In December 2019, a 50-year-plus tradition was renewed once again with a luncheon gathering of Thacher of Alums at the pacific union club in San Francisco dubbed “San Francisco do nothing except have Christmas lunch club.” SFDNEHCLC was originally centered around CdeP (male only of course) from the classes of 1947-1949. With the passage of […]
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Kirk Kirkham ’50
Wife, Katherine, and I have been sheltering in place in San Francisco (and Bolinas) since March and complying meticulously with Covid-19 protocols. But come 4th of July we couldn’t resist our traditional adventure to camp and hike in a particularly wild, rugged and isolated part of the Big Sur area to which we have special […]
Daniel Gregory ’69
My book was published June 30, 2020, from Princeton Architectural Press: The New Farm: Contemporary Rural Architecture, with an introduction by Abby Rockefeller. It’s about how recent generations of farmers around the globe have reinvented the family farm and its traditions, embracing organic practices and sustainability and, along with them, a bold new use of […]
Sam Wright ’48 and CdeP 1948
A nice note from Charlton Lewis saying he was happy to read our class notes in the latest Thacher magazine about our 70th reunion, saying it was a little too far for him. Charlton and Roxane are living in a community in Redding Connecticut, outside of Stamford, conveniently located, he says, about an hour from […]
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, […]
Sam Wright ’48
Over 40 years ago, a group of Bay Area alumni started what became an unbroken annual tradition called the “San Francisco Do Nothing Except Have Christmas Lunch Club.” This past December, the gathering, held at the Pacific Union Club courtesy of Elliot Hayne ’48, included: Jim Acquistapace ’61 Bill Bucklin ’48 Brooks Crawford ’51 Peter […]
Maria Banman Barrell ’96
Keeping tradition alive for 20+ years, several Toads (mostly from the class of ’96) reunited in Ojai over New Year’s with their families. Growing children means this year a new tradition was started with a New Year’s Day soccer match thanks to the organizational brilliance and motivation of Stef Warren — girls tied boys! If […]
Coulter Huyler ’66
Three years ago Coulter Huyler completed the traditional Tibetan Buddhist 3 Year Retreat at Kagyu Thubten Choling in Wappinger’s Falls, New York. The Abbot, Lama Norlha Rinpoche guided the first such retreats outside of Tibet and conferred on all retreat graduates the title of “Lama,” thereby authorizing them to teach in the Buddhist tradition. Since […]