, to hear more alumni voices about the work they do in their communities and what it means to them.

Elena Brokaw CdeP 1987 ‘’…to counteract creeping visual pablum, to stave off homogenization.’’

See page 37.

and a half alone those numbers have risen from 850 million to close to a billion people.

Until you’ve seen it firsthand, these numbers might seem a little abstract, if not overwhelming. Through my work I’ve experienced what warfare and neglect can do to people and institutions. I’ve seen the devastation. When Peter Robinson called me some months back I was out in the far Northeast of Uganda, along the Kenyan border in a region called Karamoja.

Beset by drought, government indifference, and chronic insecurity, Karamoja has some of the worst human development indicators in Africa, if not the world. Yet there I was with close to 100 students of all ages, youth and children scratching out letters and numbers in the dusty earth. No walls, no roof, no blackboard or school books—only a giant acacia tree for shade and an indomitable spirit to learn. To me, the story isn’t about despair or a loss of hope; the story is about that will to learn, the resiliency I’ve seen in countless people throughout the world to beat the odds. That is the essence.

Let me tell the story of my CEO at Save the Children, Charlie MacCormack, and his experience as an undergraduate at Middlebury in the mid-1960s. There was a visiting scholar from Mozambique, the exiled president of the Mozambican Liberation Front­, Eduardo Mondlane, who essentially told Charlie and some other students: “You don’t know how fortunate you are to be living in a country where you are likely to grow up in a peaceful situation, where you and your children will have enough to eat, where you will have a roof over your head, and you will have the benefit of some of the best educational opportunities in the world and probably 99 percent of your peers around the world

can’t hope or look forward to any of those sorts of things, and you should really think about involving yourself in those issues, because they will be the great issues of your lifetime.”

Eduardo Mondlane was assassinated three years after that time at Middlebury, and Charlie MacCormack went on to head Save the Children. The inspiration for me is that those are still the critical issues facing us some 40 or 45 years later. The challenge remains the same.

So this comes back to us here, to you now as you leave this place. You are those same students that Eduardo Mondlane was addressing. You’ve got the world before you, ­albeit a world a little more battered and bruised and uncertain than when I graduated 20 years back.

The challenge is how to be engaged citizens and heed that call. No matter what path you end up taking, this era clamors for some of the glue I spoke of earlier, the collective body of the Thacher experience distilled from mucking out a stall or winning the Tony Dunn sportsmanship award; from making it through subfreezing temperatures on your first Extra-Day Trip to just making it here tonight. The world needs problem-solvers; it needs those unafraid to ask questions or to have an imagination or to figure out how to get things done. This is not the time to stand idly by. Although spoken in 1940, the American literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford’s observation rings so true today when he said that “this is one of those times when only the dreamers will turn out to be the practical [ones].” a Thomas Cole has recently been working on frontline humanitarian response and post-conflict recovery in Africa and Central America.

Mark Holman CdeP 1986 “…africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of African that is packaged primarily for western viewers.”

See page 36.

Jim Labbe CdeP 1990 “...an attempt to sustain the shared living experience that many of us knew in college and, in my case, at Thacher.”

See page 38.

Guadalupe NickelL CdeP 1992 “People thrive when nature thrives.”

See page 39.

Tony Oliver-Smith CdeP 1960 “Community is an outcome, a result of a shared past.”

See page 30.

D. Andrew Kille CdeP 1967 “Community always requires this delicate dance between the individual and the group.”

See page 33.

Reilly Pollard CdeP 1976 “The Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics…are part of the critical safety net for Santa Barbara County.”

See page 34.

Stan Penton CdeP 1976 “…to connect each participant with a community, one another, nature, and finally the horses and other animals.”

See page 35.

Caitlin “Cat” Caldwell CdeP 1999 “In a healthy community, you have the freedom to grow, change, fail and succeed without being any less accepted or loved.”

See page 40.

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On Campus: A Design View A school community is shaped as much by its campus as by its culture.

Thacher’s built environment began with no-nonsense ranch structures that made little distinction between dormitory and barn. This venturesome, dust-and-sweat ethos produced the long-gone shacks on Beetleville Hill and the category-defying Rough-House. Elsewhere, Study Hall and Upper School embodied more refined designs that voiced claims to Eastern respectability in a distinctly Western accent. More recent projects have thoughtfully advanced the School’s mission while connecting with the past; we see this in the wide open spaces of Lower School and the careful integration of student and faculty living spaces in the just-completed Hill Dormitories. In their own ways, the Milligan Center and Commons were also designed to fulfill a particular community-building role, thereby revealing important truths about the sort of community Thacher aspires to be.

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photos: Benny Chan, Aida Ohanjanian, Thacher archives, Phil Channing

n my mind, the Thacher Commons and Milligan Performing Arts Center began in the fall of 1997, when, after visiting our older daughter Eliza, who was a sophomore, I chatted with Michael Mulligan for a few minutes in his Olympus office. I offhandedly asked him what his heart’s desire for the campus was and he said he wanted to build a new auditorium that would accommodate the whole School and offer a performance space worthy of Thacher’s talented students. The School also needed an indoor space for students of both sexes to gather outside of class for meetings, informal events, and relaxation.

Fast forward a few years to the creation of an architecture review committee comprising faculty, trustees, and a few alums, including architects Ross Anderson CdeP 1969, Peter Mathews CdeP 1976, Nick Noyes CdeP 1976, and myself—not an architect but an architectural historian/editor.

In early meetings with trustees, we shifted the site from the Coniferous Bosque near the Upper School—where a previous master plan had placed it—back to the area between the Pergola and the headmaster’s house (be careful what you wish for!). My personal feeling was that since the Pergola was the heart of the School, where public and private functions already took place, it was only logical to locate the new auditorium and student commons there as well. I thought the overlapping functions— and proximity to the Dining Hall—would make for a more exciting and useful enclave and would reinforce the historic center of campus.

In 2001 the search for an architect prompted some discussion about what sort of design would be suitable for Thacher. Goldilocks might have understood the debate: a desire for something not too hot (modern) and not too cold (traditional) —or is that vice versa? —but just right; in other words, something that expressed Thacher values. I, for one, thought that somehow it ought to be modest but memorable, which you could say was completely contradictory and not very helpful. All agreed that the landscape, the views, and outdoor connections were the keys to everything and that an architect needed to acknowledge this first. Barton Phelps got it right away. He and his firm understood the School’s ranch DNA—taking

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The Pergola’s open-air corridor extends into the Commons (far left); the Hill Dormitories connect student rooms to common areas and the great outdoors (top); the category-defying Rough-House; and (this page) an “architectural arroyo” stages campus views.

inspiration from what he calls “the angular unity and sculptural potential of California barns.” And they closely studied campus patterns and view corridors as well as program needs before coming up with their wonderful two-part invention.

The design deftly accommodates a complex program, but I think it is absolutely ingenious in the way it reinvigorates the Pergola, extends an existing circulation corridor, and connects to the site and views. The Pergola’s trellis is, after all, an open-air hallway. The Commons simply extends it indoors as a gallery/street with the “Toad” bulletin board, mail center, store, recreation rooms, restrooms, and the Thacher Room all opening off it. So the Pergola acquires new meaning as the start of an exciting spatial journey. In a parallel gesture, the great west-facing balcony opens the major spaces to the dazzling valley view under a sheltering eave, functioning as another airy corridor-connector at the same time.

Part of the ingenuity of the complex is that all roads lead into or from the landscape, which is a true Thacher value. Consider the big square window high in the theater wall, for example: by perfectly framing Twin Peaks it brings them into the room, like a sort of landscape deus ex machina. Now I happen to know that Barton is a fan of The Earth, The Temple, and The Gods, an influential book by Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully (for whom he worked as a teaching assistant when he was in architecture graduate

school at Yale) in which Scully talks about how Greek temples were oriented to distinctive landscape features. Here was his chance to do the same.

Another landscape connection is the very heart of the entire complex: the new architectural arroyo between the Commons and the Milligan Center. In the best tradition of urban design, this space is both a passage and a place: the street as outdoor room. It’s a gathering area before the performance and in some ways it’s also the performance itself because the cleft between the two buildings frames views east to the Upper School and west to the Valley below. The vistas are themselves on stage. Maybe I’m getting carried away, but I like to think of this space as a descendant of the Outdoor Theatre and the Outdoor Chapel: a lens connecting Thacher to itself and the outer world. On New Year’s Day the Pope gives a speech from his balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome and it is called “Urbi et Orbi:” to the city of Rome and to the world. That’s exactly how this space functions: to the School and to the Ojai. Symbolically, though perhaps not practically, it is a suggestive progression: a kind of graduation ceremony.

Great architecture should help you see a place in new ways or as if for the first time. I think the outside of the Commons and Milligan Center is good for the inside of Thacher students.

— Daniel Gregory CdeP 1969 Editor-in-Chief, Houseplans.com

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Golden Trout Update

By Cam Spaulding CdeP 1992

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n June 8, hours after the class of ’09 had etched their names into the annals of the Thacher graduated, six students and I loaded into a Suburban and headed on the long hot highway from Ojai to Lone Pine and up to Golden Trout Camp. Despite below-freezing temperatures and falling snow, summer had begun, and ahead of us lay three months of hard work and fun in the High Sierra. Over the course of the summer 14 current and former Thacher students would, along with me, call the Cottonwood Lakes basin their office, working from sunup to sundown on a variety of projects and daily chores.

First and foremost on our to-do list was breaking ground on a new outhouse for the camp, with the previous commode in its 28th year of use and ready for retirement.

Now anyone who has spent some time in the Sierra knows that digging even the smallest hole can be a hearty endeavor, but in the span of less than a week our cadre of shovelblunters managed to excavate a ten-foot deep and eight-foot square hole in the rock-rich moraine astride the camp. To complement this backbreaking labor, the kids also washed every pot, pan, and dish in the camp, set up the solar power station, and erected the 11 canvas tent cabins that the camp’s guests call home during the various summer programs.

Now if you haven’t been to the camp in years or (gasp) ever at all, let the summer of 2010 provide you your (re)introduction. We’ll be opening the summer with the Natural History Workshop (www.goldentroutworkshops. org) which includes a black and white digital

This page (Clockwise from top): Katy Bartzokis CdeP 2009 tunes up the Golden Trout power plant; Javier Quiroz ‘11 and Manny Camarillo ‘10 break ground for a new outhouse; and night after night, the stars put on their show.

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photography seminar. Then comes the alumni encampment with its fantastic food (we’re talking hand-cranked ice cream and eggs benedict here...) and guided naturalist hikes. We are also adding an alpine ecology and botanical drawing class to our standard programming for 2010. Along with all this there are weeks available for private parties to rent the facility along with donkeys to pack in your gear and food, a cook, and a naturalist to lead you on daily walks. The camp is complete with hot showers, private tent cabins, excellent food, and a view

and surrounding beauty that can’t be beat.

We hope you’ll come and join us next summer to witness all the great work that these Thacher students are putting in to make the camp a wonderful place for you to visit and to check out the changes that are helping make GTC one of the best hike-in facilities in the Sierra Nevada. Dates for upcoming programs and available weeks will be up on the Thacher website soon or you can contact me, Cam Spaulding CdeP 1992, at cspauding@thacher.org.

Indentured at Elevation

By Brianna Bohnett ‘10

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did not know I would find and love the majestic sunsets, cool flowing creeks, fascinating rock formations, and wild trees with swirling bark of the Eastern Sierra. I did know that I was signing myself up for three weeks of immersion in wilderness and for three weeks of physical labor. Although I’d heard it would be strenuous, it would be good to give my mind a break and I had a fierce desire to build something.

As workers at the lovely Golden Trout Camp, we toiled roughly from 8 a.m. ’til dark. Days began and ended with our daily chores (trapping mice, cleaning dishes, checking the water filter or the propane tanks, making sure the bathrooms were in a fair state, etc.). In between (when the campers were enjoying a hike or wishing they hadn’t signed themselves up for such physical activity), Cam Spaulding and Nick Tranmer, both CdeP 1992, would get out their metaphorical whips and put their servants (us Thacher students) to work on the bigger jobs.

Some of my favorite jobs were: rock bridge building, new outhouse construction, trench digging, rock moving, saw bucking, wood chopping, cabin cleaning, the semi-occasional tansy mustard picking, barbed-wire cleanup, burro packing, and the six-person-powered rolling of a 700 pound log that is destined to become a wonderfully comfortable bench to rest on by a blazing campfire. Yes, we Thacher students did this work, and more, but I have no complaints! Why? Because, we managed to cram in as much fun as possible into our days as well. We laughed and sang too much. We took many a hacky-sack break, and we had plenty of delicious food to keep our bellies a little too full.

As if hard physical labor and laughter weren’t enough for the mind, body, and soul, I found a love of adventuring in the Sierra. I have many epic adventures to share with you, to inspire you to join us in the Sierra and create your own adventures. My adventures included but were not limited

to: hunting for king porchini mushrooms; snow ball fights at 13,000 feet; sliding down 200 feet of gravel rock; a Fourth-of-July picnic overlooking distant red, white, and blue fireworks; a full-moon night climb to the Mesa; and reaching Mt. Langley (14,032 feet), through ice and boulders as a shocking pink sunset burst into the sky.

I truly enjoyed every moment of my time at Golden Trout. From digging in a bog (which resulted in nail grime for weeks); to building a sturdy rock bridge; to catching, feeding, and packing the burros; to day hiking to crystal lakes; to overnight stays sleeping on what seemed like the top of the world. Yes, I think that the magnitude of the beauty, learning, and adventure created a perfect summer experience.

Come on up, the water’s…cold!

Summer 2009 Reflections by Bill Crawford CdeP 1953

PHOTOS: CAM SPAULDING

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emember PINE MOUNTAIN LODGE? The anticipation? The sleeping tents, the gourmet meals, the fishing, the swimming, the hikes to interesting viewpoints, tea time, the scenery, and the tennis? Well... it actually exists in the form of Golden Trout Camp!

(Oh, OK... forget the tennis. It’ll have to be horseshoes here.) What a great week to be had for the money. Last week I camped there again with about 20 children, parents, grandparents, friends, and acquaintances, all catered to at one of the most beautiful spots in the Sierra.

Am I the only one from the class of 1953 to know this and to repeatedly take advantage of it? Come on, you guys...why not have a Sierra reunion there where you could proudly show off your extended families?

The two-and-a-half-mile level hike in at 10,000 feet with burros and their attendants packing in your stuff is too easy, you say? The accommodations too luxurious? The meals prepared by a hired cook too decadent?

Your image demands only the rigors of backpacking and bushwhacking, eating rawhide, and sleeping on sharp rocks by a dying campfire?

Well, leave out all of the above and stress the long hikes you’ll take above 10, 11, 12,000 feet, gasping for oxygen. The frigid high-altitude Sierra lakes you’ll swim in. The golden trout to be caught and cooked with the wild mushrooms you gathered (living off the land). The rain and the hail and blazing sun you’ll endure. The peaks you’ll assault. The cross-country routes you’ll pioneer. And on and on.

Whether you want to rough it or take it easy, Golden Trout really is a magnificent way to spend a week’s vacation. And this time I spent two days beforehand at the nearby 10,000-foot Bristlecone Pine Forest on White Mountain. The oldest living tree there is 4,800 years old, older than the pyramids, older even than you think your classmates look!

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Reunion Weekend 2009 This year’s Reunion Weekend proved that alumni from the ’4 and ’9 years—and their families and friends—know how to have a good time! From CdeP 1944 to 2004, alumni came from all over the country and the world (including Kuwait, France, Germany, England, Korea, Brazil, New Zealand, and Australia) to celebrate and renew the ties they formed at Casa de Piedra.

Class of ‘44 Back (L to R): George Hunt, Cathleen Hunt, Jim Noyes, Kelly Clark, Sherm Ewing, Wayne Montgomery, George Kittle. Front: Carol Montgomery, Kellam de Forest, Priscilla Clark, Claire Ewing.

Class of ‘49 Merrill Brown

Class of ‘54 Back (L to R): Ric Laurence, Tony Griffin, Bruce Oxley. Front: Ann Laurence, Jennifer Griffin, Aija Thacher, Phil Thacher.

The weekend was full of opportunities to experience Thacher anew...on the Pergola, on the trails and fields, in the Commons, gym, and dormitories, and at the barns and trap range. From presentations in the classrooms to banquet toasts on the lawn in front of Upper School, alumni and their loved ones reacquainted themselves to share memories and create new ones.

Many thanks to these alumni who helped with planning and presentations: Brad Hanson CdeP 1978, who served as emcee for the banquet and host for the golf game at the Ojai Valley Inn. Cabot Brown CdeP 1979 as the planner/speaker/facilitator for the Memorial Service. You can find his speech at www.thacher.org/magazine.

Stephen Huyler CdeP 1969, who presented on the making of the his latest book Daughters of India: Art and Identity.

Mary Kuechler CdeP 1984 who presented a poem during the Memorial Service.

Class of ‘74 (L to R): Louise Beckham, Bryan Beckham, Mike Frank, Bill Rubenstein, Bruce Poole, Dana Lynge with daughter Claire and son Bjorn, Ned Banning (top row, bolo tie), Martha Johnson.

Class of ‘79 Back (L to R): Paul Manning, Hans Sinha, wife Sharon Andrews to his right, Jeff Loebel, Larry Bosche, Tom O’Brien, Robert Livermore, Mark Leydecker, Chris Bechler (spouse of Diane Downey behind Mark Leydecker), Stuart Allen, David Oxley, John Clarkson. Second row: Russell Bennett, Byron Meo, Bill Wren, John Breckenridge, Kathleen Bannister, Sara Livermore, Dave Heard, Sam Moore, Cabot Brown, Erica Moore, Beth Orrick, Eric Lynge. Front: Bruce Krill, David Marguleas, Sean Ehringer, Brad Morris, Hong My Ngo (Brad Morris’ friend), Julieta Jacob (Dave Heard’s wife) behind, Diane Downey, Lucia Tong (Eric Lynge’s wife), Sam Orrick.

The following alumni offered toasts on behalf of their classmates during the Saturday banquet: Sherm Ewing CdeP 1944 Merrill Brown CdeP 1949 Tony Griffin CdeP 1954 Dick Rhodes CdeP 1959 Dick Livermore CdeP 1964 Jim Munger CdeP 1969 Bruce Poole CdeP 1974 Diane Downey CdeP 1979 Rebecca Bowman CdeP 1984 Catherine Ann Ruhl CdeP 1989 Jennifer Kritz CdeP 1994 Clinton Lowe CdeP 1999 Evan Werlin CdeP 2004 We missed all who couldn’t make it to campus this past June and invite you to mark your calendars for June 2014 for another opportunity to assemble with family and friends at Thacher. For those who graduated in a ’0 or ’5 year, we hope to see you in June 2010!

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Class of ‘94 Back (L to R): Sam Ditzion, Jennifer Kritz, Robert Geraci, Michael Vining, Vince Cichoski, Devon Brown Cichoski, Jane Casamajor, Laura Brinton Thompson, Zach Story, John Thompson, Seana Stephens, Justin Stephens, Greg Mauk, Skye Rohde, Brian Rowe. Middle: Kevin Frank, Jovi Young Geraci, Howie Kroehl, Erik Teevin. Front: Abby Ramsden, Mary Everett Conarroe, Katie Kirkmire, Vika Mchedlishvili-Kroehl, Aspin Bowers Teevin, Meredith Bressie, Allison Natcher Mettler, Elizabeth Story-Hieronymus, Mia Story, Heather Nichols (on step), Chris Nichols, Ysette Guevara.

Class of ‘59 Back (L to R): Lew Marsten, John Lewis, Robert Gallaway, Pam Gallaway, Linda Mayne, Steve Mayne, David Zellerbach. Third row: Sher Clyde, George Clyde, Russell Callander, Michael Wallace, Judy Wallace, Chris Henze, Linda Petit, Wes Petit, Elizabeth Zellerbach. Second row: Robert Boyd, Mary Ellen Boyd, Karen Wyeth, Tony Bryan, Harry Wyeth, Bill Myrin, Anne Heard, John Heard. Front: Margaret Rhodes, Richard Rhodes, Freeman Ford, Leo Acquistapace, Carolyn Acquistapace, Charlotte Bell, Tom Bell.

Class of ‘64 (L to R): Katie Van Horne, Dick Livermore, Laurie Eggers, Khaled Al-Shaya, Tom Curran, Paula Curran.

Class of ‘84 Back (L to R): Kyhm Penfil, Arie Shen, Dan Grout (Liz’s Husband), Evan Bakst, Paul Kick (Mary Kuechler’s husband). Middle: Ricky White, Brooke Boyton White, Brad Jones, Louis Parlor, John Webb, Rebecca Bowman, Mary Kuechler, Diana Lewis Callahan, Liam Callahan, Peter Thacher. Front: Launce Gamble, Bella Gamble, Justine McGuiness Sneddon, Sydney Jones, Vicki Nesbitt Parlor, Elizabeth Harrigan, Soraya Ayob Minty, Yazmin Tong, Alexander Djordjevich, David Chao.

Class of ‘99 Back (L to R): Jake Foster, Katie Russell, Mollie Gardner, Brady Johnstone. Middle: Julian Quasha, Claire Kendrick, Chad Berona, Tania Al-Awar, Robert Grether, Clinton Lowe, Alain Mathaulot (Sarah Sawyer’s husband), Sarah Sawyer. Middle: (starts near center of photo) Lauren McCloskey Elston, Erin Campbell, Jonathan Berman, Peter Hockaday, Evan Kanaly Herberts, Melanie Larkin. Front: Kelsey McCarty, Jamil Abou-Samra, Coventry Ayers-Burke, Catherine Jessop Good, Shauna Nyborg, Brooke MacDonald Moorhead, Eliza Gregory, Michaela Andrews, Erin Hoppin, Katie Isaacson.

Class of ‘69 Back (L to R): James Newton Howard, Gretchen Milligan, Marsh Milligan, Craig Chisholm, David Twichell, David Robbins, Ross Anderson, Hal Lewis, Jim Watts, Stewart Abercrombie, Jim Richardson, Peter Goodrich. Middle: Justin Faggioli, Mary Gregory, Dan Gregory, Stephen Huyler, Andy Rossman, Jesse Adams, Sallie Adams, LuAnne Abercrombie, Jim Munger, John Milligan, Mrs. Katy Goodrich, Peter Dragge. Front: Sandy Donnell, Patricia Howe, Neal Howe, Bill Kellogg, Scott Kennedy, Alison Kennedy, Elliot Morse, Michael Morse, Darian Dragge.

Class of ‘89 Back (L to R): Jeff Smith, Adam Geyer, Rebecca Clarke, Enrique Guerra, Jeff Menashe, Adam Lazar. Middle: Jason Improta, Brian Grimes, Shell Duncan Grimes, Allyson Reed, Cathy Ruhl, Loretta Zhung Lazar, Elizabeth Grossman Besch. Front: Missy Improta, Dawn Murray, April Taylor, Tara Sizlo, Connie Arbogast Lindsay, David Lindsay, Marielle Warren.

Class of ‘04 Back (L to R): Evan Werlin, Ali Arastu, Ian Strachan, Leland Franklin, Chris Eaton, Ward Sorrick, Robert Neville, Graham Douds, Taylor Medina, Ned Lincoln. Fifth row: Calvin Lieu, Lee Shurtleff, Martin Sawyer, Hunter Metcalf, Matt Mayne. Fouth row: Katie Frykman, Whitney Livermore, Stephen Rooke, Sabrina Lee, Chris Willoughby. Third row: Virginia Dawson, Elizabeth Jackson, Cara Bonewitz, Kelly Percival, Grace Bueti, David Moore. Second row: Peter Oberndorf, Matt Stenovec, Ella Carney, Jennie Tucker, Catherine Whittinghill, Stephanie Rauner, Jim Sligh, Chris Goldman. Front: Justin Torres, Annie O’Donnell, Stephanie Dang, Lauren Fiske, Bianca Kissel, Julia Robinson, Kasiana McLenaghan, MacKenna Chase.

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RICHARD BARD is researching particulars of the Thachersponsored pack trip to the Sierra in 1936 or 1937. He is interested in contacting the other boys on the trip to find out if they have any photos from it. Richard is also looking for any photos from the sailing trip with Sydney Treat (father of Baird CdeP 1938) during those years. BROOKE E. SAWYER, JR. ’42 shared with the Alumni Office that the kelp reef named after WHEELER J. NORTH was highlighted in an article about enhancing Southern California’s coastal environment. Located off the coast of San Clemente, the Wheeler North Kelp Reef was completed in November 2008 and is the largest environmental project of its kind in the United States. The two-mile kelp forest is expected to produce as much as 50 tons of fish annually.

FREDERICK STANLEY called to say that FITCH INGERSOLL (who passed away on Feb. 14, 2009) was a great guy. Fred said, “I’ll miss him. Although my wife of 48 years, Pauline, passed away recently, I am going strong with new parts (knees and hip) and a healthy recovery from cancer. Hope to make it to our next reunion in 2013 and to hear from my classmates in the meantime.”

CHARLES TUTTLE is happy to announce that he has lots of great-grandchildren arriving. He hopes Thacher might be in the future for some of them.

ANTHONY ARNOLD shares that his grandson PETER ARNOLD ‘05 will graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in December this year. His Air Force Lt. bars are to be pinned on by JOE GLASGOW, a USAF retired Lt. Col. who was his classmate at Thacher and who helped Peter get launched in the USAF. They will be there in Prescott, Ariz., along with Peter’s dad GEORGE ARNOLD ’74 and his whole family, who are coming from New Zealand. NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM is busier in retirement than he was when seeing patients and claims it is from an overall increase in pertinent life events and a decrease in his personal organizing skills. Nicholas says, “I still ‘chop life’ (Nigerian pidgin for savoring each day) and am looking forward to our class’s 65th in 2011. Last week at a dinner party in Springfield Center, where I still live, I met a lady from Minneapolis who turned out to be a Heffelfinger, a cousin of my esteemed, though now deceased, classmate FRED WELLS and the sister of SHERM EWING ‘44, whose gymkhana exploits were still reverberating at Casa de Piedra when I got there (after he had gone on to a career in cattle ranching thanks to his Thacher education.)”

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JOHN MILLER shares: “In June 2008 the Class of ‘51 had a mini Northern California reunion including PETER BAUMGARTNER, EDWARD HAMILTON, GEORGE MONTGOMERY, GEORGE WHEATON, RICHARD WILSON, and myself.” John had quite a summer this year involving “two weeks in London with nine plays, four visits with cousins, and afternoons by train in Paris and Brussels, followed by a good medical conference in cold, wet, and windy Copenhagen, where I love the herring. However, in July I developed word memory and speech problems and was found to have a meningioma by MRI, which two neurosurgeons and the radiologists felt would be malignant, but the first words I heard waking from surgery were ‘IT’S BENIGN!’ Now, approaching October, I am intellectually well and slowly gaining physical normality.”

JEFF LOEBL ‘79 sent news that RICHARD WILSON (former director of the California Department of Forestry, an original member of the Coastal Commission, and formerly the director of the Planning and Conservation League) continues to fight to protect the California environment. Richard filed a whistleblower lawsuit because a prior owner of Pacific Lumber Company defrauded the state and federal government of $800 million by clear-cutting timber in violation of an agreement. A settlement of $4 million was reached during trial.

JAMES LIPMAN and his wife, Judy, sent a note from a boat on the Danube River: “While in Vienna, we called classmate FRITZ BOSEL hoping that we could get together with him.

Unfortunately, Fritz was going to be in the hospital at the time we arrived. He was planning to have an eye operation in his hometown of Tulln, perhaps 30 kilometers upstream from Vienna. But I had a good conversation on the telephone.”

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LEE FOLLETT shares that Jen and LOCK DE FOREST’s visit from Down Under provided an excuse for some of them to get together in the Bay Area. Tracy and CHARLIE STEPHENSON saw them for coffee in San Francisco, and then Lee, JOHN CARVER, and BILL CRAWFORD drove to Napa for lunch with the de Forests and TOM MAY ‘52 at Brix in Napa Valley. Lee noted that everyone was looking good and feeling great. “It has been a pleasure to talk recently with PETE VOEVODSKY, PETE FARRAND, and BILL MILLER—none of whom seems to have major aches or pains at this moment.” Lee is sorry to report that Nellie, wife of JOY MERZ, whom they all loved at their 50th reunion, died this last July of pancreatic cancer.

Joy says, “It is much rougher than I imagined.” JIM FUNSTEN is taking his entire family to Africa. CHARLIE STEPHENSON and his wife, Tracy, joined Sally and WINSLOW ROBINSON in May for their annual exploration trip to parts of England. This year involved a night in Buckden (across the Great North Road from the convent to which Henry VIII banished Catherine of Aragon); Cambridge; Ely Cathedral, a 12th century Norman structure on an island in the Fens (to the top of which the Robinsons climbed, the Stephensons having chickened out 15

Photos (L to R): John Carver ’53, Jen de Forest, Bill Crawford ‘53, Lee Follett ‘53, Tom May ’52, and Lock de Forest ’53 having lunch at Brix Restaurant in Napa Valley; Bill Leppo ’57 on his farm in Oregon.

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HARRINGTON ’08, at Davidson College in Charlotte, N.C.” WILLIAM LEPPO and his wife, Brenda, have retired from Leppo Instruments, although Bill still services the terminals as they come in. His other retirement activity is restoring vintage guitar amplifiers, and he still plays jazz on the same Gibson that he had at Thacher. Brenda enjoys raising sheep on their small farm, spinning and weaving their wool, and cooking many lamb dishes. Bill says, “We do see TONY DANN and his wife. They live in Idaho but come to Portland for an annual Endurance Riders of the Northwest get-together. They are both avid endurance riders and have two very fit horses.” Bill and Brenda live about 20 miles west of Portland, Ore., so if you are passing by, do stop for a visit. PETER HENZE noted that Bill’s son, Cat Leppo, was a wonderful addition to Peter’s company, Creative Leisure, as he helped the company grow during the early Internet marketing days.

feet from the top), Burghley House (the home of Lord Cecil of Chariots of Fire fame); and Rutland. Their hotel in Buckden was “The Georges”, each room named for a famous George; the Robinsons’ was “Mallory” and the Stephensons’ was “Stephenson,” whom Charlie modestly believes is a relative.

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DANIEL CROTTY continues to consider the challenges presented by hillsides and housing above Ventura. He says, “EIRs (Environmental Impact Reports) loom large over east Ojai Valley and Ventura.” After cruising the Baltic Sea last June, where RICHARD LAURENCE and his wife, Ann, visited seven different countries in 10 days, they followed it up with a second cruise starting in San Francisco and going down the coast of California and Mexico, eventually winding up in Valparaiso, Chile. Ric shares, “It took some 16 days with visits to eight different countries, finally ending with a flight from Santiago to La Paz, Bolivia, the highest city in South America. This year has been a lot less hectic with much of our time spent on our Kha Shing trawler cruising the San Francisco Bay and Delta.

One of the biggest pluses this past June was spending some time with Jennifer and TONY GRIFFIN, BRUCE OXLEY, and Aija and PHILIP THACHER at our 55th Class Reunion at Thacher.” BRUCE OXLEY and his wife, Carol, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year with a family cruise to Alaska in June. Carol added, “There were 16 of us on the cruise, and half of those sailing were Thacher graduates: Bruce, DAVID OXLEY ‘79, MARGANNE WINTER OXLEY ‘78, RACHEL OXLEY EATON ‘89, JILL OXLEY SOUTO-MAIOR ‘80, SONDRA OXLEY ‘09, WILL OXLEY ‘05, and DEIRDRE HERBERT ‘06.

A wonderful time was had by all. It is very difficult to believe it has been 50 years since our wedding.”

LINCOLN HOLLISTER shares, “I am beginning my second of three years on a glide path to retirement. Right now I am enjoying a sabbatical at Cornell, finishing some projects with a colleague there. I have been consumed during the past year in a battle with environmental organizations who appear to think that their alternate reality trumps the scientific method.

A couple reports on these battles appeared in Nature, and I understand a report will appear soon in Time. Also, I spent three months collaborating with a physics professor who thought he had discovered a natural occurrence of a quasicrystal. It looks like he did not, so I will not go to the eastern Koryak Mountains to find something that is not. Besides, I really do not want to go to eastern Siberia, beyond the gulag.

I prefer to be at my home, with my family. Age takes its toll.”

MALCOLM COFFEY writes, “I continue as a struggling artist, sculpting abstract forms in stone, entering local art shows, and occasionally parting with a piece. Beyond this I am a volunteer leader for groups of seniors at Marin Family Service Agency where we discuss the issues of aging. Ann and I visited with ROGER COATES while visiting our niece, KELSEY

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2. Mail prints or digital discs to: The Thacher School Alumni Office 5025 Thacher Road. Ojai, CA 93023

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WILLIAM STRONG says it has been a typical year of travel for him. “I have already been out to, and up and down, the Asian Seaboard, including the Philippine Archipelago and Thailand. Then, I went down to Trinidad/Tobago—islands I do not recommend as resort destinations—and, after that, down to Argentina. I came home from Argentina to take care of the dogs and the cats while my wife skipped off to Russia.

The dogs and cats survived and I got some sleep. Now I am headed down to Australia (OZ for the hipsters), Tasmania, and New Zealand; and after that, I have to go down to Brazil, come home and then head south again to Venezuela. I have been doing this for 40 years, and it is beginning to wear. At 69, these 15-hour flights are now taking me a week to recover from the jetlag, but I keep going because I am working on very big hydro projects in all these countries, and the work is so interesting I am not ready yet to say I am done.” MICHAEL WARD is still basking in the glow of his 50th reunion last June.

He says he was lucky to have a chance to attend Thacher.

JOHN LEWIS reported that the reunion this past June was a huge success. “Our class broke records of percentage of classmates living who have attended a 50th reunion.

Nineteen of us showed up, several of whom had not even been on campus since the day they left in 1959, and had an absolute BLAST! Many of us had not seen each other in decades, but all that time evaporated quickly, as we seemed to pick right up where we left off. All members of the class, including those who were unable to attend, have since received a class photo of all who were there. I am sure no one had difficulty in recognizing anyone. We will do this all over again in 2014, and we hope that all who could not join us this time will be able to do so then. That gives us all a big goal for which to shoot!” LYNN WHITE greatly rues having had to miss his 50th Reunion this year; he had a meeting in Hong Kong. His ninth book has just been published under the title Political Booms: Local Money and Power in Taiwan, The Thacher School 29 01

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CHARLES BONNER sent a message letting us know he will be unable to attend the June Reunion Weekend “due to a commitment with four other friends to take a Rhine River cruise for which we have already paid. Furthermore, since I lived in Germany 40 years ago and still speak the language, I have been officially appointed as translator for the group. Have a wonderful 50th, and I am truly sorry not to be able to attend. I was looking forward to the ‘dueling pianos’ of BOB GARDNER and HUGH GORDON.” NICHOLAS CHICKERING and his wife Karen have moved to Whitefish, Mont.

I am no longer an adolescent. Who knows, we may have the pleasure of hosting friends with whom I have negligently allowed contact to lapse, here in Salvador.”

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CASEY ESCHER has decided not to get older than 58, stay out of jail, and love and respect good people. PRENTISS MOORE sends his congratulations to EUGENE KIRKHAM and his wife Katrina (see Marriages), and he shares, “My son, Cosmo, will be tying the knot on November 7.” ERIC SWEET recently moved from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). His wife, Gloria, is finishing a master’s program in Renal Pathology. They have three children, the youngest of whom is 8 months old, and the only girl after six boys (from several marriages). Eric shares, “I am doing very well, and have to keep convincing myself that

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ROBERT COOPER says, “After too many years in administration (chair, dean, associate vice president), I have returned to the position of professor in the psychology department at San Jose State University. Love of teaching is what enticed me into the university world more than 45 years ago, and I decided I wanted to finish the last few years of my career in the classroom and lab with students. It is been a great deal of fun, but it has only been a few weeks. I expect I will continue until it is not fun anymore.”

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BOB JOHNSON signed up for the Stanford Alumni Association Family Trip to the Mediterranean this last July with his twin boys, Matt and Nick, and was surprised and delighted to find out that JOHN BARKAN, his wife, and mother would be on the same trip. Bob shares, “We all had a wonderful time, and John’s mother, age 86, did far better than some others 20 years her junior.” KARL KROEBER’s life seems to have veered toward the arts. He writes, “I have a new book out. First Light, from Yosemite Association/Heyday Books, is a collection of 75 photographs and a variety of written reflections drawn

Cultivating Community: Tony Oliver-Smith CdeP 1960 As an anthropologist specializing in the relationship between hazards and society, I have been working since the 1970s with communities that have been damaged or destroyed and socially traumatized by disasters. I understand a community as a group of interacting people with a common history that may be based on similar understandings, values, life practices, histories and identities. More than anything else, a community is an outcome, a result of a shared past.

We have learned that people grieve for a community in ways very similar to grief for the loss of a loved and valued person. Community recovery from a disaster, at the minimum, is the regaining of that shared identity as a basis for action on its own behalf.

The idea of a shared past becomes a key element when communities are faced with the task of reconstruction. There are many cultural resources people can call upon for community recovery.

These resources aid not only in the reconstitution of community, but also help in individual healing.

