I have a new job but am still in Minnesota beginning my fourth year “up North.” I am the new Interim Research Winemaker for the University of Minnesota’s Horticultural Research Center in Victoria, MN. I am making micro-lots of wines from some brand new and as yet unnamed cold-climate hybrid wine grapes. It’s fun to […]
Archives: 1982
Alison Terbell Nikitopoulos ’82
I took a job teaching English and Music at Midland School (a no-longer Thacher rival) in Los Olivos and have been here since mid-August. I am absolutely THRILLED to be in a boarding school environment and back in California. Please come see me! Alison Terbell Nikitopoulos CdeP 1982
Marian Huntington Schinske ’82
Good Thacher news this year! My classmate Alison Terbell ’82 visited me at my home in Novato, and I had a long visit by phone with Phoebe Twichell ’82, who creates amazingly beautiful paintings. Now I have two nieces attending Thacher: Sydney ’17 and Olivia de Polo ’18, and my family plans to visit them […]
Michael Voevodsky ’82
Hard to believe it but our youngest daughter, Mia, graduated CdeP 2014, bringing to an end six great additional years at Thacher as parents. Paule graduated CdeP 2012 and is on the same reunion cycle as CdeP 1982. At graduation were three generations of Voevodskys (you’d think the school would have learned by now…): Peter […]
Brian Kopperl ’82
Brian Kopperl ’82, Managing Partner of Renewable Energy Massachusetts LLC, has developed one of the three largest solar energy projects in Massachusetts, a 6 megawatt – 21,000 solar panel facility on a former gravel pit in Bolton, MA. The facility went on line in December 2013 after a 2- year lease/permitting/interconnection engineering/tax & power purchase […]
John Schaffner ’82
Well, The start-up company I work for just launched a new Website. We are hoping it makes a big splash on Wall Street. My 8 year old daughter, Katrina, is learning to ride horses :). She just got moved up to the ‘gifted’ class so I think she is a possible future Thatcher candidate :). […]
Drew Horton ’82
Three years making wine in Minnesota have gone by so quickly! I am proud of the handful of gold medals I have won with these Minnesota-grown wines at competitions in California and New York. I never took Chemistry while in college, but so far Anne Thacher’s tutelage has served me well! I invite anyone visiting […]
Hunter Hollins ’82
This year, in addition to my work at the Smithsonian, I joined the board of ArtWorksProjects, a nonprofit that uses fine-art photography to raise awareness of global humanitarian crises. ArtWorksProjects is the creation of our classmate, Leslie Thomas, and we are doing great work! Check it out: www.artworksprojects.org Hunter Hollins CdeP 1982
Jeff “Tripp” Jones ’82
I’m super excited and proud to tell you that my debut album is now up on iTunes!! I wrote my first song 4 years ago… and a lot has happened since then… The album has 4 songs… and I’m very proud of how it turned out… it sounds amazing!! Lots of great talent showed up […]
John Winsell Davies ’82
Elizaveta and I were married in June and after 11 years in Moscow, emigrated to London. Dream-world a three month honeymoon Taman Negara, Nepal, Chiang Mai, Malapascua Island, Boho and Phi Phi Islands, we arrived in England September 1st, where I started work as CIO of Machlin Oracle Ltd. in Marylebone. John Winsell Davies CdeP […]