I have just completed my memoir. Here’s an excerpt about Thacher: To this day, I have followed the principle of doing what I have to do before doing what I want to do. Take care of your horse before you take care of yourself. Thacher taught us how to write, a skill that proved invaluable […]
Archives: 1959
Russell Callander ’59
In my recently published book “Jottings of a Geriatric Judge” I acknowledged Jack Huyler:“The late John S. (Jack) Huyler, M.A., teacher, writer, diarist, horse whisperer and friend, at the Thacher School, Ojai, California, for recommending me to jot.”He did just that. And my treasured copy of his “The Stamp of the School” was exactly that […]
Perry Gates ’59
When Janet Mills was elected our first female Governor of Maine last year, she brought with her a new wave of Commissioners. Her selection for Commissioner of the Department of Education is a business friend and colleague, Pender Makin, who promptly called me to ask if I would join her team at the Department. How […]
Bob Boyd ’59
I’m now a retired Judge and thoroughly enjoying the free time I have now. Mary Ellen and I are off to Montana and Idaho for some fishing and visiting with our daughter in Idaho and will spend more time in New Jersey with our son, his wife and, so far, our only grandchild, Mateo, age […]
Lynn White ’59
Lynn has just published a book on the “Rural Roots of Reform before China’s Conservative Change*, available in either hardcover or paperback. Routledge, the publisher, offers this link at which the full text may be viewed by anyone for a few weeks. The book is dedicated to my students and teachers, including those whom I […]
Lynn White ’59
My next book, called Rural Roots of Reform before China’s Conservative Change, will be published by Routledge in June; the paperback and hardbound editions are scheduled to appear at the same time. More info Barbara-Sue and I still spend springs and autumns in Princeton but other seasons mostly in Berkeley. Retirement is liberation! Lynn White […]
John Heard ’59
John and Anne have moved to Florida, East Ridge at Cutler Bay, just South of Miami, a continuing care retirement community. Son David (class of ’79) is just North of us in Miami with wife and two grandchildren. It is beautiful and green here. We are surrounded by peacocks. I’m is battling health problems, but […]
Christopher Henze ’59
Shana (daughter of Norman Goss CdeP ’33) and I celebrated our 50th anniversary in a farmhouse in Provence. We were interested to discover that Resistance hero and martyr Jean Moulin parachuted into France and spent the night of my birth in a shepherd’s refuge nearby! Christopher Henze CdeP 1959
Harry Wyeth ’59
Hello down there in Ojai. I had the thought that just maybe Thacher folks might enjoy this sweet photo from our local paper, The Union, here in Grass Valley, Calif. Students might get the thought that relationships with horses can last a long time. I think that I may be the only member of my […]
Robert Gallaway ’59
What are the odds of meeting the first African American to be accepted and graduate from Thacher? The first thing you need to do is get prostate cancer. Then, you have to decide on Proton Beam Therapy at Loma Linda University Hospital. Then, you have to get half naked in a dressing room before your […]