Affirming Thacher Values in a Time of Political Turmoil

March 30, 2017 | by Michael Mulligan

The following is a talk recently delivered by Head of School Michael K. Mulligan at one of our regular All-School Assemblies. Like many others around our nation, I have not been able to watch the national news lately without wincing. …
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What Makes Thacher Thacher

March 3, 2017 | by William McMahon

Including Some Extra-Credit Reading About What Teenagers Need When I came to interview at Thacher over a decade ago it was immediately clear to me that this was a school unlike any that I had encountered. To start with, there was …
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Affirming Thacher Values in a Time of Political Turmoil

What Makes Thacher Thacher

The Long View

Can I Get a List of Those Books?

Happy Campers

In Stark Relief

Time and Looking