Community recovery and individual recuperation can be mutually supportive processes in which the survival of the community helps to restore meaning to individual lives that have been battered by circumstances. The cultural or symbolic assets that enable communities to engage the process of social reconstitution are mined from the history of the community.

The evocation of symbols, whether they are objects, places, or rituals that provided anchors to community identity in the past, will be key to recovery, though they will most likely be reinterpreted and perhaps reformulated in different ways to fit present circumstances. Re-establishing or restoring those physical features symbolic of community identity—churches, chapels, shrines, images, plazas, town squares, burial grounds, community and religious shrines and centers, markets and fairs, informal gathering places, forests, rivers, springs, waterfalls, mountains, and a host of other physical features—will be central to recovery. The re-enactment of rituals, both secular and sacred, can help to reconstitute the social existence of the community. Many people criticized the holding of Mardi Gras in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina without realizing that negating that symbol of community identity would have been the ultimate defeat for the city. As a show of community recovery, a large sign on the wall of a building on Canal Street proclaimed defiantly, “Nothing Stops Mardi Gras! Nothing!” Not even death.

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Photos (L to R): Matt and Nick, twin sons of Bob Johnson ’67, at Santorini in the Mediterranean; John Barkan ’67, Bob Johnson ’67, John’s wife Joan, and John’s mother Joan on the cruise ship the Corinthian II in the Mediterranean; Don Reed ’67, his daughter Kylee and wife Linda, along with Jimmy Swinerton ’67 and his wife Clary, standing in front of the nine-foot bronze sculpture of President Ronald Reagan on horseback that Don created; Kevin Cahill ‘01, Kim Cahill Peterson ‘99, baby Natalie, Chris Cahill ‘03, Ed Cahill ‘05, Ned Cahill ’70 and Carol Cahill at the rugby finals last May.

MILESTONES from five annual summer trips deep into Yosemite’s backcountry. Co-authored with four other photographers, the book is dedicated to IKE LIVERMORE ‘28 and 80 percent of the royalties benefit The Yosemite Fund. An associated gallery exhibit of fine art prints from the book is now on tour, having started with a 6-week run this summer at The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite. Future particulars will appear on my website, www. karlkroeber.com, as they become clear. My younger son, Logan, is currently touring Europe and the U.S. with his band, The Dodos (www.myspace.com/thedodos), in support of their third album, Time to Die. Son Gavin is a producer for public art nonprofit CreativeTime (www.creativetime.org) in NYC.” DON REED, daughter Kylee, wife Linda, along with JIMMY SWINERTON and his wife, Clary, recently got together with approximately 3,000 other guests to celebrate the unveiling of Don’s nine-foot bronze sculpture of President Ronald Reagan on horseback. The statue now resides along the riverbank in Reagan’s hometown, Dixon, Ill. Don is casting and creating in a state-of-the-art workshop, River’s Edge Foundry LLC, built for him by Diane Hendricks and located in the Ironworks complex in Beloit, Wis.

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News about PHIL ANGELIDES, who was state treasurer of California from 1999 to 2007, was sent to the the Alumni Office.

Phil was chosen to chair the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, newly created by Congress. As chairman of the ten-member congressional commission, he will focus on investigating the current financial meltdown with the purpose of avoiding a reoccurrence. Phil has a reputation as one who presses for disclosure and transparency. He is quoted in the Los Angeles Times on July 23, 2009, as saying, “Everybody should be entitled to their opinion, but facts are facts.” Phil vows to keep his panel focused on the empirical, not the theoretical. EDWARD L. CAHILL shares that he and Carol continue to visit their kids around the country, wherever they may land. In Palo Alto last May, they had their immediate family (KIM CAHILL PETERSON ‘99, KEVIN CAHILL ‘01, CHRIS CAHILL ‘03, and ED CAHILL ‘05) all gathered together to cheer Ed and his teammates as they competed in the National Rugby Championship where they won the Division II Title. SCOTT ENDSLEY reported he recently was appointed Director of Innovation and System Design at Cleveland Clinic, and Medical Director in the Quality and Patient Safety Institute. His goal is to set up a healthcare innovations program for physicians in practice, physicians in training, and medical students. Also, he recently had a book accepted for publication called Putting Healthcare Innovation into Practice

by Wiley-Blackwell publishers. Scott says innovation allows him to balance his creative and scientific sides. WILLIAM LOGAN says he was shocked to learn “that the people who promised to make a movie of his book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth actually did so. Not only that, it showed this past winter at the Sundance Film Festival (you can find out more at www.DirtTheMovie.org).” His second book Oak: The Frame of Civilization has been translated into five languages, including Japanese.

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EUGENE KIRKHAM ’63 and Katrina Roche were married Aug. 15, 2009, in Boston. Gene says, “As a gesture of solidarity, we chose to be married in a jurisdiction which recognizes gay marriage. On Aug. 29, we renewed our vows before a larger gathering of friends and family at our home in St. Helena, Calif.” Katrina’s son, Liam, gave away the bride. Long-time friend Peter Yarrow officiated at both of the ceremonies. (photo 1) PETER MARTIN ’77 and Diqui LaPenta were married at their home in Trinidad, Calif., on July 18, 2009. The flower girl was Peter’s dog, Zoey, and the ring bearer was Diqui’s dog, Aiki. Following a reception in their backyard, the couple took a 10-day wedding trip to Costa Rica. (photo 2) MARK CAMERON ’82 married Missy Reitner on July 7, 2008. He now has a stepdaughter, Gia, who is 7 years old.

AMY BIRD ’90 married Riley Pratt this summer in Vinalhaven, Maine, with their baby girl, Isis, in their arms.

Classmates GABY KLEIN, JORDANA MUNK MARTIN, JENNIFER PRINGLE and JONATHAN FELDMAN were in attendance at the wedding. (photo 3) KATE KOCHENDORFER ’97 married Adam Smith on Sept. 19, 2009. Thacher grads SARAH PERKINS ’97, BETSY (GREENWAY) CARNEY ’97, DANA HOWBERT ’97, and KIM TURNER ’98 were bridesmaids. A few other Thacher grads in attendance were KACEY PERKINS TIFT ’95, DIANA GARCIA ’95, and GRAHAM DONATH ’97. (photo 4) ISABEL BLANK ’98 married Mirko Bartolcic this summer after seven years of dating. Isa shares, “We met in university in the Netherlands and we plan to have kids in my mid-30s, which is quite common in Germany. I miss Thacher and the Horse Program so much and I think it was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. In his wedding speech, my dad called Thacher ‘heaven on earth’.” (photo 5) WIL CALDWELL ’98 married Lauren Carpenter on May 30, 2009, in New Orleans, La. The photo is of them in La Jolla, Calif., the weekend they got engaged. (photo 6) BRONWEN HALSEY ’98 married Mickey Murch on Aug. 15, 2009, at their farm in Bolinas, Calif. Toads WOODY HALSEY ’65, BROOKE HALSEY ’00, PHOEBE HALSEY ’03, KYLIE MANSON ’03, JEFFREY MANSON ’98, BONNIE PORTER ’98, LOUISA FOOTMAN ’98, ETHAN CHUTKOW ’98, LIZZY BREWER ’03, CAMERON RIDGEWAY ’03, CLAIRE CHOUINARD ’98, JACKIE FESTA PARSONS ’98, ELIZA COPE ’07, EMILY WILSON ’95 and KELLY COLLIER JANES ’98 were in attendance at the wedding. Bronwyn shares, “I am the proud wife of an amazing farmer living in one of the more idyllic places on the planet. If anyone is ever in the area, please visit us and see our farm stand.” (photo 7)

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Bill is now working on a third book while running a small tree company called Urban Arborists in New York and serving on the faculty of New York Botanical Garden. He is married with three children, two in college (Bard and Kenyon) and one working at Patagonia in Boston. WILLIAM RIGBY says he continues to bump into ‘Thacherians’ at Dartmouth, where he teaches in the medical school, and even has SANDER DUNCAN ’05 working in his lab. He and his son, Sam, made a pilgrimage to the top of Mt. Whitney. William shares, “The Golden Trout experiences from 40 years ago have created a love of the east side of the Sierras like no other.”

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JOHN CARVER ’53 and his wife, Susan, just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

DANIEL CROTTY ’54 and his wife, Janet, recently celebrated 41 years of marriage.

BRUCE OXLEY ’54 and his wife, Carol, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year with a family cruise to Alaska in June.

KYHM PENFIL ’84 announces that she and Arie, who attended Reunion with her, are engaged to be married.

KATHERINE KIRKMIRE ’94 is engaged to Michael Vining.

They will get married at Thacher in June 2010.

JACKIE FESTA PARSONS ’98 and her husband, Daven, celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Sept. 23.

STEPHANIE TORRES ’99 will marry Charlie Roraback on April 11, 2010, in Ventura, Calif. (photo 14) LAUREN FRAIM ’00 and ALFRED ENGLISH ’00 were engaged on July 23, 2009, en route to a three-week tour of eastern Europe. The photo shows them celebrating their engagement in Hvar, Croatia. Lauren and Alfred’s marriage is set for Fall 2010. (photo 15) ANTHEA TJUANAKIS ’01 is engaged to Ian Cox, whom she met while at Stanford.

CHARLOTTE LORD ’02 was recently engaged to Nicolas Chu. The couple is living in Manhattan and plans to marry at the Outdoor Chapel in June of 2010.

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STEPHEN SCOTT, GEORGE HOFFMAN and JON WALTON revisited old Sierra haunts in August 2009. They went backpacking out of Horseshoe Meadows and stopped by Golden Trout Camp to reminisce about the month of May they spent there almost 40 years ago (1971), doing a senior project on ecology and Forest Service land-use planning. This time they had five extra people along: sons Nathaniel Walton (24), Tyler Scott (18), as well as Alex (19), Will (16), and Jeremy (16) ParkeHoffman. Reports have it that New Army Pass was a “cakewalk” for the over-50 crowd. TODD OPPENHEIMER writes that for much of 2008 he was living a journalist’s dream, with an assignment for The New Yorker magazine to explore bladesmithing as it applies to the art of culinary knife-making. The assignment took him many places, including Japan, where he got to visit with some of the country’s master bladesmiths.

The story was published on Nov. 24, 2008, in magazine’s annual food issue under the title “SHARPER: Bob Kramer and the Secret Lives of Knives”. Says Oppenheimer, “I could not have done it without Fred Goode’s constant scolding during my sophomore year, ‘Oppie, your writing would get a lot better if you cut out every second and third sentence.’”

JOHN BURNS is residing in the Princeton area, having retired from the investment business several years ago. His career was spent in the management of equity and fixed-income portfolios for several Wall Street money managers. Jeb writes, “I continue to be single. I spend my time teaching English to adults as a second language and enjoying the opportunities in the area in the performing arts. I am active in counseling gay youth. I would love to hear from other graduates of my era.” JOHN BUSTERUD, director and counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, is spending most of his time these days on climate change policy and regulation at the state, regional, and national levels. John says, “I am fortunate to have a great client in PG&E, which supports comprehensive federal legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through cap and trade, as well as energy efficiency and use of renewable resources.” John became an empty nester this summer as his son, Tom (18), entered West Point.

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RYAN MEYER ’98 married ELIZA GREGORY ’99 on June 27, 2009, in the Shakespeare Garden at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the reception was in the nearby Academy of Sciences building, with the tables around the swamp exhibit. (photo 8) ELLA GOODBROD ’00 married North Moench on July 12, 2009, in Walnut Creek, Calif., with classmate JULIETTE BOWAN WHITE MCCULLOUGH ’00 in attendance at the wedding. (photo 9) CHERYLN LYNN HORTON ’00 married James Click, one of her classmates from medical school, in Charlottesville, Va., on May 9, 2009. (photo 10) TODD MEYER ’00 married Priya Patel on Aug. 7, 2009, in Portland, Ore. They were married on the rooftop of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, and had the reception at the nearby Armory Building. (photo 11) TYLER MANSON ’01 and LAUREN CERRE ’01 were married on June 20, 2009, at the Thacher outdoor chapel. (photo 12) MEREDITH WALKER ’01 married Eric Sapp on June 27, 2009, in Medford, Ore. Witnesses to the wedding were Toads ALDEN BLAIR ’01, HANNAH CARNEY ’01, and LOGAN CLARK ’01. Logan remarked, “They all looked fabulous.” (photo 13)

Photos (L to R): Will Parke-Hoffman, Alex Parke-Hoffman, Jeremy Parke-Hoffman, George Hoffman ‘71, Stephen Scott ‘71, and Nathaniel Walton (son of Jonathon Walton ‘71) at Golden Trout; Rachel Rex, daughter of Robert Rex ’71, earned seven first and three second place titles in a three-day jumping and dressage rally; Anthony Kuhns ‘75, Todd Nicol ‘75, Lars Shirey ‘75, and Max von Wening ’75 at their mini-reunion in Palm Springs

acting and dancing. He has another daughter named Heather (17), and has been happily married to his wife, Kim, for 18 years. Curt shares, “In addition to my family, I enjoy practicing disabilities law, managing my investments, reading fiction, and rooting for the Dodgers.”

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ROBERT BEREND writes, “My wife, Lisa, and I were at the event in Napa Valley a few months ago. We had a great time and saw MARTY SPROUL ‘71, ANDY HERR, MALCOLM PLANT ’71, and a few other folks. We just moved from the Berkeley area and are now living in Los Angeles. We will be lecturing next week to Mensa and again at the Mensa Annual Gathering on the July 4 weekend in Detroit, doing our presentation ‘Ask the Sexologists,’ since I have a PhD in human sexuality and Lisa is a registered nurse. My kidney is doing fine nearly five years post-transplant. Everyone has an extra kidney, and about 90,000 people are on the waiting list. Sign up to be a donor in California at www.donatelifecalifornia.org; it takes two minutes. The pink dot on the driver’s license is pretty useless in reality.”

KENNETH REMSON says, “After a number of years as a television journalist in places like Guam and Hawaii, I am now practicing law in Los Angeles, representing mostly corporate policyholders in suits against insurance companies. I have really enjoyed reconnecting with a lot of my Thacher friends on Facebook. If you are in Los Angeles, or plan to be, please let me know.” ROBERT REX is continuing his career as a semiprofessional shoveler of manure for his horses. His daughter Rachel just participated in the ETI National Convention, earning seven first, and three second-place titles in the three-day jumping and dressage rally. RYAN WOOD writes, “Kylie (nearly 6) and our 2-year-old twins, Landon and Avery, are the joy and challenge of our home life. It is zone defense all the time.

As CEO of Frontline Aerospace, Inc., we are currently raising $2 million with a private placement. The company offers a unique combination of cleantech (recuperators for helicopter gas turbines that save 40 percent in fuel) and unmanned aerial systems delivering logistical support for troops with a novel ducted-fan diamond-box-wing aircraft configuration. The website is www.frontlineaerospace.com.”

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ANTHONY KUHNS, TODD NICOL, LARS SHIREY, and MAX VON WENING had a mini August reunion in Palm Springs that lasted all night. Anthony is a commercial property manager in Los Angeles; Todd is an avocado farmer in San Diego; Lars is an IT professional traveling the globe; and Max is an artist in Palm Springs who just produced a story photo book on rock and roll called Flashback. You can see it at www. rockphotobook.com. They hope to have a larger desert gettogether next year.

Cultivating Community: D. Andrew Kille CdeP 1967 For most of my life I have been working in interfaith relations, finding ways to develop and strengthen relationships of trust and respect among people of diverse religious traditions. About six years ago, I established Interfaith Space (www.interfaithspace.org) as a link for exploring interfaith relations in three dimensions—three “spaces”: the actual sharing of geographical places regarded as sacred by different groups, the virtual “space” formed in dialogue and conversation, and the even more virtual “space” that has been made possible by the technological links of cyberspace.

My work leads me often to ponder the meaning of “community.” A religious community is a particular kind of community—one that is closely tied to our own self-identification and which often makes truth claims that seem incompatible with those of another religious community. It’s not surprising that conflicts between different religious groups turn violent all too often.

How does one preserve the integrity of one’s own religious commitment and yet make room for respecting and appreciating another’s? Community develops most easily around shared interests and common attitudes. Yet the deepest and richest communities are those that challenge members to go beyond their personal likes and desires. Such communities challenge their members to expand their horizons and to learn how to live in the creative tension of a paradoxical world.

The logo of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco is a set of interlocking colored rings. The rings represent the different religious traditions that are engaged in the community-building work of the Center. If you look closely at the logo, you notice that, in fact, none of the colored rings are interlocked. Each is distinct and whole. What joins them is the white circle in the center; the shared commitment to dialogue, understanding, and appreciation that creates a “community of communities.”

Being in community always requires this delicate dance between the individual and the group; between my personal tastes and the richness of relationships; between my own goals and a wider vision. It asks of us to make room, to exercise hospitality, and to stretch our horizons. When we encounter the “other,” we learn more about ourselves; when we share our gifts with the “other,” we all are enriched.

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DONALD OSBOURNE writes, “I am putting the final touches on a new Google AdWords campaign on behalf of the nonprofit I am working with. Google was kind enough to give us a $250,000 grant, so I’ve been working on all the details to make this a reality. If you have questions on Google Grants, or you love to talk about keyword research, PPC, QS, CTR, and many other TLAs (three letter acronyms), drop me an e-mail.”

JOSHUA ROSENBLATT shares, “Kate and I are adjusting to our lives as empty nesters and enjoying our time together. Our daughter, Sarah, finishes the five-year architecture program at RPI this spring. Our other daughter, Ali, is in her second year at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville and gets into NYC weekly for tap classes and more. We are both on Facebook and keep up with our girls that way as much as anything else.” JOHN WAGNER reports that, after getting buried in 2008 (down 50 percent), the fund is back above high-water and no investors are trying to kill him. Other than that, John reports all is well.

California when he hooked the huge King salmon in the photo above.

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KENDRIC M. FOULTZ moved from Sunbelt Business Brokers of West Los Angeles to BizEx in Marina del Rey as senior broker.

MURRAY S. ORRICK shares that he is a happy husband and dad to three beautiful girls. He recently wrote and produced a CD called Let’s Go Green Kids that is available on iTunes and Amazon. He also has a website, www.letsgogreenkids.com.

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The Stevenson clan had a family reunion in Jackson Hole, Wyo. this summer. TRACEY STEVENSON-GARRETT reports that “right after his reunion at Thacher, ROB LIVERMORE ‘79 came to our Jackson Hole family reunion for the Fourth of July. We got all our kids together and had a blast! Alumni Toads know how to have fun. We fly fished, we hiked, we rafted, we attended the rodeo, we traipsed around in wildlife-filled Yellowstone Park, we biked the new bike trails and of course we had great fun, great food, and great libation. Go Toads!”

BELINDA HANSON extends her greetings to the class of 1982. Her daughter, Leigh, started her freshman year at Thacher this fall. Belinda is looking forward to reconnecting with SUSAN REEVES TAYLOR, whose son is an incoming freshman, and MIKE VOEVODSKY, whose daughter is a sophomore. She says all is well in Woodside. This summer she spent a long weekend with SHAWNA WESELOH at her family cabin in Mt. Lassen. SUSAN REEVES TAYLOR reported in the summer, “My son Jacob will be heading to Thacher this fall as a freshman. I’ll be making the trip to deliver him and his colt in September—a long drive, but a familiar one. My daughter is completely hooked on rodeo still. I cannot believe I raised a barrel racer! She loves it, though, and is good at it when she does not over-think things. Both kids will be driving by

Cultivating Community: Reilly Pollard CdeP 1976 Over the last 10 years I have had the remarkable opportunity to serve as a volunteer for the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC), including six years as the board president. These clinics provide medical, dental, and mental health services to primarily low-income, homeless, uninsured, and underserved adults and children in the community.

In 2005, we started a new program to educate teens on important health and social issues. It was not long before we realized that those who were interested could, themselves, create and organize this program and use it to learn leadership skills while supporting significant and positive changes in their health of their communities.

Our “Teen Advocates” are trained in health education and promotion, as well as self-awareness and empowerment and teamwork building. They use their training to organize and make presentations to local high schools, youth centers, and the YMCA. These motivated teens even develop curriculum and assist our health care professionals in teaching classes in the schools and at community events.

We have learned that our young Advocates feel a strong sense of ownership for this particular program, and are rightfully proud of the many ways their communities benefit from their participation. The teens share what they learn about leadership and advocacy with their friends and family, who share it with neighbors, and so on. This approach works especially well with community members who are afraid to seek out health education and services, perhaps because they do not understand the options that are available to them. The Teen Advocates are bridging that knowledge gap, thereby strengthening our larger Santa Barbara community.

I believe that the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, located as they are in the neighborhoods they serve, bind our community together.

They are part of the critical safety net for Santa Barbara County, and helping them in these difficult times has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done.

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Photos (L to R) Daughter Ali, Josh Rosenblatt ‘76, wife Kate, and daughter Sarah; Kevin Flynn ’78 was fishing the Klamath River in Northern California when he hooked the huge King salmon; Perry Noble ’82 on vacation in San Diego with his wife, Donna, and son, Jack; Paule Voevodsky ’12, daughter of Mike Voevodsky ’82, on Ink at Gymkhana weekend 2009; Handsome future Toad: little Peter Conkey, son of Peter Conkey III ’79.

next summer, so my life is going to change radically. When I am not chauffeuring my kids and trying to be super mom, I wear several different hats. I started a vet clinic, manage a number of real estate investments, and tutor Native American students for the school district (my favorite job). I stay very busy and generally out of trouble. Let me know if you make it to Montana and want to stop by. It would be great to see you.” R. JOHN HERZOG writes “Greetings Fellow Toads! After 18 years in the health club business I have switched industries.

Today was my first day in software sales at Citrix Online here in Santa Barbara. I am very excited for the change. I caught a glimpse of the very glamorous SAM KIRKEBY riding an equally glamorous horse in the Santa Barbara Fiesta parade two weekends ago. Sam still looks amazing!” MARION HUNTINGTON SCHINSKE writes, “I wanted to share that all is well with me and my family. We enjoyed a camping trip this summer at Yosemite and at other campsites in Marin County, mostly within the Point Reyes National Seashore Park. My nonprofit NovatoSpirit, which helps low-income kids in Novato participate in after-school athletics, was recently nominated for the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness “Spotlight” Award. So far this year, NovatoSpirit has helped 22 children and teens from families with financial needs. They love being able to play ball, dance, and do karate. I love my job, and my son and husband volunteer a lot of their time to help me out.” PERRY NOBLE says, “the Nobles are alive and well—still in Colorado. Just back from a vacation in San Diego. Sea World, the Zoo, the beach! It was all great.

Had a good dinner visit with KELLY MALONEY on Coronado Island. Our son Jack, now 5 and a half, tried surfing at the Surfers Healing camp in San Diego. If you are ever in the Denver area, look us up. We’re in Golden, just northwest of Denver. Always happy to have visitors.” MICHAEL VOEVODSKY shared in August “It has been a great summer so far with lots of travel. Mia, our youngest (13), went to Europe for three weeks on a student ambassador trip. Therese and Paule ‘12 drove across the country to our summer cottage in northern Michigan to visit family and escape the heat in Tucson. I got to join them, with Mia, for two weeks which was cool— literally... mid-60s and 70s versus 100-plus degrees. Mia starts her eighth grade year and is very focused on getting into Thacher’s ‘14 class. Paule will start her sophomore year in the fall.

It has been fun reminiscing as we talk about her frosh/soph transition. You know, the relief she will feel not having early morning mucking, enjoying the extra breakfast cut, and no longer being the lowest student in the food chain. If you have not listened to it yet, go to the Media Gallery for the 50th anniversary celebration for Mr. Shagam and listen to Michael Kong’s story about Mr. Shagam and the Upper School ghost. It brings back vivid memories of sophomore year (https://www. thacher.org/common/news_detail.asp?newsid=483425&fro m=archive_3, then click on audio, download album, and play audio65237_337544.mp3.) lf you’re in Tucson, look us up!”

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Cultivating Community: Stan Penton CdeP 1976 When I first arrived at Thacher in 1972, I would never have believed that the smells and dust that greeted me in Lower School or in picking my first horse would still be with me over 25 years later; but horses have been part of my life since that day.

My wife Christine (an equestrian all her life) and our young son departed corporate life in 1995; packing up our horses in Burbank, Calif., to move to Littleton, Colo., as new owners of an equestrian facility named Normandy Farms. We instantly became stewards of a well-known facility that had already managed 100 years in the community. Now specializing in hunter/jumpers and dressage training, we have remained true to many of the ideals developed at Normandy Farms, with the help of those Thacher years and experiences. We built our 50 stall stable and indoor arena with simple and functional designs.

We’ve paid as much attention to the life of the humans as to the horses. Our main design principle is to connect each participant with a community, one another, nature, and finally the horses and other animals. I believe all of this is a reflection of my experiences as a Thacher student.

We are humbled by what our programs and principles have brought to thousands of participants. We have been able to aid the community in times of need (such as during Columbine) and to “give back” (by providing hippo therapy as part of a 501(c)3 and by working with wild mustangs and federal prisoners in Canon City, Colo.). However, I am especially thankful and fortunate to not be around a bunch of smelly Thacher boys, as it seems our stables cater exclusively to females. Maybe it’s a flashback to my Emma Willard days or appreciation anew for Jack Huyler’s fondness for Kipling, as it seems to be self-evident that: “four things greater than all things are—women and horses and power and war.”(Kipling: “The Ballad of the Kings Jest”) Christine and I are happy to continue our role of insuring survival of the last private horse facility within such close proximity to Denver. We have had a few Thacher socials at the stable and would love to hear from you as you come through our area.

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1984 On Community: Mark Holman CdeP 1986 The Cascade Festival of African Films (CFAF) operates under the aegis of Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus. CFAF presents a variety of children’s, feature, and documentary films from the African continent, the majority of which were made by African directors. They show us pictures of Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of Africa that is packaged primarily for western viewers. The films represent Africa today with a firm, respectful glance at the past and determined focus on improving the future. The films represent different countries and cultures and a range of lifestyles from precolonial to modern times, including both rural and urban settings.

Although it is impossible to represent a whole continent with only a few films, it is our hope that through this annual film series we will encourage American viewers to become interested in African cultures and to study them further. During the festival, which overlaps with Black History Month, we show about 25 films to more than 5,000 viewers.

As chairman of the festival’s executive committee, I work with other committee members to ensure that each film is accompanied by a written review and background information on the country from which the film originated. In addition, we invite the filmmakers to the festival to present their works along with panels of experts to encourage our audience discussion. A couple of highlights of my experience in working with the CFAF were inviting Lloyd Sacks CdeP 1995 to speak about the Darfur region, as well as sharing these films at my job during Black History Month.

My volunteer efforts for this festival give me a living workshop on Africa, introducing me to themes that represent African concerns such as: the quest for freedom and justice, tradition versus modernity, the unique sounds and history of music, immigration and displacement, and the many facets of love and romance.

This makes me very proud of that part of my own personal history.

Top: The photo is of Mark (far left) and the executive committee with filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno (center seated with the grey dreadlocks), a filmmaker from Cameroon who presented his film Alex’s Wedding.

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CRAIG GOLDING is in Crete, Greece, shooting a documentary on the battle of Crete during WW II. ELLEN LOEBL is now working for Partners in Reading at the San Jose Public Library.

She is also involved in several other projects, including Social Justice Work with Peninsula Interfaith Action, and fruit picking with Village Harvest.

KYHM PENFIL shares, “Reunion was wonderful; it was quite special to see everyone and to see the changes on campus.

The big news in our house these days is that Arie and I are engaged and, along with his son and daughter, are looking forward to the next stage of our adventure.”

SARAH K. KONRAD writes, “After retiring from internationallevel competition after the 2007 season, I have become active in athletes’ rights. I was elected to the board of the U.S. Biathlon team as an athlete representative, and also am the biathlon representative to the Athletes’ Advisory Committee of the USOC. Basically these positions mean I stay in touch with currently competing athletes, and work as their advocate with various sports organizations. I have also accepted a volunteer position working the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver as an Athletes’ Services Coordinator for the U.S. team. I was just in Vancouver with the head of the U.S. delegation in order to get familiar with the villages and venues. Things look great, and the local organizing committee is doing a great job getting ready. I still live in Laramie and continue to work for the University of Wyoming, which is being very flexible and allowing me the time off to head up to Vancouver.” JENNIFER NIELSEN DE FOREST says, “Hello old friends. I am crosscountry moving again to become director of the Upper School at Calhoun on the upper west side of Manhattan.” Jennifer had dinner recently with ERIC GROSS, MORGAN SMITH, and MOLLY TWICHELL PERRY, and saw SOPHIA BROWN TWICHELL in Chicago. She says everyone looked not a day over 40. Jennifer is looking forward to seeing her old roommate CAROLINE HOCKADAY SCHUSTER in New York City.

AMI BECKER-ARONSON shares, “I completed my first Olympic triathlon in Washington, D.C., this fall. What a great sense of accomplishment! Fred Coleman’s coaching still rings true: life lessons at Thacher—both in the classroom and on the field—can be applied throughout everything we do. On that note, the friendships made in the dorms continue to thrive.

LESLIE CLAY CARON and I reunited in San Francisco this summer with my kids (Isaac, age 7, and Goldie, age 5) and her twins (Wyatt and Elsa, age 4). MICHELE BARNETT-BERG ‘87 and I are planning our next reunion in Europe to celebrate each of our 10-year wedding anniversaries. We were married within two weeks of each other. We hope to do another half or full marathon in the future. On a professional note, I am still active with Cancer Schmancer, a political nonprofit I started with Fran Drescher to ensure every women gets di-

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Photos (L to R): The Tetons, John Stevenson ‘78, Jill Stevenson ‘82, Rob Livermore ‘79, and Tracey Stevenson-Garrett ‘80; J.P. Manoux ’87 and Wouter Germans ’84 in Canada; Victor Wykoff ‘88 and son Patrick in Yosemite.

agnosed with cancer in Stage 1 when it is most curable. In addition, I run a private foundation in D.C. launching a new Think Initiative and remain active with the Aspen Institute.” SARAH LAVENDER SMITH, her husband MORGAN SMITH ’82, and their two children, Colly (11) and Kyle (8), are spending a year away from their Bay Area home to travel, homeschool and live in several destinations around the globe. Says Sarah, “We’re looking forward to crossing paths with a few classmates from ‘86: the KIRKPATRICKS (CAROLYN and DOUG) in New Zealand and LESLIE CLAY CARON in Australia. You can follow our trip and contact us at www.away-together.com.” JONG LEE, his wife, Sonia, and kids, Isaac and Abigail, moved to Hong Kong late last year from Tokyo. Jong shares, “I am working on a public company turnaround while Sonia is taking some time off to be a full time mom, be active on school and church boards and organizations, and to do a little consulting on the side for her former employer. Hong Kong is definitely much more business and support-services friendly, but we miss the food in Tokyo, especially Japanese rice and beef.”

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CINDY CASTAÑEDA writes, “After a very exciting 2008, which included getting married to Dr. Ray Canham in May, election to the local school board, and a promotion to executive dean, it looks like 2009 will be even busier. I have accepted an invitation to serve on Thacher’s Board of Trustees and am still having fun with life, travel, work, and family.” EMILY LOOMIS MURPHY shared that her daughter, Malinda Kate, and GIDEON DAVIS’ ‘90 son, Levi, are in the same kindergarten class in Ft. Worth, Texas. VICTOR WYKOFF’s company extended the family’s stay in Singapore for a third year, but they hope to be back on American soil before contracting island fever. Vic, Carla, and son, Patrick, traveled to the U.S. for a short visit in May. Patrick enjoyed trekking the Yosemite Valley Floor on his dad’s back.

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THOMAS KONRAD became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder in May. He will be moving from Colorado to Connecticut with his wife, Karen, later this year, but will continue to write about investing in green energy stocks at www.

AltEnergyStocks.com from there as well. J.P. MANOUX and WOUTER GERMANS ‘84 held a mini-reunion in a Toronto coffee shop this summer. J.P. was there working on season two of Disney’s “Aaron Stone,” and Wouter is a motorcycle-riding, Canadian, EMT.

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THERESA BUI FRIDAY said she was sorry to miss Reunion, but that she had an excuse she knew Thacher would understand. She, husband Greg, and son, Jack, who just started kindergarten, went camping in Yosemite and said, “Jack is quite a good camper, probably his 20th trip thus far.” Theresa is at a new company, Aravo Solutions, heading up product marketing. MARC GANZI and his polo team won the National Polo Championship last year and he was in Santa Barbara this August defending his Pacific Coast title. He writes, “I was out to see the Thacher campus with my wife and kids in late August after spending our fifth summer in Montecito. We move to the Santa Barbara Polo Club every summer to escape the heat and humidity of South Florida and play competitive polo throughout July and August. While on campus, we ran into

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Cultivating Community: Elena Brokaw CdeP 1987 For a while in the early 2000s I was a consultant, working to develop cultural plans for communities and municipalities in the U.S. During the two or three years I did that, I started to hear myself use a couple of phrases to describe what the plans I was working to develop were engineered to avoid: I often talked about the “homogenization of America” and the “visual pablum of our cityscapes.” (Both phrases were clearly plagiarized from someone much smarter than me.)

Almost without my realizing it, much of the work I do as the Community Services Director for the City of Ventura is designed to counteract creeping visual pablum, to stave off homogenization. Or, to put it in more positive terms, to retain and nurture a unique community spirit. When you’re in Ventura, you may find it funky, but you know that you’re in a town that is revved to life every day by people, not by corporations. Yes, there’s a Starbucks (Ventura isn’t on another planet, after all) but it’s balanced out by three other locally run coffeehouses. We focus on the arts as a way to celebrate and express our uniqueness; for example, our public art is designed to surprise and delight people with its whimsical or thought-provoking installations.

Thacher was the place where I personally discovered that I was a creative person—that I expressed myself best, and most purely, on the stage, singing into the darkened lights of the auditorium. While that part of my life is over—now, I confine my singing to the shower and the car and to the occasional happy birthday in a not very crowded restaurant—having the room and the encouragement to discover my adolescent passion set me off on a (so far) life-long attempt to make sure that everyone gets that chance. That everyone lives in a community where their souls are not deadened just by walking out of the door each morning, where every day brings a moment of pure surprise, where every person can open his or her mouth and sing, and feel alive.

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Mr. Mulligan and Mr. Robinson and got to see all the great imIt’s fair to say that few couples in academia have done more provements to the school as well. Much has changed at CdeP, to understand and explain one of the world’s most complex but the soul of the school remains unchanged. My kids had a and troubled places. Both Al and Polly grew up hearing stotough time believing that Thacher was actually a school. They ries about Africa and they first met in the Congo – Al was were ready to enroll then and there. It was a nice trip.” SHELL something of a latter-day Phillip Marlow and Polly a budding DUNCAN GRIMES thoughtfully sent in some photos from researcher. In fact, anyone who despairs of jump-starting the reunion weekend. continent into the modern international economy – a perennial source of anxiety to the World Bank– ought to spend an RIE RENIERS sends her greetings from the San Joaquin Valley. afternoon.

She has taken a break from work and, after a busy summer traveling to England, San Francisco, Idaho, and San Diego, is happy to be home, entrenched in school/ballet/nap routines.

Rie says, “I am so looking forward to reunion weekend next June—just wish it was sooner!”

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NATASHA LONG reports that she and MARK LEYDECKER ’79 and family headed off in the summer to France for two weeks, followed by three weeks in Nantucket. They returned to Aspen in time to bring to bring Carson down to Thacher to start his freshman year. “I was so inspired by how the campus has evolved, and by Mully’s welcome speech, that I would have been quite happy to change places with Carson and start my Thacher career all over again.” She asks, “Can I claim ‘first Thacher parent in our class’ as a stepmom?” Natasha followed this up with a three-month leave of absence from work. “Alas, I returned to Aspen where Carson’s father and I continue to discover new trails for hiking, new slopes for skiing, and, with

a newly empty room except on school holidays, we are planning for new visitors.”

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BRIAN C. EMME shares, “My wife, Lisa, and I will be moving to Japan for two years with the Navy. We are very excited to live in and travel throughout that part of the world — Come visit!” ANNE BERUBE GARD reports that she traveled with her sister, Nancy Berube, who currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her stepmother, through parts of Brazil and Argentina. Anne writes, “The waterfalls were amazing and I look forward to returning to Argentina. Life back home in Ojai is great. Kaden just started first grade and Cooper is in his last year of preschool. Steve and I are both still teaching locally.

I am also helping my stepfather with his ranch. I am really enjoying it, so there may be a future rancher in my family yet.”

NICHOLAS H. MAST has been busy for the last couple of years with a lot of travel. He completed his orthopedic surgical residency at the University of Utah in 2007, and then spent 2008 doing a fellowship in Santa Monica, Calif. He is currently wrapping up a six-month fellowship in Europe. Nick says, “I spent three months in Paris and three months in Zurich working with master surgeons of the hip. I am now preparing for my return home to San Francisco. I hope to get down to an Alumni Day soon! I might even pick up the old lacrosse stick.”

