With the mandatory “sheltering in” I have been inspired to go through old files, boxes and albums, something like an archeological dig in that one finds layers of one’s past in receding order. Much of Thacher, with pictures of the soccer team, the upper school, glee club Los Trobadores with Van and Barbara Griggs, etc., […]
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Charlton Lewis ’48
For the last five years I have lived at a life care place (Meadow Ridge) in Redding, CT. But for the last 18, I have spent most of my time with Roxanne Wilke, a fellow Asian scholar whom I met at Berkeley in 1964. In 1972, she got herself invited to China where she interviewed […]
Russell Callander ’59
In my recently published book “Jottings of a Geriatric Judge” I acknowledged Jack Huyler:“The late John S. (Jack) Huyler, M.A., teacher, writer, diarist, horse whisperer and friend, at the Thacher School, Ojai, California, for recommending me to jot.”He did just that. And my treasured copy of his “The Stamp of the School” was exactly that […]
Justin Grant ’97
I recently published my first book entitled: “Business & Spirituality ~ Secrets of Personal, Professional, & Planetary Evolution.” The work offers a pragmatic path for truth seekers in the global era. The textual content is brought to life with over fifty inspiring images and illustrative diagrams. It speaks to a wide audience: thought leaders, knowledge […]
Jim Levy ’58
Jim Levy will be publishing Chekhov’s Mistress in June. It consists of 26 essays about 19th and 20th century writers. Jim Levy CdeP 1958
Jim Levy ’58
Jim Levy has two books coming out in May. Seen from a Distance is a book of poetry about art, love, sex, poetry, animals, and death. Those were the Days is a memoir co-authored with his partner Phaedra Greenwood about life and love in northern New Mexico in the 1970s. The picture is Phaedra Greenwood, […]
Peter Dunne ’81
I got to hang out with fellow CdeP 1981 members Mariana Schwartz Smith, Marci Dabbs, Dianna Marguleas, Owen Bly and Alex Calhoun while listening to our classmate Glen Gold read from his new book in the same room that has seen the likes of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krassner, Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac. Pretty cool. Peter Dunne CdeP 1981
Lynn White ’59
My next book, called Rural Roots of Reform before China’s Conservative Change, will be published by Routledge in June; the paperback and hardbound editions are scheduled to appear at the same time. More info Barbara-Sue and I still spend springs and autumns in Princeton but other seasons mostly in Berkeley. Retirement is liberation! Lynn White […]
Jim Levy ’58
Jim Levy has a new book of poetry called Monet’s Eyes, to be published by Cedar Forge Press in June. The book contains monologues by or about Rilke, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Handel, the bluesman Robert Johnson, and other artists, as well as by a Gnostic priest, an Epicurean, and a Cynic. Jim Levy CdeP […]
Glen D. Gold ’81
My memoir, I WILL BE COMPLETE, is coming from Knopf in June. There is an extensive Thacher appearance. Look out. I mean that in every conceivable sense. Glen David Gold CdeP 1981