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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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 […]
Lloyd Gunther Dallett ’81
I live in Santa Barbara because I fell in love with this area when at Thacher. Because I live here I have been lucky to crosshatch with both Mary Everett Bourke and Mariana Schwartz who both have kids here. It’s better than school because we’re adults now… I send best wishes to all who survived […]
Robert Thomas ’40
Greetings from the class of ’40 and me (we seem to be one and the same). I am very proud of my name so finding it used to name a terrible fire didn’t thrill me!!!! The best to all. Robert “Shovel” Thomas CdeP 1940
John Aaron ’71
Early this summer, I was commissioned to create this tribute to the Emanuel Nine of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. It is a memorial to the people who lost their lives when a self professed white supremacist gunned them down during their Bible Study at the Church on the evening of June 17, […]
Tony Oliver-Smith ’60
Now, 7 years after retirement from the University of Florida, I continue working as an independent consultant on issues of natural hazards, climate change, disasters and community displacement and resettlement. My latest project concerns the problems of sea level rise and displacement from their island homes faced by the Kuna Indians of the San Blas […]
John E. Rodie ’74
I just wrapped up a four month tour of New York, Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut acting as an investigator for a forensic structural engineering firm. I have been building structures for over thirty-five years and it is fascinating to study how and why buildings fail. It is also heartbreaking to see the extent […]