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KERRYN SANAN GRIFFIN shares that after seven years of singing and teaching in Manhattan, she and her husband,

It is often said that dorm life is the heart of community at Thacher. Certainly some of my strongest Thacher relationships were forged through the day-to-day experience of dorm life. Thacher’s built and natural environment clearly matter too, from the beautiful natural setting that engenders sense of place to the physical design of the campus and dorms. Consider how the patios, balconies, and courtyard of Middle School dormitory as well as its proximity to the center of campus encourage social interaction in students (for better or worse from the faculty’s perspective).

Since high school, I have had other strong community living experiences, but Thacher has certainly helped inspire Peninsula Park Commons (PPC), a nine household co-housing project I developed with a friend, Eli Spevak, in Portland, Ore. PPC combined renovation and reuse of a historic multi-family structure with new green buildings designed and redeveloped to encourage community and sustainable living. PPC was an experiment of sorts to create a model of sustainable urban living suitable to our tastes for social interaction, quality of life, and affordable housing with a lower environmental footprint. It was probably also an attempt to sustain the shared living experiences that many of us knew in college and, in my case, at Thacher.

At completion we have nine households ranging from 600 to 1,200 square feet plus over 1,000 feet of indoor common space currently shared by 21 residents (16 adults and five children). The renovations and redevelopment at PPC included many features that have become mainstream for “green building” projects, but the project’s most significant “green” element is the formal and informal sharing of resources and space integral to its design. We converted the kitchen, living area, and bathroom of one existing and centrally located dwelling unit into roughly 400 square feet of indoor common space, which is used for everything from parties, meetings, and watching movies to group cooking, temporary guest housing, and a children’s playroom. Sharing living space—the least efficiently used space in most American homes—allowed for smaller, more affordable units and encouraged more social interaction by residents.

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Photos (L to R): From the Class of ’89: Connie Lindsay, David Lindsay, Shell Duncan Grimes, Jason Improta, Tara Sizlo, April Taylor, and Rebecca Clarke at Reunion Weekend; Connie Lindsay, Shell Duncan Grimes, Loretta Zhang Lazar, and Tara Sizlo at Reunion Weekend; Anne Berube Gard during her summer trip to Argentina at the Parque Nacional Iguazu; Nicholas Mast ’92 says “Ciao” from Italy; Elizabeth Zeigler Green with her daughters Aurora and Kaitlyn on Suzy.

Jayson, moved away from the city and now live in Westport, Conn. They have two children, Isabella (4) and Graham (2), who keep them very busy, but very happy. In 2008, they opened a retail wine store in New Canaan, Conn., and they travel back to California often to visit their families and explore California wine country. MEGHAN JEANS writes, “I am still living the life in San Francisco along with my CdeP roomy LAURA WENTWORTH. I just started a new gig at Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions directing their new Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum. In addition to the Northern California Thacher contingent, I had an opportunity to reconnect with CAMILLA JOY and her little one this summer in New England. LUPE NICKELL ‘92 and I also rocked out at this year’s Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco (sans costumes).”

SARAH MAYNE BRENNAN shares that, in addition to the birth of her son James, “We are now full-time residents of Gloucester, Mass. I just completed my master’s degree in nursing and passed my nurse practitioner board exams this summer. John is a trust officer at a local bank. We would love to see any Thacher folks if you are in the area.” AWELE OKOBI-OKIGBO sends greetings from sunny Lagos, Nigeria. Awele shares, “My husband, Patrick, and I moved back home to Nigeria two years ago after many years in Washington D.C. We have three healthy and adorable children, Arinze (3), Amara (2) and Mezu (4 months old). Please drop me a note if any of you are in my neck of the woods. All are welcome at chez Okigbo.”

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BRIAN BENNETT and his wife, Anne, spent part of the summer in Afghanistan as part of a delegation to monitor the Presidential election. MEREDITH BRESSIE says Sausalito life with her dog, Tucker, is great fun, and she has joined the Junior League in San Francisco. Meredith is training for her first half marathon: Nike Women’s Half in San Francisco. She is still taking more Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) classes and will get her NLP Masters Certification by summer. She is traveling to Morocco in October 2009 for a photographic safari.

Meredith says, “Work is work, but my project will be done by spring to sell. Life is very exciting these days.” ELIZABETH ZEIGLER GREEN and her husband, Alen, are currently living in Iowa with their daughters. She writes, “Our three daughters, Aurora, Kaitlyn and Celeste, love to ride horses and are enjoying school and their hobbies. Our oldest daughter, Aurora, received a $2,000 college scholarship from the Belin-Blank gifted-talented program here at the University of Iowa for exceptional achievement in the visual arts. She is 14, has started high school this year and is hoping to get her driving permit.

Kaitlyn enjoys martial arts and is learning about animal habits in third grade, and Celeste is enjoying her friends at preschool and wants to be a police officer. I start and train performance horses and have a foundation-bred quarter horse stallion that I am standing to the public this year. I am also finishing my degree in English with a focus on nonfiction writing. I have recently written several articles about foundation quarter and

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On Community: Guadalupe Nickell CdeP 1992 Most people think of The Nature Conservancy as an environmental organization with a simple model of buying land to protect nature. That was certainly true when we made our first land acquisition in 1955, but the world has changed greatly since then: The demands placed on our planet’s natural resources by a growing population and the effects of climate change are more challenging than ever. The Conservancy has realized that success means conservation solutions that provide both ecological and economic benefit to local communities.

People thrive when nature thrives.

These two photos are very special to me: a colleague snapped them in May 2008, during a trip we took to a Conservancy’s project in the highlands of Guatemala. Working directly with private landowners to compensate them for the sustainable management of their lands is one of our key conservation strategies, and the Conservancy worked with this particular landowner on a property that yields shade-grown coffee, ornamental plants, and magnificent bird habitat. Operating an eco-lodge and hosting birding tours employs dozens of locals, and their children attend elementary school on the property—all made possible by the proceeds from sustainable ecotourism and agriculture.

On the day these photos were taken, I spotted three boys on a makeshift soccer field, taking turns shooting. Anyone who knew me during my years playing soccer at Thacher knows that I can never walk away from an opportunity to get in goal. What started out as an informal shooting drill quickly evolved into a massive full-field game of boys vs. girls with 15 kids playing on each team. Mayhem! The girls were hesitant to take the field at first, but soon lived up to our team name—“Las Chicas Superpoderosas,” or the Spanish translation for “Powerpuff Girls”—and beat the boys, 2-1.

I joined The Nature Conservancy over five years ago so that I could build my development skills to benefit those causes nearest and dearest to me, including education and the environment. These passions are deeply rooted in my Thacher experience. I have chosen my path because I believe the Conservancy’s pragmatic, science-based approach to conservation yields powerful results. Every child deserves to have access to clean air, water, and nature’s bounty—whether they live in Oakland, Ojai, or the Orinoco River Basin.

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paint performance horses as well as several on color genetics in horses. I do not know if any of you remember my little bay quarter horse filly Suzy, who I had with me at Thacher, but she is 19 this year and in foal to a son of Doc’s Hickory. Hoping for a filly in February!” CATHERINE PIERSOL-SCHIPPER is working with her husband as a cardiovascular nurse practitioner at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. Her husband is an interventional cardiology fellow. Catie is so sorry she missed everyone at the reunion. ELIZABETH STORY-HIERONYMUS reports, “Life is great. We had a wonderful time at Reunion in June and really enjoyed getting to see and catch up with classmates. My husband, Zach, just finished the class work portion of his master’s degree in Occupational Therapy and starts his internship soon. He graduates in May 2010, and then we set out in search of our new home somewhere in the country. In the meantime, I am still spending my time working as a personal trainer and enjoying time with our 2-yearold daughter, Mia.” FREDERIKA HOWE TOLL and NATHANIEL J. TOLL report their girls are growing like weeds. Adelaide is age 3 and Josephine is age 1. They are still enjoying life in Utah and recently took the girls on their first camping trip to Snow Canyon State Park.

Community = Local Caitlin “Cat” Caldwell CdeP 1999 What gets you out of bed? For me, that sacred line between sleeping and waking is crossed by a calling. The call starts with that tingling sensation of awareness that I am alive and (now) awake. From this place, others callings begin to ring: the call to feed my dog, bring my horse in from grazing for the night, make breakfast, meditate... then head into the world to participate and prosper in my community.

This may sound a little like a Thacher morning, except for the dog part, I know. (But seriously folks, imagine how much harder “doggydooing” the campus for 300 dogs would be! Makes mucking stalls look easy, right?) The truth is, the community of Thacher—horses, dogs, cats, people and the occasional cow included—planted the seed for everything I do today, from getting to know and care for my neighbors to engaging in valuable work.

It’s not the case for everybody, but as my classmate Brendan Bechtel put it to me a few years ago, “Knowing what you want is half the battle.” The same could be true for “knowing who you ARE.” Being brave enough to be who you are—both your light and dark aspects—is the greatest lesson the Thacher community may teach you. For example, I had a lot of body image concerns as an adolescent girl. Instead of shaming these and being privately depressed, Thacher provided an opportunity for me to engage in an independent study to explore and share my findings for the benefit of the entire community. On the lighter side, I was also able to found the “Powderhound Society,” a spontaneous group presented to the community for adventures to ski resorts in California. This passion for snow eventually led me full circle to the community of Jackson Hole where I now live.

My first year here, I told a joke at an open mic. Afterwards, an acquaintance approached me about joining Jackson Hole Community Radio, an up-and-coming non-profit station. It was my fearlessness in getting up and just being myself that attracted the invitation. Car Mic, my radio show, is now well underway. My thought was that the best energy of Jackson Hole is spoken about in a car at the beginning or end of a ski run, or just back from a long ride, river trip, or similar outdoor adventure.

The last question for every interviewee, be he or she one of the 3 million tourists we get every summer or one of the few natives who was actually born in the Hole, is: “What does it mean to be local, and are you?” The range of responses is fascinating to me, from the typical, “must a been born here,” to the unusual, “been here for two minutes and getting it.” And that’s the bottom line for us here in the Tetons and for you folks back at Thacher: Are you LOCAL? Because when you’re called to a place, be it for an interview, vacation, or a few years of young, old, or in-between living, you become a part of the local energy. And that is the community call that will get you out of bed, partner!

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JOSHUA FOSTER and his wife, Tiffney, were at Twenty-Nine Palms during work-up training for Josh’s impending deployment to Afghanistan where he will be serving as the air officer for the Third Battalion Fourth Marines. Josh will be leaving with the advance group early in September to be followed by the rest of the battalion later in October. Tiffney will be holding down the fort until his return to Yuma early next year.

You can support Josh during his deployment by writing an e-mail to him at joshuafoster@hotmail.com.

REUBEN J. BEDINGFIELD moved to Sydney, Australia, in early 2008. He says “I manage my company’s Asia Pacific region testing facilities. I’ve been doing well here, taking advantage of the location and culturally liberal stance on time off work to travel to Asia, the South Pacific, and New Zealand, as well as the occasional trip back to the U.S.” DAVID ROSS shares, “I am in my fifth year coaching basketball for Special Olympics West Hawaii, and am beginning my third year as the area director for Special Olympics West Hawaii. I will be starting at the University of Hawaii working on my science teacher degree/certification in January.”

CAMERON BOSWELL recently moved to Corcoran, Calif., with his wife, Cherilyn, to begin his new job as the assistant environmental specialist with the J.G. Boswell Company. He is excited to be working with his family business in agriculture, and very happy to be back in California after living in Arizona and Colorado for the last 10 years. Cameron will be joining the board of trustees at Prescott College in February.

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Photos (L to R): Mia Hieronymus Story, daughter of Elizabeth StoryHieronymus ’94, looking gorgeous in her “Future Toad” T-shirt; Justin Grant ’97, back row, with his music group The Westminster Chorus; Ryan Meyer ’98 and Eliza Gregory Meyer ’99 at their wedding with all the guests who had ties to Thacher; Jackie Festa Parsons ’98, husband, Daven, and sons, Saiyen and Dillon, standing in the doorway of their new first home in Marin, Calif.; Ella Goodbrod ’00 and husband North Moench having some hula hoop fun at their wedding; Nicholas Horton ‘02, Kristina Horton, Diane Horton, James Click, Cheryl Lynn Horton ‘00, Bill Horton, Becky Horton ‘05 and Audra Horton ‘08; Caitlin Caldwell ‘99 and Clarissa Caldwell ’01 with Chadeaux in Crested Butte.

Westminster Chorus. In addition to amazing sightseeing and several electric live shows, the chorus competed in the esteemed Eisteddfod Musical Festival in Wales. After winning several preliminary rounds, their group advanced to the finals.

After all five outstanding finalist groups from around the world had competed, The Westminster Chorus was crowned the 2009 Choir of the World Pavarotti Trophy champion!

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WIL CALDWELL shares that, following the completion of his MBA from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, he and his new wife, Lauren, moved to Dallas, Texas, where he is working as a financial analyst for a utility scale solar energy company. JACKIE FESTA PARSONS is married to Daven Parsons and has two sons: Saiyen Jaden Wells is 6 and in first grade; and Dillon Jasper Parsons is 18 months old.

Jackie says, “BRONWEN HALSEY’s wedding was wonderful... so glad she lives close to me!” ROB LANDSNESS currently lives in Montecito, Calif. He is working as a partner in a rare wine company. ISABEL BLANK married this summer (see Marriages). She has a master’s degree in International Management and is working as a project manager in marketing.

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KIMBERLY CAHILL graduated from UCLA/Charles Drew Medical School and has started her UCLA Pediatric Residency.

CAITLIN “CAT” CALDWELL has a radio show on Fridays at 8 a.m. in Jackson, Wyo. Last year, she completed certification in sustainable business with the Bainbridge Institute (commuting to Seattle), and is working toward becoming a life coach through Debbie Ford (commuting to San Diego by train) as well. She lives in Victor, Idaho, with her horse, Jet; dog, Chadeaux (pronounced “Shadow”); and her giant, golden diesel truck, Sabrosa. KELSEY MCCARTY is in Boston getting her MBA at MIT and taking advantage of the student lifestyle as much as possible. She recently traveled to Africa to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro with several classmates. “An amazing experience, stirring fond memories of Thacher camping. I am looking forward to returning to Africa for several weeks in January, but this time to help an HIV/AIDS clinic in Ghana expand their services throughout the country. When I graduate in May I will have to go back to reality and find a job.” STEPHANIE TORRES and her fiance, Charlie, met in December 2006 while co-founding an Internet start-up based in New York. They were introduced by their younger brothers who were also involved in the company. Stephanie and Charlie have since discontinued their involvement in the start-up and have made their home in Williamsburg (an East River waterfront section of Brooklyn, N.Y.). Stephanie has resumed her career in finance in a new job in midtown Manhattan. Once married, Charlie and Stephanie plan to continue living in New York.

JUSTIN ARNOLD continues his desert assignment in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and wife FELICITY HOWE ARNOLD is working on farms in New Zealand for five months. “We are looking forward to traveling in New Zealand for a month over the holidays together. We had a lovely time at Todd Meyer’s wedding in Portland, Ore.; it was such a blast catching up with so many Toads.” BENNETT BARBAKOW says he “is doing music and film stuff. If anyone needs any music or video production, holler at this boy.” Go to www.huma-huma.com for sound work done by Bennett and his group. ERIN BLANKENSHIP writes, “Have spent the last two years doing graduate school in war studies in London, working for international security organizations, playing professional football (soccer), and traveling as much as humanly possible on leftover student loans and grants. So, not much has changed. Just got back from a summer of climbing and dissertation research in the Balkans and am preparing to head to Africa next spring. I am going from Cairo to Cape Town and arriving just in time for the World Cup.” E. LUCINDA L. BROWN writes “If you are traveling in Southeast Asia anytime soon, shoot me an e-mail.

I am living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, through the end of the year and then will be doing my MBA at INSEAD in Singapore in 2010. I hope that some Toads come hopping through!”

CHERYL LYNN HORTON and her husband, James Click, started their residencies at the Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston. Cheryl shares, “It has been fantastic. I am doing emergency medicine and James is doing a combined internal medicine and dermatology program. Boston is amazing and we love it so far.” ELLA GOODBROD was married in July (see Marriages). She is currently working toward finishing her master’s degree at UC Santa Cruz.

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KEVIN CAHILL graduated from Keck School of Medicine at USC and has started his general surgery residency at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. CLARISSA CALDWELL is earning an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bennington, commuting from Crested Butte, Colo. where she has enjoyed living for the past year. After working for www.name.com for about three years, she is currently focused on her writing and other pursuits. She expects to move from there soon, but is not yet sure where. She has designed a line of greeting cards which can be seen at www.candyjar.org. MATTHEW COHEN is headed to USC’s Marshall School of Business this fall with a half-tuition fellowship to pursue his MBA. The company that PETER FRYKMAN founded, Driptech, has won a prestigious award for technology benefiting humanity. His product, which drills precision holes in thin plastic, reduces the number of parts and the cost of drip irrigation systems. Peter writes, “Everything is going quite well. We have just made our first sale of 200 drip systems to China and our agricultural manager leaves tomorrow to begin installations. We are currently looking for angel investors to scale up our manufacturing and begin sales in India. If you know anyone who may be interest-

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ed please send them my way.” MICHAEL HAMMER has been working the past year for the Getty Conservation Institute, and was in Paso Robles working as an architectural restorer on the earthquake-damaged San Miguel Archangel Mission church restoring the original woodwork. In mid-September he moved to Monterey to work on exterior restoration of the Royal Presidio Chapel. KATHERINE HARMON reported in June that she had finished her master’s at the Missouri School of Journalism. Katie is now back in New York City writing for Scientific American’s website. EMMETT HOPKINS and his fiancée, Lynda, started a small vegetable farm on some of his family’s land. Emmett shares, “We now sell at two farmers’ markets in Sonoma County and run a small Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that delivers produce boxes to local families. At our Foggy River Farm, we grow all types of veggies; have a flock of over 50 laying hens, and a few goats and sheep as well. Lynda is also a writer and is working on a book about our first year of farming that is to be published

by Sasquatch Books once it is completed. We would love to see any of my classmates if you are passing through Sonoma County.” HEATHER KELLY writes that she and BRIAN KELLY are still living the good life in San Francisco. She is going into her second year at UC Hastings College of the Law and Brian is starting there this fall. Heather spent her summer interning at the California Appellate Project, a state-funded law firm that represents clients on death row. She really enjoyed the work and will continue volunteering there in the fall. In August, Heather and Brian headed off for a six-day backpacking trip in Tuolumne Meadows. They would love to connect with anyone living in or traveling to the Bay Area. GAVIN MCCLINTOCK and his wife, Cannon, have moved to New York where he is attending Columbia University and she is designing jewelry. They are expecting a baby girl in January. CLAY PELL is a lieutenant and Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the U.S. Coast Guard. He is currently aboard a cutter off the coast of Seattle but divides his time ashore between home in Providence, R.I., and court in Washington, D.C. ANTHEA TJUANAKIS has started her first year of graduate school, working towards an MBA at Yale’s School of Management. Anthea says, “Come visit me in New Haven!”

Isaacson, KATIE ISAACSON ‘99, ELIOTT PERKINS ‘93, KATIE KOCHENDORFER ‘97, DANA HOWBERT ‘97, DIANA GARCIA ‘95, GRACE BUETI ’04, and KAY BRADFORT ‘05. Sadly, JAMIE HASTINGS just missed us on his way home from a business trip to China and India.”

ANDREW D. POOLE is currently living in Dublin, Ireland, as part of a temporary assignment to help establish Facebook’s newly founded European headquarters. He is tasked with building and managing a team in charge of all Direct Channel ad sales support across Europe. Accordingly, outside of the daily grind he’s been taking advantage of the copious opportunities to travel throughout the continent, on and off assignment.

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STEPHANIE HUBBARD MCGIRT’s white coat ceremony was on July 31. ELIZABETH BRADFORD writes that after three wonderful years at Bain & Co., she has taken a new job at Teach for America as strategy director and is applying to business school for next fall. Her role at Teach for America is to build out their strategy group and collaborate with states and districts to improve student achievement measurement.

Betsy shares that she “really enjoyed seeing large Thacher crowds for SARAH PERKIN’S ‘97 30th birthday and LAUREL PETERSON’S visit from London. In attendance at the San Julian Ranch were NEWIE HASTINGS ‘70, SHANNON HASTINGS BAKER ‘99, KACEY PERKINS TIFT ‘95, Bobby

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WALKER CAHALL is living in Portland, Ore., doing a variety of activities including: riding bicycles, making art, and experiencing the great Northwest. He has started a printmaking company called Waltronic Press that creates art with an environmental focus. Each image draws from themes of green design, sustainable energy, bicycle culture, and the future of technology. His goal as an artist is to make people think about the world that they live in and what they can do to change it for the better. You can view his work at www. waltronic.net. Walker’s art has been featured on several blogs for environmental stewardship including Patagonia’s Tin Shed and NAU’s Collective. His latest project is collaboration with his brother, Fitz, and filmmaker Bryan Smith to create an Internet reality show based upon the lives of five outdoor athletes and their trials and tribulations for the 2009 summer season. The Season will premiere in January 2010. A short film based on the concept was also entered into the Banff International Film Festival. While not working, Walker has been contemplating the question: “How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?” CHRISTOPHER CAHILL started medical school in Burlington at the University of Vermont in August. ZAC KITNICK was included in the show Between Spaces at PS1 Museum (MoMA affiliate) in New York City on Oct. 25. His work was also exhibited in the shows Changing Light Bulbs in Thin Air at the Hessel Museum of Art, Salad Days at Artists Space, EAF09 at Socrates Sculpture Park, and Showroom at Johan Berggren Gallery. Solo shows have included Ode to Joy at Cleopatra’s project space and Murphy Beds at SouthFirst Gallery. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Subtractions at Johan Berggren Gallery in Malmo, Sweden, in March 2010. WHITNEY SNYDER shares, “On Aug. 24, I celebrated my 24th birthday, and to commemorate this “golden” birthday, I climbed the East Face route of Mt. Whitney, my namesake, with my dad. It was incredible! When not climbing mountains, I can be found at home in Santa Barbara preparing to attend baking and pastry school in Manhattan this spring. Since the summer I have also been training with Thacher classmate CAMERON RIDGEWAY to

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Photos (L to R): Emmett Hopkins ’01 with one of the goats from his Foggy River Farm; Andrew Poole ’02 in the striped shirt doing a jig on the streets of Ireland; Whitney Snyder ’03 at the summit of her namesake, Mt. Whitney; UC Irvine School of Medicine classmates Bianca Kissel ’04 and Drew Fleck ’03; Ian Strachan ‘04, Annie Strachan ’05, Michael K. Mulligan, and Will Strachan ‘09.

MILESTONES run the inaugural Santa Barbara International Marathon on Dec. 6, 2009; the training is testing our limits but we’re very excited!” EDWARD TAVERNETTI is a graduate student at UC Davis getting his PhD in Applied Mathematics.

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STEPHANIE NHU Y DANG is teaching kindergarten with the KIPP schools in Houston, and is looking forward to “lots more trips back out to California to visit everyone.”

NED LINCOLN graduated from Union College this spring with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and was awarded a Minerva Fellowship from the school. He will be in and around Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for nine months beginning July 15, where he will be starting a motorbike repair shop as a cooperative with a small village. Then he is going back to Union to help teach a class on social entrepreneurship. You can see his blog at http://tcmotoshop.blogspot. com for some pictures and information on what Ned is doing. CHARLENE HO JUNG KIM is in her second year of law school in Washington, D.C., and is excited to work for a law firm in Los Angeles next summer before returning for her third and final year. BIANCA KISSEL and DREW FLECK ’03 are classmates at UC Irvine School of Medicine, Class of 2013. SABRINA LEE is in her first year at the UC San Diego, where she is studying for her masters in Pacific International Affairs. WHITNEY LIVERMORE returned in June from nine months studying Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan.

Whitney tells us, “I had the pleasure of sharing the experience with SABRINA LEE and GRAHAM DOUDS, as we all shared an apartment together in the city. I am now back in the Bay Area, living in San Francisco and working with a nonprofit that provides after-school enrichment programs to middle school students.” MATT STENOVEC moved to Honolulu, where he is teaching sophomore English at Punahou School, as well as coaching lacrosse for the school’s club team. He invites everyone to come and visit. Over the next six months, IAN STRACHAN will be working on the National Geographic Sea Bird as a deckhand, primarily in the Baja region of the Pacific Ocean. Ian writes, “The company I was lucky enough to be hired by, Lindblad Expeditions, is partnered with National Geographic and was, and continues to be, one of the foremost pioneers of eco-tourism in the adventure travel world. My duties will include standing watch, ship maintenance, driving Zodiacs, and interacting with the guests, all the while ensuring that everything is, quite literally, shipshape. I’m looking forward to spending the winter months working around kayaks, whales, and sea lions and can only hope what is good for the outside of a ship is also good for the inside of a boy!”

JENNIE TUCKER reports that she and ROBERT NEVILLE are working together to import California wines to Hong Kong and China.

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Lara Sweet was born in Feb. 2009 to Gloria and ERIC SWEET ’63. “She is the only girl after six boys.” (photo 1) Cole Robbins was born on Nov. 9, 2008, to Annie and DRISCOLL ROBBINS ’87. Cole’s godfather is TED LABBE ’87. (photo 2) Isis Isosceles Pratt was born on Dec. 5, 2008, to Riley Pratt and AMY BIRD ’90. (photo 3) Sophia Elena Maldonado was born on May 22, 2009, to Jose Maldonado and ELLIE FISCHBACHER ’90. (photo 4) Harrison Gene Fincher was born on June 22, 2009, to Allyn Fincher and SADIE HARRISON-FINCHER ’90. Sadie shares, “I had a great summer off on maternity leave enjoying my time with Harrison, but have recently returned to my law practice here in Fort Worth.” (photo 5) Toby and RIE RENIERS ’09 welcomed Charlie Maitland-Lewis to their family on March 9, 2009. Rie shares, “His big sister Lucy is, by all accounts thus far, happy to have him here!” (photo 6) Elle Sommer was born on Dec. 4, 2007, to Mark and JENNIFER UTMAN SOMMER ’90. Big sister Talia is already reading books to her little sister. (photo 7) Celeste Friend Ayala was born on July 21, 2009, to Tony and EMILY THACHER AYALA ’90. Emily writes, “Another great-great grandchild of Sherman Day Thacher has been born! I am juggling how to work on the family citrus farm with a 2-year-old and a newborn. The past four generations did it, so it must be possible. Big brother Oliver Thacher Ayala does a good job watching over his little sister, Celeste. (photo 8) Oscar Hoyt Maley was born on Jan. 13, 2009, to ALEXA WILSON MALEY ’90 and her husband, John. With big brother Eli turning 3 years old on Sept. 20, Alexa reports, “I am still at my parents’ ranch in southeastern Oregon, and have been chasing more kids lately than cows.

At times I am not sure which is more challenging.”

Molly Bliss Rogove was born to JESSICA BLISS ’92 and Joe Rogove on March 4, 2009. Jessica writes, “She is a happy and healthy little girl and likes nothing more than sitting in the backyard and watching the trees blow in the wind. I was lucky enough to be home with her for four months and am now back at work. Joe quit his job and is a stay-at-home dad.” (photo 9) James Tompkins Brennan was born on Aug. 16, 2009, to SARAH MAYNE BRENNAN ’93 and her husband, John. (photo 10) Cole Perkins Tift was born Sept. 28, 2009, to William and KACEY PERKINS TIFT ’95.

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Avery Barrell was born to Tyler and MARIA BANMAN BARRELL ’96 in Dec. 2008.

Capella Juliet Martin was born on Aug. 14, 2009, to Edward and AURIGA MARTIN ’96. Auriga shares that Capella was born at home on the farm in New Zealand, making her the seventh generation of Martins to be born there. Pictures of Capella can be viewed at her website: www.aurigab.com/ capella. (photo 11) Ada Ludmila Morgan was born to SPENCER MORGAN ’96 on Oct. 18, 2009.

Leo Garrett Van Horne was born on May 29, 2009, to Lucy and ROBERT VAN HORNE ’96. Robert shares, “Although it is very, very premature, we are looking forward to the day when Leo can follow his dad and grandfather in becoming a Toad!” (photo 12) Samuel Kai Huson Labbe was born on Sept. 2, 2009, to Tiffanie and CHRIS LABBE ’97. Chris says, “As much as we try to get a picture with the tyke’s eyes open, it is hard when they sleep soooo much.” (photo 13) Honor Chau Anh Gerardo was born on Sept. 3, 2009, to Hanh and CESAR GERARDO ’98. Her older brother, Cris, is being very supportive, despite the stresses of having started kindergarten that same week. Honor had her first Thacher visitation when MANUEL NIKEL-ZUEGER ’98 came to pay homage on his way home to Arizona. (photo 14) Arlo Ingram Murch was born on Dec. 20, 2008, to Mickey Murch and BRONWEN HALSEY ’98 at home on their farm in Bolinas, Calif. Like father, like son—daddy, Mickey, was also born in this very same house. (photo 15) Natalie Peterson was born on Jan. 7, 2009 to KIM CAHILL ’99 and Matt Peterson. (photo 16) PETER MUNZIG ’99 and his wife, Margaret, happily welcomed Abigail Elizabeth on Dec. 26, 2008. They could not be more thrilled, and are enjoying every minute of watching her grow up. (photo 17) On Sept. 20, 2009, Reagan Michael Disner became the newest addition to the family of Nora and MICHAEL DISNER ’01. “He is a healthy boy and weighed in at 8 lb. 3 oz. and 22 inches long. Nora and I are very excited and happy to be parents! We recently moved to the D.C. area and welcome any visitors.” (photo 18) Isabel Casey Yellowhair was born on April 30, 2009, to SHAYLA COOKE ’03 and Brant Yellowhair. Shay says, “We call her Isa, Izza, and Isabear. She is Brant’s and my whole heart. We always said that we knew we would love our children, but the depth of this love is unbelievable.” (photo 19)

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BENJAMIN BABBOTT writes, “I have one more semester at Amherst College which is a result of taking time off sophomore year to go on a three-month NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) trip in Utah and Wyoming. I am an environmental studies major with little direction and that is a beautiful thing. I have been really into sustainable agriculture and local foods issues. Two summers ago I secured a stipend from Amherst to work on three small, organic farms. These ranged from a 70-person CSA and retreat in Pescadero, Calif., to taking care of a man’s goats and garden while he went to work in the boonies of southwest Colorado.

This last summer I interned for American Farmland Trust, a national farmland protection advocacy organization. With all of August to travel, I got a chance to see SAM FELTON, ED CAHILL, MARY BLOOM, CONNOR SCHRYVER, and BEN CASTANON, which was a good primer for the upcoming reunion. I even had dinner at Mully’s place in Wyoming. I am excited to see what people are doing with their lives. I hope to ski in Jackson Hole next semester with Ed Cahill and to have a large beard come reunion.” ED CAHILL is finishing his physics major at Middlebury and is still playing rugby. He is co-captain of the team this year and looking forward to returning to the pitch. In the national rugby finals last May, Ed experienced a forehead laceration. No worries, though, as his dad, NED CAHILL ‘70, was able to stitch him up during halftime so Ed could play out the second half. During the summer, he had an internship with NASH in robotics. DANA GALL is living in Brookline, Mass., and says it is a fantastic location for someone in her position. “I do not have a car so the convenience of being able to walk everywhere and the fact that it is such a safe neighborhood makes it great. It is also really convenient because I am working at Children’s Hospital so the commute is about as short as one can really hope for. I am doing research in the department of cardiology and taking a little break from pure academia before applying to medical school next year. I get to work directly with patients and do a lot of the actual data collection. The only downside to Boston is that it is not in California and that it is so far from most other Thacher people.” ZACK GROSSMAN graduated in the spring magna cum laude with highest thesis honors from Tufts University. He then traveled to India in the summer to work on a documentary film of his own, focusing on Tibetan refugees. His travels and filming took him to Mumbai, Ladoc, Delhi, and Dharamsala, the residence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Zack is now attending Harvard Divinity School with a goal of pursuing a doctorate in Biblical Archeology. LINDSAY HUNT is living in New York City and attending the French Culinary Institute’s Classic Culinary Arts program. She says, “After bartending since graduation, I am now focusing on school and interning in the pastry kitchen at an Austrian restaurant. I have seen a lot of SARAH ECKHARDT and enjoyed dinner with CHANDLER PEASE at Sarah’s apartment last week. I am also writing a food blog

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Jo Min ‘11 enjoying a hot beverage in the new large cups available in the dining hall thanks to the class gift of CdeP 2009.

about cooking and my time at culinary school. Check it out at www.thegourmetgraduate.wordpress.com”

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AMANDA NONOMURA let us know that “summer 2009 turned out to be exciting, tumultuous and, overall, a good time.” Amanda, ETHAN NONOMURA ‘08, and ELIZABETH “EDUB” WOOLF-WILLIS ‘07 all had a great time working at a family camp program at Montecito Lake Resort in Sequoia National Park. Ethan braved the trails as a naturalist, while Edub held down the fort in arts and crafts and Amanda ran the youth leadership program in addition to helping out down at the stables and on the trail. Amanda shares, “Now that summer is over, we all have our noses to the grindstone, working away at school. In addition to schoolwork, Ethan is honing his kayaking skills in Maine, Edub is preparing for a semester abroad in Florence, and I am working in a costume shop and as a resident advisor on campus.”

ROCIO HERNANDEZ is going to be studying abroad in Tokyo at Sophia University for her third year of college. She has been attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., for the past two years, and will be in Japan for the full 2009-2010 school year. Rocio invites any of you who might be in Tokyo during any of that time, or even just want to chat in Japanese, to contact her.

RYAN MCMORROW is spending the academic year in Harbin, China. ADRIANA MEZA was awarded one of the Amherst College summer research fellowships, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, this summer. She shares, “I am one of 27 junior fellows funded by Howard Hughes. I have been working for almost 10 weeks in the biology department, with one of the neuroscience professors, Steve A. George. My research focuses on plasticity in the brain, specifically neurogenesis induced by monocular deprivation in the frog Rana pipiens. The project will reach its conclusion early in the fall semester when I present the results of my research at the college’s annual science poster session. It has been a great learning experience and has opened future research opportunities.”

KAITLIN BOND is taking a gap year and left for Fiji at the end of September to get her Divemaster certification and work with a conservation program called Blue Ventures. Kaitlin writes, “We are working on a tiny island called Leleuvia, diving every day around the island and recording fish species, among many other things. We are also teaching at a school on another island to help them learn about being eco friendly with their fishing, etc., as they grow up in such a unique environment. We are also helping with eco-tourism and giving the Fijians on our island different ideas about that. I am going to be there for six weeks.” LEANDRA COOPER says autumn in New York at Skidmore is wonderful but Thacher is still on her mind all the time. “I am on the polo team here and I have

found it to be the perfect combination of my English riding experience and the Western style riding that I learned in my time at Thacher. Polo is fast and exciting while very dependent on your body communication with your mount. I am in heaven!” ALEXANDRA MONTAGUE shares, “Thacher inspired me to sign up to become a leader with the George Washington University outdoors club and I am currently in training to take other students out on trips. And thanks to Thacher, I am extremely well prepared for everything they throw my way.”

WILL SHENTON is currently involved with the Oberlin Swing Society, which teaches swing dancing and organizes dances for the area. He says “It is something I never thought I would try, but it has turned out to be a lot of fun.” NICKY WILDER, attending Davidson College, reports, “College is great. I am doing club sailing and club tennis.”

Winter Alumni Day Do not miss this opportunity to experience campus life with current faculty and students on

Saturday, January 9 Events include a wonderful brunch and dinner party, dance class, soccer and basketball games with students, horseback riding, trap shooting, and catching up with friends and faculty.

You can RSVP online at www.thacher.org/alumni or call Michelle Cyr at

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faculty, staff & friends…

Thacher’s new Chinese teacher is Eric Shi (left), who most recently taught Chinese at Iowa State University; while there, he earned a master’s degree in applied linguistics. Previously, Eric taught English and served as a dorm parent at various high schools in China. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Joining him in Ojai are his wife, Emily, and their daughter Linda, who is studying at Ventura College.

This year’s Thacher Fellow is Erica Jones (left, below), a graduate of Dartmouth, where she studied government and African and African American Studies. Last year she volunteered on the Obama campaign, taught in the Oakland Unified School District, and worked for the ACLU in Northern California. At Thacher, Erica is teaching history, working with the Indoor Committee, and helping to coach JV girls’ soccer. Assisting with the football teams this fall is Tony Franco, a graduate of Providence College, where he studied political science, and double minored in business and the development of western civilization. Tony played football at Braintree High School south of Boston and earned the Coaches’ Award for leadership. Finally, Thacher’s new Director of Finance and Operations is Connie Hanstedt CPA, who served as the business officer at Harvard-Westlake School for the past five-plus years. Previously, Connie has worked as a financial officer and controller for companies focused on a wide array of industries; she also teaches finance and accounting courses at Brooks Institute and at California

Lutheran University. She earned her bachelor of science in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge, and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Business from California Lutheran University. Interim Business Manager Joe Ribeiro and his wife, Sara, hit the rails for their trip east to their home in New England. As former business manager at Northfield Mt. Herman and Western Polytechnic Institute in Worchester, Mass., Joe was able to jump in and effectively manage Thacher’s business operations until Connie Hanstedt arrived this fall. Thank you, Joe! Several of Thacher’s faculty members spent their summers working towards advanced degrees. Science teacher Heather Grant began her graduate work in Montana State University’s Masters of Science in Science Education degree program.

