Hello from a magical Japanese spring! Are you well? I am visiting my Japanese hometown in the countryside of Nara Prefecture. Walking amidst drifting cherry blossom petals, I am reminded of the wonderful walks under starry night skies at Thacher. There’s a Japanese saying “ichi go ichi e”, which translates to “each encounter, precious encounter” […]
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William Strong ’58
While I never met Marvin Shagam, I am certainly aware of his reputation as one of the great luminaries in the CdeP skies. There are, however, other luminaries in the night skies over Thacher; since I fear they have been fading from memory for many of us, I wish to remind and recharge the brightness […]
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 […]