Still kicking, perhaps without the same verve as a few years ago. Got out hunting and bagged my annual wild turkey a month before my 94th birthday. Peter Arnold CdeP 1942
Blog Archives
Sandy Walker ’48
Continuing architecture for my sixth year at a rather slow pace. Still see Sam Wright, Peter Dunne, and Elliot Hayne. Kay and I share four of my grandchildren. One doctor, one film maker, one Fulbright scholar in Turkey, and one making very good Keenan wine, while in Brooklyn I have two high school boys and their mom […]
Hasim Erim ’58
After my year at Thacher (1958), I studied Civil Engineering in Istanbul getting a B.S. and got M.E. from Yale in 1963. I worked as a Civil Engineer throughout then and built in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Now I am semi-retired, but still go to our office every day. With my wife Cigdem, we live […]
Tawni Stoop ’11
Over Spring Break, I traveled to Amsterdam to present a poster on the research I conduct at Wesleyan University on children’s numerical acquisition at a psychology conference (ICPS). Not only did I get a chance to explore the city while on business, I took a trip to Istanbul to complete the trip! Tawni Stoop CdeP […]
Laurel Poolman ’10
I started my PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, and continue to spend the summer at digs in Ethiopia, Israel, and Turkey. Also, excitingly, my son was born on August 17, 2014. His name is Abraham Altaie. Abraham, his father, and I are living in Washington DC. Laurel Poolman CdeP 2010
Zamira Skalkottas ’88
I’m thrilled to be living in Istanbul, a truly glorious city, and working at a school that reminds me of Thacher. While Üsküdar American Academy is not a boarding school and I have a view of the Bosporus from my classroom window rather than orange and oak trees, there is the same academic drive in […]
Calvin Kim ’05
In June 2013, I was (honorably) discharged as a 1st Lieutenant from the Republic of Korea Air Force, thereby concluding my 40 month-long military service. During my service, I was an interpreter for the bureau within the Republic of Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for military-to-military diplomacy with our allies around the world. Thanks […]
Cathy Ruhl ’89
Well — it’s hard to believe that our 5-year European Adventure is coming to an end this summer! We’ve been living in Germany since our last reunion — and I will likely have to miss our upcoming reunion to pack up our house to make our way back to California. I was lucky enough to […]
Alexander Van Dyke ’46
Returned in May after my 5th complete world cruise. The first two I was the ships physician for Holland America. Now I go as a passenger. On one trip from Venice to Rome on the Windsurf for the Windstar line–as ship physician–a man came to the medical office and asked me if I went by […]
Laurel A. Poolman ’10
I am now a junior at the George Washington University majoring in Archaeology with a minor in Biological Anthropology. After my freshman year, I won the Biblical Archaeology Scholarship which enabled me to spend six weeks working on a 3500 year old Canaanite palace in Northern Israel (Tel Kabri). I then decided to bum my […]