History teacher Toby Elmore continued his work on his Masters of Liberal Arts at Reed College. English and Latin teacher Aaron Snyder completed his Master’s degree in English at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. English teacher Jake Jacobsen was a visiting scholar at Eton College, England, and took a course at Cambridge University. Assistant Director of Admission Aaron Mieszczanski attended a Peabody Professional Institute on Independent School Leadership at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University.

Two more babies joined Thacher’s Community this summer. Amy and Toby Elmore welcomed Stella Jean (left) on Aug. 21; big brother Charlie is thrilled to have a little sister. Another baby girl arrived on Sept. 14, to the delight of parents Ginger and Richard Maxwell (Bon Appetit/Food Service Director). Macy Joy joins older siblings Nina and Miles at their home in Oak View.

TRUSTEE NEWS Joining Thacher’s Board this fall is Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988. She lives in Garland, Texas, with her husband Dr. Ray Canham and two sons Daniel (9) and Tomas (7) Fanning. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies from Harvard University, a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in higher education from the University of North Texas. Currently, Cindy serves as Executive Dean of Ethnic Studies, Social Science, and Physical Education at Richland College. She has served on Thacher’s Alumni Council since its inception in 2007.

Another new Board member is Rajiv Dutta, father of Arjun ’10 and daughter Sarina. Since February 2009, Dutta has served as CEO of Palm, Inc. He joined eBay in 1998, where he held positions including CFO, Senior and executive vice president, and head of strategy; he also led the New Ventures Group and served as president of marketplaces until his retirement in October 2008. Rajiv holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics with honors from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in India, and an MBA from the Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate School, California. He is married to Sumita Dutta; their family lives in Saratoga, Calif.

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years, Jennifer has served as Class Representative and is active on the Alumni Council. Professionally, Jennifer has extensive experience in politics, public policy, and communications.

She currently works for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick as deputy communications director for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Jennifer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University, where she also earned a master’s degree in English. She also holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A native of Santa Barbara, Jennifer now lives in Boston with her husband, Sam Ditzion; they’re expecting their first child in March.

Becky and Ted Swift are serving as this year’s co-presidents of Thacher’s Parents Association. Becky is a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is developing a women’s line of golf clothing in Santa Barbara, while also pursuing her passion as a nature photographer. Ted is a graduate of Yale University and a native of Chicago, Ill. He is CEO and president of Foarm, Inc., a manufacturing company in Santa Barbara. She and Ted have volunteered for many years at Thacher, as parent chairs of the Annual Fund for two years, and as parent chairs for Thacher’s recent capital campaign. They have two children, Dallas CdeP 2006, who is a senior at Northwestern University, and Natalie ‘10, a senior at Thacher.

in memoriam…

PAUL B. FAY, JR. CdeP 1937 Paul “Red” Fay passed away at his home in Woodside, Calif., on Sept. 23, 2009, at the age of 91. A man who knew thousands of people by name in all walks of life, he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease during his last years.

Red was born in 1918 as a fourth-generation San Franciscan. He was nicknamed “Burg” at Thacher, a reference to his middle name Burgess. Red was known for his proven worth on the athletic fields, and as a senior he was not only captain of the first soccer team, but also on the first baseball team, the tennis team, and the track team. He was a great horseman and camper, and had a penchant for taking an axe on the trails around the School, “never passing a dead tree without chopping it down.”

Red graduated from Stanford in 1941 and joined the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor.

When he was a Navy ensign, his instructor at PT Boat School in Rhode Island was a junior officer named John F. Kennedy. They became good friends and Red was one of JFK’s closest advisors, and even an usher at his wedding to Jackie. When Kennedy was elected president, he made Red under secretary of the Navy. They remained close until JFK was assassinated in 1963.

After Red left Washington, he returned to a family-owned business in San Francisco, the Fay Improvement Co., founded in 1875 as a paving contracting firm. Red later became a founding partner in the investment research and brokerage firm Hutchinson & Co. The Fay Improvement Co. was sold in 1967, but Red reconstituted it in 1975 as a financial consulting and business ventures firm. He retired in 2005 when his health began to fail. He is survived by his wife, Anita, son Paul, daughters Katherine and Sally, and seven grandchildren.

“He had a wonderful, wonderful life,” said his son, Paul Fay III. Michael Mulligan, Head of School, sent the following message to the students and faculty upon hearing of Red’s passing: Mr. Fay was a great Thacher man, a successful businessman, a selfless community servant, and a former Undersecretary of the U.S. Navy. He was also one of President John F. Kennedy’s best friends. His book, The Pleasure of His Company, about his relationship with Jack Kennedy, is a classic and is available [here] in the Boswell Family Library. Red told me that he brought Bobby Kennedy to see Thacher and they ended up horsing around in the now fabled Rough-House. In short order, Bobby fell off the rope swing and broke his wrist. So much for the Kennedy legacy at Thacher.

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ROBERT TULLY CdeP 1938 Robert Tully passed away at his home on Orcas Island, Wash., on June 23, 2009, at the age of 88. He was born in 1920 in San Francisco and attended public schools there until he transferred to Thacher his junior year.

Nicknamed “Tull” during his two years at Thacher, Bob was known for his big smile, gentle nature, sunny

Photos, left to right: 1979: It’s fair to say that few couples in academia have done more to understand.

1982: Explain one of the world’s most complex and troubled places.

1985: Both Al and Polly grew up hearing stories about Africa and they first met in the Congo Al was something of a latter-day.

1987: Phillip Marlow and Polly a budding researcher. In fact, anyone who despairs of theUpper continent. disposition, and for having one of the bestjump-starting minds in the Upper. In his

senior yearbook it was written, “There is always room in this world for someone with a little charm; and Tull does more than his share in the distribution of that commodity.” Bob played baseball and soccer, served as a prefect, and participated in the Library and Ojai Tournament Committees. His horse, Hot Tamale, was known for nipping Tull in the seat of his pants during regular morning horse inspections.

Bob went on to Williams College, graduating early to enlist in the Army.

He was sent to Signal Corps Officers Candidate School, and he spent most of the war years teaching at the Signal Corps Labs at Fort Monmouth, N.J. He experienced a buzz bombing in London and spent a brief time in France shortly after D-Day. After leaving the Army in 1946 with a captain’s ranking, Bob received his MBA from Harvard in 1947. He had a successful career in the financial industry, working for Chevron, McKinsey and Co., Marshall and Stevens, and several other large companies. Bob retired in 1987 and moved with his wife to Orcas Island in 1996.

Bob “Tull” Tully is survived by his wife, Carol; his son Arthur; his daughters Mary, Ann, and Alice; two stepsons; and six grandchildren.

WINCHESTER F. INGERSOLL CdeP 1943 Winchester F. Ingersoll, Jr., known as “Fitch” at Thacher, died peacefully on Feb. 14, 2009. He was 82 years old. Though born in New York City, Fitch grew up on his family’s farm in Buzzards Bay, Mass. He attended Milton Academy before enrolling in The Thacher School in 1940.

At Thacher, Fitch received honors in Latin, physiography, French, and English.

He was on the soccer, baseball, and tennis teams. He loved a good argument and enjoyed participating in his class debate teams as well as displaying his skills in imitating other boys and teachers on Talent Night. The five adjectives used to describe Fitch’s personality and habits were: “quiet, friendly, unassuming, industrious, and late.”

A letter written in May 1943 from Anson S. Thacher to Fitch’s father detailed how, on an Extra-Day Trip, Fitch and a lower upper had a harrowing experience. The two went fishing on the top of Pine Mountain, neglecting to tell anyone where they were going and then waited until nearly dark to return.

The mountain taught them a lesson in responsibility as they spent a cold night alone waiting for the search party.

After Thacher, Fitch entered Harvard University, participating in the Navy’s accelerated V-12 College Training program. By 1951, he had earned an AB degree in English/Naval Science, a finance degree from New York University, and graduated from submarine training school in New London, Conn.

His experience in radiation control was used in the preliminary stages of developing the first nuclear submarine in 1950. Fitch worked for 29 years at the Harvard Cooperative Society in Cambridge, Mass., before retiring in 1992. He was a life-long sports enthusiast and fan of the Red Sox. His wife of 42 years, Nancy Breen Ingersoll, predeceased him. Their son, William, passed away in infancy. Fitch generously served as a Class Representative for CdeP 1943 for many years.

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NICHOLAS MUHLENBERG CdeP 1945 Nicholas “Nick” Muhlenberg passed away in Philadelphia on May 26, 2009, at the age of 81. Born in West Reading, Penn., he travelled across the country to attend Thacher from 1943 to 1945.

Following Thacher, Nick earned his BS and MS in forestry from the University of Michigan. After completing a Fulbright scholarship in New Zealand in 1953, he worked for Crown Zellerbach Corp., first as a tree farm mapper in Seaside, Ore., then as a forester supervisor on a tree farm in Nehalem, Ore. Nick went on to earn an MA in Conservation in 1957 and a PhD in resource economics in 1959, both from Yale.

He served on the Penn State faculty—where he co-authored the book Via 1: Ecology in Design—from 1963 until he retired in 1992. In retirement, Nick was designated Associate Professor Emeritus of landscape architecture in the School of Design and spent a great deal of time studying birds on Cape May. Nick is survived by his sons, Kobi and Mattias; daughters, Mimi and Dela; and stepdaughter, Julie Galaudet. His wife of 35 years, Virginia, passed away earlier this year.

Note from Nicholas Cunningham MD CdeP 1946: We met at Thacher in ’44 and, though I was one class behind him, we were both from the East and bonded around music. Mrs. Uhler encouraged us to play sonatas and we also played and performed trios. Nick was unforgettable with his big strong hands racing over the keyboard, bringing forth cascades of Chopin and Bach fugues, always with that magnificent infectious smile and laughing eyes. Some high school musicians are labeled as geeks, and without Nick I bet I would have been. But Nick was the antithesis of geek, more of a Greek god, or so it seemed. He was relaxed and confident, and almost too handsome. He seemed a “natural” at everything he undertook. I regret not looking him up in our second childhoods, but I look forward to catching up with his blithe spirit when my time comes...and, of course, making music together as we did at “Casa de Piedra” a half a century ago.

JAMES M. SCHURZ CdeP 1950 James “Jim” M. Schurz passed away peacefully on June 10, 2009, at the age of 76 at his home in Williamsport, Md., with his family by his side.

Jim was born in South Bend, Ind., and attended James Madison School before enrolling at Thacher in 1947.

According to his senior yearbook, Jim was said to have “slipped quietly three years ago into the life of The Thacher School with the gentle ease of an atomic bomb and has remained just about as inconspicuous as a tornado ever since.” Active in the Glee Club as well as many activities, his large smile complemented his personality, true intelligence, and good common sense.

After Thacher, Jim attended Northwestern University until 1953 and earned a BA in Journalism from Stanford in 1956. His career in newspapers began at the San Francisco Examiner where he worked as a reporter from 1956 to 1967. Following those years, he was editor and publisher of The Herald-Mail in Hagerstown, Md., and senior vice president of Schurz Communications, Inc. Jim was also a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during the Korean Conflict.

Jim is survived by his wife, Mary Ann Kelley Schurz; sons Todd, Jim, Walker, Hayne, and Nicholas; and 10 grandchildren.

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AMY LOUISE VANDERLOOP CdeP 2003 Amy Louise Vanderloop was born Dec. 2, 1985, in Chico, Calif. As a toddler, she moved with her family to the Great Mojave Desert, beginning “the desert years,” during which Amy thrived, blossoming with insatiable curiosity about the natural world around her. Ever an explorer, she began her love affair early with the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

After returning to Chico for her junior high school years, Amy enrolled at Thacher, evolving into an accomplished horseback rider and a scholar of the highest caliber. She studied with School Year Abroad during her junior year at China’s Beijing Normal University. Amy went on to earn her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2007. Most recently, she was a second-year doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Arizona.

Outside of the laboratory, Amy’s greatest passion was to be in the High Eastern Sierra on horseback, a string of burros or mules behind her. Resourceful, conscientious, and well-prepared, she was a strong and capable outdoorswoman. On May 25, 2009, she ascended her final mountain in Tucson, Ariz.

Amy lived fully and honestly, compassionately and humbly—and with self-awareness unusual for someone her age. She charted her own course from an early age; she was confident, intuitive, smart, and discerning. She is sorely missed by her mother and father, Kristin Vanderloop and Dirk Vanderloop; grandparents John and Dixie Vanderloop, and Harris Hammersmith, Jr.; fiancé Max Kozak; and a host of friends and relatives.

FRIENDS DONALD FISHER, grandfather of Remy Fisher ’11, father-in-law of current Thacher Trustee Sako Fisher, and uncle of Sydney Fisher Bernier CdeP 1987, died September 27, 2009, at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer. He was born and raised in San Francisco. The company that he founded, The Gap, Inc., still has its headquarters there. Don and his wife, Doris, were avid art collectors, and some 1,100 works of art are to be housed by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create one of the nation’s greatest art collections. Don and Doris have given generously to The Thacher School.

The sweet, gentle, and adored wife of faculty member Fred Coleman and loving mother of Molly Katz CdeP 2007 and stepmother of Dylan Coleman CdeP 1993, LAURA STALEY, died July 31, 2009, at their home on the Thacher campus. She will long be remembered for her strength, creativity, resilience, and curiosity, even as she courageously battled cancer for almost eight years. She and her family encourage everyone to have colonoscopy screenings regularly and to help the fight against cancer. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD This issue of the Thacher magazine is focused on cultivating community—in all of its tangible and intangible dimensions—with a close look at how people inside and outside the Thacher gates work to build and sustain their own communities. In the Annual Report section, we honor our friends who have done so much to sustain the Thacher community by giving generously to the School during the 2008-2009 school year. It is through the generosity of each of these people that we retain caring faculty, build dorms that facilitate communal living, and underwrite other key elements that help create Thacher’s sense of purpose. As the President of the Board of Trustees, I extend the gratitude of the Board, administration, faculty, staff, and student body to each donor and volunteer. Your support helps Casa de Piedra, and makes every year the “best year yet.”

The 2008-2009 school year truly was one of the best yet. Our admissions continue to be as robust as that of any boarding school in the country: our acceptance rate remains at an all-time low, with only one out of five applicants accepted, and eight out of ten accepted deciding to attend Thacher. Most importantly, we continue to enroll talented, motivated students of character who add value to our school. This quality was apparent in our college application process, as 85 percent of seniors were accepted by one of their top three school choices. Also, our student and parent surveys revealed that on the whole, both groups are very happy with Thacher, especially in the areas that matter most—academics, faculty support, and positive peer interactions. Of course, we recognize that we are never going to receive high ratings from teenagers for topics like breakfast check-in, but we were pleased to see that students feel extremely positive about their time at Thacher.

These excellent marks are emblematic of Thacher’s extremely strong faculty, administration, and student body. In fact, the School continued to thrive while Head of School Michael Mulligan and Joy Sawyer-Mulligan spent half the year on a well-earned sabbatical. Acting Head Peter Robinson and other administrators provided strong leadership during their absence.

Market influences did affect our financial portrait, but we fared much better than our peers. We made our Annual Fund goal thanks to the support of so many loyal donors. Our endowment, which held up much better than its statistical peers, ranked in the top quartile for the last five years. The Annual Fund and endowment continue to be vital for Thacher’s advancement. The annual difference between tuition and Thacher’s annual operating costs is over $30,000 per student. We continue to need your help to ensure that this gap can be closed each year and to provide endowment for the long-term health of the School.

While the School is in excellent condition, we can still try to “do the best work in the world that we can” to make Thacher the best small boarding school in the country. The Board, administration, and faculty spent a great deal of time last year evaluating the School’s strengths and weaknesses and began to develop the next strategic plan. This introspection has generated important discussion on issues ranging from how to help our students balance high achievement with healthy lifestyles, to how the School responds to the current economic environment in a way that allows Thacher to advance and not retreat.

As with every year, 2008-2009 saw changes in the Board of Trustees. We thank and bid farewell to retiring members of the Board: Margaret Hooper Blair, Brad Hanson (Alumni Association President), and Abby and Henry Wilder (Parents Association Chairs). Their leadership and contributions will be missed. The following new Trustees have been welcomed for the 2009-2010 year: Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988, Rajiv Dutta, Jennifer Kritz CdeP 1994 (Alumni Association President), and Ted and Becky Swift (Parents Association Chairs). The School is fortunate to have these talented individuals join the Board.

This letter is only a brief summary of the 2008-2009 year’s accomplishments. You can read more in the rest of the magazine and on the Thacher website. Once again, I extend my thanks to the many people who made this successful year possible. This support, no matter what form it takes, is fundamental to the School’s past and future success.

Sincerely,

Justin M. Faggioli CdeP 1969

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2008-2009 In addition to giving generously of their time and expertise, 100 percent of the 2008-2009 Board of Trustees gave to the Annual Fund.

Susan P. Bechtel Margaret Hooper Blair Cabot Brown CdeP 1979 Janet Carroll Richardson CdeP 1983 John P. Carver CdeP 1953 William Stacey Cowles CdeP 1978 Jennifer Crittenden CdeP 1987 Monique DeVane Justin M. Faggioli CdeP 1969, President Sakurako D. Fisher John S. Gates CdeP 1975 Elizabeth Broome Grether Kathryn A. Hall, Treasurer Bradley N. Hanson CdeP 1978, Alumni Association President Cecilia Healy Herbert Sang Yong Kim Bradley R. Krey Sarah Lavender Smith CdeP 1986 William E. Oberndorf, Vice President

Signe Ostby Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. CdeP 1967 Cecilia B. Rauch James P. Richardson CdeP 1969 Toby Rosenblatt CdeP 1956, Secretary Andrew R. Shakman CdeP 1990, Vice President Linda Davis Taylor Abby and Henry Wilder, Parents Association Chairs Emily Williamson Hancock CdeP 1983 Many thanks to the outgoing Board members: Margaret Hooper Blair Bradley N. Hanson CdeP 1978, Alumni Association President Abby and Henry Wilder, Parents Association Chairs

And a warm welcome to new Board members for 2009-2010: Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988 Rajiv Dutta Jennifer L. Kritz CdeP 1994, Alumni Association President Rebecca and Ted Swift, Parents Association Chairs Trustees Emeriti Reid W. Dennis CdeP 1944 E. Randolph Labbe CdeP 1960 Arthur A. Milligan Marshall C. Milligan CdeP 1969 Headmaster Emeritus Dr. Willard G. Wyman, Jr. Honorary Trustees Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert H.) Adams John G. Lewis, Jr. CdeP 1959

ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY, STAFF DONORS The following donors gave to the Annual Fund, the Endowment, or both fundraising efforts.

Suzanne Nixon Bohnett and Anthony Bohnett Amy and David Bransky Amy and Anthony Elmore Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Kara and Jeffrey Hooper Susan M. Hardenbergh and Rod M. Jacobsen

Roger D. Klausler Eleanor S. and Christopher J. Land Julie and H. Boyd Manson Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Molly Twichell Perry CdeP 1985 and Derick S. Perry CdeP 1983

Blossom Beatty Pidduck CdeP 1992 and Brian Pidduck CdeP 1992 Peter G. Robinson Karleanne Rogers and Kevin Berigan Donna K. Jones and Peter E. Sawyer Mona and Rick Wilson Cheryl L. and Richard W. Winters

ALUMNI FUND The alumni community provides consistent and inspiring support in many ways.

During an especially challenging year, alumni came through to help us meet Annual Fund needs, raising $933,560. We thank the many individuals who helped to support another year of growth and rewards among our students and faculty.

Classes that celebrated their Reunions in June are notated with R.

*deceased 1931 $2,500 R. Mitchell S. Boyd Reeves Morrisson

67%

1935 $1,250 John Sealy Livermore

20%

1936 $1,000 John F. Barnard William Piper David C. Twichell

50%

1937 $500 John Mansfield Ferry Douglas W. Hager

100%

1938 $3,630 Warwick J. Hayes, Jr. William McCay Jordan Duncan V. Patty John T. Pigott Robert Tully*

71%

1939 R $2,650 50% R. William Babson Frederic Cunningham, Jr. James T. Drace, M.D.

1940 $2,900 John C. Alford Frank T. Bumpus, M.D. Robert E. Hunter, Jr. Robert W. Thomas, Jr.

57%

1941 $800 David Z. Bailey Eric Hoffman Stephen C. Morrison

38%

1942 $10,771 91% William J. Barton Arthur B. Dunne, Jr. Lathrop G. Hoffman John B. Lyttle Winston B. Newell, Jr. George H. Pfau, Jr. John S. Runnells II* Brooke E. Sawyer, Jr. Stephen Titus Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr.* 1943 $9,375 Donald R. Dickey, Jr. Howard W. Fleming, Jr. William Alston Hayne Roy D. Holland W. Ellery McClatchy Charles B. McVay IV David W. Russell Frederick S. Stanley J. Dwight Wilson, Jr. William H. Woodin III

91%

1944R $16,040 75% Rev. Charles H. Clark Kellam de Forest Reid W. Dennis Sherman T. Ewing, Jr. Richard E. Foreman William T. Hammond George S. Hunt Michael D. Martin Wayne W. Montgomery, Jr. 1945 $1,825 Joseph N. Borroughs Bruce Kendrick Richard B. Lyttle Carlton E. Russell Douglas A. Smith Lawrence H. Smith Charles W. Tuttle, Jr.

86%

1946 $2,825 100% Anthony Arnold Dr. Nicholas Cunningham George F. French III Joseph M. Glasgow, Jr. Donald M. Gregory, Jr. Charles F. Gunther Thomas B. Kelley George E. Newton, Jr. Alexander C.G. Van Dyke, M.D. 1947 $2,475 Bruce P. Dohrmann Dean A. Eyre, Jr.

64%

David A. Garden, Sr. Peter W. Hummel James P. Thurber, Jr. William B. Weston, Jr. Russell D.L. Wirth, Jr. 1948 $2,025 John M. Bissell Charlton M. Lewis Sidney Liebes, Jr. John C. Walker Samuel L. Wright, Jr.

45%

1949 R $12,050 A. Merrill Brown III John E. Cook, Jr. Eric B. Dohrmann Henry T. Donahoe Richard W. Pierce Otis Wickenhaeuser

40%

1950 $26,760 John McKenzie Clise James M. Crawford, Jr. Wade W. Loo James M. Schurz* Gwin R. Whitney Norman B. Williamson

38%

1951 $23,950 J. Peter Baumgartner Robert E. Brigham, Jr. James P. Cowles J. Brooks Crawford

80%

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ALUMNI FUND (continued) James C. Greenway III Edward M. Hamilton, Jr. David G. Lavender John J. Miller III, M.D., Ph.D George G. Montgomery, Jr. George S. Wheaton III E. James White, Jr. Richard A. Wilson 1952 $14,425 71% Michael C. Baldwin Percy Chubb III William F. Hamilton II Clarence C. Kent James F. Lipman Thomas H. May Alexander B. McAllister John H. McLaren G. Clinton Pooley RADM Stewart A. Ring Lt. Col. John Van Nortwick Don B. Yates 1953 $28,460 95% John H. Briggs, Jr. John P. Carver William F. Crawford Joseph R. DiGiorgio Peter M. Farrand Alan Lee Follett James J. Funsten III Paul Gray James S. Griffith Thomas A. Lombard, Jr. Guy R. Lusignan Joy J. Merz William H. Nigh III Rowland Richards, Jr. Winslow Porter Robinson Charles G. Stephenson Peter Voevodsky William A. Wren 1954 R $3,900 Daniel L. Crotty Anthony Griffin Louis A. Knight R. Brewster Knight Richard M. Laurence

71%

Charles E. Lord William M. McNabb, Jr. Bruce Norton Oxley Albert W. Smith Philip D. Thacher 1955 $11,600 S. Allan Johnson Alan H. Kenison Timothy T. A. Sodd James C. Taylor

27%

1956 $13,875 89% Gordon B. Chamberlain Gerald De Santillana Peter Farquhar Conrad D. Gage J. Jeffrey Green Lincoln S. Hollister Richard E. H. Julien John L. King, Jr. Henry N. Kuechler III Michael A. Lawrence T. Truxtun Morrison J. Leland Mothershead III Toby Rosenblatt Klaus Schubert Dirk A. ten Grotenhuis John R. Wheaton 1957 $6,100 John C. Baldwin Jonathan D. Beck George G. Bell II Michael S. Bolduan Roger D. Coates Malcolm K. Coffey Blair S. Edwards, M.D. K. C. Hayes Paul H. Helms III Peter F. Henze John R. Hilton F. Michael Shore Philip L. Spalding John A. Stephenson John H. Thacher, M.D.

68%

1958 $19,190 Max K. Agoston

86%

C. Derek Anderson Paul S. Armington Thomas H. Belknap C. Jonathan Bryan Dr. James M. Curtis Scott L. Davis Kirkpatrick MacDonald Peter G. McDonald Judge Daniel B. Meehl Harry E. Miller III John F. H. Purcell Dr. Thomas R. Russell John H. Sanger William H. Strong John C. Syer Anson B. Thacher Michael E. A. Ward William W. Wheeler IV 1959 R $28,219 96% Daniel O. Abbot Leo E. Acquistapace W. David Behnke Thomas G. Bell, Jr. Jonathan Bolduan The Hon. Robert S. Boyd G. Anthony Bryan Judge J. Russell Callander John P. Case George H. Clyde, Jr. Freeman A. Ford Robert R. Gallaway F. Perry Gates John Heard Christopher M. Henze John G. Lewis, Jr. Stephen S. Mayne F.A. Wilhelm Myrin II Wesley R. Petit Richard O. Rhodes Richard F. Spaulding Michael H. Wallace Lynn T. White III Harry B. Wyeth 1960 $56,347 Harry C. Andrews Charles B. Bonner Howard A. Chickering

TOP TEN CLASSES • DOLLARS RAISED Class 1969 1970 1960 1978

Amount $85,093 $66,617 $56,347 $31,157

1967

$29,380

1953

$28,460

1983

$28,325

1959

$28,219

1950 1951

$26,760 $23,950

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Lewis W. Coleman Henry V. Eggers Robert K. Gardner Hugh H. Gordon IV George L. Helmholz John M. Jordan E. Randolph Labbe Luppe R. Luppen Wendel K. Nicolaus Christopher W. Rose Richard S. Walden James C. Whitney David L. Williams

Class Representatives James P. Richardson T. Newlin Hastings, Jr. Robert K. Gardner Bradley N. Hanson, John S. Hoover Kurt W. Huebner Reza Zafari Chad E. Brown Robert E. Kendig John P. Carver Joseph R. DiGiorgio Alan Lee Follett Douglas E. Holt, Jr. Michael B. Kong, Derick S. Perry Bruce E. Somers, Jr. Freeman A. Ford Stephen S. Mayne Richard O. Rhodes Norman B. Williamson J. Peter Baumgartner

64%

1961 $1,800 James S. Acquistapace Caspar H. Escher, Jr. Mark C. Lambert, M.D. William H. Slattery Barry H. Smith

29%

1962 $17,552 68% Christopher W. Brody Charles C. Gray Michael A. Greene Roger G. Ignon Andrew P. Kerr William G. Larsen, Jr. Edison Lewis Richard E. Look David Marsten Michael S. Milligan Col. J. Mark Peirsol, M.D. Don C. Porter, Jr. Webster M. Rice Charles A. Storke III David W. Van Horne Peter T. Whitney Nicholas R. Wood 1963 $6,715 56% Thomas P. Cobb Bruce B. Donnell Stephen van B. Griggs Harold Ernest Hallett, Jr. Frederic J. Hammond Eugene R. Kirkham Lorance D. Lisle Jeffrey A. Mason Dwight V. Moore Reagan W. Moore Daniel E. Murphy III Frank Lincoln Nagle IV Edward J. Schneider III Nicholas S. Thacher Harwood A. White 1964 R $15,600 33% Stephen H. Bell Robert G. Cooper, Jr., Ph.D. Peter C. Janss The Hon. Richard C. Livermore Archibald M. Look Stewart W. Walton 1965 $12,375 John E. Baum Carter C. Beise Alan B. Casamajor James M. Hallett Woodruff W. Halsey II John N. Hayward R. Bruce Peters Edgar B. Rhodes Charles C. Woodhams

39%

1966 $21,253 68% Arthur C. Adams Edmund F. Cardin III Nelson K. Chase S. Kittredge Collins Hill Hastings II, M.D. Kim J. Kaiser Jane Penny Knox Norman B. Livermore III, M.D. John M. Look Steven J. Petit, M.D. Steven R. Schneider Arthur O. Spaulding, Jr. John R. Stokes III Harry M. von Holt Derrick von Schlegell Nicholas E. Whitney Peter H. Woodin 1967 $29,380 Richard O. Andrews John R. Barkan Reid W. Dennis, Jr. Jonathan I. Hall Robert E. Hopkins Robert W. Johnson Harvey R. Kaslow Robert E. Kendig Stephen H. Kendrick John E. LeGros, Jr. John Lenczowski Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. W. Deneys Purcell Frank H. Tooby Cameron I. Weaver

56%

1968 $5,621 35% John P. Banning Newton K. Chase, Jr. John D. Gilpin Theodore A. Griffinger, Jr. Stephen C. Kimball Stephen C. Lewis Karl A. Mertz, Jr. Stanley Rowe Peter C. Scott Kirk W. Watson Thomas L. Wheeler, Jr. 1969 R $85,093 Jesse W. Adams, M.D. Craig B. Chisholm Peter B. Dragge Justin M. Faggioli Daniel P. Gregory James Newton Howard Neal Howe Stephen P. Huyler William J. Kellogg Samuel M. Livermore John R. Milligan Marshall C. Milligan James L. Munger James P. Richardson David C. Twichell, Jr. James H. Watts

55%

1970 $66,617 Peter H. Bachmann Riley P. Bechtel James W. Boswell John S. Broome, Jr. Edward L. Cahill T. Newlin Hastings, Jr. Thayer Hopkins, Jr. Mark A. Mahan Alexander McNab

42%

ALUMNI FUND (continued) Stuart M. Rosenberg, M.D. Dan L. Torjusen Roderick R. Turner, M.D. Daniel G. Volkmann III 1971 $8,790 Paul J. Cohen Paul Gavin Roger F. Hooper III Robert L. Jones Andrew L. King Kristian E. Meisling Mark L. Pick Malcolm D. Plant Alexander Spear Paul H. Turpin William R. Volkmann

35%

1972 $9,416 Craig F. Berenson John V. Bosche John W. Busterud Henry W. Chaney William J. Dawson IV Grant S. Harmon Robert P. Kellogg James R. Moffitt H. Turner Newton Steven S. Olson C. Curtis Scott, Esq. Alan C. M. Silbergh Richard C. Strong

52%

1973 $13,484 41% Theodore H. DeWitt James H. Edwards Andrew F. Herr Oscar F. Hills, M.D. Michael G. Jones David P. Livermore Boun Ly M. Duncan McDuffie David R. Moffitt Robert B. Montgomery, Jr. Jonathan S. O’Donnell Tyrone F. Pike Michael D. Pincus Mark B. Shattuck 1974 R $11,573 51% Edmund T. Banning Bryan N. Beckham John C. Callan, Jr. Jeffrey W. Carr Benjamin F. Carter Luke N. Epstein Michael E. Frank Randolph C. Head Jeffrey L. Kimball Dr. Dana Christian Lynge Ernest N. May III Lewis L. Mills Steven J. Neville John A. Pickering Bruce C. Poole Robert E. Rex William L. Rubenstein Robert B. Schmidt Robert S. J. Shiras David J. Thacher Ryan S. Wood 1975 $15,890 31% J. Timothy Ammons, M.D. Mark J. Bissell Mitchell W. Cohen Jerome B. Dwight

John S. Gates Harry A. Hanson III John P. Holstein Guru Amrit S. Khalsa A. Scott LeFevre Thomas B. Morgan, Jr. Peter D. Richards

Alison Terbell Nikitopoulos Michael Voevodsky Shawna Weseloh Biel T. Bradshaw Yates

Samuel W. Orrick David Bruce Oxley John F. Saidy Adriana Schwartz Gores Hans P. Sinha Nicholas A. Wollak William F. Wren

1976 $6,060 Frank C. Bennett III Miguel T. de Sanz Charles C. Henderson William W. Hockey Nicholas Kent Peter A. Matthews John Brockway Metcalf Nicholas A. Noyes Standish K. Penton, Jr. Reilly R. S. Pollard Joshua C. Rosenblatt John B. Wagner A. Hart Woodson III

38%

1977 $8,500 Michael R. Blatt Frederick P. Burrows Carlton G. Costigan Kendric M. Foultz David A. Garden, Jr. Mark S. Granger Robert C. Hall Edward C. Hammond James R. Lewis Peter E. Martin Murray S. Orrick Steven D. Peletz Mark A. Petschek Bradley L. Smith Paul L. Yelder

42%

1978 $31,157 43% Christopher P. Austin H. Michael Brown, Ph.D. William Stacey Cowles W. Kendrick Everett Kevin P. Flynn Ellen L. Hamilton Bradley N. Hanson John S. Hoover Kurt W. Huebner Peter K. Hummel Janet Miller Cipriano Michael A. Newkirk Leland J. Orser Raul H. Villa Marganne Winter Oxley Willard G. Wyman III Reza Zafari 1979 R $15,313 48% Russell H. Bennett Lawrence M. Bosche Cabot Brown Harry D. Conkey III Diane L. Downey Sean A. Ehringer Glenn S. Glass David Richmond Heard Daniel R. Kassel Mark E. Leydecker Robert Sealy Livermore, Jr. Paul A. Manning David O. Marguleas Larkin Bertram-Cox Montgomery Brad L. Morris Thomas G. O’Brien, Jr.

1980 $4,125 Marcos A. Ancinas Nathaniel B. Bisson Michael G. Branch Martin A. Cunningham Kathryn L.B. Dole Leslie Drescher Britton Jill M. Komura Weston B. Richardson Sydney I. S. Robertson Stephen G. Skartvedt Kevin E. Wagoner

31%

1981 $10,200 28% Javier F. Arango Elizabeth Arnold Murray Edward L. Barnes Alexander Dewey Calhoun III Ivan S. Cliff III Wendy Dawson Cliff Criss Leydecker Troast Carol J. McConnell Marc L. Murray Laura Ruthenbeck Dantes Michael F. Sears Constance Trumbull Mueller 1982 $7,975 38% Bruce A. Belluschi Mark D. Cameron Belinda Hanson Hunter Hollins Marian P. Huntington Jeffrey S. Jones Peter L. Karlsberg, M.D. Sandra Nicholson Watkins John W. Palmieri Louise Rose Curcio Thomas L. Saidy Jane J.W. Su Susan Reeves Taylor

1983 $28,325 38% Kris K. Andersen Katie Ballou Calhoun Louise Branch Charbonneau Sibyll Carnochan Catalan Janet Carroll Richardson Rodrigo E. Catalan Craig P. Golding Elizabeth C. Gould Catherine Griffith Aserappa Laura C. Johnson Michael B. Kong Ellen C. Loebl Brian A. Marguleas Andrea Massey Shaw Derick S. Perry Thomas A. Roupe Brian S. Smallwood Bruce E. Somers, Jr. Eve Allison Stacey Mark Trumbull Emily Williamson Hancock 1984 R $16,616 46% Evan P. Bakst Liam W. Callahan David K. Chao Alexander Djordjevich Martha E. Fellows Mark P. Fickes Alison E. Field Launce Law Gamble Wouter F. Germans, Jr. Elizabeth G. Huntington Mary N. Kuechler Diana Lewis Callahan Kathryn Riddell Willson Beau Sterling Peter Hollister Thacher John P. Webb Brooke M. White Joni Wiester Martino

1985 $11,380 39% Gregory R. Berglund Thatcher G. Brown Christina Chiu Alfandary David F. Ford Ákos G. Fóty R. David Griffith J. Eric Gross Mark S. Klitgaard Peter K. Kong Sarah K. Konrad, Ph.D. Stacey C. Lee Stephen E. Lewis Richard S. Massey Morgan C. Smith John R. Stacey P. Anthony Thatcher, Jr. Molly Twichell Perry Anne Wallace Maulding Michelle R. Warren Steven D. Winegar 1986 $13,030 42% Ami A. Becker-Aronson Rebecca Clyde Tennant, M.D. Sarah Dawson Holt Mark D. Gamble J. David Garman Thomas E. G. Hale Mark A.T. Holman Julie Huntington de Polo Michael Kim Douglas Alan Kirkpatrick Daniel M. Klein Stephen W. Kong Sarah Lavender Smith Sarah W. O’Brien Julian N. Pridmore-Brown John J. Redfern IV Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick Mark M.Y. Yeh 1987 $12,862 Kent F. Brown Christopher J. Connell James L. Cowles Jennifer P. Crittenden J.P. Manoux C. Logan Meyer

31%

GRIGGS BOWL WINNER 2008-2009 Class 1959

This Year 96%

Class Representatives Freeman A. Ford, Stephen S. Mayne, Richard O. Rhodes

The John Van B. Griggs Memorial Bowl, a gift to the School by the Class of 1944, is awarded annually to the class or classes, among the most recent 50, with the greatest participation in the Alumni Fund.

