The fires are awful and continue. I am looking out the window and can’t see the Bay for the smoke. One daughter lost her cabin in Big Sur and her daughter escaped in the middle of the night and is now quarantined at Oxford for a PhD in refugees. I am pretending to do architecture […]
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CdeP 1962 Fire and Flood Reports
1962 Don Porter checked on all 1962 classmates affected by the recent fires and floods. Paul Recsei reports, “We live in a chaparral ‘wild land-urban interface’ and were under mandatory evacuation orders for both the fire and then for the deluge. But mandatory does not mean mandatory in this case, so my wife and I […]
Natalie Selzer ’08
In summer 2016 three of us from the class of 2008—Meredith Dworkin, Douglas Land, and Natalie Selzer—reconnected in the old Thacher way: during a weekend camping trip (this time with a car full of snacks parked nearby and something other than water in our Sierra Cups). Our outdoor excursion in San Simeon, California, brought back […]
Charles Burton Evans Jr. ’68
Strange Daze or as my daughter says “the duality of life.” My place burned down in a wild fire, where I could have been killed and I lost everything…. Global warming, even the fire station was partial burned down and the fire teams ran for their lives too. The brush beyond dry, we have been […]
Henry Field ’12
Henry is receiving an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after a term of service that spanned several years, including a humanitarian rotation to North Africa and a combat tour in Afghanistan. SPC Field served as a senior combat medic on patrols in Eastern and Southern Afghanistan. He intends to return to coastal Maine and […]