After serving in the Peace Corps in Namibia from 2015–2017, I returned stateside accompanied by Mukwetu, a sage, sweet bush dog who adopted me in the village. Her name means “friend.” Mukwetu and I now live in DC where I’m pursing a Masters in Global Human Development at Georgetown’s School of Foreign service. Leslie Sligh […]
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Nelson Chase ’66
I will be finishing my work as the Country Director for the Peace Corps in Nepal in June 2017. Cindy and I will be retiring back to our home in Denver and are looking forward to some back packing / fly fishing adventures with CdeP ’66 classmates before any of us get too much older! […]
John Heard ’59
Anne and I are still cooking here in Albuquerque. I stay busy with volunteer board activity and consult from time to time, most recently in Colombia. We host many international visitors, mainly from Latin America. Anne gets to apply her superior Inn-keeping skills. We travel a lot ourselves. Our grandson, Andre, completed a Peace Corps […]
Nick Cunningham ’46
Hello classmates and other beneficiaries of Thacher’s exceptional growing up environment: Choosing between Thacher, Harvard College, and Johns Hopkins med school as my #1 priority in terms of loyalty is easy: it’s Thacher. I was SO fortunate, and am everlastingly grateful to my Thacher brothers Ty (’39) and Larry (’42) for telling my parents that […]
Michael Morse ’69
I am proud to announce my son Elliott’s graduation from Tisch Performing Arts college of NYU, following closely upon my daughter Sophie’s successful completion of a Peace Corps tour in Uganda. She will begin a Fulbright fellowship in Bogota, Colombia, in July. I still live with my wife Sandra and son Oren in Tucson for […]
Christopher M. Henze ’59
The Kennedy Library has accepted my offer to donate the originals of my letters home as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast 1964-66. (May have to redact certain passages!) The edited collection is available in the Thacher library or by direct request to chenze@orange.fr.
David Heard ’79
Juliet and I are moving to NYC after 3 years in Miami. I’ll be heading up the consumer business for growth economies (52 countries around the world) for Chartis Insurance, the Property and Casualty division of AIG. Both our kids are at the University of Miami, and Andre is aiming to be a Peace Corps […]