We would also like to recognize the 100% participation by the Class of 1937 and the Class of 1946, as well as the 95% participation by the Class of 1953.

TWICHELL BOWL WINNER 2008-2009 Class 2004

This Year 69%

Last Year 35%

Increase 34%

Class Representatives Ali S. Arastu, Grace A. Bueti, MacKenna A. Chase, Virginia C. Dawson, Elizabeth G. Jackson, Rebeccah A. Judd, Whitney M. Livermore, Peter C. Oberndorf, Michael J. Quintana, Stephen C. Rooke, Ward C. Sorrick, Jennie T. Tucker, Catherine P. Whittinghill, Christopher T. Willoughby The Twichell Bowl goes to the class whose participation percentage increased the most over the previous year (youngest 50 classes eligible).

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ALUMNI FUND (continued) Daisy Moore Lalwani Lisa Anne Prochazka Randolph G. Smith Thomas B. Thacher Tammy Valeski Connell Andrea Van Dyke McCann, M.D. Eleanor Whelan O’Neill 1988 $7,085 40% Jaime Araujo-Bezian Shoshanah Asnis Bewlay Robert Taylor Butler David W. Callaghan Cindy Castañeda Patrick B. Chu Joanna R. Evans Margaret F. Farquhar Christine L. Johnson Lisa Kern Griffin William J. McKinley Peter Justin O’Brien Charles R. Roberts, Jr. Erin Rosen Antebi Elizabeth Taylor Schamberger N. Scott Vincent Calbraith R. Wheaton Hoyt M. Wilson Victor C. Wykoff 1989 R $6,625 23% Andrew D. Beebe Henrique C. Cordeiro Guerra Shell Duncan Grimes Adam S. Geyer, M.D. Barrett H. Lewis Heather Rauch Watkins Catherine Ann Ruhl Marielle C. Warren 1990 $3,916 29% David O. Amuda Vicente Omar Barraza Lucas E. Black Peter J. Bray Christine L. Carter Boyd N. Everett Kathleen Grinold Sample M. Jordan Gudebski Rebecca Hall Crane Cortney Miller Hannan Gavin E. Sacks Andrew R. Shakman Welsh Strawbridge Jennifer Utman Sommer Alexa Wilson Maley Kristopher P. Zierhut 1991 $4,025 28% Kristina E. Alley Benjamin T. Freeman Alicia M. Ginter Carmieshra Y. Gorman Blake J. Grayson Joshua Jade Gillian S. Kneass Natasha K. Long Alec H. Perkins Lara Phelps Randby William T. Redfield Daniel A. Sonenshine Sergey Trakhtenberg Jason V. Wenz Mele E. M. Wheaton Emily Worthington Jordan

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1992 $5,200 35% Blossom Beatty Pidduck Anne Berube Gard Jessica E. Bliss Thomas H. Bray, M.D. Lt. Brian C. Emme Ty W. Gabriel Brendan J. Gately Sharon Dana Karlsberg Nicholas H. Mast, M.D. Deborah McKinley Piliero J. Jorge Motoshige Katherine Munzig Dachs Guadalupe N. Nickell Brian K. Pidduck Margaret B. Reniers Bret W. Richmond Elizabeth Siebel Lorenz 1993 $2,351 28% Rosa Barkus Klein Timothy J. Butler Javier Delgadillo Emma Dean Donahue Thele Jessica Eklund McGawn Jay A. Gudebski Helen Holmes Gold Meghan E. Jeans José A. Klein Benjamin B. Krokower Todd P. McCloskey David A. Miller C. Elliott Perkins Jean Richards Damon Kerryn Sanan Griffin Laura K. Van Winkle Laura Peel Wentworth 1994 R $2,630 31% Alexei E. Angelides Devon Brown Cichoski Jane G. Casamajor Eric B. Dachs Ysette Guevara William L. Henricks Elizabeth Story Hieronymus Frederika Howe Toll Katherine D. Kirkmire Jennifer L. Kritz Joshua J. Kurlinski John M. Marston Catherine A. Peirsol-Schipper Abigail Leah Ramsden S. Skye Rohde Dermond E. Thomas Nathaniel J. Toll 1995 $4,045 19% Aspen E. Brinton Oliver B. Colbert Christian C. Janss Brian Krumrei Jessica S. T. Murray Kathryn Perkins Tift, M.D. Lloyd A. Sacks David J. Sigband Alberto E. Struck Sabrina K. White 1996 $9,930 42% Leyla Jane Abou-Samra Erin E. Archer Maria Banman Barrell Auriga Bork Martin Leonard P. Brown IV Jennifer Christiansen Vurno Abigail E. Dachs

Peyton R. Holmes Quinn K. Kanaly Jeffrey Lee Taylor A. McKinley Lindsay R. Medigovich Humphrey Catherine Pinkerton Keeling Brittany L. Sanders Mandy Sonenshine Wynn Mika Steffensen Reynolds Korzu J. Taplin Robert R. Van Horne Elizabeth C. Wallace Stefanie Warren Joshua S. Zannon 1997 $4,535 27% Kayte G. Fisher Skye Foster Justin S. Grant Elizabeth Greenway Carney Adrian W. Hall Dana E. Howbert Kate Kochendorfer Ryan E. Kurlinski N. Daniel Lancefield, M.D. Margrit Lent Parker John A. Matson Sarah H. Perkins James R. Salem Brian J. Shaw Peter A. Wentworth Sarah T. Wheatley 1998 $2,855 24% Andrew B. Barkan Alexandra T. Lowrey Blair Justin R. M. Buell Nora Carney Jenkins Lucia Mary Craven Nicholas M. English Louisa D. Footman Sarah W. Low Alexis A. MacDonald Christina L. Medigovich Ryan M. Meyer Eric P.S.K. Morrill Jennifer Silverman Rowland Kim P.E. Turner Caroline F. White 1999 R $10,655 47% Jamil S. Abou-Samra Tania L. Al-Awar Adrian N. Allen Michaela N. Andrews Brendan P. Bechtel Chad B. Berona E. Coventry A. Burke Caitlin L. Caldwell Erin A. Campbell Mary C. Craver Richard B. Fox Mollie E. Gardner Eliza N. Gregory Shannon Hastings Erin S. Hoppin Katie R. Isaacson Catherine G. Jessop Timothy O. J. Johnson Evan E. Kanaly Herberts Brooke MacDonald Moorhead Shay J. Mamo Kelsey McCarty Peter G. Munzig Shauna H. Nyborg Julian S. Quasha

Edward Tavernetti Amy L. Vanderloop* Ian R. Whittinghill

Sarah C. Sawyer Benjamin B. Wallace 2000 $3,400 17% Justin M. Arnold Darren H. Bechtel E. Lucinda L. Brown Nathaniel D. Faggioli Felicity Howe Arnold Seth P. Kurlinski Jonathan R. Le Plastrier Margaux F. Lloyd Lucy E. Milligan Devon L. Tarasevic 2001 $3,578 David A. Babbott Andrea L. Black Matthew D. Brewer Kevin E. Cahill Clarissa D. Caldwell Hannah M. Carney Matthew J. Cohen Emily Dachs Taylor Andrew M. DeYoung Michael R. Disner Meredith M. Flannery Peter W. Frykman Maxwell A. Greene Edward B. Grether Erin T. Hafkenschiel Katherine A. Harmon Adelaide A. Hearst Brian J. Kelly Heather J. Kelly J. Wescott Myers II Elizabeth V. Sanseau Anthea N. Tjuanakis Lee E. Wittlinger

35%

2002 $4,207 43% Patricia R. Abou-Samra William R. Barkan Daniel M. Bartlett 2nd Lt. James K. Everett Claire J. Faggioli Erik D. Fiske Monique A. Gaskins Christopher D. Grant Alexandra M. Herbert Charlotte C. Lord Claire C. Milligan Daniel B. Moore Laurel O. Peterson Andrew D. Poole Elizabeth B. Rauner Julien B. Rhodes Leigh T. Salem Timothy J. Stenovec E. Brooke Toeller Hilary F. White Ronald P. Wu 2003 $5,523 Phoebe E. Barkan Katherine E. Bechtel Elizabeth M. Brewer Walker M. Cahall Michael B. Dachs Hugh H. Gordon V Russell B. Grether Mary F. Leighton Charles S. Munzig Louis W. Myers III Troy S. Pollet Sarah S. Shaikh Richard L. Smith

24%

2004 R $6,447 69% Ali S. Arastu Cara L. Bonewitz Grace A. Bueti Ella W. Carney Stephanie Nhu Y Dang Virginia C. Dawson Graham D. Douds Christopher H. Eaton Lauren E. Fiske Leland K. Franklin Katherine F. Frykman Christopher S. Goldman Elizabeth G. Jackson Bianca E. Kissel Sabrina R. Lee Calvin G. Lieu Edward T. Lincoln Whitney M. Livermore Matthew S. Mayne Kasiana J.P. McLenaghan Taylor J. Medina S. Hunter Metcalf David A. Moore Robert B. Neville Peter C. Oberndorf Annie O’Donnell Kelly M. Percival Stephanie L. Rauner Jenna L. Reasor Julia C. Robinson Stephen C. Rooke Martin B. Sawyer Lee W. Shurtleff James A. Sligh Ward C. Sorrick Matthew W. Stenovec Ian J. Strachan Justin R. Torres Jennie T. Tucker Alissa A. Wallace Evan C. Werlin Catherine P. Whittinghill Christopher T. Willoughby 2005 $470 Ellen S. Adams Maxwell S. Anderson W. Barrett Brown Sanford E. Duncan Sarah E. Eckhardt Marguerite B. Kissel J. Ned F. Lederer Armando A. León, Jr. Anne L. Strachan Emma R. Werlin

16%

2006 $815 21% James H. Allison Ian J. Boneysteele Theodore M. Brown Lauren B. Chase Lauren M. Church Marc G. Fuller Callard O. Jensen Alexander R. F. Marlantes Jenny Karin E.B. Morrill Logan D. Morrow Sophia Ouyang Theodore Dallas Swift Caitlin C. Wyman

ALUMNI FUND (continued) 2007 $1,029 James C. Burton Benita W. Chan David B. Cook Cecilia R. Hayne Rocio Hernandez Andrew K. Jordan

27%

Anjali J. Joseph Alexander H. Krey Kathryn A. Padgett Claire E. Shaw Leslie A. Sligh Lesley W. Sun Della C. Taylor

Anna M. Teague Brooke M. Wharton 2008 $2,280 21% Allison Murray Barbey Meredith Dworkin Kelsey Anne Harrington

William Robert Hockey Douglas Smith Land Victoria Christine Lowe Annie Sawyer Mulligan William Ernst Oberndorf Lindsay Delano Oliver Lucy Kathryn Phillips

McKinsey Mason Pillsbury Madeleine Gabrielle Sowash Moizeé Simone Stewart

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES The following volunteers give of their time and resources to serve as correspondents with their classmates and advocates for the Alumni Fund.

Their classmates and the broader Thacher community appreciate their efforts to keep contact information updated, events wellattended, news shared, and funds raised for the daily operations of Casa de Piedra each year.

The Board of Trustees and Alumni Office staff are especially grateful for the service provided by Brad HansonCdeP 1978 as the Alumni Association President for the past three years. Brad attended all alumni events on campus and many around the country. He helped to host reunion golf games, took part in phonathons, and participated in a multitude of meetings and conference calls— all to help increase alumni participation in Thacher’s community life.

1938 John T. Pigott

1964 Richard C. Livermore

1942 Brooke E. Sawyer, Jr.

1965 James M. Hallett R. Bruce Peters

1943 Roy D. Holland 1944 Kellam de Forest 1945 Joseph N. Borroughs 1946 Anthony Arnold Joseph M. Glasgow, Jr. 1947 David A. Garden, Sr. 1948 Samuel L. Wright, Jr. 1949 John E. Cook, Jr. 1950 Norman B. Williamson 1951 J. Peter Baumgartner 1952 James F. Lipman 1953 John P. Carver Joseph R. DiGiorgio Alan Lee Follett 1956 John Gordon Haverly 1958 Kirkpatrick MacDonald 1959 Freeman A. Ford Stephen S. Mayne Richard O. Rhodes 1960 Robert K. Gardner 1962 Steven H. Sorrick* 1963 Jeffrey A. Mason

1966 John M. Look 1967 Chad E. Brown Robert E. Kendig 1968 Robert E. Acquistapace 1969 James P. Richardson 1970 T. Newlin Hastings, Jr. 1971 Paul Gavin William R. Volkmann 1972 William J. Dawson IV Grant S. Harmon Alan C. M. Silbergh 1973 Mark T. Harmon Michael G. Jones Jonathan S. O’Donnell 1974 Bryan N. Beckham Robert E. Rex 1975 Mark J. Bissell Mitchell W. Cohen A. Scott LeFevre 1976 Frank C. Bennett III Joshua C. Rosenblatt 1977 Carlton G. Costigan Mark S. Granger 1978 Bradley N. Hanson John S. Hoover Kurt W. Huebner Reza Zafari

1979 Cabot Brown Harry D. Conkey III Robert Sealy Livermore, Jr. John F. Saidy 1980 Michael G. Branch 1981 Carol J. McConnell 1982 Douglas E. Francis Thomas L. Saidy 1983 Douglas G. Holt, Jr. Michael B. Kong Derick S. Perry Bruce E. Somers, Jr. 1984 Evan P. Bakst Diana Lewis Callahan Vicki Nesbitt Palor Peter Hollister Thacher 1985 Sophia Brown Twichell Ákos G. Fóty J. Eric Gross Stephen E. Lewis A. Jennifer Nielsen de Forest 1986 Mark D. Gamble Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick Douglas Alan Kirkpatrick Sarah W. O’Brien 1987 Elena M. Brokaw James L. Cowles Jennifer P. Crittenden Thomas W. Huntley 1988 Abigail Guard Buck Elizabeth Taylor Schamberger Calbraith R. Wheaton 1989 Catherine Ann Ruhl

Natasha K. Long William T. Redfield Daniel A. Sonenshine 1992 Ty W. Gabriel Guadalupe N. Nickell 1993 David A. Miller 1994 Katherine D. Kirkmire Jennifer L. Kritz 1995 David J. Sigband 1996 Maria Banman Barrell Auriga Bork Martin Peter F. Marlantes Mandy Sonenshine Wynn Thomas A. Thornhill IV 1997 Elizabeth Greenway Carney Christopher W. Labbe Rhea H. Wong 1998 Justin R. M. Buell Robert A. Landsness Cindy Meng-Hsiu Liu Caroline F. White 1999 Claire E.L. Kendrick Peter G. Munzig 2000 Justin M. Arnold Erin E. Blankenship H. Claiborne Pell 2001 Christopher L. Bonewitz Eric P. Butts Canyon Cody Erin T. Hafkenschiel Caitlin P. Mulholland-Olson Erica D. Reynolds Elizabeth V. Sanseau

1990 Christine L. Carter Jennifer Utman Sommer

2002 Claire C. Milligan Matthew H. Spille Timothy J. Stenovec

1991 Kristina E. Alley Gillian S. Kneass

2003 Shayla R. Cooke Emery L. Mitchem

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CLASS REPRESENTATIVES (continued) Charles S. Munzig Matthew J. O’Meara Troy S. Pollet Sarah S. Shaikh Sarah C. Tapscott 2004 Ali S. Arastu Grace A. Bueti MacKenna A. Chase Virginia C. Dawson Elizabeth G. Jackson Rebeccah A. Judd

Whitney M. Livermore Peter C. Oberndorf Michael J. Quintana Stephen C. Rooke Ward C. Sorrick Catherine P. Whittinghill 2005 Ellen S. Adams W. Barrett Brown J. Ned F. Lederer Justin D. Ouyang Will W. Oxley

Austin S. Pollet William F. Wilder 2006 Lauren B. Chase Kevin Kumana Jenny Karin E.B. Morrill Katherine D. Orrick Sophia Ouyang Caitlin C. Wyman

2007 Lucy L. Bosche Olivea O. F. Callender-Scott Cecilia R. Hayne Alexander H. Krey Kensey E. Pease Leslie A. Sligh

2009 Natalie P. Camp Ali H. Espinose-Setchko Ian S. Fuller Gaby K. E. Karefa-Johnson Cameron P. Kemp

2008 Meredith Dworkin Douglas Smith Land McKinsey Mason Pillsbury Elizabeth Bond Wilkinson

PARENT ORGANIZATION CHAIRS Every year, many Thacher parents give generously of their time.

The parent organization chairs help lead the charge by recruiting and organizing parent volunteers. We are thankful for their leadership.

Parents Association Abby and Henry Wilder, Co-Chairs

Grandparents Days Lisa Wyatt, Chair

Parents Auction Stephanie R. Orr, Chair

Graduation Party Barbara Hoskinson, Co-Chair Carlisle Connick, Co-Chair

Parents Fund Lisa and Derek Kirkland, Co-Chairs

Exam Proctors Andrea Gleysteen, Chair

Library Katherine Wilkinson, Chair

Family Weekend Erica Fuller, Chair

PARENTS FUND Thacher parents provided an incredible amount of support to the School last year. The Thacher Parents Fund continued its upward trend, with total dollars raised at $787,033. We are extremely grateful for the generosity of our parent body, and salute Parents Fund Chairs Lisa and Derek Kirkland and their hardworking committee for their efforts to secure support for the School.

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2009 66% Mei and Harvey Allison Kelly Phelan and George Bartzokis Shannon W. and Frederick J. Bond Elizabeth C. and Clark N. Callander Melanie C. and Charles L. Callander Marilyn S. and Allen F. Camp Denise J. and Benjamin F. Carter CdeP 1974 Jocelyn G. and Douglas K. Childs Blair and Thomas J. Church, M.D. Susan C. and S. Kittredge Collins CdeP 1966 Pamela R. and Howard R. Conant, Jr. Lisa H. and Daniel S. Cooper Liz and Scott Currie Suzanne C. and William J. Dawson IV CdeP 1972 Roxanne R. Christ and Robert A. DeWitt, Sr. Katherine and Scott Espinosa-Brown Nancy and Robert V. Farese, M.D. Karen A. Cook and George A. Ford Judith E. and Oliver S. Foster Erica S. and Walter G. Fuller Anne Van Gheluwe and Zafer Gedeon Achi Elizabeth A. and Jule M. Hannaford IV Barbara C. and Hilleary C. Hoskinson Bethalyn S. and Willem Jonker Vivian and Harmon M. Kaslow Lisa M. and Derek G. Kirkland Sheila M. and Thomas A. Larsen Julie and H. Boyd Manson Caroline A. and John E. Montague Becky Beckett CdeP 1980 and Steven North Marganne Winter Oxley CdeP 1978 and David B. Oxley CdeP 1979

Sudha and Shravan Rajasekaran Kaitlyn and In-Yong Rhee Karleanne Rogers and Kevin Berigan W. Scott Simon Helen Weld and Robert Strachan Edith A. and Joseph O. Tobin II Michele B. and Roderick R. Turner, M.D. CdeP 1970 Ann B. and Gregory H. VonGehr Abigail H. and Henry L. B. Wilder Christopher S. Winter Ellen D. and J. Todd Winter 2010 76% Mary R. and J. Timothy Ammons CdeP 1975 Sheran and Jeffrey R. Becker Jill G. and Ryan A. Bell Rebecca S. and Lawrence C. Benard Amy B. and Matthew K. Berler

Suzanne Nixon Bohnett and Anthony Bohnett Victoria M. and Parke L. Boneysteele Lynne and John V. Bosche CdeP 1972 Purificacion and Jerry Brown Susanna S. and Hugh P. K. Cogswell Suzanne B. and Gregory M. Combs Amy W. and Jeremiah E. de Rham Sumita and Rajiv Dutta Kathryn G. Marshall and Eric O. Fisher Sakurako D. and William S. Fisher Helen L. and Karl R. Frykman Alexandra S. and Hanson S. Gifford III Norman M. Goldfarb Sarah J. Beekley, M.D. and Michael Hahn Henry L. and Emily Williamson Hancock CdeP 1983 Mary N. and Mark R. Hoffman Jane E. and Wade C. Hughan

PARENTS FUND COMMITTEE The following parents volunteered their time to encourage other parents to support the Parents Fund. The success of this fundraising effort was due in large part to the dedication of these volunteers.

Victoria M. and Parke L. Boneysteele Mary G. Krey Deborah S. and John S. Eastburn, Jr. Jocelyn G. and Douglas K. Childs Roxanne R. Christ and Robert A. DeWitt, Sr. Karen A. Cook and George A. Ford Lisa M. and Derek G. Kirkland, Co-Chairs Alexandra S. and Hanson S. Gifford III

Mary N. and Mark R. Hoffman Victoria O. and James P. Macmillan Gretchen Y. L. and Henry C. Reed Andrea Gleysteen and Robert Ryder Nancy R. and Douglas D. Abbey Karen M. and C. Sedgwick Dienst Margot S. and Richard A. Funke Louise M. and Arthur C. Patterson Sonya N. and Marcos Rodriguez

PARENTS FUND (continued) Vida Bahrami and Jamshid Keyani Hyeyang Lee and John Seok Kim Heather G. and Wade H. King Mary P. and Daniel J. Krause Mary G. and Bradley R. Krey Victoria O. and James P. Macmillan Marjorie M. and Gary R. Meyer Sheela Murthy Stephanie R. and John C. Orr Eun Kyoung Lee and Seung In Park Tejal and Chetan Patel Leova and Israel Perez Elizabeth B. Pond Raelynn C. and Patrick M. Praetorius Victoria Meave Pye-Wynn Gretchen Y. L. and Henry C. Reed Marcie M. and Mark D. Reimer, M.D. Sherry D. and William W. Rosenfeld Andrea Gleysteen and Robert Ryder Donna K. Jones and Peter E. Sawyer Baifang and Orville H. Schell Elizabeth and William Schultz Susan W. and J. Thomas Stenovec Drs. Susan Koslow-Stephanian and Erick Stephanian Bonnie and Hasani Subira Mary J. Wang and Michael S. Sun Rebecca B. and Theodore P. Swift Mary Ellen and Edward H. Timmes Kathryn and Alan Van Vliet Lisa S. and William H. Waste II Mr. and Mrs. Mark Whitley Katherine B. and Douglas S. Wilkinson

Michelle C. and Willard G. Wyman III CdeP 1978 Gregory D. Wynn Nancy and Daniel Yih 2011 61% Nancy R. and Douglas D. Abbey Sylvia L. and David Andrade Kelly B. and Hugh M. Boss Pen and John C. Callan Jr. CdeP 1974 Carolyn D. and Scott R. Colson Anne and W. Stacey Cowles CdeP 1978 Karen M. and C. Sedgwick Dienst Deborah S. and John S. Eastburn, Jr. Margot S. and Richard A. Funke Michelle J. and Sean C. Gannon Gwen and Sanford J. Garrett Heping Gong Drs. Young-Mi Jeon and Je-Ho Han Staci W. Hartman Sabrina H. and Marco W. Hellman Sehen and Erango Kelbisow Eleanor S. and Christopher J. Land Mejda and Paul Lawrence D. Joseph Lloyd, M.D. Robin Lloyd Rebecca A. and Thomas P. Lowe Elizabeth F. and Steven M. Miller Ok-Kyoung Kim and Kyoung-Dae Min Michelle R. and Mark W. J. Mulchay Tyrone F. Pike Ellen Ablow and Alan Norman Amanda Allan North

Gail B. and William E. Reisinger, M.D. Cynthia S. Rutter Carmen and Jose Santos Marjorie J. and Robert L. Sligh, Jr. Sara C. and James A. Star Luanna V. and Mark J. Stickelmaier Gail and Stephen Stonehouse Linda Davis and James D. Taylor Gail and R. Dixon Thayer Drs. Susan Barrows and Stephen P. Yeagle Hee Jung and Yong Geon Yun 2012 67% Catherine and Matthew Atwong Lauren and John Bearden Dianne D. and Michael S. Butler Suzanne B. and Gregory M. Combs Jock Conyngham IV Lisa Betts-Cover and Wallis Cover Anne and W. Stacey Cowles CdeP 1978 Liz and Scott Currie Jennifer De Calabria Evy and Renan Disner Wanetta and Kent Doty Eric J. Eilar Socorro Castillo Eilar Laura M. and Richard E. Everett Gwen and David Fossett John S. Gates CdeP 1975 Gale Vagneur Gates Alexandra S. and Hanson S. Gifford III Kerri and Glenn P. Griffee

Mary F. Rocca and Eric Grigsby Julie Choi and Sangman Han Marsha M. Hoem Annica Ackerman and James Newton Howard CdeP 1969 Sofie Barron Howard Jane E. and Wade C. Hughan Sehen and Erango Kelbisow Kelli Kenison Lisa M. and Derek G. Kirkland Mary G. and Bradley R. Krey Raymon E. Lark, Jr. Susan and A. Scott LeFevre CdeP 1975 Carolyn Espley-Miller and Dennis M. Miller Caroline A. and John E. Montague Eun Kyoung Lee and Seung In Park Louise M. and Arthur C. Patterson Julia H. and Jonathan P. Poll Sonya N. and Marcos Rodriguez Karleanne Rogers and Kevin Berigan Mary Kleihege and John Streur Cynthia Gulick and Benjamin R. Stutz Angela Sullivan-Wallace and Gordon A. Wallace Susan and Scott Wyckoff Michelle C. and Willard G. Wyman III CdeP 1978 Alice Jing Chen and Yong (Eric) Xu Nancy and Daniel Yih

PARENTS AUCTION The 2009 Parents Auction raised over $140,000 for the Parents Fund this year. Again under the expert leadership of Auction Chair Stephanie R. Orr, parent volunteers used online, silent, and live auctions to raise muchneeded funds for the School. Thacher thanks all donors, volunteers, and bidders who made this event a success.

2010 Parents Nancy and Doug Abbey ABC News at 7 and View from the Bay Corinne Abel and Katie Van Horne Alejandro Salon Carol Allison and Jun Amano American Hay and Mercantile Sylvia and David Andrade Angela’s Flowers Arcade Hair Co. Jane and Jary Archer Artwick of Ojai The Aspen Skiing Company Catherine and Matthew Atwong Azu David V. Babbott Barbara Bowman Shops Diana Bariteau and Lucy Phillips Kelly Phelan and George Bartzokis Peter Baumgartner Bay Area Thacher Parents Lauren and John Bearden Susie and Riley Bechtel Sheran and Jeff Becker Chipper Bell Becky and Ben Benard Amy and Matt Berler Best Western Casa Ojai Margo and Frank Blair Blue/Emerald Iguana Inn Boccali’s Pizza and Pasta

Suzie Nixon Bohnett and Tony Bohnett Shannon and Fred Bond Victoria and Parke Boneysteele Bonnie Lu’s Café Jacalyn Booth Lynne and John Bosche Kelly and Hugh Boss Drs. Bridget and Bruce Brockman

Brooks Chimney Sweep Cabot Brown John Bueti Busy Babes Beauty Supply and Salon Dianne and Michael Butler Calais and Co. Pen and Clint Callan Elizabeth and Clark Callander Melanie and Charlie Callander Canary Hotel

Capri Motel Bonnie Caruk Casa Barranca Estate and Bill Moses Casa Barranca Wines Channel Islands Aviation Eliza Childs Jocelyn and Doug Childs Anita and Nigel Chisholm Blair and Tom Church Loren Churchman, D.D.S.

PARENTS AUCTION VOLUNTEERS Annica Ackerman ShahKeyah Allahjah Stell Anderson-Snyder Vida Bahrami Sheran Becker Becky Benard Tony Bohnett Shannon and Fred Bond Lynne and John Bosche Dianne and Mike Butler Melanie and Charlie Callender Clark Callander Marilyn Camp Denise and Ben Carter Suzanne Combs Carlisle Connick Drew Connick Ingrid Croft and Robert Pepi Sandra Davis Patricia Delgadillo Evy and Renan Disner

Wanetta Doty Erica and Walter Fuller Alex, Ellie and Hanson Gifford Andrea Gleysteen Kerri and Glenn Griffee Mary Hoffman Kara Hooper Beth Jonker Cameron Kemp Cindy Kemp Kelli Kenison Mary and Dan Krause Mary Krey Eleanor Land Raymon Lark Susan LeFevre Nancy Lehrkind Robin Lloyd Tori Macmillan Mark Mulchay Sheela Murthy

Stephanie and John Orr Marganne Oxley Kelly Phelan Eliza Pond Pat Praetorius Sudha and Raj Rajasekaran Gretchen and Henry Reed Pamela Reiss Sonya and Marcos Rodriguez Luanna Stickelmaier Gail and Steve Stonehouse Becky Swift Donna Tate Gail Thayer Edith and Joe Tobin Kathryn Van Vliet Therese and Mike Voevodsky Margaret Whitley Abby and Henry Wilder Katherine Wilkinson

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PARENTS AUCTION (continued) Katinka Clementsmith Sheila Cluff Terri and Paul Cohen Suzanne and Greg Combs Pam and Howard Conant Contempo Hair Design Jock Conyngham Lisa Betts-Cover and Wallis Cover Anne and Stacey Cowles Jennifer Crittenden and Bill Wrubel Curly Willow Florist Cuts and Curls Darioush Winery Lisa Davison Jena De Calabria Deliah’s Hair Salon Roxanne Christ and Bob DeWitt Laura Johnson and John Dick Julie and Rob Dickson Evy and Renan Disner Dixie Gladstone Wanetta Doty Monique DeVane and Brian Driscoll Sumita and Rajiv Dutta The Eastburn Family Eric Eilar Socorro Castillo Eilar Amy and Toby Elmore Katherine and Scott EspinosaBrown Chuck Evans Laura and Rich Everett Sandy Donnell and Justin Faggioli Nancy and Bob Farese The Farmer and the Cook Feast Bistro Laurel Felice Kristen Finch, D.V.M. Cora Lee and Jim Findley Sako and Bill Fisher Kevin Flynn Karen Cook and George Ford Gwen and David Fossett Judy and Oliver Foster Helen and Karl Frykman Full of Beans Erica and Walter Fuller Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation Gwen and Sandy Garrett Gale Vagneur Gates John Gates Paul Gavin Anne Van Gheluwe and Zafer Gedeon Achi Gem Quest Alexandra and Hanson Gifford Giorgio’s Pizza and Subs

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Sooz Glazebrook James Graca Heather Grant and Bill Omansiek Mary and Dan Gregory Sharon Griffin Mary Rocca and Eric Grigsby Shell Duncan Grimes and Brian Grimes Sarah Beekley, M.D. and Michael Hahn Donna Hamer Elizabeth and Jule Hannaford IV Brad Hanson Joanna Evans and David Harris Staci Hartman Hattie Hearst Castle and National Geographic Theater Otto Heino Pottery The Hellman Family Foundation Cecilia and Jim Herbert Mary and Mark Hoffman Paula Pavanis and Derek Holstein Kara and Jeff Hooper The Household Gods Annica Ackerman-Howard and James Newton Howard Sophie Barron Howard Jane Hughan Hummingbird Inn Hunnicutt Wines Seana, Parker, and Justin Hunnicutt Stephens Robert Hunter Winery Isensee Island Packers Susan Hardenbergh and Jake Jacobsen Janis’ Art Workshop and Gallery Java and Joe Specialty Coffee and Gifts Jim and Rob’s Fresh Grill Beth and Vim Jonker Alexandra and Peter Jordan Julia Rose and Co. Steve Kanaly Kelli Kenison Vida Bahrami and Jim Keyani KGO Newstalk AM 810 Sang Yong Kim Kindred Spirit The King Family and Bay Area Thacher Dads Lisa and Derek Kirkland Roger Klausler Jane Penny Knox Kathryn Hall and Tom Knutsen Sarah Konrad

Mary and Brad Krey La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club Eleanor and Chris Land Raymon Lark, Jr. Lavender Blue Salon and Gifts: Mary Livingston and Kelly Cary Lavender Inn Kenneth Lee Susan and Scott LeFevre Gillian Levine Joseph Lloyd Robin Lloyd Longhorn Supply Co. Rebecca and Tom Lowe Lulu Bandha’s Tori and Jamie Macmillan Elizabeth and Bert Mahoney Michael Maloney Julie and Bo Manson Mariposa Inn and Suites Matilija Veterinary Hospital Martha and Tom May Chris and Rich Mazzola Jane McCarthy Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Lisa McCue Jemi Reis McDonald Carolyn and Michael McMahan Sabina and Bill McMahon The Medicine Shoppe Ann Merlini Margie and Gary Meyer Carolyn Espley-Miller and Dennis Miller Ok-Kyoung Kim and Kyoung-Dae Min Maggie Moss-Tucker Movino Wine Bar and Gallery Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael Mulligan Judy and Tom Munzig Murray Pacific Corp.

Music Academy Vicki Nichols Nomad, The Leslie Clark Gallery Becky Beckett and Steven North The Oaks at Ojai Susan and Bill Oberndorf Darian and Martin O’Brien Ojai Beverage Company Ojai Café Emporium Ojai Coffee Roasting Company Ojai Culinary Studio Ojai Film Society Ojai House Ojai Ice Cream Ojai Music Festival Ojai Pizza The Ojai Retreat Ojai Spring Carwash

The Ojai Theater The Ojai Trolley Service/ City of Ojai Ojai Valley Athletic Club The Ojai Valley Inn and Spa The Ojai Vineyard Old Creek Ranch Winery Ann and Tom Oliver Om Fusion of Thai Omega Cellular Oro Del Norte Ranch Stephanie and John Orr Cecilia Ortiz Marganne and David Oxley Palmaz Vineyards Toni Parker Patagonia Louise and Arthur Patterson Louise and Bill Paxton Laura and Bill Peck Ingrid Croft and Bob Pepi Bert Phillips Blossom Beatty Pidduck and Brian Pidduck Pierpont Produce Sharon and Phil Pillsbury Julia and Jon Poll Raelynn Praetorius Primavera Gallery Priscilla Promotional Products USA Victoria Meave Pye-Wynn Rains Department Store The Ranch House Ceci and Dudley Rauch Marcie and Mark Reimer Gail and William Reisinger Kaitlin and In-Yong Rhee Janie and Weston Richardson Roadrunner Shuttle and Limousine Service Peter Robinson Rocking H Ranch Sonya and Marcos Rodriguez Karleanne Rogers and Kevin Berigan Sally and Toby Rosenblatt Teal Rowe Rubicon Theatre Company Nancy Rupp Studio Cindy Rutter Sakura Ojai Demetre Savala of Salon 801 Pam Sawyer Donna Jones and Peter Sawyer Sea Fresh Beck Selzer Inez Shakman Andrew Shakman Silent Pictures Custom Framing Jorie and Robert Sligh

Sarah Lavender Smith and Morgan Smith Kim Smith Gallery Theana and Aaron Snyder Stell Anderson and Gordon Snyder Sommelier du Monde Soule Park Golf Club and Tyson York Sara and Jamie Star Christine and Dick Steltzner Susan and Thomas Stenovec Susan Koslow-Stephanian and Erick Stephanian Luanna and Mark Stickelmaier Gail and Steve Stonehouse Helen Weld and Robert Strachan Mary Kleihege and John Streur Suzanne’s Cuisine Susie Swan Eclectic Quilts Becky and Ted Swift Jannae Tangerenz Linda Davis Taylor and James Taylor Timothy Teague Photography Gail and Dixon Thayer Theater 150 Eric Thomas Geoffrey Thomas Edith and Joe Tobin Gretchen Torres Trader Joe’s True West Irina Tsoy Michele and Rod Turner Cricket and Terry Twichell Kathryn and Alan Van Vliet Gallia and Bill Vickery Kathleen and Billy Volkmann Vons W Hotel Los Angeles Carol and Chuck Warren Lisa and Bill Waste Wells Fargo Bank Jason Wenz The Wharf Margaret and Mark Whitley Peggy Whyte Abby and Henry Wilder Katherine and Doug Wilkinson Beth Williams Studio Wine Afficianado Ellen and Todd Winter Michelle and Will Wyman Gregory Wynn Laura and Cloren Wynn Yamaguchi Salons Susan Barrows and Stephen Yeagle Nancy and Dan Yih

PAST PARENTS AND FRIENDS FUND So many loyal past parents and friends continue to generously support Thacher. This year, with the help of Past Parents and Friends Co-Chairs Mia and Bob Morrill, we raised $364,491 from this group of donors.

