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 […]

Sydney Bowie ’10

Sydney has received a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic year to work on a documentary film about the current immigration crisis in Spain. You can stay posted on her project and find out how to support it on the project’s website www.thenewmigration.com. If anyone is passing through Sevilla, please reach out! Sydney Bowie CdeP […]

Kris Zierhut ’90

It’s been a busy year for my connections to Thacher. I met up with the class of ’91 at their 25th reunion this past summer, and saw some faces I hadn’t seen since I graduated. My daughter Elanor’s academic advisor this year is another Thacher graduate, Nick Tranmer (’92). And a steady stream of more […]

Zamira Skalkottas ’88

I’m thrilled to be living in Istanbul, a truly glorious city, and working at a school that reminds me of Thacher. While Üsküdar American Academy is not a boarding school and I have a view of the Bosporus from my classroom window rather than orange and oak trees, there is the same academic drive in […]

Lynn White ’59

Lynn and Barbara-Sue greatly enjoyed meeting classmates (not ‘old’ classmates) at the 55th. The fragrances of Ojai are wonderful. Lynn’s book about Philippine Politics: Progress and Problems in a Localist Democracy will be published from Routledge before the end of this year. He is now writing about the increasingly lively politics of Hong Kong. The […]