Preparing for another awesome Thacher Rocket Launch at parent’s weekend is keeping the whole Hale family busy this month. We’re so excited to head to the Gymkhana field early sunday AM to launch some 5′ rockets into the morning sky. Between building, painting, and organizing Karen, Ivy, Anna, and Tom (1986) are keeping very busy […]
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Trav Newton ’68
Dan McGilvray and Trav Newton rode the Huntington Trail last January on Alum Day through rain squalls, snow on the ridge, and a rainbow over the valley. In memory of nurse Betty Saunders, they ask classmates who took photos of ’68 who visited her at her home last June to please send images to us, […]
John Aaron ’71
The non profit peace project John founded, CHALK4PEACE, presented its interactive chalk painting event at the United Nations on the UN Visitors’ Plaza in NYC for their Student Peace Day Summit 9/16/16. Peace Day 365 was their liaison to the UN. Team CHALK4PEACE came in from California and Washington, DC, to organize, encourage and document […]
Trav Newton ’68
Jim Swinerton ’67 and Bill Escamilla ’67 and I met at the University Club of Chicago, last March 31. Jim and his wife, Clarissa, and Bill and his partner, Lisa Dollar Buehler, kindly invited me and my partner, Victoria Montague, to dine the night before I gave a presentation at the Art Institute of Chicago’s […]
Bayard Hollins ’84
Life is good in Colorado. Teaching son Jackson (13) how to gracefully endure the pleasures and tortures of fly fishing. Writing some duets on ukulele with daughter Samantha (14). Trying to age gracefully with my beautiful wife Karen, and painting like crazy to get ready for an upcoming one person exhibition at the Caldbeck Gallery […]
Trav Newton ’68
Edgardo Catalan and Trav Newton ’68 had a picnic with Marvin Shagam on the Pergola in August. Edgardo had an exhibit of his recent paintings in Santa Barbara, and in the home of his son Rodrigo ’83 and wife Sibyll in their Pacific Palisades home. Trav Newton CdeP 1968
Marian Huntington Schinske ’82
Good Thacher news this year! My classmate Alison Terbell ’82 visited me at my home in Novato, and I had a long visit by phone with Phoebe Twichell ’82, who creates amazingly beautiful paintings. Now I have two nieces attending Thacher: Sydney ’17 and Olivia de Polo ’18, and my family plans to visit them […]
Bill Wheeler ’58
So Ingrid’s and my life continue much as reported a year ago. Living in Belvedere, Marin County, still working on our real estate projects in Healdsburg where we used to have our winery, and still spending a couple of months a year in San Miguel de Allende. We feel very lucky indeed! Our son, Justin, […]
Theodore Heard ’83
Hi class of ’83. Today was a hard day for me. And I asked myself, “What will I paint?” And I thought of flowers, with wide green leaves. The harder it gets, the more I want to paint something beautiful. Not all days are hard. But some are. I’m going to paint a vase of […]
John Holstein ’75
Living in France. I teach American literature at the University of Rennes, France. I also teach art in an association near Rennes. My main interests besides life are painting and drawing. My wife Dominique is also an artist, she does lovely patchwork. I have two sons Mathias and Damien. Mathias is a holistic doctor and […]