*deceased Meredith B. and Duncan H. Abbott Elizabeth Helms (Mrs. Robert H.) Adams Linda Ann Adams Cynthia and Anwar Al-Aghbary Alamo Pintado Equine Clinic, Inc. Frederick S. Allen, Jr. Paula Allen Kari Glover and Thaddas L. Alston Eddy and Osvaldo Ancinas Ann and Kendall B. Andersen Jane B. and Jary A. Archer Nancy D. and David V. Babbott Elizabeth and Robert Ball Karen Y. Wang and Kevin J. Baltazar Jill E. and Edward J. Banman, M.D. Julia and Hancock Banning III Margo B. and Jeffrey C. Barbakow Diana K. Bariteau Mary and Timothy Barnard Bonnie and James Barr, Jr. Wilma (Mrs. Herman) Bartholomay Nancy Brown Bauschinger Elizabeth H. and Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Sally and Robert Beckham, Jr. Sara Sackner and Andrew Behar Carolyn S. and Judge Jerome H.* Berenson Nina O. and James J. Berman Lucena W. and Rodney J. Bessolo Linda and William F. Binder Edward McCormick Blair Margaret H. and Frank Blair Susanne and Wiley Blair Margaret Lee Blunt Sharyl J. Border Wendy W. and Stephen R. Bowie Katherine E. Boyd Kathryn H. and Michael H. Bradford Ursula and James Bradshaw Amy and David Bransky Drs. Sheila and John Bray Linda and Mark D. Brewer Beverly Broadbent-Beall Andrea L. Brooks William A. Buckles, CPA Betty Budlong Candida D. and Bartlett Burnap Penny J. and William N. Butler Zenobia A. Butts Elizabeth A. and Robert J. Cahall Peggy (Mrs. John E.) Cahill Lisa and David W. Caldwell, M.D. Nancy Caldwell Sara and Tom Caldwell Roxane B. and Mario N. Campello D.H. Carroll Catherine S. Chandler Brigitte and W. Bliss Carnochan Barbara K. Chaney Brandon M. Chase Sally K. Chenault Telly and Eugene Chow Lane E. Hammond and Myron A. Clark Martha (Mrs. George H. CdeP 1934) Clyde Mrs. Edith Murphy Colace Lisa B. and William D. Cole Kellie A. and Robert R. Coombs, Jr. Comfort Halsey Cope and Gregory T. Cope Eugenie T. and Belton A. Copp Carol Gray Costigan Natalie and William Courter Kate A. (Mrs. William M. CdeP 1954) Crawford Louise (Mrs. Dodge) and Elizabeth Crockett Lucas Alexander Currie 2012

Trevor Rogers Currie 2009 Beverly W. Cutler Lauren B. and Alan M. Dachs W. Cotton Damon II Penelope W. and James W. DeYoung Julie and Robert T. Dickson Martha (Mrs. C. Carey CdeP 1942) Donworth Monique DeVane and Brian P. Driscoll William T. Duke Sylvia R. and Peter G. Dworkin Sally and Terry Eagle Marcia and Samuel Edwards, M.D. Amy and Anthony Elmore Drs. Joan M. and Bruce A. Everett Joyce F. and William C. Everett Richard E. Faggioli Elizabeth M. Falk Bonnie and John Farrer Elizabeth Y. and Mark E. Ferguson Joyce E. and Dakin B. Ferris Drs. Karen L. and Charles E. Fiske Patricia M. and John S. Fiske Louise Fornaciari Ceseli E. D. and Hugh W. Foster Diane G. and Richard F. Froio, Sr. Dian and William M. Gabriel, D.D.S. Barbara (Mrs. Irvin B.) Gardner Camile and Michael Gillespie Rodney Goodbrod Donald M. Grant Elizabeth B. and John M. Grether Sallie Griffith Barbara (Mrs. John van B.) Griggs Margaret and Paul Grossman Robin T. Grossman Cynthia E. and Joseph H. Hafkenschiel Stephanie M. and Edward C. Hall Donna D. Hamer Terry and Harry A. Hanson, Jr. Katharine W. and Goodwin W. Harding Pamela Rogers Harmon Davi Weisberger Ph.D. and Michael J. Harrington Barbara H. and Roy W. Harthorn Christina Maria Hartman 2011 Kelsey Ann Hartman Dr. Elizabeth Hastings Elizabeth and Alfred Hastings Jennifer C. and Stephen B. Hauge Adrian K. and W. Alston Hayne Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr. Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Cecilia H. and James H. Herbert Janet F. (Mrs. Robert) Herr Nancy P. and William C. Hoffman Janet and Collis H. Holladay Nancy Adams Holliday Judith Hawes Holmes Kara and Jeffrey Hooper Mary B. and John C. Hooper Nancy P. Hoover Diane B. and William N. Horton Susan B. and Edgar C. Howbert Ginevra M. (Mrs. Phelps CdeP 1924) Hunter Lucia and Leo Huntington Carolyn (Mrs. Carl) Huntsinger Dorothy Lee Ingebretsen Susan M. Hardenbergh and Rod M. Jacobsen Karen and Josiah Jenkins Pamela Y. Johnson Phyllis W. and David B. Johnston Shana B. and R. Clint Johnstone, Jr. Anne M. and Col. Freeman Jones Cynthia and Richard W. Jones Wendy E. Jordan

Justin Vineyard and Winery, Inc. Brent P. and Steven F. Kanaly Agnes Chan and Tsutomu Kaneko Trischa O’Hanlon* and Raymond R. Kepner Lynn W. and William H. Kern, M.D. Wan Soon Park and Sang Yong Kim Charles R. King James C. King Mrs. Suzi King Janice B. and Phillip Kissel, M.D. Roger D. Klausler Kathryn Hall and Tom Knutsen Sue and Roger Kritz Elizabeth Granoff and Sarosh Kumana Claire S. and J. Parker Kurlinski, M.D. Stania Marx Lake and Joseph F. Lake Sharman R. and Neil S. Lancefield Carole and David Lawton Linnea Richards and Jordan Lederer Anne Hansen and Nicholas E. Lefferts John Friedrich Lehrkind CdeP 2009 Nancy N. and H. Thompson Lehrkind Marianne Lent Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard) Lewis Katharine R. Lewis Peter M. Lindsay Kathryn A. and James G. Lino Dorothy (Mrs. James D.) Loebl Edward G. Lord III Katharine M. Lord Los Gringos Camp Mary R. and Charles F. Lowrey Lillian P. and John D. Maguire Lindsay (Mrs. LeRoy CdeP 1932) Makepeace Susan and Lee Mallory Elise Mudd Marvin* Mary (Mrs. Alfred CdeP 1949) McCormack Mary and Malcolm* McDuffie Dr. and Mrs. Samuel McGinnis Meredythe and Vaso Medigovich Dalia Menendez Carolyn and John Menne Nancy S. and Thomas W. Merritt, Jr. Denise C. and Robert C. Miller Cynthia S. and Donald D. Miller Anthony R. Moiso Mia K. and Robert B. Morrill Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Judith G. and Thomas A. Munzig Jeanne M. and James Neville Vicki and Gary Nichols Susan C. and William E. Oberndorf Gail Pierce O’Brien Wm. Howard O’Brien Patricia K. and Lance R. Odden Sandra and Patrick O’Donnell Anne G. and W. Thomas Oliver Scott Cook and Signe Ostby Lucinda L. and Walter E. Owen III Lynzee Klingman and Richard I. Pearce Anne H. and Charles Perkins JaMel S. and Thomas M. Perkins Harriet I. H. and Bobby W. Perry Maritta and Horst Peters Sarah W. (Mrs. Arthur K.) Peters Mary-Louise O. and Alan P. Peterson, M.D. Marilyn A. (Mrs. Albert G.) Petschek Faith D. Phelps Linda L. and Ronald L. Phillips Cory G. and William J. Piculell Christina M. Plattner Evola Laurie S. Poett Alexander M. Power Ann J. Procter

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PAST PARENTS AND FRIENDS FUND (continued) Cecilia B. and Dudley A. Rauch Jill P. and Ramesh Reddy Susan P. and Donald A. Reed Steven D. Reich, M.D. Kathy Sheahan Reid Elizabeth E. and Robert W. Reniers, Jr. Sallie G. Reynolds Margaret L. Rhodes Judith E. and Charles R. Roberts Peter G. Robinson Cheryl C. and Eugene O. Rooke Barbara D. and George A. Roupe Claire and Stephen M. Ryberg Amory R. and David A. Salem Virginia Sanseau Karin J. and Francis W. Sargent Alison C. and Robert M. Sawyer Ann S. Saxby Thomas Schriber Elisa and Edwin J. Schwartz Chris Scott

Charring C. and David N. Scoular Ruth F. and Alson W. Sears, Jr. M.D. Robert A. Shakman, M.D. Inez Shakman Eleanor B. Shannon Jeffrey S. Shannon, M.D. Mrs. William Shannon Nancy Shaw Rose Risinger and Robert Shulman Sandra S. and Gilbert U. Singco Ann D. and George A. Smith Sandra and Christopher Smith Alice and Peter Soracco Lorraine L. and Brian B. Sorrick Geoffrey G. Sowash Marianne and Norman Sprague III, M.D. Blair St. John Connie M. and Richard Stacey, M.D. Jil and Jack Stark Tania W. and Michael Stepanian Suzanne and John Strawbridge III

Richard and Judith Swift Guggenhime Joan G. and Thomas B. Swift Maur and Richard Tavernetti, M.D. Chris and John Telischak Alice and H. Clarke Thacher III Carter P. Thacher Sherry and Bill Tift Bonnie C. and Manolis Tjuanakis Donn Tognazzini Maggie Moss-Tucker and Paul H. Tucker Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. William D.) Tucker Pauline H. (Mrs. George B.) Turpin Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Joseph Vasek, M.D. Sarah and Phillip J. Vedder M. Kathryn and R. Eric Waldman Carol and Charles R. Warren Phoebe K. and Paul Warren Heather W. and Allan P. Wentworth Elizabeth Westbrook Joline M. and A. Buckman Wharton III

Barbara S. and E. Douglas White, Jr. Damon White Noel M. Ferris and R. Parker White Peggy Whyte Barbara Z. and John R. Wilson Mary M. and Hoyt F. Wilson Mona and Rick Wilson Cheryl L. and Richard W. Winters Ann Witter Lessa and Jack Wolfe Barbara Wollak Elisabeth P. Wright Florence and Frederick P. Wright Lily and Jacob C. Y. Wu Jane and Frank C. Wykoff Rebecca L. Yette Mary Yorke Joanne and Kristofer Young, D.C. Stephanie and Kurt Zierhut

GRANDPARENTS FUND Grandparents play an important role in the School’s fundraising efforts.

Under the leadership of Co-Chairs Missy and Guido Saveri, the Grandparents Fund raised $41,535 during the 2008-2009 fiscal year.

*deceased Judy and Ron Ablow Martha and H. Brewster Atwater, Jr. Suzanne and Marts E. Beekley, M.D. Mrs. John C. Callan Barbara K. and John N. Callander Jane Foster Carter Alice M. (Mrs. Robert E. CdeP 1950) Chesley Sheila and Don Cluff Lou C. and John N. Conyngham III Marie M. and John L. Cooper Mrs. Allison Stacey Cowles and Mr. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Mary Lu and Donald W. Crocker Anne and Ambrose M. Cronin III

Catherine S. and Walter F. Currie Betsy Dingwell Patricia C. and Richard Doerner Doris F. and Donald G.* Fisher Judith E. and Oliver S. Foster Louise B. and Dr. Jackson W. Fritz Virginia G. and John M.* Fuller Audrey F. and James P. Gorter Sharon C. and Andrew Griffin Kap-Soo Han Jane B. Hoffman Linda and Orlando Jardini Shirley D. and William G. Kirkland Helen P. Koskinas Elsie R. Land Dennis G. Little Agnes C. Bourne and James A. Luebbers

Nancy H. and Peter C.* Manson Heide and Gordon Miller Beatrice Minkin Marty and Mike North Elizabeth Pfister James C. Reed William J. Rutter, Ph.D. Catherine and Guido Saveri Mary Ann and Ken Sokol Diane Su Betty L. and Raymond E. Swift Hazel Tizenor Jeanne Van Holten Mrs. Alice Wang Margery A. and John W. Winter Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Laura M. and Cloren Wynn

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION DONORS GRANTS

Matching Gifts

H. Clifford Allen Scholarship Fund Trust The Danielson Foundation Dan Murphy Foundation Patagonia Scholarship Fund The Prairie Foundation Raynier Institute and Foundation The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund Morris S. Smith Foundation Clinton Walker Family Foundation

A&E Television Networks Lindsay R. Medigovich CdeP 1996 American Express Foundation Mark and Jennifer Utman Sommer CdeP 1990 Bank of America Foundation Marie and M. Duncan McDuffie CdeP 1973 Barclays Global Investors Diane G. and Richard F. Froio, Sr. Jan L. Dillow and John F. H. Purcell CdeP 1958 Blum Capital Partners, L.P. Richard Chow and Jane J. Su CdeP 1982 Boeing Gift Matching Program Rita and Joseph M. Glasgow, Jr. CdeP 1946 BP Amoco Foundation, Inc. Ginger von Wening and Kristian E. Meisling CdeP 1971

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The Fremont Group Foundation Wanetta and Kent Doty GAP, Inc Craig J. Sakowitz and Sharon D. Karlsberg CdeP 1992 Charlotte C. Lord CdeP 2002 GE General Electric Foundation Shirley D. and William G. Kirkland Goldman, Sachs and Co. Sarah C. and Steven D. Winegar CdeP 1985 Google, Inc. Hugh H. Gordon V CdeP 2003 Heather Kelly CdeP 2001 and Brian Kelly CdeP 2001 Helen K. and James S. Copley Foundation Katherine H. and John H. McLaren CdeP 1952 Hollingsworth & Vose Company Ann and Harry A. Hanson III CdeP 1975

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION DONORS (continued) Kaiser Permanente Pamela H. and Kim J. Kaiser CdeP 1966 Macy’s Foundation Aaron J. Dowling and Sarah W. O’Brien CdeP 1986 Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation Davi Weisberger Ph.D. and Michael J. Harrington Malea F. and Reza Zafari CdeP 1978

Microsoft Corporation Oliver B. Colbert CdeP 1995 Rod and Kathryn Riddell Willson CdeP 1984 Karen and Randolph G. Smith CdeP 1987

Raytheon Company Paula Harbourne and Mark A. Petschek CdeP 1977

The Pentair Foundation Helen L. and Karl R. Frykman

Union Pacific Corporation Patricia and Robert B. Schmidt CdeP 1974

TIFF Advisory Services, Inc. Amory R. and David A. Salem

Verizon Lisa-Ann and Glenn S. Glass CdeP 1979 Wells Fargo Foundation Lorraine L. and Brian B. Sorrick Christopher S. Winter

DESIGNATED ANNUAL FUND GIFTS TO SUPPORT FACULTY SALARIES

TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY

Ruth L. and Anthony Arnold CdeP 1946 Felicity Howe Arnold CdeP 2000 and Justin Arnold CdeP 2000 Andrew B. Barkan CdeP 1998 Linda and Michael S. Bolduan CdeP 1957 Shannon W. and Frederick J. Bond Mrs. John C. Callan Marilyn S. and Allen F. Camp Peter and Elizabeth Chiu Gould CdeP 1983 Steve and Jennifer Christiansen Vurno CdeP 1996 Matthew J. Cohen CdeP 2001 Kellie A. and Robert R. Coombs, Jr. Katy J. and Boyd N. Everett CdeP 1990 Claire J. Faggioli CdeP 2002 Eric Senunas and Alison E. Field CdeP 1984 Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Ty W. Gabriel CdeP 1992 Adrian W. Hall CdeP 1997 Drs. Young-Mi Jeon and Je-Ho Han Mary G. and Bradley R. Krey John E. LeGros, Jr. CdeP 1967 D. Joseph Lloyd, M.D. Alexis A. MacDonald CdeP 1998 Macy’s Foundation Shay J. Mamo CdeP 1999 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Karly M. and David A. Miller CdeP 1993 Laura A. and Michael D. Pincus CdeP 1973 Kaitlyn and In-Yong Rhee RADM Stewart A. Ring CdeP 1952 Drs. Nona and Thomas R. Russell CdeP 1958 Gavin E. Sacks CdeP 1990 Baifang and Orville H. Schell Nancy Shaw Madeleine Gabrielle Sowash CdeP 2008 Quinn K. Kanaly CdeP 1996 and Max S. Stepanian CdeP 1995 Susan and Welsh Strawbridge CdeP 1990 Dimitris and Alison Terbell Nikitopoulos CdeP 1982 Frank H. Tooby CdeP 1967 Ethel R. and David C. Twichell CdeP 1936 Rita and Raul Homero Villa CdeP 1978 Kirk W. Watson CdeP 1968 Mary M. and Hoyt F. Wilson Barbara Wollak Carla P. and Victor C. Wykoff CdeP 1988 Jane and Frank C. Wykoff Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D.

Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Sarah and Lincoln S. Hollister CdeP 1956 Shirley A. and Harvey M. Huang Katy L. and Benjamin B. Krokower CdeP 1993 Jonathan R. Le Plastrier CdeP 2000 J. Jorge Motoshige CdeP 1992 Brooke Boynton White CdeP 1984 Ian R. Whittinghill CdeP 2003 Barbara Wollak Carla P. and Victor C. Wykoff CdeP 1988 Alice Jing Chen and Yong (Eric) Xu

TO SUPPORT FINANCIAL AID Leyla Jane Abou-Samra CdeP 1996 Anonymous Ruth L. and Anthony Arnold CdeP 1946 Andrew B. Barkan CdeP 1998 Steven and Anne E. Berube Gard CdeP 1992 Blum Capital Partners, L.P. Lisa A. Steele and Michael G. Branch CdeP 1980 Andrea L. Brooks Joanna and David W. Callaghan CdeP 1988 Erin A. Campbell CdeP 1999 Lauren B. Chase CdeP 2006 Carolyn D. and Scott R. Colson David B. Cook CdeP 2007 Emily A. Dachs CdeP 2001 Eileen and Gerald De Santillana CdeP 1956 Sharon and Theodore H. DeWitt CdeP 1973 Nora and Michael R. Disner CdeP 2001 Wanetta and Kent Doty Christopher Bechler and Diane Downey CdeP 1979 Joanna R. Evans CdeP 1988 Margaret F. Farquhar CdeP 1988 Eric Senunas and Alison E. Field CdeP 1984 Meredith M. Flannery CdeP 2001 Reka and Ákos G. Fóty CdeP 1985 The Fremont Group Foundation Maxwell A. Greene CdeP 2001 Sharon C. and Andrew Griffin Genevieve and Jay Gudebski CdeP 1993 Pauline Chen and Woodruff W. Halsey II CdeP 1965 Donna D. Hamer Katherine A. Harmon CdeP 2001 Lynn A. and John N. Hayward CdeP 1965 Chih-Cheng Tsai and Randolph C. Head CdeP 1974

Patricia L. and Neal Howe CdeP 1969 Helene and Stephen P. Huyler CdeP 1969 Pamela Y. Johnson Evan E. Kanaly CdeP 1999 Agnes Chan and Tsutomu Kaneko Sehen and Erango Kelbisow Mary and Alan H. Kenison CdeP 1955 Katherine D. Kirkmire CdeP 1994 Roger D. Klausler Rosa Barkus Klein CdeP 1993 and José Klein CdeP 1993 Linnea Richards and Jordan Lederer Katharine R. Lewis Shay J. Mamo CdeP 1999 John A. Matson CdeP 1997 Molly M. and Dr. Samuel McGinnis Joanne and William M. McNabb CdeP 1954 Dalia Menendez Ryan M. Meyer CdeP 1998 Logan D. Morrow CdeP 2006 Bethany A. and Samuel W. Orrick CdeP 1979 Patagonia Scholarship Fund Faith D. Phelps Travis and Catherine Pinkerton Keeling CdeP 1996 Jan T. and Reilly R. S. Pollard CdeP 1976 Sudha and Shravan Rajasekaran Jenna L. Reasor CdeP 2004 Margaret B. Reniers CdeP 1992 Julien B. Rhodes CdeP 2002 William and Erin Rosen Antebi CdeP 1988 John E. Kemp and Catherine A. Ruhl CdeP 1989 Lloyd A. Sacks CdeP 1995 Sarah C. Sawyer CdeP 1999 Leslie and Alan C.M. Silbergh CdeP 1972 Sandra S. and Gilbert U. Singco Richard L. Smith CdeP 2003 Geoffrey G. Sowash Helen Weld and Robert Strachan Richard Chow and Jane J. Su CdeP 1982 David J. Thacher CdeP 1974 Frank H. Tooby CdeP 1967 Gaye Carlson and Dan L. Torjusen CdeP 1970 Rita and Raul Homero Villa CdeP 1978 Tom Murphy and Stefanie Warren CdeP 1996 Sarah T. Wheatley CdeP 1997 Mele E. M. Wheaton CdeP 1991 Ian R. Whittinghill CdeP 2003 JoAnn and Otis Wickenhaeuser CdeP 1949 Paul L. Yelder CdeP 1977

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DESIGNATED ANNUAL FUND GIFTS (continued) TO SUPPORT THE HORSE AND CAMPING PROGRAMS Jamil S. Abou-Samra CdeP 1999 Patricia R. Abou-Samra CdeP 2002 Ruth L. and Anthony Arnold CdeP 1946 Shoshanah V. Asnis Bewlay CdeP 1988 Judy R. and Christopher P. Austin, M.D. CdeP 1978 Janice and John F. Barnard CdeP 1936 Louise and Bryan N. Beckham CdeP 1974 Steven and Anne E. Berube Gard CdeP 1992 Katia C. and Lucas E. Black CdeP 1990 Amy and David Bransky Frank T. Bumpus, M.D. CdeP 1940 James C. Burton CdeP 2007 Caroline R. and Robert T. Butler CdeP 1988 Karly M. and Timothy J. Butler CdeP 1993 Walker M. Cahall CdeP 2003 Mrs. John C. Callan Patricia S. and John P. Case CdeP 1959 Christiane and Niels Christiansen Lisa Betts-Cover and Wallis Cover Christine and J. Brooks Crawford CdeP 1951 Kate A. (Mrs. William M. CdeP 1954) Crawford Christopher H. Eaton CdeP 2004

Sophie and Kendric M. Foultz CdeP 1977 GAP, Inc Alma and Paul Gray CdeP 1953 Barbara and Charles C. Gray CdeP 1962 Catherine Griffith Aserappa CdeP 1983 Katherine A. Harmon CdeP 2001 Bettie and Hill Hastings II, M.D. CdeP 1966 Warwick J. Hayes, Jr. CdeP 1938 Alexandra M. Herbert CdeP 2002 Shase L. and William W. Hockey CdeP 1976 Judith Hawes Holmes Mary B. and John C. Hooper Anne A. and John S. Hoover CdeP 1978 Patricia L. and Neal Howe CdeP 1969 Evan E. Kanaly CdeP 1999 Craig J. Sakowitz and Sharon D. Karlsberg CdeP 1992 Marianne Lent Macy’s Foundation Scott Parker and Margrit Lent Parker CdeP 1997 Nicholas H. Mast, M.D. CdeP 1992 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Carol J. McConnell, DVM CdeP 1981 Joanne and William M. McNabb CdeP 1954 John J. Miller III, M.D. CdeP 1951 J. Wescott Myers II CdeP 2001 Louis W. Myers III CdeP 2003 Jeanne and Steven J. Neville CdeP 1974 Shauna H. Nyborg CdeP 1999 Marganne Winter Oxley CdeP 1978 and David B. Oxley CdeP 1979

Christine W. and Standish K. Penton, Jr. CdeP 1976 Leova and Israel Perez McKinsey Mason Pillsbury CdeP 2008 Don C. Porter, Jr. CdeP 1962 Elizabeth B. Rauner CdeP 2002 Martha and Rowland Richards, Jr. CdeP 1953 Bret W. Richmond CdeP 1992 Nancy M. and Charles R. Roberts, Jr. CdeP 1988 Judith E. and Charles R. Roberts Ann S. Saxby Quinn K. Kanaly CdeP 1996 and Max S. Stepanian CdeP 1995 Frank H. Tooby CdeP 1967 Verizon Alexandra and Michael E. A. Ward CdeP 1958 Thomas L. Wheeler, Jr. CdeP 1968 John and Alexa Wilson Maley CdeP 1990 Mary M. and Hoyt F. Wilson Brooks and Emily Worthington Jordan CdeP 1991 Elisabeth P. Wright Ronald P. Wu CdeP 2002 Carla P. and Victor C. Wykoff CdeP 1988

TO SUPPORT THE OLYMPUS FUND

TO SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES Tyler Barrell and Maria N. Banman Barrell CdeP 1996 Lou Aronson and Ami Becker-Aronson CdeP 1986 Grace A. Bueti CdeP 2004 Walker M. Cahall CdeP 2003 Jock Conyngham IV Lisa H. and Daniel S. Cooper H. Skye Foster CdeP 1997 Gale Vagneur Gates Julieta and David R. Heard CdeP 1979 Zachary Story and Elizabeth StoryHieronymus CdeP 1994 Meghan E. Jeans CdeP 1993 Amy S. and Larkin Bertram-Cox Montgomery CdeP 1979 Lindsay D. Oliver CdeP 2008 Raelynn C. and Patrick M. Praetorius Elizabeth E. and Robert W. Reniers, Jr. Julien B. Rhodes CdeP 2002 Lloyd A. Sacks CdeP 1995 Baifang and Orville H. Schell Quinn K. Kanaly CdeP 1996 and Max S. Stepanian CdeP 1995 Helen Weld and Robert Strachan Abigail H. and Henry L. B. Wilder

James C. Burton CdeP 2007 Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988

LIBRARY DONORS FRIENDS OF THE THACHER SCHOOL LIBRARY

DONORS TO THE LIBRARY ON FAMILY WEEKEND

Lynne Bosche Elizabeth Bowman Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Greg Haggard Sophie Barron Howard Marilee Lin Jane McCarthy Kurt Meyer Stephanie Orr Sondra Oxley CdeP 2009 Marvin Shagam Mary and Roger Wallace Windham Wallace CdeP 1999

Annica Ackerman Catherine and Matthew Atwong Dr. Sarah Beekley The Bond Family Victoria and Parke Boneysteele The Bueti Family Melanie and Charles Callander Marilyn and Allen Camp Susie and Kit Collins CdeP 1966 Lisa and Dan Cooper Lisa and Wallis Cover Debora and Michael Cresto Jennifer De Calabria Amy and Jerry de Rham Karen and Sedge Dienst Evy and Renan Disner Patricia and Richard Doerner Wanetta and Kent Doty Debbie and John Eastburn Nancy and Bob Farese The Garrett Family Alex and Hanson Gifford Betsy and Jule Hannaford Mary and Mark Hoffman

VOLUNTEERS Allie Bueti Suzanne Combs Stell Anderson Snyder Katherine Wilkinson

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Barbara Hoskinson Wade Hughan Mary and Dan Krause Mary and Brad Krey Susan and Scott LeFevre CdeP 1975 Nancy and Tom Lehrkind Joe Lloyd The Macmillan Family Caroline Montague Joy Sawyer-Mulligan Janice and Mazin Nasser The Orr Family Marganne Winter Oxley CdeP 1978 and David Oxley CdeP 1979 Julia and Jon Poll Nancy and Bill Prather Teddy Reeves Donna Jones and Peter Sawyer Orville Schell Philip Smith Gail and Steve Stonehouse Mary Kleihege and John Streur The Subira Family The Swift Family Gail and Dixon Thayer Ann and Greg Von Gehr Margaret and Mark Whitley Katherine and Doug Wilkinson Nancy and Dan Yih

GIFTS IN KIND Lynne and John V. Bosche CdeP 1972 Tracy and Lawrence M. Bosche CdeP 1979 California Electric Supply Ingrid Croft and Robert L. Pepi Elizabeth J. Pretzinger and Robert M. Dautch Margaret C. Deacon Julie and Robert T. Dickson Sandra D. Donnell and Justin M. Faggioli CdeP 1969 Britt and Henry E. Flanagan, Jr.

Erica S. and Walter G. Fuller W. Alston Hayne CdeP 1943 Adrian K. and W. Alston Hayne Elizabeth Moffitt Herr, M.D. and Andrew F. Herr CdeP 1973 Paula Pavanis and Derek K. Holstein CdeP 1971 Toni T. and Robert E. Hopkins CdeP 1967 Ann C. and Robert E. Hunter, Jr. CdeP 1940 Dan and Julie Huntington de Polo CdeP 1986

Josh Jensen CdeP 1961 Kevin Scott Kilgore Eugene R. Kirkham CdeP 1963 Zelda McCarthy Anna and Frank Manzano of Frank’s Paint & Hardware Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Susan C. and William E. Oberndorf Patagonia, Inc. Douglas R. Young

Nancy M. and William T. Hammond CdeP 1944 Elizabeth A. and Jule M. Hannaford IV The Hellman Family Foundation Cecilia H. and James H. Herbert Judith Hawes Holmes James Newton Howard CdeP 1969 Allison and Peter C. Janss CdeP 1964 Robert W. Johnson CdeP 1967 Leslie R. and E. Randolph Labbe CdeP 1960 Nikki and Mark A. Mahan CdeP 1970 Olivia P. Garfield and Michael A. Newkirk CdeP 1978 Scott Cook and Signe Ostby JaMel S. and Thomas M. Perkins Elizabeth E. and Robert W. Reniers, Jr. Margaret and Richard O. Rhodes CdeP 1959 William J. Rutter, Ph.D. Sara C. and James A. Star Lily and Jacob C. Y. Wu Alice Jing Chen and Yong (Eric) Xu

Dr. Elizabeth Hastings Marguerite and S. Allan Johnson CdeP 1955 Shana B. and R. Clint Johnstone, Jr. Bethalyn S. and Willem Jonker Wendy E. Jordan Pamela H. and Kim J. Kaiser CdeP 1966 Mary and Alan H. Kenison CdeP 1955 Mary G. and Bradley R. Krey Mark E. Leydecker CdeP 1979 Sarah Lavender Smith CdeP 1986 and Morgan C. Smith CdeP 1985 Julie and H. Boyd Manson Carolina Bilbao and Richard S. Massey CdeP 1985 Chris A. Shaw and Andrea Massey Shaw CdeP 1983 Stephanie R. and John C. Orr Eun Kyoung Lee and Seung In Park Mark L. Pick CdeP 1971 Bettina U. and Tyrone F. Pike CdeP 1973 Sharon Z. and Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. CdeP 1967 W. Scott Simon Nancy Faville and Charles A. Storke III CdeP 1962 Mary J. Wang and Michael S. Sun Edith A. and Joseph O. Tobin II Pamela S. and Daniel G. Volkmann III CdeP 1970 Abigail H. and Henry L. B. Wilder Cheryl L. and Richard W. Winters

GIFT CLUBS *deceased

HEAD’S CIRCLE Gifts of $25,000 and above Year Founded: 1998 Members: 16 Contributions: $796,100 Susan P. and Riley P. Bechtel CdeP 1970 Lewis W. Coleman CdeP 1960 Julie and Robert T. Dickson Sandra D. Donnell and Justin M. Faggioli CdeP 1969 Sakurako D. and William S. Fisher John S. Gates CdeP 1975 Wan Soon Park and Sang Yong Kim Lisa M. and Derek G. Kirkland Kathryn Hall and Tom Knutsen Carolyn Espley-Miller and Dennis M. Miller Gretchen H. and Marshall C. Milligan CdeP 1969 Susan C. and William E. Oberndorf Louise M. and Arthur C. Patterson Patagonia Scholarship Fund Cecilia B. and Dudley A. Rauch Cici and Norman B. Williamson CdeP 1950

SHERMAN DAY THACHER ASSOCIATES Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Year Founded: 1998 Members: 36 Contributions: $449,142 Mei and Harvey Allison Martha and H. Brewster Atwater, Jr. Melinda H. and John E. Baum CdeP 1965 Victoria M. and Parke L. Boneysteele Kelly B. and Hugh M. Boss Marilyn S. and Allen F. Camp Janet Carroll Richardson CdeP 1983 and Weston B. Richardson CdeP 1980 Susan and John P. Carver CdeP 1953 Sandra G. and John E. Cook, Jr. CdeP 1949 Wanda T. and James P. Cowles CdeP 1951 Anne and W. Stacey Cowles CdeP 1978 William Wrubel and Jennifer Crittenden CdeP 1987 Lauren B. and Alan M. Dachs Sumita and Rajiv Dutta Doris F. and Donald G.* Fisher Alexandra S. and Hanson S. Gifford III Elizabeth B. and John M. Grether

THE PEGASUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Year Founded: 1989 Members: 51 Contributions: $290,316 Nancy R. and Douglas D. Abbey Elizabeth Helms (Mrs. Robert H.) Adams Antonieta Monaldi and Javier F. Arango CdeP 1981 Erin E. Archer CdeP 1996 Mary and Timothy Barnard Brendan P. Bechtel CdeP 1999 Elizabeth H. and Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Charlotte and Stephen H. Bell CdeP 1964 Margaret H. and Frank Blair Beverly Broadbent-Beall Candida D. and Bartlett Burnap Amanda Minami and David K. Chao CdeP 1984 Jocelyn G. and Douglas K. Childs Sally G. and Percy Chubb III CdeP 1952 Henrique C. Cordeiro Guerra CdeP 1989 Lisa Betts-Cover and Wallis Cover Peggy and Reid W. Dennis CdeP 1944 Hisae and Donald R. Dickey, Jr. CdeP 1943 Deborah S. and John S. Eastburn, Jr. Joyce E. and Dakin B. Ferris Diana V. and Freeman A. Ford CdeP 1959 Helen L. and Karl R. Frykman Anne Van Gheluwe and Zafer Gedeon Achi Norman M. Goldfarb Audrey F. and James P. Gorter J. Jeffrey Green CdeP 1956

THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Year Founded: 1989 Members: 62 Contributions: $184,139 Patricia and C. Derek Anderson CdeP 1958 Karen E. and Harry C. Andrews CdeP 1960 Kevin and Elizabeth Arnold Murray CdeP 1981 Joan B. and John R. Barkan CdeP 1967 Kelly Phelan and George Bartzokis Sheran and Jeffrey R. Becker Carolyn S. and Judge Jerome H.* Berenson Wendy W. and Stephen R. Bowie Dorothea and Robert E. Brigham, Jr. CdeP 1951 Barbara and Christopher W. Brody CdeP 1962 Cabot Brown CdeP 1979 Frederick P. Burrows CdeP 1977 Gordon B. Chamberlain CdeP 1956

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GIFT CLUBS (continued) Mrs. Allison Stacey Cowles and Mr. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Katherine Munzig Dachs CdeP 1992 and Eric B. Dachs CdeP 1994 Amy W. and Jeremiah E. de Rham Roxanne R. Christ and Robert A. DeWitt, Sr. Karen M. and C. Sedgwick Dienst Marie C. and James T. Drace, M.D. CdeP 1939 Isabel and Sean A. Ehringer CdeP 1979 Howard W. Fleming, Jr. CdeP 1943 Judith E. and Oliver S. Foster Erica S. and Walter G. Fuller Julie Choi and Sangman Han Drs. Young-Mi Jeon and Je-Ho Han Staci W. Hartman Elizabeth B. and T. Newlin Hastings, Jr. CdeP 1970 Mary N. and Mark R. Hoffman Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick CdeP 1986 and Douglas A. Kirkpatrick CdeP 1986 E. Brian Krumrei IV CdeP 1995 John E. LeGros, Jr. CdeP 1967 John G. Lewis, Jr. CdeP 1959 Judith L. and James F. Lipman CdeP 1952 Marion O. and Norman B. Livermore III, M.D. CdeP 1966 Rebecca A. and Thomas P. Lowe Lee Anne and Kirkpatrick MacDonald CdeP 1958 Katherine H. and John H. McLaren CdeP 1952 Drs. Elizabeth and John B. Metcalf CdeP 1976 Elizabeth F. and Steven M. Miller Caroline A. and John E. Montague Judith G. and Thomas A. Munzig Ellen and Winston B. Newell, Jr. CdeP 1942 Paula Harbourne and Mark A. Petschek CdeP 1977 Marilyn A. (Mrs. Albert G.) Petschek Susan C. and George H. Pfau, Jr. CdeP 1942 Raynier Institute and Foundation Sonya N. and Marcos Rodriguez Thomas A. Roupe CdeP 1983 Cynthia S. Rutter Claire and Stephen M. Ryberg Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Patti H. and Brian S. Smallwood CdeP 1983 Sarah Lavender Smith CdeP 1986 and Morgan C. Smith CdeP 1985 Catharine and Arthur O. Spaulding Jr. CdeP 1966 Rebecca B. and Theodore P. Swift Linda Davis and James D. Taylor Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. CdeP 1942* Angela and Harry M. von Holt CdeP 1966 Nan S. and Richard S. Walden CdeP 1960 Alissa A. Wallace CdeP 2004 Susan and Scott Wyckoff Malea F. and Reza Zafari CdeP 1978

THE CASA DE PIEDRA SOCIETY Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Year Founded: 1973 Members: 205 Contributions: $235,598 Carolyn and Leo E. Acquistapace CdeP 1959 Diane and John C. Alford CdeP 1940 Kari Glover and Thaddas L. Alston Catherine and Matthew Atwong Molly G. and Peter H. Bachmann CdeP 1970 Dina and Evan P. Bakst CdeP 1984 Karen Y. Wang and Kevin J. Baltazar Laura and Edmund T. Banning CdeP 1974 Sheila and John P. Banning CdeP 1968 Margo B. and Jeffrey C. Barbakow Diana K. Bariteau J. Peter Baumgartner CdeP 1951 Lauren and John Bearden Darren H. Bechtel CdeP 2000 Katherine E. Bechtel CdeP 2003

