After bouncing around for the last few years, Doug and I are putting down some roots in Ojai. I just took on the Director of Alumni Relations position at Thacher, and am looking forward to hanging out with fellow Toads! Our younger son Colin is a senior at Thacher, and our older son Liam started […]
Archives: 1986
Sarah O’Brien ’86
In October I went to see a fantastic Ozomatli performance with Raul Pacheco in Santa Barbara with my husband Aaron. It was great to see fellow toad Tom Cole ’87 at the event enjoying the incredible music. Winter Alumni day was a great opportunity to catch up with classmates Carolyn and Doug Kirkpatrick, Tom Hale […]
Tom Hale ’86
Tom and family are settling back into the Bay Area after moving back from Texas in August. Karen Hale, mother of Julia CdeP ’21, spent the last six months creating two nests – one in Hillsborough and one in Ojai! Going through old photos, she found this photo of Julia at her first Thacher alumni […]
Ami Becker Aronson ’86
Hard to believe I have lived in DC the past 20 years! I love our nation’s capital and my children are 6th generation. I manage a private foundation and invest in people and ideas (www.bffdc.org). Any toads are always welcome to share arts, culture and democracy! I spent a few days in Reno with Leslie Clark […]
Sarah O’Brien ’86
It is hard to believe that it has been 5 years since we have moved our family from San Francisco to Santa Barbara. Pierce (10) and Ronan (8) are enjoying Crane Country Day School as 5th and 3rd graders respectively. We miss the city and getting together with our San Francisco classmates and their families. […]
Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick ’86
In September, Doug and I attended the Next Peak gathering in Ojai and enjoyed catching up with so many Thacher friends, including classmate Sarah O’Brien and family, and former teacher Betty Saunders. Our older son Liam graduated from Thacher in June, and our younger son Colin is now a junior. We are currently living Ojai, […]
Samantha Hartley ’86
Great to see everyone at the Next Peak event here in San Francisco. Cate is starting 6th grade and enjoying her dance classes and time on the soccer fields all over the bay area with her Aftershocks team. We MOVED to a new apartment on Sacramento Street. We are still in boxes but the place […]
Julie Huntington de Polo ’86
I was recently hired by a fellow Toad, Mary Everett Bourke CdeP 1981, to work with her in development at the Oxbow School, a semester-based arts boarding school in Napa. Thanks to Mimi Van Son, a former Thacher staff member, for recommending me! I joined Mary in pouring our respective wines (Hale Mary and Darioush) […]
Tom Hale ’86
Tom Hale is settling in to the bay area! After 6 years in Texas, the Hale Family—Anna and Ivy (11), Julia (14)—have returned to the Golden State. Calling all Toads in the Bay Area! In August, we dropped Julia, soon to be CdeP 1921, in Ojai to enjoy a few years in the house of […]
Sarah Lavender Smith ’86
The 100-mile Western States Endurance Run is to ultrarunning what the Boston Marathon is to marathoning—rich with history and prestige, with strict qualification standards and a slim chance of gaining entry. After four years of qualifying and trying to gain a spot through the event’s lottery, Sarah Lavender Smith CdeP 1986 finally got the chance […]