Last night five faculty members and two inquisitive students headed over the hill to Santa Barbara to attend a concert at the beautifully remodeled Santa Barbara Bowl. The occasion: a Day of the Dead event, featuring three Hispanic bands — Las Cafeteras, Ozomatli (featuring Raúl Pacheco, Class of 1986), and Cafe Tacuba. We arrived, and […]
It’s Friday. I finished my last math class at 3:10 and spent a little time answering emails and organizing homework papers into stacks of things to grade over the weekend. I headed home about 4:00, my easy 200-yard walk from math office to house, and then relaxed for a bit over The Big Bang Theory. […]
Parents’ weekend is an exhilarating and refreshing time of year. For most of us, it’s the first time students see their parents since the beginning of the school year. It’s impressive to see how everyone has found a place in the community in such a short period of time. Students are also able to show […]
It was a beautiful Sunday morning here in Ventura County, and eight young Thacher students (Reade, Brooke, Nick, Hannah, Olivia, Maya, Andrew, and Sydney) joined Mrs. Schryver and me at Kiddie Beach in Ventura to help with the Ventura County Best Day Foundation’s Beach Day for special needs kids. We packed into the Suburbans at […]
Last weekend, squeezed in somehow between camping trip preparation meetings, Spring Sing, and the last coffee house of the year, I managed to grab a few hours, a Suburban, and seven eager sophomores for a quick trip to Los Angeles to take in some culture. Our destination: my friend, Thacher classmate, and advisee’s father Johannes […]
This trimester I started what I hope will be a long career of volunteering. I guess I can say that I was inspired by the plethora of students who take part in what we call ComServe (which sounds like something out of the book 1984). Nevertheless, after 12 weeks of volunteer work, I have come to […]
Armed with warm clothes, skis, snowboards and a cardboard box overflowing with burritos and fried chicken for the 7 hour drive, 55 students and faculty clamored aboard a bus last Friday after classes for a weekend ski trip to Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevada. Rain and snow fell steadily throughout the drive, bringing 8 […]
Snow and sand — lots of Thacher students and faculty sped off to mountains or seashore (or points slightly closer by) this past Friday and Saturday for a night or two away. Thanks to the efforts principally of Joe Bell, School Chair 2011-12, it was a rare no-homework weekend given over to the thing we […]
…you can take your current student athletes to watch former student athletes play in a professional match. That is what I had the pleasure to do last Saturday afternoon at UCSB. Joanna, Sage, and Cassie (members of the current girls’ varsity soccer team) and I went to see the MLS Chicago Fire reserves play against […]
“Hey, Ms. Mully. I have a question about Winter Alumni Weekend. Would you please call me back?” Stefanie–an advisee from what seems like about eight or nine years ago but isn’t–had left a message on our phone during the holiday break. Maybe it was the recording, but to my ears she sounded exactly like the […]