Roger Ignon ’62

Roger stepped into the breach to provide Personal Protective Equipment for health professionals during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Using his business acumen and ties within the Chinese business community he provided thousands of FDA Medical Grade face masks and shields for the Covid-19 unit at Torrance Community Hospital in Southern California. During the height of the […]

Robert Gallaway ’59

What are the odds of meeting the first African American to be accepted and graduate from Thacher? The first thing you need to do is get prostate cancer. Then, you have to decide on Proton Beam Therapy at Loma Linda University Hospital. Then, you have to get half naked in a dressing room before your […]

Kim Chase ’68

Just finished 3 years working in remote Alaska planning a new $300M plus new culturally and environmentally relevant hospital/clinic for the Yupik Eskimo. Working with the Yupik was a rare experience as they are one of the few intact native American cultures that is thriving even in the face of global warming/melting of the permafrost […]

Bennett Kissel ’07

I’m working with a local non profit in Cali, Colombia, that converted a small ship into a hospital. We sail up and down the remote Pacific coast of Colombia on 10 day missions, acting as the sole health care provider/educator to the thousands of Afro-Colombian, indigenous, and displaced populations affected by the armed conflict. It’s […]

Jacey Roche Cerda ’03

Hey Everyone, Robert and I are quickly running into new eras in our life. This May, Robert graduates from veterinary school and will be doing his small animal rotating internship at Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. This summer, I start teaching graduate and undergraduate classes at Colorado State University. Those classes focus […]

Rick Foreman ’44

We would have loved to have been at the reunion but Orene and I are not traveling any more as we are both considerably slowed down. On January 2nd of this year we moved into a retirement community here in Cincinnati. All of this happened at just the right time as Orene came down with […]