With the mandatory “sheltering in” I have been inspired to go through old files, boxes and albums, something like an archeological dig in that one finds layers of one’s past in receding order. Much of Thacher, with pictures of the soccer team, the upper school, glee club Los Trobadores with Van and Barbara Griggs, etc., […]
Archives: 1948
Sandy Walker ’48
The fires are awful and continue. I am looking out the window and can’t see the Bay for the smoke. One daughter lost her cabin in Big Sur and her daughter escaped in the middle of the night and is now quarantined at Oxford for a PhD in refugees. I am pretending to do architecture […]
Sid Liebes ’48
Linda and I sold our forested Atherton home of 50-plus-years that, when we moved in, had on one side an acre with a one-bedroom cabin and, on the other, 20 acres of foxes, raccoons and skunks. We moved to a retirement community in forested Portola Valley (the Sequoias). We’ve been covid-confined to the property for […]
Charlton Lewis ’48
For the last five years I have lived at a life care place (Meadow Ridge) in Redding, CT. But for the last 18, I have spent most of my time with Roxanne Wilke, a fellow Asian scholar whom I met at Berkeley in 1964. In 1972, she got herself invited to China where she interviewed […]
John Bissell ’48
I am here, healthy and happy in Boca Grande, Florida. Sorry about the fires and hope Thacher is safe! Clare and I are slowing down, but actually enjoying this new reclusive life style. This has been our first ever summer in Florida, and yes it was hot, but still there were beautiful migratory birds, flowering […]
Samuel Wright ’48
In December 2019, a 50-year-plus tradition was renewed once again with a luncheon gathering of Thacher of Alums at the pacific union club in San Francisco dubbed “San Francisco do nothing except have Christmas lunch club.” SFDNEHCLC was originally centered around CdeP (male only of course) from the classes of 1947-1949. With the passage of […]
Charlton Lewis ’48
I was deeply saddened by the recent death of our classmate Bud Lester. Bud and I roomed together on the third floor of the Upper School. We were both on the gymkhana team. We camped together on extra day trips in the Sespe. And much else. Bud may have been the most popular guy in […]
Sam Wright ’48 and CdeP 1948
A nice note from Charlton Lewis saying he was happy to read our class notes in the latest Thacher magazine about our 70th reunion, saying it was a little too far for him. Charlton and Roxane are living in a community in Redding Connecticut, outside of Stamford, conveniently located, he says, about an hour from […]
Sam Wright ’48
Five members of the class of ’48 returned for our 70th reunion in June: John Bissell, Peter Dunne, Sandy Walker, Elliot Hayne (and Judy) and Sam Wright (and Terry) (Terry and I subsequently celebrated our 67th wedding anniversary in September). I heard from both Sid Liebes and Chris Boyle who were unfortunately unable to be there. The […]
Sam Wright ’48
Notes from the Class of ’48 and beyond: Continuing a tradition of over 50 years, 13 Thacher alumnae and alumni gathered this past December 11 for a luncheon at the Pacific Union Club, in San Francisco courtesy of Elliot Hayne ’48. The annual gathering, dubbed the “San Francisco Do Nothing Except Have Christmas Lunch Club,” […]