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Louise and Bryan N. Beckham CdeP 1974 Lisbeth M. and Carter C. Beise CdeP 1965 Imogene and George G. Bell CdeP 1957 Teri R. and Frank C. Bennett III CdeP 1976 Amy B. and Matthew K. Berler M. Catherine and Mark J. Bissell CdeP 1975 Nathaniel B. Bisson CdeP 1980 Edward McCormick Blair Tracy and Lawrence M. Bosche CdeP 1979 Mitchell S. Boyd CdeP 1931 Cheryl and C. Jonathan Bryan CdeP 1958 G. Anthony Bryan Elizabeth Wallace CdeP 1996 and Jaime Burns-France CdeP 1997 Dianne D. and Michael S. Butler Penny J. and William N. Butler Drs. Carol and Edward L. Cahill CdeP 1970 John E. and Helen K. Cahill Fund Diana Lewis Callahan CdeP 1984 and Liam W. Callahan CdeP 1988 Joanna and David W. Callaghan CdeP 1988 Elizabeth C. and Clark N. Callander Suzanne M. and J. Russell Callander CdeP 1959 Christine L. Carter CdeP 1990 Denise J. and Benjamin F. Carter CdeP 1974 Henry W. Chaney CdeP 1972 Telly and Eugene Chow Sheri S. and George H. Clyde, Jr. CdeP 1959 Ann W. and Malcolm K. Coffey CdeP 1957 Pamela R. and Howard R. Conant, Jr. Marie M. and John L. Cooper Carol Gray Costigan Mary Lu and Donald W. Crocker Abigail E. Dachs CdeP 1996 Emily A. Dachs CdeP 2001 Michael B. Dachs CdeP 2003 Penelope W. and James W. DeYoung Betsy Dingwell Maria and Henry T. Donahoe CdeP 1949 Bruce B. Donnell CdeP 1963 Wanetta and Kent Doty William T. Duke Arthur B. Dunne, Jr. CdeP 1942 Janet and Henry V. Eggers CdeP 1960 Eric J. Eilar Nicholas M. English CdeP 1998 Linda and Caspar H. Escher, Jr. CdeP 1961 Elizabeth Y. and Mark E. Ferguson David F. Ford CdeP 1985 Patricia and Michael E. Frank CdeP 1974 Diane G. and Richard F. Froio, Sr. Margot S. and Richard A. Funke Elizabeth and James J. Funsten CdeP 1953 Christina and Conrad D. Gage CdeP 1956 Molly S. and Mark D. Gamble CdeP 1986 Wouter F. Germans, Jr. CdeP 1984 Lynn H. and Mark S. Granger CdeP 1977 Donald M. Grant Beth Burnam and Michael A. Greene CdeP 1962 Brian and Elizabeth Greenway Carney CdeP 1997 Donald M. Gregory, Jr. CdeP 1946 Sallie Griffith Kap-Soo Han Belinda Hanson CdeP 1982 Bradley N. Hanson CdeP 1978 Bettie and Hill Hastings II, M.D. CdeP 1966 Roberta and K. C. Hayes CdeP 1957 Warwick J. Hayes, Jr. CdeP 1938 Elizabeth C. and W. Alston Hayne CdeP 1943 Anne and John Heard CdeP 1959 Kirsten E. and Charles C. Henderson CdeP 1976 Elizabeth Moffitt Herr, M.D. and Andrew F. Herr CdeP 1973 Toni T. and Robert E. Hopkins CdeP 1967 Barbara C. and Hilleary C. Hoskinson Sofie Barron Howard Jane E. and Wade C. Hughan

Marie and Peter W. Hummel CdeP 1947 Peter K. Hummel CdeP 1978 Ann C. and Robert E. Hunter, Jr. CdeP 1940 Dan and Julie Huntington de Polo CdeP 1986 Don Schinske and Marian Huntington CdeP 1982 Elizabeth G. Huntington CdeP 1984 Helene and Stephen P. Huyler CdeP 1969 Jacqueline L. and Roger G. Ignon CdeP 1962 Dorothy Lee Ingebretsen Catherine Rivlin and Robert L. Jones CdeP 1971 Annamary and W. McCay Jordan CdeP 1938 Anjali J. Joseph CdeP 2007 Agnes Chan and Tsutomu Kaneko Craig J. Sakowitz and Sharon D. Karlsberg CdeP 1992 Heather Kelly CdeP 2001 and Brian Kelly CdeP 2001 Sue and Robert E. Kendig CdeP 1967 Stephen H. Kendrick CdeP 1967 Marjorie and Andrew P. Kerr CdeP 1962 Vida Bahrami and Jamshid Keyani Hyeyang Lee and John Seok Kim Julie C. and Stephen C. Kimball CdeP 1968 Heather G. and Wade H. King Eugene R. Kirkham CdeP 1963 Anastasia A. Twilley and Michael B. Kong CdeP 1983 Rebecca E. and Stephen W. Kong CdeP 1986 Mary P. and Daniel J. Krause Elizabeth Granoff and Sarosh Kumana Sheila M. and Thomas A. Larsen Ann L. and Richard M. Laurence CdeP 1954 Mejda and Paul Lawrence Susan and A. Scott LeFevre CdeP 1975 Nancy N. and H. Thompson Lehrkind Lora Jane and Lorance D. Lisle CdeP 1963 John Sealy Livermore CdeP 1935 Agnes C. Bourne and James A. Luebbers Shay J. Mamo CdeP 1999 Catherine and David Marsten CdeP 1962 Elise Mudd Marvin* Mary and Malcolm* McDuffie Cathy and John R. Milligan CdeP 1969 Claire C. Milligan CdeP 2002 Jeanne E and Michael S. Milligan CdeP 1962 Lucy E. Milligan CdeP 2000 Ok-Kyoung Kim and Kyoung-Dae Min Mary Ann and David R. Moffitt CdeP 1973 Nancy A. and George G. Montgomery, Jr. CdeP 1951 Mia K. and Robert B. Morrill Adrienne and T. Truxtun Morrison CdeP 1956 Frank Lincoln Nagle IV CdeP 1963 Lissa and Wendel K. Nicolaus CdeP 1960 Peter C. Oberndorf CdeP 2004 William Ernst Oberndorf CdeP 2008 Gail Pierce O’Brien Peter J. O’Brien CdeP 1988 Jonathan S. O’Donnell CdeP 1973 Serena and Alec H. Perkins CdeP 1991 Cory G. and William J. Piculell Joan K. and John T. Pigott CdeP 1938 Melinda C. and Bruce C. Poole CdeP 1974 Carma M. and G. Clinton Pooley CdeP 1952 Jan L. Dillow and John F. H. Purcell CdeP 1958 Gretchen Y. L. and Henry C. Reed Gail B. and William E. Reisinger, M.D. Kaitlyn and In-Yong Rhee Margaret L. Rhodes Sally and Winslow P. Robinson CdeP 1953 Cheryl C. and Eugene O. Rooke Sally and Toby Rosenblatt CdeP 1956 Barbara D. and George A. Roupe Drs. Nona and Thomas R. Russell CdeP 1958 Amory R. and David A. Salem James R. Salem CdeP 1997 Leigh T. Salem CdeP 2002 Catherine and Guido Saveri Alison C. and Robert M. Sawyer Barbara and Brooke E. Sawyer, Jr. CdeP 1942 Donna K. Jones and Peter E. Sawyer

GIFT CLUBS (continued) Baifang and Orville H. Schell Patricia and Robert B. Schmidt CdeP 1974 MaryAnn and James M. Schurz CdeP 1950 Andrew R. Shakman CdeP 1990 Eleanor B. Shannon Ann D. and George A. Smith James and Mandy Sonenshine Wynn CdeP 1996 Marianne and Norman Sprague III, M.D. Tracy I. and Charles G. Stephenson CdeP 1953 Gail and Stephen Stonehouse Helen Weld and Robert Strachan Cynthia Gulick and Benjamin R. Stutz Richard Chow and Jane J. Su CdeP 1982 Beatrice R. and James C. Taylor CdeP 1955 Aija and Philip D. Thacher CdeP 1954 Caroline H. and John H. Thacher, M.D. CdeP 1957 David J. Thacher CdeP 1974 Jane and Peter H. Thacher CdeP 1984 Gail and R. Dixon Thayer Michele B. and Roderick R. Turner, M.D. CdeP 1970 Polly H. and David W. Van Horne CdeP 1962 Therese and Michael Voevodsky CdeP 1982 Kathleen B. and William R. Volkmann CdeP 1971 Ann B. and Gregory H. VonGehr M. Kathryn and R. Eric Waldman Kay K. and John C. Walker CdeP 1949 Angela Sullivan-Wallace and Gordon A. Wallace Benjamin B. Wallace CdeP 1999 Judy G. and Michael H. Wallace CdeP 1959 Lisa S. and William H. Waste II Aimee F. Wheaton, M.D. and Calbraith R. Wheaton CdeP 1988 Thomas L. Wheeler, Jr. CdeP 1968 Margaret and Mark Whitley Henry L. and Emily Williamson Hancock CdeP 1983 Katherine B. and Douglas S. Wilkinson Janet and David L. Williams, M.D. CdeP 1960 Barbara Z. and John R. Wilson Richard A. Wilson CdeP 1951 Josefina and Nicholas A. Wollak CdeP 1979 Carla P. and Victor C. Wykoff CdeP 1988 Hee Jung and Yong Geon Yun

THE DIAMOND HITCH CLUB Gifts of $250 to $999; or $100 to $999 before the 10th Reunion Year Founded: 1974 Members: 439 Contributions: $139,798 Meredith B. and Duncan H. Abbott Jamil S. Abou-Samra CdeP 1999 Susan S. and James S. Acquistapace CdeP 1961 Denise and Arthur C. Adams CdeP 1966 Linda Ann Adams Drs. Sallie O. and Jesse W. Adams CdeP 1969 Max K. Agoston CdeP 1958 Adrian N. Allen CdeP 1999 Paula Allen Timothy Farrell and Kristina E. Alley CdeP 1991 James H. Allison CdeP 2006 David O. Amuda CdeP 1990 Marcos A. Ancinas CdeP 1980 Eddy and Osvaldo Ancinas Ann and Kendall B. Andersen Maxwell S. Anderson CdeP 2005 Sylvia L. and David Andrade Anonymous Jane B. and Jary A. Archer Ruth L. and Anthony Arnold CdeP 1946 Shoshanah V. Asnis Bewlay CdeP 1988 Nancy D. and David V. Babbott R. William Babson CdeP 1939 Clare and David Z. Bailey CdeP 1941 Quinn and Shannon Hastings Baker CdeP 1999 Debra J. and John C. Baldwin CdeP 1957

Priscilla V. and Michael C. Baldwin CdeP 1952 Julia and Hancock Banning III Allison Murray Barbey CdeP 2008 William R. Barkan CdeP 2002 Edward L. Barnes CdeP 1981 Daniel M. Bartlett CdeP 2002 Lou Aronson and Ami Becker-Aronson CdeP 1986 Suzanne and Marts E. Beekley, M.D. Charlotte and Thomas G. Bell Jr. CdeP 1959 Jill G. and Ryan A. Bell Bruce A. Belluschi CdeP 1982 Russell H. Bennett Elizabeth and Craig F. Berenson CdeP 1972 Nina O. and James J. Berman Claire and John M. Bissell CdeP 1948 Alexandra T. Lowrey Blair CdeP 1998 Joseph Rogove and Jessica E. Bliss CdeP 1992 Cara L. Bonewitz CdeP 2004 Ian J. Boneysteele CdeP 2006 Torene and Charles B. Bonner CdeP 1960 Dodie and Joseph N. Borroughs CdeP 1945 Lynne and John V. Bosche CdeP 1972 Suzanne and James W. Boswell CdeP 1970 Katherine E. Boyd Lisa A. Steele and Michael G. Branch CdeP 1980 Kevin M. and Louise Branch Charbonneau CdeP 1983 Amy and David Bransky Peter J. Bray CdeP 1990 Elizabeth M. Brewer CdeP 2003 Linda and Mark D. Brewer Matthew D. Brewer CdeP 2001 Kate H. and John H. Briggs, Jr. CdeP 1953 A. Merrill Brown III CdeP 1949 Lucinda L. Brown CdeP 2000 Theodore M. Brown CdeP 2006 Grace A. Bueti CdeP 2004 Frank T. Bumpus, M.D. CdeP 1940 Coventry A. Burke CdeP 1999 John W. Busterud CdeP 1972 Caroline R. and Robert T. Butler CdeP 1988 Karly M. and Timothy J. Butler CdeP 1993 Kevin E. Cahill Pen and John C. Callan, Jr. CdeP 1974 Mrs. John C. Callan Mark D. Cameron CdeP 1982 Erin A. Campbell CdeP 1999 Roxane B. and Mario N. Campello Edmund F. Cardin III CdeP 1966 Jeffrey W. Carr CdeP 1974 Julia and Alan B. Casamajor CdeP 1965 Patricia S. and John P. Case CdeP 1959 Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988 Lauren B. Chase CdeP 2006 Elizabeth and Howard A. Chickering CdeP 1960 Jack and Christina Chiu Alfandary CdeP 1985 Peter and Elizabeth Chiu Gould CdeP 1983 Lane E. Hammond and Myron A. Clark Priscilla and Rev. Charles H. Clark CdeP 1944 Wendy Dawson Cliff CdeP 1981 and Ivan S. Cliff III CdeP 1981 Susanna S. and Hugh P. K. Cogswell Paul J. Cohen CdeP 1971 Susan C. and S. Kittredge Collins CdeP 1966 A. Brooke and Harry D. Conkey III CdeP 1979 Tammy Valeski Connell CdeP 1987 and Christopher Connell CdeP 1987 Jock Conyngham IV Lou C. and John N. Conyngham III Victoria and Carlton G. Costigan CdeP 1977 Katelena H. and James L. Cowles CdeP 1987 Mary C. Craver CdeP 1999 Christine and J. Brooks Crawford CdeP 1951 Janet K. and Daniel L. Crotty CdeP 1954 Catherine S. and Walter F. Currie Virginia C. Dawson CdeP 2004 Adelle G. and Joseph R. DiGiorgio CdeP 1953 Nora and Michael R. Disner CdeP 2001

Eric B. Dohrmann CdeP 1949 Darian and Peter B. Dragge CdeP 1969 Monique DeVane and Brian P. Driscoll Brian P. and Shell Duncan Grimes CdeP 1989 Sanford E. Duncan CdeP 2005 Christopher H. Eaton CdeP 2004 Sarah E. Eckhardt CdeP 2005 Deborah and James H. Edwards CdeP 1973 Amy and Anthony Elmore Lisa and Lt. Brian C. Emme CdeP 1992 Katherine and Scott Espinosa-Brown James K. Everett CdeP 2002 Drs. Joan M. and Bruce A. Everett Laura M. and Richard E. Everett Marie Furnary and W. Kendrick Everett CdeP 1978 Claire C. and Sherman T. Ewing, Jr. CdeP 1944 Thyrza P. and Dean A. Eyre, Jr. CdeP 1947 Claire J. Faggioli CdeP 2002 Nathaniel D. Faggioli CdeP 2000 Elizabeth M. Falk Mary and Peter Farquhar CdeP 1956 Elizabeth G. and John M. Ferry CdeP 1937 Erik D. Fiske CdeP 2002 Drs. Karen L. and Charles E. Fiske Carolyn B. and A. Lee Follett CdeP 1953 Gwen and David Fossett Richard B. Fox Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Jennifer and Benjamin T. Freeman CdeP 1991 Marc G. Fuller CdeP 2006 Pamela and Robert R. Gallaway CdeP 1959 Launce L. Gamble CdeP 1984 David A. Garden, Jr. CdeP 1977 Nancy and David A. Garden, Sr. CdeP 1947 Barbara (Mrs. Irvin B.) Gardner Gretchen and Robert K. Gardner CdeP 1960 Mollie E. Gardner CdeP 1999 Gwen and Sanford J. Garrett Monique A. Gaskins CdeP 2002 Adam S. Geyer, M.D. CdeP 1989 Cynthia L. and John D. Gilpin CdeP 1968 Rita and Joseph M. Glasgow, Jr. CdeP 1946 Hugh H. Gordon V CdeP 2003 Alma and Paul Gray CdeP 1953 Mary L. and Daniel P. Gregory CdeP 1969 Edward B. Grether CdeP 2001 Russell B. Grether CdeP 2003 Jennifer and Anthony Griffin CdeP 1954 Sharon C. and Andrew Griffin Martha J. and Theodore A. Griffinger, Jr. CdeP 1968 Catherine Griffith Aserappa CdeP 1983 Genevieve and Jay Gudebski CdeP 1993 Jasmin and M. Jordan Gudebski CdeP 1990 Douglas W. Hager CdeP 1937 Sarah J. Beekley, M.D. and Michael Hahn Alexandra Lampros and Harold E. Hallett, Jr. CdeP 1963 Mary Ellen Hall and James M. Hallett CdeP 1965 Terry L. and Edward M. Hamilton, Jr. CdeP 1951 William F. Hamilton II CdeP 1952 Michelle C. and Frederic J. Hammond CdeP 1963 Ann and Harry A. Hanson III CdeP 1975 Katherine A. Harmon CdeP 2001 Linda A. and Grant S. Harmon CdeP 1972 Davi Weisberger Ph.D. and Michael J. Harrington Kelsey Anne Harrington CdeP 2008 Barbara H. and Roy W. Harthorn Christina Maria Hartman 2011 Adrian K. and W. Alston Hayne Julieta and David R. Heard CdeP 1979 George L. Helmholz CdeP 1960 Sonya and William L. Henricks CdeP 1994 Paula and Peter F. Henze CdeP 1957 Shana Goss and Christopher M. Henze CdeP 1959 Alexandra M. Herbert CdeP 2002 Shase L. and William W. Hockey CdeP 1976 Ronna and Eric Hoffman CdeP 1941

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GIFT CLUBS (continued) Sarah and Lincoln S. Hollister CdeP 1956 Brian and Helen Holmes Gold CdeP 1993 Mary B. and John C. Hooper Anne A. and John S. Hoover CdeP 1978 Diane B. and William N. Horton Patricia L. and Neal Howe CdeP 1969 Shirley A. and Harvey M. Huang Cathleen and George S. Hunt CdeP 1944 Ginevra M. (Mrs. Phelps CdeP 1924) Hunter Carolyn (Mrs. Carl) Huntsinger Katie R. Isaacson CdeP 1999 Hathaway F. and Joshua Jade CdeP 1991 Elizabeth M. and Christian C. Janss CdeP 1995 Callard O. Jensen CdeP 2006 Catherine G. Jessop CdeP 1999 and Nathan Good Timothy O. J. Johnson CdeP 1999 Phyllis W. and David B. Johnston Anne M. and Col. Freeman Jones Cynthia and Richard W. Jones Joyce and Michael G. Jones CdeP 1973 Diane M. and Richard E. H. Julien CdeP 1956 Evan E. Kanaly CdeP 1999 Alicia McDonough and Harvey R. Kaslow CdeP 1967 Sehen and Erango Kelbisow Robert P. Kellogg CdeP 1972 Kathleen and Nicholas Kent CdeP 1976 Trischa O’Hanlon* and Raymond R. Kepner Richard B. and Lisa Kern Griffin CdeP 1988 Pamela J. Hogan and Jeffrey L. Kimball CdeP 1974 Margaret and Andrew L. King CdeP 1971 Mrs. Suzi King Shirley D. and William G. Kirkland Steven C. Klausner, M.D. Stephany and R. Brewster Knight CdeP 1954 Jane Penny Knox CdeP 1966 Celia C. and Peter K. Kong CdeP 1985 Alexander H. Krey CdeP 2007 Alice C. and Henry N. Kuechler III CdeP 1956 Paul Kick and Mary N. Kuechler CdeP 1984 Claire S. and J. Parker Kurlinski, M.D. William G. Larsen, Jr. CdeP 1962 Jonathan R. Le Plastrier CdeP 2000 Evan Caminker and Stacey Lee CdeP 1985 Anne Hansen and Nicholas E. Lefferts John Friedrich Lehrkind CdeP 2009 Marianne Lent Armando A. León, Jr. CdeP 2005 Carol and James R. Lewis CdeP 1977 Lisa and Barrett H. Lewis CdeP 1989 Stephen E. Lewis CdeP 1985 W. David and Criss Leydecker Troast CdeP 1981 Edward T. Lincoln CdeP 2004 Cheryl S. and Robert S. Livermore CdeP 1979 Cynthia S. and Samuel M. Livermore CdeP 1969 Rebecca and David P. Livermore CdeP 1973 Richard C. Livermore CdeP 1964 Whitney M. Livermore CdeP 2004 D. Joseph Lloyd, M.D. Margaux F. Lloyd CdeP 2000 Natasha K. Long CdeP 1991 Lydia and Wade W. Loo CdeP 1950 John M. Look CdeP 1966 Sophie and Archibald M. Look CdeP 1964 Charlotte C. Lord CdeP 2002 Elizabeth and Charles E. Lord CdeP 1954 Victoria Christine Lowe CdeP 2008 Paula and Luppe R. Luppen CdeP 1960 Suzanne and Boun Ly CdeP 1973 Lindsay (Mrs. LeRoy CdeP 1932) Makepeace Susan and Lee Mallory Paul A. Manning CdeP 1979 Nancy H. and Peter C. Manson* Jeffrey A. Mason CdeP 1963 Nicholas H. Mast, M.D. CdeP 1992 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Matthew S. Mayne CdeP 2004 W. Ellery McClatchy CdeP 1942

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Marie and M. Duncan McDuffie CdeP 1973 Molly M. and Dr. Samuel McGinnis Joanne and William M. McNabb CdeP 1954 Lindsay R. Medigovich CdeP 1996 Meredythe and Vaso Medigovich Taylor J. Medina CdeP 2004 Daniel B. Meehl CdeP 1958 Ginger von Wening and Kristian E. Meisling CdeP 1971 Nancy S. and Thomas W. Merritt, Jr. Sarah and Karl A. Mertz, Jr. CdeP 1968 C. Logan Meyer CdeP 1987 Marjorie M. and Gary R. Meyer Heide and Gordon Miller James R. Moffitt CdeP 1972 Amy S. and Larkin Bertram-Cox Montgomery CdeP 1979 Rhonda and Robert B. Montgomery, Jr. CdeP 1973 Daniel B. Moore CdeP 2002 David A. Moore CdeP 2004 Dwight V. Moore CdeP 1963 Neal and Daisy Moore Lalwani CdeP 1987 Brooke MacDonald Moorhead CdeP 1999 Brad L. Morris CdeP 1979 Reeves Morrisson CdeP 1931 Therese and J. Leland Mothershead III CdeP 1956 J. Jorge Motoshige CdeP 1992 Michelle R. and Mark W. J. Mulchay Annie Sawyer Mulligan CdeP 2008 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Charles S. Munzig CdeP 2003 Margaret O. and Peter G. Munzig CdeP 1999 Nancy K. and Daniel E. Murphy III CdeP 1963 Jessica S. T. Murray CdeP 1995 Laura G. and Marc L. Murray CdeP 1981 Sheela Murthy J. Wescott Myers II CdeP 2001 Louis W. Myers III CdeP 2003 Janet and F. A. Wilhelm Myrin II CdeP 1959 Jeanne and Steven J. Neville CdeP 1974 Mary Frances and George E. Newton, Jr. CdeP 1946 Vicki and Gary Nichols Guadalupe N. Nickell CdeP 1992 Polly and William H. Nigh III CdeP 1953 Nicholas A. Noyes CdeP 1976 Shauna H. Nyborg CdeP 1999 Aaron J. Dowling and Sarah W. O’Brien CdeP 1986 Patricia K. and Lance R. Odden Lindsay D. Oliver 2008 Lucinda L. and Walter E. Owen III Carol and Bruce N. Oxley CdeP 1954 Marganne Winter Oxley CdeP 1978 and David B. Oxley CdeP 1979 Christienne A. and John W. Palmieri CdeP 1982 Margaret and Col. J. Mark Peirsol, M.D. CdeP 1962 James Schipper and Catherine A. Peirsol-Schipper CdeP 1994 Kyra M. and Steven D. Peletz CdeP 1977 Harriet I. H. and Bobby W. Perry Li Li and R. Bruce Peters CdeP 1965 Sarah W. (Mrs. Arthur K.) Peters Mary-Louise O. and Alan P. Peterson, M.D. Linda N. and Wesley R. Petit CdeP 1959 Elizabeth Pfister Linda L. and Ronald L. Phillips Lucy Kathryn Phillips CdeP 2008 Dawn Z. and John A. Pickering CdeP 1974 McKinsey Mason Pillsbury CdeP 2008 William Piper CdeP 1936 Julia H. and Jonathan P. Poll Andrew D. Poole CdeP 2002 Patricia Gray Bell and W. Deneys Purcell CdeP 1967 Julian S. Quasha CdeP 1999 Stephanie L. Rauner CdeP 2004 Marcie M. and Mark D. Reimer, M.D. Margaret B. Reniers CdeP 1992 Nancy and Robert E. Rex CdeP 1974 Joni Pascal and Edgar B. Rhodes CdeP 1965

Julien B. Rhodes CdeP 2002 Terry and Webster M. Rice CdeP 1962 Kacey and Peter D. Richards CdeP 1975 Julia C. Robinson CdeP 2004 Peter G. Robinson Karleanne Rogers and Kevin Berigan Stephen C. Rooke CdeP 2004 Patricia and Christopher W. Rose CdeP 1960 Debra and Stuart M. Rosenberg, M.D. CdeP 1970 Sherry D. and William W. Rosenfeld Stanley Rowe CdeP 1968 John E. Kemp and Catherine A. Ruhl CdeP 1989 Louise and John S. Runnells II CdeP 1942 Patsy H. and Carlton E. Russell CdeP 1945 Laura R. and John F. Saidy CdeP 1979 Stacey G. and Thomas L. Saidy CdeP 1982 Alain Mathaukot and Sarah Sawyer CdeP 1999 Martin B. Sawyer CdeP 2004 Christiane and Klaus Schubert CdeP 1956 Claudia and Peter C. Scott CdeP 1968 Charring C. and David N. Scoular Beth H. and Michael F. Sears CdeP 1981 Sarah Sakeena Shaikh CdeP 2003 Nancy Shaw Patricia and Robert S. J. Shiras CdeP 1974 Rose Risinger and Robert Shulman Leslie and Alan C.M. Silbergh CdeP 1972 Sharon L. Andrews and Hans P. Sinha CdeP 1979 Margaret and William H. Slattery CdeP 1961 Carley E. and Barry H. Smith, M.D. CdeP 1961 Grace Rogers and Lawrence H. Smith CdeP 1945 Louise and Albert W. Smith CdeP 1954 Renee D. White and Bradley L. Smith, Ph.D. CdeP 1977 Richard L. Smith CdeP 2003 Sandra and Christopher Smith Mary Ann and Ken Sokol Caroline B. and Bruce E. Somers, Jr. CdeP 1983 Kerri and Daniel A. Sonenshine CdeP 1991 Alice and Peter Soracco Lorraine L. and Brian B. Sorrick Ward C. Sorrick CdeP 2004 Madeleine Gabrielle Sowash CdeP 2008 Elena and Alexander Spear CdeP 1971 John D. Van Newkirk and Eve A. Stacey CdeP 1983 Timothy J. Stenovec CdeP 2002 Tania W. and Michael Stepanian Drs. Susan Koslow-Stephanian and Erick Stephanian Margie and John A. Stephenson CdeP 1957 Moizeé Simone Stewart CdeP 2008 Luanna V. and Mark J. Stickelmaier Ian J. Strachan CdeP 2004 Susan and Welsh Strawbridge CdeP 1990 Mary Kleihege and John Streur Betty L. and Raymond E. Swift Joan G. and Thomas B. Swift Anne and John C. Syer CdeP 1958 Devon L. Tarasevic CdeP 2000 Maur and Richard Tavernetti, M.D. Della C. Taylor CdeP 2007 Patrick and Elizabeth Taylor Schamberger CdeP 1988 Susan and Dirk A. ten Grotenhuis CdeP 1956 Alice and H. Clarke Thacher III Anne and Anson B. Thacher CdeP 1958 Rosemary and Thomas B. Thacher CdeP 1987 Marion R. and Robert W. Thomas, Jr. CdeP 1940 E. Brooke Toeller CdeP 2002 Frank H. Tooby CdeP 1967 Gaye Carlson and Dan L. Torjusen CdeP 1970 Kirk D. and Constance Trumbull Mueller CdeP 1981 Tobey and Mark Trumbull CdeP 1983 Jennie T. Tucker CdeP 2004 Evan S. and Paul H. Turpin CdeP 1971 Charles W. Tuttle, Jr. CdeP 1945 Ethel R. and David C. Twichell CdeP 1936 Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Nancy and David C. Twichell CdeP 1969

GIFT CLUBS (continued) Edward and Andrea Van Dyke McCann, M.D. CdeP 1987 Kathryn and Alan Van Vliet Sarah and Phillip J. Vedder Rita and Raul Homero Villa CdeP 1978 Reyn and Peter Voevodsky CdeP 1953 Barbara and Derrick von Schlegell CdeP 1966 Geneal K. and Stewart W. Walton CdeP 1964 Heather W. and Allan P. Wentworth Scott and Shawna Weseloh Biel CdeP 1982 Idanthea B. and William B. Weston, Jr. CdeP 1947 Brooke M. Wharton CdeP 2007 Jane R. and John R. Wheaton CdeP 1956

Brooke Boynton White CdeP 1984 Caroline F. White CdeP 1998 E. James White, Jr. CdeP 1951 Hilary F. White CdeP 2002 Noel M. Ferris and R. Parker White Catherine P. Whittinghill CdeP 2004 Ian R. Whittinghill CdeP 2003 Stephen and Joni Wiester Martino CdeP 1984 Mary M. and Hoyt F. Wilson Mona and Rick Wilson Sarah C. and Steven D. Winegar CdeP 1985 Christopher S. Winter Ellen D. and J. Todd Winter

Margery A. and John W. Winter Lee E. Wittlinger CdeP 2001 Barbara Wollak Mimi and Nicholas R. Wood CdeP 1962 Beryl R. Jones-Woodin and Peter H. Woodin CdeP 1966 Jenifer E. and A. Hart Woodson III CdeP 1976 Ronald P. Wu CdeP 2002 Karen A. and Harry B. Wyeth CdeP 1959 Jane and Don B. Yates CdeP 1952 Drs. Susan Barrows and Stephen P. Yeagle Mark M. Y. Yeh, M.D. CdeP 1986 Stephanie and Kurt Zierhut

GIFTS “IN HONOR OF” AND “IN MEMORY OF” IN HONOR OF Mr. and Mrs. Jary A. Archer Erin E. Archer CdeP 1996 John P. Carver CdeP 1953 Judith F. Wilbur Chunk, my beloved horse Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Bettie and Hill Hastings II, M.D. CdeP 1966 Los Gringos Camp Elizabeth B. and T. Newlin Hastings, Jr. CdeP 1970 Los Gringos Camp Timothy A. Holliday CdeP 1973 Nancy Adams Holliday John S. Huyler III Sophie and Archibald M. Look CdeP 1964 Alan H. Kenison CdeP 1955 Kelli Kenison Derick S. Perry CdeP 1983 Harriet I. H. and Bobby W. Perry Li Li Peters Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004 Mr. McClatchy’s class W. Ellery McClatchy CdeP 1942 Elizabeth Reynolds Mahoney CdeP 1988 Joanna R. Evans CdeP 1988 Peter G. Robinson Jenna L. Reasor CdeP 2004 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan Susan and Welsh Strawbridge CdeP 1990 Marvin H. Shagam Ellen S. Adams CdeP 2005 Charlotte and Stephen H. Bell CdeP 1964 Margaret and Willard Z. Carr, Jr. Kellie A. and Robert R. Coombs, Jr. Alexandra Lampros and Harold E. Hallett, Jr. CdeP 1963 Sophie and Archibald M. Look CdeP 1964 Jeffrey A. Mason CdeP 1963 Meredythe and Vaso Medigovich Elsbeth N. and William T. Redfield CdeP 1991 Cheryl C. and Eugene O. Rooke Stephen C. Rooke CdeP 2004 Peggy Whyte Sophie Vallie Subira CdeP 2010 Bonnie and Hasani Subira

Kurt Supplee Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004

Elizabeth K. Chase W. Cotton Damon II

Cricket and Terry Twichell Stephanie R. and John C. Orr

Newton K. Chase W. Cotton Damon II William G. Larsen, Jr. CdeP 1962

Michael J. L. Tyson CdeP 2003 Troy S. Pollet CdeP 2003 Jack V. Wales, Jr. Leland K. Franklin CdeP 2004

IN MEMORY OF Robert H. Adams Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Tamima M. Al-Awar CdeP 2002 Robert L. Bray CdeP 2002 Charlotte C. Lord CdeP 2002 Timothy J. Stenovec CdeP 2002 Richard Alston Kari Glover and Thaddas L. Alston Archibald Bard CdeP 1941 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan A. William Barkan CdeP 1935 Andrew B. Barkan CdeP 1998 Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Richard C. Beall Beverly Broadbent-Beall Molly M. and Dr. Samuel McGinnis Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Beck Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 George C. Beckwith III CdeP 1942 Helen B. Shelley Jerome H. Berenson Carolyn S. Berenson Craig R. Best CdeP 1980 Danilyn F. (Mrs. Craig Best CdeP 1980) Rutherford James G. Boswell II CdeP 1941 Leslie R. and E. Randolph Labbe CdeP 1960 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Katherine E. Boyd Barbara (Mrs. Irvin B.) Gardner Lucy M. Buell Karly M. and Timothy J. Butler CdeP 1993 Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958

Michael D. Chesley Alice M. (Mrs. Robert E. CdeP 1950) Chesley George and Janet Miller Cipriano CdeP 1978 Robert E. Chesley CdeP 1950 Alice M. (Mrs. Robert E. CdeP 1950) Chesley Denise C. and Robert C. Miller George and Janet Miller Cipriano CdeP 1978 Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Rachelle K. and Stuart R. Work CdeP 1969 William M. Crawford CdeP 1954 Kate A. (Mrs. William M. CdeP 1954) Crawford Helen H. and Louis A. Knight CdeP 1954 Louise and Albert W. Smith CdeP 1954 Tracy I. and Charles G. Stephenson CdeP 1953 James F. F. Dibblee CdeP 2004 Ali S. Arastu CdeP 2004 Cara L. Bonewitz CdeP 2004 Grace A. Bueti CdeP 2004 Virginia C. Dawson CdeP 2004 Graham D. Douds CdeP 2004 Christopher H. Eaton CdeP 2004 Elizabeth G. Jackson CdeP 2004 Bianca E. Kissel CdeP 2004 Edward T. Lincoln CdeP 2004 Matthew S. Mayne CdeP 2004 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Robert B. Neville CdeP 2004 C. Anne O’Donnell CdeP 2004 Stephanie L. Rauner CdeP 2004 Julia C. Robinson CdeP 2004 Matthew W. Stenovec CdeP 2004 Jennie T. Tucker CdeP 2004 Evan C. Werlin CdeP 2004 Lorraine M. Doty Wanetta and Kent Doty Mr. C. Michael Ehrhardt Jennifer and Anthony Griffin CdeP 1954 Li Li and R. Bruce Peters CdeP 1965 Shelley and Gregory H. Smith CdeP 1969 Jakob M. Elliott CdeP 1989 Marielle C. Warren CdeP 1989

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Edward E. Eyre Jr. CdeP 1944 Ann Witter Lawrence William Falk CdeP 1969 Elizabeth M. Falk John Malcolm Fuller Barbara (Mrs. Irvin B.) Gardner Ralph Gambogi Paula and Peter F. Henze CdeP 1957 Gordon Glover Kari Glover and Thaddas L. Alston James C. Greene CdeP 1932 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Richard M. Griffith Jr. CdeP 1944 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. CdeP 1942 Anne Halsey Alice M. (Mrs. Robert E. CdeP 1950) Chesley Pauline Chen and Woodruff W. Halsey II CdeP 1965 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Denise C. and Robert C. Miller Rev. Sarah M. and Nicholas S. Thacher CdeP 1963 M. Brooke Halsey CdeP 1962 Pauline Chen and Woodruff W. Halsey II CdeP 1965 Walter Harcourt-Palmer Jr. CdeP 1963 Frank Lincoln Nagle IV CdeP 1963 Dr. Newlin Hastings CdeP 1934 Alamo Pintado Equine Clinic, Inc. Louise and Bryan N. Beckham CdeP 1974 Sally and Robert Beckham, Jr. Susanne and Wiley Blair Sharyl J. Border Ursula and James Bradshaw William A. Buckles Nancy Caldwell Sara and Tom Caldwell D.H. Carroll Catherine S. Chandler Christiane and Niels Christiansen Mrs. Edith Murphy Colace Natalie and William Courter Elizabeth Crockett Louise (Mrs. Dodge CdeP 1956) Crockett Louise Fornaciari Camile and Michael Gillespie Bettie and Hill Hastings II, M.D. CdeP 1966 Elizabeth and Alfred Hastings Quinn and Shannon Hastings Baker CdeP 1999 Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr. Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey

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Susan M. Hardenbergh and Rod M. Jacobsen Karen and Josiah Jenkins Justin Vineyard and Winery, Inc. Charles R. King James C. King John M. Look CdeP 1966 Los Gringos Camp Susan and Lee Mallory Carolyn and John Menne Anthony R. Moiso Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Nancy K. and Daniel E. Murphy III CdeP 1963 William Howard O’Brien Anne H. and Charles Perkins William and Kathryn Perkins Tift CdeP 1995 Maritta and Horst Peters Laurie S. Poett Alexander M. Power Thomas Schriber Jeffrey S. Shannon, M.D. Mrs. William Shannon Sherry and Bill Tift Donn Tognazzini Joseph Vasek, M.D. Lessa and Jack Wolfe Mary Yorke William W. Hayward CdeP 1963 Frank Lincoln Nagle IV CdeP 1963 Mrs. Harriet Thacher Herrick Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Anne and Anson B. Thacher CdeP 1958 John A. Hooper CdeP 1934 Alexandra T. Lowrey Blair CdeP 1998 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Margaret Huyler Anne A. and John S. Hoover CdeP 1978 Mary and Alan H. Kenison CdeP 1955 George and Janet Miller Cipriano CdeP 1978 Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Jesse W. Kahle Amy and David Bransky Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Aimée Lynne Klausler Peter J. Bray CdeP 1990 Anne A. and John S. Hoover CdeP 1978 Roger D. Klausler Dr. Thomas Q. Kong M.D. Celia C. and Peter K. Kong CdeP 1985 Frederick S. Lamb II CdeP 1940 Mark E. Leydecker CdeP 1979 Shelley and Gregory H. Smith CdeP 1969 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D.

