Apologies if I already reported this shameless, self promotional news from last year: after several months of delay due to the Thomas fire and the subsequently disastrous debris flows in Montecito & Carpinteria, my Americana Cats band based here in Carpinteria was finally able to lay down 11 tracks of our debut CD of Americana […]
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Johannes Girardoni ’85
Johannes Girardoni was selected to receive the 2019 Francis J. Greenburger Award, an award “that honors established artists whom the artworld knows to be of extraordinary merit, but who have not been fully recognized by the public.” Johannes Girardoni CdeP 1985
Roger Ignon ’62
Roger sponsored a memorial art exhibition for Gui Ignon, The Gui Ignon Memorial Art Show for Young Artists. Gui was father to Roger ’62, Lance ’74, and Sandy. He taught art at Thacher from 1951 to 1963 and his wife, Olga, was the librarian. Gui passed away the summer of 1963. Don Porter ’62 recalls […]
Martin Sproul ’71
Martin has dialed back his law practice and uses his law office mainly to pursue his first profession: teaching Transcendental Meditation. On account of the anxious times in which we live, or perhaps because brain science and trauma therapy have caught up with what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was teaching half a century ago, these days […]
Jim Levy ’58
Jim Levy has a new book of poetry called Monet’s Eyes, to be published by Cedar Forge Press in June. The book contains monologues by or about Rilke, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Handel, the bluesman Robert Johnson, and other artists, as well as by a Gnostic priest, an Epicurean, and a Cynic. Jim Levy CdeP […]
Kenyon Phillips ’94
On September 11 in New York City, Kenyon Phillips produced and starred in a sold-out concert version of The Who’s Tommy at Joe’s Pub, the musical outpost of the Public Theater (Hamilton, Hair, A Chorus Line), where Phillips is an artist in residence. The show featured plenty of Broadway royalty, including Tony winner Cady Huffman […]
Michael Milligan ’62
Michael Milligan and very fine artist wife Jeanne E. traveled to Germany in September, just in time for Oktoberfest and, as Michael states, “its preponderance of stopped glottals, Bavarian lagers, our declining tolerance for viener schnitzel and a vast tsunami of drunken twenty-somethings yelling mindlessly into the night.” Ahhh, but the real reason for their […]
Theodore J. Heard ’83
I have been living in Albuquerque, N.M., for almost 20 years. I have been an artist/painter for 17 years now. It is my joy and purpose, and a compassionate gift from God and Jesus. I am a recovering alcoholic with 24 years of sobriety, a daily gift from Jesus. One of my authors is Fyodor […]