I’m honored and excited to share that my short fiction piece “Octopus VII” was selected by guest editor Curtis Sittenfeld for The Best American Short Stories 2020! The anthology will be published on 11/3/20. In other news, my husband and I moved to San Francisco (Inner Sunset neighborhood) in September. We’re enjoying the city and […]
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Lee Follett ’53
Thanks to Pete Voevodsky, our class learned of Jim Griffith’s latest honor. The U of AZ College of Social & Behavioral Sciences has named The Jim Griffith Chair in Public Folklore. Previously Jim received an award from the National Endowment and he also founded the annual Tucson Meet Yourself Festival. Tallying early commitments to the […]
Peter Gillies ’79
Peter Gillies’ latest book, “The pig who wished to be a horse …and other tales”, is set to be published in April. Peter Gillies CdeP 1979
Bradford Jordan ’00
After a number of years as a teacher, improviser, leadership development consultant, and storyteller, Bradford Jordan has taken on a new role leading the Global Learning Team at Twitter. That means he is in SF pret-ty frequently. Reach out! Bradford Jordan CdeP 2000
Don Porter ’62
Sorry to report that Will “Sandy” Goodwin ’65 died in April. Brother to our Peter Goodwin and to his sister (and our honorary class member) Mary Goodwin, Sandy was a “smut” to us upper uppers. Mary would probably appreciate a note. Please contact your class rep for her address if needed. Please send news of […]
Jackson Howard ’12
My business partner, and I, just celebrated the two year anniversary of Not Mad—our online publication of art, music, culture and personal narrative for young people. Check it out! We’re always looking for submissions, too! www.notmad.us Jackson Howard CdeP 2012
Reuben Haller ’74
Life is good in Atlanta. I have lived in Georgia so long that my family in San Francisco insist that I speak with a southern accent. My boys, Elijah and Devon, are 15 and 12 years old which means we are between bar mitzvahs! I am still clowning for the Big Apple Circus; and I […]
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 […]