Sidney L. Lasell CdeP 1932 Elizabeth France Lewis David S. Lavender Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Quong Lee Brittany L. Sanders CdeP 1996 Norman B. Livermore Jr. CdeP 1928 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Elise Mudd Marvin Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Donald N. McDougall Jennifer and Anthony Griffin CdeP 1954 Li Li and R. Bruce Peters CdeP 1965 Shelley and Gregory H. Smith CdeP 1969 Wheeler J. North CdeP 1940 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Andrew Downey Orrick CdeP 1935 Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Samuel A. Pond CdeP 1932 Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Dorothy L. (Mrs. Samuel A. CdeP 1932) Pond Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Douglas W. Price CdeP 1964 Sophie and Archibald M. Look CdeP 1964 Kenneth O. Rhodes CdeP 1930 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Sheldon P. Riley CdeP 1933 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Dorothy (Mrs. Sheldon CdeP 1933) Riley Bonnie Moon Robinson Adriana Schwartz Gores CdeP 1979 Anne A. and John S. Hoover CdeP 1978 Mark E. Leydecker CdeP 1979 Natasha K. Long CdeP 1991 Timothy J. Stenovec CdeP 2002 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Hughes Ryan CdeP 1972 Maria N. and George F. French III CdeP 1946 Linda A. and Grant S. Harmon CdeP 1972 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Leslie and Alan C.M. Silbergh CdeP 1972 Steven H. Sorrick CdeP 1962 Beth Burnam and Michael A. Greene CdeP 1962 Lucia and Leo Huntington

Marjorie and Andrew P. Kerr CdeP 1962 Stania Marx Lake and Joseph F. Lake William G. Larsen, Jr. CdeP 1962 Cassandra and Richard E. Look CdeP 1962 Catherine and David Marsten CdeP 1962 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Margaret and Col. J. Mark Peirsol, M.D. CdeP 1962 Don C. Porter, Jr. CdeP 1962 Lorraine L. and Brian B. Sorrick Ward C. Sorrick CdeP 2004 William A. Swinerton CdeP 1935 Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Douglas K. Tauck CdeP 1977 Jennifer B. and Kevin E. Wagoner CdeP 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Anson S. Thacher Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Amy L. Vanderloop CdeP 2003 Theresa and L. A. Battle The Bush Family Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Kathleen J. Kuhl CdeP 2003 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Anne H. and Charles Perkins Lillie and Winfield Rummell Donna K. Jones and Peter E. Sawyer Patricia Sprouse Margaret and David Stoner Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Dixie and John Vanderloop Barbara S. and E. Douglas White, Jr. Willard G. Wyman, Ph.D. Daniel G. Volkmann Jr. CdeP 1942 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Thomas E. Walden CdeP 1961 Barbara C. Burkholder Robert E. White Jr. CdeP 1938 Joy Sawyer-Mulligan and Michael K. Mulligan Brayton Wilbur Jr. CdeP 1952 Judith F. Wilbur Elizabeth A. Williams CdeP 1994 S. Skye Rohde CdeP 1994 Richard A. Wilson Jr. CdeP 1979 Mark E. Leydecker CdeP 1979

BOOT HILL ASSOCIATES The members of the Thacher Boot Hill Association share a desire to leave a lasting legacy to Thacher by including the School in their wills, living trusts, or by making a planned gift. Typical planned gifts include Charitable Remainder Trusts, Pooled Income Funds, or naming Thacher as a beneficiary of a retirement plan or life insurance policy. As the list below shows, the Boot Hill Association includes many of Thacher’s closest and most generous friends.

Thacher welcomes the newest members and thanks all who have remembered Thacher in their estate plans.

If you have included Thacher in your plans in one of these ways, please let the School know so you can be properly thanked and welcomed into the Boot Hill Association.

New members appear in bold type. *deceased Wanda and Robert E. Acquistapace CdeP 1968 Alexia Allen Stevens CdeP 1996 Paula Allen W. Herbert Allen CdeP 1914* C. Derek Anderson CdeP 1958 Fran K. and Bill Anderson Ross S. Anderson CdeP 1969 William S. Anderson CdeP 1976 Richard O. Andrews CdeP 1967 Anonymous Erin E. Archer CdeP 1996 Anthony Arnold CdeP 1946 Peter H. Bachmann CdeP 1970 Edmund T. Banning CdeP 1974 Diana K. Bariteau Joan R. and A. William* Barkan CdeP 1935 John R. Barkan CdeP 1967 John F. Barnard CdeP 1936 Melinda H. and John E. Baum CdeP 1965 Helen Reed Baumeister* J. Peter Baumgartner CdeP 1951 Bryan N. Beckham CdeP 1974 Bruce A. Belluschi CdeP 1982 Terri and Donald A. Bennett Barbara L. Berglund* Jeffrey C. Bermant CdeP 1971 Jerome H. Bishop III CdeP 1956 John M. Bissell CdeP 1948 Nathaniel B. Bisson CdeP 1980 Michael S. Bolduan CdeP 1957 John W. Bowman CdeP 1922* William L. Brewster CdeP 1922* Christopher W. Brody CdeP 1962 Sheldon Von Hagen Brooks CdeP 1939* Chad E. Brown CdeP 1967 Kenneth Brown Lucy M. Buell* Frank T. Bumpus, M.D. CdeP 1940 John E. Burns III CdeP 1972 Anne and John A. Busterud John W. Busterud CdeP 1972 Daniel H. Callaghan CdeP 1991 David W. Callaghan CdeP 1988 Joan D. Carley Clayton P. Carr, M. D. CdeP 1972* Jeffrey W. Carr CdeP 1974 Janet Carroll Richardson CdeP 1983 and Weston B. Richardson CdeP 1980 William S. Carroll CdeP 1925* John P. Carver CdeP 1953 Jane G. Casamajor CdeP 1994 Julia and Alan B. Casamajor CdeP 1965 Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988 Gordon B. Chamberlain CdeP 1956 Nelson K. Chase CdeP 1966 Newton K. Chase CdeP 1942* Alice M. and Robert E.* Chesley CdeP 1950 Allen L. Chickering CdeP 1925* Nicholas R. Chickering CdeP 1960 Serena Mondavi Ventura and A. Lawrence Chickering CdeP 1958 Sally and Norman Christensen, M.D. John M. Clise CdeP 1950 Roger D. Coates CdeP 1957 Kelley L. Collier CdeP 1998 Edwin T. Coman, Jr. CdeP 1922* Frederick B. Coulter CdeP 1954 Carl A. Cover CdeP 1973 William F. Crawford CdeP 1953 Jennifer P. Crittenden CdeP 1987 Daniel L. Crotty CdeP 1954 James B. Cunningham CdeP 1983

Caleb C. Curtis CdeP 1920* Beverly W. Cutler Michael B. Dachs CdeP 2003 William H. Dampier CdeP 1973 W. James Dawson, Jr. CdeP 1947* Mark L. Dees CdeP 1951* Reid W. Dennis CdeP 1944 Roxanne R. Christ and Robert A. DeWitt, Sr. Hisae and Donald R. Dickey, Jr. CdeP 1943 Joseph R. DiGiorgio CdeP 1953 Charles H. Dodge CdeP 1930* Bruce B. Donnell CdeP 1963 John K. Dougherty CdeP 1922* Lloyd R. DuBois CdeP 1960 B. J. and Hugh Duncan Merilee and Samuel K. Eaton, Jr. CdeP 1965 Laurence P. Eggers CdeP 1964 Hayward Elliott* Heather and Frank* Heffelfinger Ewing CdeP 1951 Sandra D. Donnell and Justin M. Faggioli CdeP 1969 Lawrence W. Falk CdeP 1969* Peter Farquhar CdeP 1956 Stephen M. Farrand CdeP 1927* Howard W. Fleming, Jr. CdeP 1943 Edward R. Foote CdeP 1941* Walter L. Foster, Jr. CdeP 1973 Barbara (Mrs. Irvin B.) Gardner Robert K. Gardner CdeP 1960 Dalton V. Garstin CdeP 1912* F. Perry Gates CdeP 1959 Freeman Gates CdeP 1928* John S. Gates CdeP 1975 Joseph M. Glasgow, Jr. CdeP 1946 Chauncey S. Goodrich CdeP 1936 Mary D. Goodwin Lorraine Gordon, M.D. and Hugh H. Gordon IV CdeP 1960 J. Jeffrey Green CdeP 1956 Leslie Green James C. Greene CdeP 1932* Robert B. Grether CdeP 1999 Loma K. and James S. Griffith CdeP 1953 Jay A. Gudebski CdeP 1993 Mary Ellen Hall and James M. Hallett CdeP 1965 Donna D. Hamer Belinda Hanson CdeP 1982 Bradley N. Hanson CdeP 1978 Drs. Elizabeth and Newlin Hastings* CdeP 1934 Robert P. Hastings CdeP 1929* John G. Haverly, M.D. CdeP 1956 W. Alston Hayne CdeP 1943 Otto Heino* Wellington S. Henderson, Jr. CdeP 1949 Dr. Elizabeth Moffitt Herr Sarah and Lincoln S. Hollister CdeP 1956 Andrew J. Holman, M.D. CdeP 1977 Molly and John C. Hooper Trish and John A.* Hooper CdeP 1934 Ginevra M. (Mrs. Phelps CdeP 1924) Hunter Robert E. Hunter, Jr. CdeP 1940 Margaret A.* and John S. Huyler III Dorothy Lee Ingebretsen Jessica Harte Israel CdeP 1994 Sherwood A. Jackman* Owen Jameson CdeP 1930* Cynthia and Richard W. Jones Bruce Kendrick CdeP 1945 F. Corning Kenly, Jr. CdeP 1933* Clarence C. Kent CdeP 1952 Eileen G. and Alexander V. L. Kenyon CdeP 1974 Thomas Kerr CdeP 1928* Peter B. Kibbee CdeP 1961

R. Brewster Knight CdeP 1954 Jane Penny Knox CdeP 1966 Jill Komura CdeP 1980 Mary Kristofferson* Mary N. Kuechler CdeP 1984 Christopher W. Labbe CdeP 1997 E. Randolph Labbe CdeP 1960 Frederick S. Lamb II CdeP 1940* Sharman R. and Neil S. Lancefield David G. Lavender CdeP 1951 Sarah Lavender Smith CdeP 1986 and Morgan C. Smith CdeP 1985 Eileen (Mrs. Horace B. CdeP 1923) Learned* A. Scott LeFevre CdeP 1975 Betty Lou and Dennis R. Lewis Harrie F. Lewis CdeP 1969 John G. Lewis, Jr. CdeP 1959 Wilmarth S. Lewis CdeP 1914* Linda and Sidney Liebes, Jr. CdeP 1948 L. William Lisle CdeP 1931* David P. Livermore CdeP 1973 Dina and Norman B.* Livermore, Jr. CdeP 1928 Richard C. Livermore CdeP 1964 James D. Loebl* Archibald M. Look CdeP 1964 Kirkpatrick MacDonald CdeP 1958 Robert R. Marble CdeP 1966 Elise Mudd Marvin* Andrea Massey Shaw CdeP 1983 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Helena S. and Leslie S. Mayne* Stephen S. Mayne CdeP 1959 Ernest McAneny CdeP 1926* Craig M. McAtee* Carol J. McConnell CdeP 1981 Mary (Mrs. Alfred CdeP 1949) McCormack Mary and Malcolm McDuffie Alexander McNab CdeP 1970 James O. McReynolds CdeP 1934* Charles D. McWilliams CdeP 1925* Meredythe and Vaso Medigovich Karl A. Mertz, Jr. CdeP 1968 Karl A. Mertz, Sr. Joseph D. Messler, Jr. CdeP 1968 John Brockway Metcalf CdeP 1976 John R. Metcalf CdeP 1933* Cheryl and Richard Miller, M.D. Arthur A. Milligan Marshall C. Milligan CdeP 1969 Rosalie B. Minier CdeP 1998 Herbert C. Moffitt CdeP 1933* Barbara and Frederick Moller, Jr.* George G. Montgomery, Jr. CdeP 1951 Peter Morrison CdeP 1944* Mary Peavey Heffelfinger Morrison* Catherine (Mrs. Jeffory) Morshead Henry T. Mudd CdeP 1931* Frank Lincoln Nagle IV CdeP 1963 James F. Nealon CdeP 1973 Wendel K. Nicolaus CdeP 1960 Charles A. Noble, Jr., M.D. CdeP 1919* Charles E. Noble CdeP 1948* W. Morris H. Noble CdeP 1950* Stephanie R. and John C. Orr A. Downey Orrick CdeP 1935* Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. CdeP 1932* Donald E. Osborne CdeP 1976 Margaret and Alex Oser Bruce N. Oxley CdeP 1954 James R. Palmer CdeP 1995 Joan Ramsay Palmer Standish K. Penton, Jr. CdeP 1976 JaMel S. and Thomas M. Perkins R. Bruce Peters CdeP 1965 George H. Pfau, Jr. CdeP 1942 Linda L. and Ronald L. Phillips

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BOOT HILL ASSOCIATES (continued) Mark L. Pick CdeP 1971 Austen Pierpont CdeP 1909* Malcolm D. Plant CdeP 1971 Elizabeth B. Pond Samuel A. Pond CdeP 1932* Leslie S. Pratch CdeP 1980 James B. Preston CdeP 1964* Jeffrey Reichel Kenneth O. Rhodes CdeP 1930* Edwin R. Ridgway CdeP 1933* Louise N. Robbins* Adele H. Roller* Joseph H. Rose CdeP 1919* Louise Rose Curcio CdeP 1982 Patricia and Christopher W. Rose CdeP 1960 Toby Rosenblatt CdeP 1956 Sheridan B. Rowe* Thomas R. Russell CdeP 1958 Elizabeth and Richard M. Salem Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Barbara and Brooke E. Sawyer, Jr. CdeP 1942

Roger Scattergood CdeP 1930* Stephen W. Scott Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. CdeP 1927* Marvin H. Shagam Andrew R. Shakman CdeP 1990 Helen B. Shelley* Alan C. M. Silbergh CdeP 1972 Patricia Kong Slater William H. Slattery CdeP 1961 Ann D. and George A. Smith Barry H. Smith CdeP 1961 Elizabeth and H. Scott Smith James A. Smith CdeP 1987 Lloyd B. Smith* Arthur O. Spaulding, Jr. CdeP 1966 Monica Morse and John R. Stacey CdeP 1985 James M. Stratton, Jr. William A. Swinerton CdeP 1935* Helen E. H. Taylor* James C. Taylor CdeP 1955 Jane W. Taylor Aija and Philip D. Thacher CdeP 1954

Anson B. Thacher CdeP 1958 Anson S. Thacher CdeP 1923* Rev. Sarah M. and Nicholas S. Thacher CdeP 1963 Thomas Todd CdeP 1926* Frank H. Tooby CdeP 1967 Norton Tooby CdeP 1963 Jane C. and John Trumbull* Maggie Moss-Tucker and Paul H. Tucker Ethel R. and David C. Twichell CdeP 1936 Katharine Pratt Twichell* Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Phoebe Twichell Peterson CdeP 1982 Amy L. Vanderloop CdeP 2003* Kristin Vanderloop Robert D. Voit CdeP 1957 Harry M. von Holt CdeP 1966 Herman V. von Holt CdeP 1912* Anne M. Wallace Maulding CdeP 1985 Marilyn Wallace and Maurice Chasse, honoring Bruce E. Wallace Kirk W. Watson

Joan Watts-Widmer Frederick B. Wells CdeP 1946* Karen A. Weseloh Shawna Weseloh Biel CdeP 1982 Aimee F. Wheaton, M.D. and Calbraith R. Wheaton CdeP 1988 John R. Wheaton CdeP 1956 Palmer Wheaton CdeP 1926* Virginia and George S. Wheaton, Jr. CdeP 1923* Pendleton P. White CdeP 1949 Otis Wickenhaeuser CdeP 1949 Jonathan Willis Mona and Rick Wilson Alicia Winfield Sydney William H. Woodin III CdeP 1943 Amy (Mrs. William T.) Wright James O. Wright, Jr. CdeP 1964 Willard G. Wyman III CdeP 1978 Paul L. Yelder CdeP 1977 Edward Yeomans CdeP 1929* Reza Zafari CdeP 1978 Eleanor Dubois Zimmerly

ENDOWED FUNDS Gifts to the Thacher Endowment provide for the long-term health and stability of the School. The school takes, on average, a 5 percent draw from the endowment annually.

This, combined with tuition income and Annual Fund gifts, helps the School meet its annual budgeted expenses. Those who support the endowment do so over and above their Annual Fund contributions.

If you are interested in creating an endowment or have questions, please contact the Development Office.

Or, you may choose to add to any of the funds listed below. The School thanks all donors who, by contributing to our endowment, strengthen Casa de Piedra.

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New funds appear in bold type.

Endowed Funds Supporting Financial Aid Elizabeth Helms Adams Scholarship The Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship Tamima Michelle Al-Awar Memorial Scholarship H. Clifford Allen Scholarship Fund Trust Andrews Family Foundation Scholarship Barbakow Family Fund Melinda and John Baum CdeP 1965 Endowed Scholarship Fund Craig R. Best CdeP 1980 Endowment for Financial Aid Bowie Endowed Scholarship Fund Callaghan Family Fund Tim and Sylvia Carter and Family Fund Elizabeth K. Chase Scholarship Michael D. Chesley Scholarship Robert E. Chesley CdeP 1950 Endowed Scholarship Class of 1953 Memorial Scholarship Wetherill Collins CdeP 1930 Scholarship Michael J. Connell Foundation Scholarship Mark L. Dees CdeP 1951 Scholarship Farese Family Endowed Scholarship Fund Peter Colt Goodwin CdeP 1962 Memorial Scholarship Corinne Bissette Grace Scholarship James C. Greene CdeP 1932 Scholarship Elizabeth Hixon Hunter Scholarship John Brockway Huntington Scholarship Margaret and Jack Huyler Scholarship The Owen Jameson CdeP 1930 Scholarship Endowment T. Carrick Jordan CdeP 1958 Scholarship Roger Kent CdeP 1924 Scholarship David S. Lavender Scholarship Martha Lavender Scholarship McDuffie Family Scholarship Ethel Meier Scholarship Joseph D. and Elizabeth Gamble Messler Scholarship John R. Metcalf CdeP 1933 Memorial Scholarship Stanley Morrison CdeP 1909 Memorial Scholarship Henry T. Mudd CdeP 1931 Scholarship Robert S. and Helen P. O’Dell Scholarship Alex and Margaret Oser Foundation Scholarship Eugene V. & Mary W. Parker Fund Samuel A. Pond CdeP 1932 Scholarship Rauner Endowed Scholarship

John J. Redfern III Scholarship Marvin H. Shagam Scholarship A. O. Smith CdeP 1949 Scholarship Patricia Frobes & Richard Smith Art Scholarship Anson S. Thacher CdeP 1923 Scholarship Times-Mirror Foundation Scholarship Norman Mackintosh Todd CdeP 1940 Scholarship Charles L. Tutt CdeP 1907 Scholarship Terry and Cricket Twichell Scholarship Thomas E. Walden CdeP 1961 Scholarship Walsh Family Scholarship Wells Family Minority Scholarship Tim Whelan CdeP 1950 Scholarship Willard G. Wyman Scholarship Sybill and Perry Yates Scholarship

Endowed Funds Supporting Thacher’s Faculty Faculty Chairs Philip Bard CdeP 1917 Teaching Chair in Science Morgan Barnes Chair in Literature & Language Jerome H. Berenson Faculty Incentive Chair Forest H. Cooke Great Teaching Chair J. Franklin Eddy CdeP 1927 Chair for Literature and Drama Kendrick Family Chair in Mathematics and Logic William S. McCaskey CdeP 1927 Great Teaching Chair Bonnie Moon Robinson Faculty Chair Marvin H. Shagam Faculty Chair Sidney W. Treat Great Teaching Chair Willard G. Wyman Horse and Camping Chair Other Endowed Funds for Faculty Morgan Adams CdeP 1933 Faculty Travel Fund Anonymous Fund Javier F. Arango CdeP 1981 Faculty Endowment Fund Charles B. Beck Mathematics Fund Bell-Carter Foods Fund Sidney and Francis Brody Art Fund Brown Family Endowed Fund Bennett Family Endowed Faculty Fund E.A. Campbell Faculty Salaries Fund David Chao CdeP 1984 Fund M. Cravens Faculty Sabbatical Fund W. James Dawson CdeP 1947 Endowment for Faculty and Staff The Edward E. Ford Professional Development Fund

ENDOWED FUNDS (continued) W.R. Hearst III Fund Patricia and John A. Hooper CdeP 1934 Faculty Endowment Fund Peter C. Janss CdeP 1964 Fund for Professional Development Kong Family Endowment for Faculty Support Frederick S. Lamb CdeP 1940 Endowed Coaching Development Fund David S. Lavender Fellowship for Faculty Development Daniel Day Lawler CdeP 1958 Memorial Athletic Fund Library Staff Endowment Fund Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Fund Alice and Kurt Meyer Fund for Professional Development Robert C. Miller Endowment Fund Ramsey Family Foundation Fund for Faculty Enrichment Ouyang Family Faculty Endowment E.V. and M. W. Parker Fund for Faculty Support Katharine Pratt Twichell Memorial Fund Richard and Dorothy Sheahan Sabbatical Fund Sherman Day Thacher Memorial Fund Williams Family Endowed Faculty Fund

Named General Endowment Funds

Endowed Funds for the Library

John CdeP 1972 and Gretchen Busterud General Endowment Fund Carl and Roberta Hartnack Endowment Fund The Hunt Family Endowment Fund Kim Family Endowment Steve Klausner Fund Robert C. Miller Endowed Fund Pillsbury Family Endowment Fund

75th Anniversary Development Program Malcolm K. Coffey CdeP 1957 Book Fund J. P. Cotton CdeP 1916 Bequest Library Fund William H. Cowles CdeP 1920 Library Book and Periodical Fund George E. Farrand Memorial Book Fund M. Brooke Halsey CdeP 1962 Memorial Library Book Fund Rosa W. Kahn Art Books Fund Martha Lavender Book Fund Library Staff Endowment Fund Wilmarth S. Lewis CdeP 1914 Library Book Fund Alfred McCormack, Jr. CdeP 1949 Memorial Library Fund Louise Nash Robbins Fund Annis Van Nuys Schweppe CdeP 1923 Memorial Fund

Named Funds for the Horse Program Robert E. Acquistapace CdeP 1968 Fund Andrews Family Fund Bissell Family Fund Allen Chickering CdeP 1925 Fund W. James Dawson CdeP 1947 Fund George S. Donnelly CdeP 1939 Fund James R. Harvey CdeP 1952 Fund Mr. and Mrs. James Herbert Fund Judith Hawes Holmes Fund Philip G. Johnston, Jr. CdeP 1948 Fund Gordon Johnston Horse Program Fund Jesse Kahle Horse Program Fund Mabel Macleay Kerr Memorial Horse Program Endowment Livermore Family Fund Gerena E. MacGowan Estate Fund Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Fund John R. Metcalf CdeP 1933 Fund Ellery Sedgwick CdeP 1927 Fund George S. Wheaton CdeP 1923 Trail Maintenance Fund Revett B. Wallace CdeP 1942 Fund Thomas H. Wheeler, Jr. CdeP 1968 Fund

Endowed Funds for Student Activities The Stephen M. Farrand CdeP 1927 Endowment for the Music Department James Newton Howard CdeP 1969 Music Fund Wendy Jordan Lectures and Concerts Fund Livermore Family Camping Fund The William H. Orrick, Jr. CdeP 1932 Lecture Series Nash Robbins Short Story Award Fund Alan C. Su CdeP 1978 Lectures and Concerts Fund

ENDOWMENT AND CAPITAL GIFTS *deceased Nancy R. and Douglas D. Abbey Karen E. and Harry C. Andrews CdeP 1960 Anonymous Erin E. Archer CdeP 1996 Judy R. and Christopher P. Austin, M.D. CdeP 1978 Molly G. and Peter H. Bachmann CdeP 1970 Dina and Evan P. Bakst CdeP 1984 Anita M. Barbey and Todd S. Liebow Theresa and L. A. Battle Melinda H. and John E. Baum CdeP 1965 Bruce A. Belluschi CdeP 1982 Terri and Donald A. Bennett Jeffrey C. Bermant CdeP 1971 Kathleen Byrne and Randal S. Bessolo CdeP 1983 M. Catherine and Mark J. Bissell CdeP 1975 Robert L. Bray CdeP 2002 Ayse Kudat and Jonathan C. Brown Ellen Patterson Brown Barbara C. Burkholder The Bush Family Peggy (Mrs. John E.) Cahill Margaret and Willard Z. Carr, Jr. Denise J. and Benjamin F. Carter CdeP 1974 Susan and John P. Carver CdeP 1953 Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988

Sibyll Carnochan Catalan CdeP 1983 and Rodrigo E. Catalan CdeP 1983 Amanda Minami and David K. Chao CdeP 1984 Alice M. (Mrs. Robert E. CdeP 1950) Chesley Kate Harbin and Adam H. Clammer CdeP 1988 Diane K. and Stephen R. Clausen CdeP 1968 Clinton Walker Family Foundation Jarka and Peter B. Cole CdeP 1983 Lewis W. Coleman CdeP 1960 Susan C. and S. Kittredge Collins CdeP 1966 Pamela R. and Howard R. Conant, Jr. Tammy Valeski Connell CdeP 1987 and Christopher Connell CdeP 1987 Sandra G. and John E. Cook, Jr. CdeP 1949 Christine H. and James B. Cunningham CdeP 1983 Lauren B. and Alan M. Dachs W. Cotton Damon II The Danielson Foundation Amy W. and Jeremiah E. de Rham Roxanne R. Christ and Robert A. DeWitt, Sr. Karen M. and C. Sedgwick Dienst Bruce B. Donnell CdeP 1963 Anna Dove Nancy and Robert V. Farese, M.D. Teresinha and Peter M. Farrand CdeP 1953

Elizabeth Y. and Mark E. Ferguson Doris F. and Donald G.* Fisher Sakurako D. and William S. Fisher Jacqueline M. Fiske CdeP 2003 Carolyn B. and A. Lee Follett CdeP 1953 Adam S. Geyer, M.D. CdeP 1989 Craig P. Golding CdeP 1983 Carmieshra Y. Gorman CdeP 1991 Christopher D. Grant CdeP 2002 Maria O. and Richard A. Grant, Jr. CdeP 1957 Beth Burnam and Michael A. Greene CdeP 1962 Brian and Elizabeth Greenway Carney CdeP 1997 Elizabeth B. and John M. Grether Martha J. and Theodore A. Griffinger, Jr. CdeP 1968 Jasmin and M. Jordan Gudebski CdeP 1990 Pauline Chen and Woodruff W. Halsey II CdeP 1965 Ruth F. and Benjamin C. Hammett CdeP 1950 Elizabeth A. and Jule M. Hannaford IV Barbara H. and Roy W. Harthorn Roberta D. Hartnack Kirsten E. and Charles C. Henderson CdeP 1976 Camilla Evans-Hensey and Kevin Hensey Cecilia H. and James H. Herbert

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ENDOWMENT AND CAPITAL GIFTS (continued) William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Mary N. and Mark R. Hoffman Judith Hawes Holmes Michael G. Holmes James Newton Howard CdeP 1969 Geoff and Stephanie Hubbard McGirt CdeP 2002 John Brockway Huntington Foundation J. Stanley and Mary W. Johnson Family Foundation Kathryn Halbower and David H. Johnson Robert W. Johnson CdeP 1967 Mimi and Robert W. Kahn CdeP 1983 Marjorie and Andrew P. Kerr CdeP 1962 Peter B. Kibbee CdeP 1961 Kathryn Hall and Tom Knutsen Ellen Kohler Anastasia A. Twilley and Michael B. Kong CdeP 1983 Celia C. and Peter K. Kong CdeP 1985 Drs. Lynn R. and Thomas Q. Kong, Jr. CdeP 1981 Rebecca E. and Stephen W. Kong CdeP 1986 Kathleen J. Kuhl CdeP 2003 Ann and C. Rodney Kuhns CdeP 1974 Seth P. Kurlinski CdeP 2000 Leslie R. and E. Randolph Labbe CdeP 1960 Sheila M. and Thomas A. Larsen

Evan Caminker and Stacey Lee CdeP 1985 Armando A. León, Jr. CdeP 2005 John G. Lewis, Jr. CdeP 1959 Mark E. Leydecker CdeP 1979 Caroline Fromm Lurie and Rabbi Brian L. Lurie Lucia Tong and Eric G. Lynge CdeP 1979 Victoria O. and James P. Macmillan Catherine and David Marsten CdeP 1962 Thomas H. May CdeP 1952 Kimberly M. and John P. McMorrow Merrill Lynch and Co. Foundation Joseph D. Messler, Jr. CdeP 1968 Denise C. and Robert C. Miller Elizabeth F. and Steven M. Miller Ok-Kyoung Kim and Kyoung-Dae Min Philip I. Moncharsh J. Jorge Motoshige CdeP 1992 Ellen and Winston B. Newell, Jr. CdeP 1942 Susan C. and William E. Oberndorf Stephanie R. and John C. Orr Susan and Davidian Ouyang Louise M. and Arthur C. Patterson Anne H. and Charles Perkins Mary-Louise O. and Alan P. Peterson, M.D. Linda N. and Wesley R. Petit CdeP 1959 Heather T. and R. Bruce Phillips CdeP 1983 Bettina U. and Tyrone F. Pike CdeP 1973

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Report on Giving July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 Editor Amy Elmore Fund Report Compiled by Jamie Neary and Eileen McGuire The Thacher School Report on Giving is published by The Thacher School. In preparing this report, every effort was made to ensure that it is accurate and complete. If there is an omission or an error in spelling, please accept our apologies and notify the Development Office at The Thacher School, 5025 Thacher Road, Ojai, California 93023, or call 805-640-3201 x 223.

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Sharon Z. and Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. CdeP 1967 Dorothy L. (Mrs. Samuel A. CdeP 1932) Pond Jonathan Fahey and Jennifer Pringle CdeP 1990 Kaitlyn and In-Yong Rhee Danea T. and James S. Riley II CdeP 1968 Dorothy (Mrs. Sheldon CdeP 1933) Riley Louise Nash Robbins* The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund Lillie and Winfield Rummell Danilyn F. (Mrs. Craig Best CdeP 1980) Rutherford Cynthia and John H. Sanger CdeP 1958 Martyn W. and Kendra Schmidt Crisp CdeP 1992 Andrew R. Shakman CdeP 1990 Robert A. Shakman, M.D. Margaret and William H. Slattery CdeP 1961 Lucy W. and Lloyd B. Smith CdeP 1938 Renee D. White and Bradley L. Smith, Ph.D. CdeP 1977 Shelley and Gregory H. Smith CdeP 1969 Patricia Sprouse Sara C. and James A. Star Margaret and David Stoner Cynthia Gulick and Benjamin R. Stutz Mary J. Wang and Michael S. Sun

Chris and John Telischak Rev. Sarah M. and Nicholas S. Thacher CdeP 1963 Edith A. and Joseph O. Tobin II Charles W. Tuttle, Jr. CdeP 1945 Marion C. and Frederick C. Twichell Dixie and John Vanderloop Ann G. and John B. Wagner CdeP 1976 Cheryl K. and E. Jeffrey Walsh Molly E. and Joseph C. Walton Sally R. and Lawrence B. Werlin, M.D. Aimee F. Wheaton, M.D. and Calbraith R. Wheaton CdeP 1988 Mele E. M. Wheaton CdeP 1991 Brian S. and Eleanor Whelan O’Neill CdeP 1987 Barbara S. and E. Douglas White, Jr. Peggy Whyte Judith F. (Mrs. Brayton CdeP 1952) Wilbur Katherine B. and Douglas S. Wilkinson Henry L. and Emily Williamson Hancock CdeP 1983 Rosemary A. and Peter S. Wittlinger, M.D. Rachelle K. and Stuart R. Work CdeP 1969 Christy B. and T. Bradshaw Yates CdeP 1982 Nancy and Daniel Yih Malea F. and Reza Zafari CdeP 1978

the best we can do…

Cultivating communities is how Cindy Castañeda spends her days. Her communities are diverse­­—the Texas college where she is a dean; the school district where she is a trustee; Thacher, where she serves as a board member; her local community; and her fellow Latinos. She has taken to heart Sherman Day Thacher’s call to “do the best work in the world that we can until the best we can do is all done.”

Cindy Castañeda CdeP 1988

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sustainability of the social, political, emotional, and cultural environment. This involves constant civil debate, discussion, reexamination, and reinvention from all stakeholders.

Work in the world As Executive Dean of the School of Ethnic Studies, Social Science & Physical Education, my job is to help Richland College become a better place, whether it’s helping a student find the way across campus on the first day, translating financial aid information for a parent, or advocating for instructional resources for faculty.

Years at Thacher 1984–1988 Hometown I grew up in El Centro, California, a small city in the Imperial Valley near the border with Mexico.

My community at Thacher Thacher’s community was a place where I first developed and tested my leadership skills, gained confidence in my ability to improve myself and the world around me, even if on the first or second try I was not successful. It was a place where I first felt a sense of responsibility and pride in representing my Latino culture. There were not many Latino students at the time and the Latino staff took a special interest in our well-being.

As a publicly elected Trustee of the Garland Independent School District (GISD), I work with the superintendant, administrators, and community to ensure that funds are well spent and result in the greatest possible gains in student achievement. GISD has over 58,000 students, nearly 70 percent of whom are people of color, and more than 7,000 employees. While it is a very different educational environment than Thacher, our GISD parents want the same things as Thacher parents: a caring, safe place for their children to learn, be nurtured, and grow into responsible, ethical, productive, and active citizens.

Lessons from Thacher My social, intellectual, and emotional growth was facilitated by a caring, dedicated faculty and administration, and the amazing student body. I learned important lessons about setting priorities, caring for others, and using my talents (such as they are) to help others. Thacher also helped me develop a respect and love for nature.

Connection to Thacher I remain involved at Thacher by serving as a class rep, attending Thacher gatherings, visiting campus, attending reunions when possible, speaking to faculty about my experience as a student of color in the ’80s, serving on the Alumni Council, and this year, I have accepted a position on the Board of Trustees.

I also give to Thacher’s Annual Fund, and gave to the recent Campaign for Thacher.

How I define healthy community I believe a healthy community is one in which each member is responsible for making contributions to ensuring the vitality, enrichment, and

Why I still make Thacher a priority.

I stay involved in Thacher because, next to the foundation set by my family, I credit the School with being the most formative experience in

shaping me into the adult I have become. I choose to invest my time and resources in organizations that I believe in and that I hope will endure.

Important Thacher community members Thacher has so many outstanding faculty members. Some of my favorites were: Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wales, Mr. Warren, Mr. Oxley, and Mr. Thomas. If I have to pick just one then I choose Mrs. Marcia Edwards. I had freshman biology with her as well as AP Bio my senior year. Mrs. Edwards embodied a love of learning, unbounded intellectual curiosity, and love of life.

Favorite dorm experience Munch-outs in the Middle School Annex with my freshman charges.

Favorite book from Thacher Impossible to pick just one. I enjoyed all of the books in Phyllis Johnston’s “Moveable Feast” class.

Top of the pile now Best nonfiction I’m reading is What School Boards Can Do, by Donald R. McAdams. An excellent fiction read is The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards.

Photos: Left; Cindy & husband, Ray, at Jewel Lake within Rocky Mountain National Park in Fall of 2008.

Center; Cindy just after her swearing in as a Trustee for the Garland Independent School District, June 2008. Above; Cindy with sons Tomas and Daniel at Thacher’s Alumni Day, January 2009.

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