With the awesome support of my wife, Katie Ballou, Thacher 1983, I ended a 30-year career as a commercial real estate appraiser to pursue a career in teaching. I am half way through a two-year training program at Town School for Boys, in San Francisco, California. I am learning a lot; second grade boys are […]
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Doug Kirkpatrick ’86
Carolyn Reed Kirkpatrick (’86) and I are getting back to the Ojai more often now that our oldest son, Liam ’17, chose to attend Thacher. On the work front, I left my 15-year career as a portfolio manager and analyst at Artisan and Janus to launch an online investment advisory startup called AlphaGlider. It strives […]
Ross W. Popenoe ’78
After a somewhat unfocused career that meandered through law, working in the large corporate world (Microsoft, Amazon, and others), and the not-for-profit world (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), I’ve finally managed to combine my career with my passion for conservation and tortoises as the Executive Director of the Turtle Conservancy–www.turtleconservancy.org. While our main offices are […]
Will H. Strong ’58
Linda and I moved to Charlotte in 1989. The golfers in our class will know that the Carolinas are the golfing Mecca of our country. Pinehurst is 2 hours to the east. Hilton Head is several hours down the Interstate. Kiawah Island is 20 miles south of Charleston and Sea Island is just a bit […]
Ward C. Sorrick ’04
Ward has recently made a big career transition; he moved from store manager at AT&T to account manager for an online video production and marketing company based in San Francisco called RockBridge Productions. He is also working as producer on four independent feature films under a company he co-founded called Electrum Films, LLC. You may […]