Kirk Kirkham ’50

Wife, Katherine, and I have been sheltering in place in San Francisco (and Bolinas) since March and complying meticulously with Covid-19 protocols. But come 4th of July we couldn’t resist our traditional adventure to camp and hike in a particularly wild, rugged and isolated part of the Big Sur area to which we have special […]

Gwin (Dick) Whitney ’50

Past: Graduate Stanford and Navy OCS, EX and Navagater USS Moctobi ATF105, Treasure dove with Mel Fischer Nuestra Senora de Atocha, Director and Chairman of Board National Association of Brick Distributors, founded, operated and sold Brick and associated construction products company. Currently Florida resident spending 4 months of summer in Duluth, MN. Continue to play […]

James “Kirk” Kirkham ’50

Fellow classmate, Miles Carlisle, and I plan to celebrate our 85th birthdays together on May 19, in Bolinas. Included will be mutual good friend, Winnifred Noble, classmate Dr. Morris Noble’s widow. As for me, still married to Kathy Dibblee (57 Years); two children, Lila and James D.; and four grandchildren, Sam and Allison Ansel, Leela and […]

Chuck DeMund ’50

Chuck recently founded a scholarship at the University of Arizona to honor not only his own passion for photography and the optical sciences, but also his father’s support for the field of medicine. The DeMund Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship in Optical and Medical Sciences just named its first winner who is developing new methods to detect […]

Robert W. Gardner ’50

Since leaving Thacher, I attended UCB, served four years as a Naval Aviator, married, went to medical school at McGill University, did my psychiatry residency at the Univ. of Iowa, and spent almost forty rewarding years in the practice of general and consulting psychiatry here in beautiful Eureka, CA. Nancy and I have eight grandchildren […]