Joy Sawyer-Mulligan

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERALike all my colleagues on the Thacher faculty, I trade hats many times daily: I teach English (9th, 12th), advise sophomore girls, and occasionally write and photograph for the School’s website news and various print materials. On Saturday nights, I’m stirring the cheese dip and baking chocolate-chip cookies for our all-school Saturday night Open Houses that rock the rafters of the rambling redwood house on campus I share with Michael, my husband (also Thacher’s Head of School).

I’m the mum of a Thacher grad—Annie CdeP 2008, presently a law school student. I came to Thacher more or less on a bet with my former college advisor who was then the headmaster here—an experimental adventure for a parochial New Englander who wanted to see what this ranchy, just-turned-coeducational school was all about. Although I left after three years, I returned for good after a short spell back east. The insistent, irresistible magnetism of Casa de Piedra has kept me planted here for nearly three decades now.


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