Samuel French ’66

Although I retired in January, 2019, expecting to have a nice long rest with my wife, Gail, she passed away two weeks ago after a long battle with lung cancer. She had chemo therapy and radiation, but the thing that contributed the most to her weakness was the use of opiates to fight spinal pain. […]

Betsy Bradford ’02

John Peretti and I got married July 3, 2017, in my home town, Lake Tahoe. There was a lively Thacher bunch at the party… with a full rendition of the banquet song and Domine; the other guests had no idea what we were doing! John loves Thacher and was thrilled to meet so many people at […]

Sam Wright ’48

The tradition of the “San Francisco Do Nothing Except Have Christmas Lunch Club” (SFDNEHCLC) continued this last December courtesy again of Eliot Hayne ’48 at the Pacific Union Club. Those in attendance: Mark Hayne ’86, Isobel Hayne ’14, Cecilia Hayne ’07, Cabot Brown ’79, George Montgomery ’51, Kirk Kirkham ’50, Jim Acquistapace ’61, Peter Dunne ’48, […]

Hi-chan Hirose ’66

I would like to offer my deep condolences on passing away of Mr. Shagam, who was a great supervisor of this AFS student. Although I missed the big reunion this year, I was so delighted to receive such heart full “Hi, Hi-chan!” video greetings from many classmates, whose voices and smiles are just like 50 […]

Ric Laurence ’54

March has been a sad month for us. On the 8th, we took five guests on our 43 foot trawler on a ride down to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. While in Raccoon Strait, our port engine caught fire causing all of us to abandon ship after May Day instructions. Fortunately for all of […]