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Overview Six months of life at Thacher are chronicled in this Fall/Winter issue of The In every issue Thacher News. From Opening School activities to Departmental Weekend, from sports to plays, it has been a busy half year. 3 From the Head of School The Good High School: A Reflection by Michael K. Mulligan 5 Letters Profiles: Thacher Pioneers ALUMNI TRUSTEE 22 Bertel M. Ekman, CdeP ’51 37 Terdema L. Ussery, CdeP ’77 Content at Day’s End Making the Most of Hoops In this issue and Hopes 24 Klaus Schubert, CdeP ’56 Trading One Casa Rustica Campus Life for Another campus life FORMER FACULTY MEMBER 6 Acquaintances Renewed 26 Hisakazu Hirose, CdeP ’66 Learning in an American Dream 40 Edgardo Catalan 8 Footlights, Moonlight, and Charity Artistic Endeavors 28 Cynthia F. Hunter, CdeP ’80 9 Pack up Your Horse and Lessons Learned amid Manure Piles 42 No Man Is an Island Head for the Hills Edgardo Recalls a Weekend Pack 30 Carol J. McConnell, CdeP ’81 Trip of 30 Years Past 10 Music Weekend A Product of Her Environment 11 Learning from the Earth 32 Cindy Castañeda, CdeP ’88 “The Banquet Song” Becomes 12 Reflections on Becoming a Parent a Lullaby 13 Tidbits, Numeracy Puzzle 34 Stephen M. Batts, CdeP ’76 Flying His Dreams 14 Thacher’s Initial Public Offering 36 Hubert Honanie, Jr., CdeP ’57 16 Fall/Winter Sports Dances with Snakes, Toads, Sunlight, and Gems

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H 40 Former Faculty Member T Fall 1999/Winter 2000 Volume XII, Number 1 1889 Alumnialumni Editor The Thacher News magazine is published twice a 44 Class Notes Jane D. McCarthy year by The Thacher School, and is sent free of charge to alumni, parents, and friends of the School. Design 54 Obituaries In preparing this report, every effort was made to J. Bert Mahoney, Tim Ditch, and Jane D. McCarthy ensure that it is accurate and complete. If there is an 56 Bookshelf Contributors omission or an error in spelling, please accept our W. Austin Curwen, Camilla Evans-Hensey, Gregory T. Haggard, John apologies and notify the Head of School’s Office at 57 Calendar S. Huyler ‘51H, Rod M. “Jake” Jacobsen, Jane D. McCarthy, Alice The Thacher School, 5025 Thacher Road, Ojai, P. Meyer, Kurt R. Meyer, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, Michael K. Mulligan, California 93023, or call (805) 646-4377. Molly T. Perry, CdeP ‘85, Cricket Twichell, Frederick C. Twichell, Gallia K. Vickery, and William C. Vickery Third Class postage is paid at the Oxnard Post Office. Class Notes Cricket Twichell POSTMASTER: Cover Photo Please send form 3579 to the preceding address. Science Department Chair Rae Ann Sines and her Sports Section Environmental Science students set up grids on the hills Joy Sawyer-Mulligan overlooking the Gymkhana Field to track regrowth of NAIS Photography MEMBER vegetation following the Ranch Fire. Camilla Evans-Hensey, Jane D. McCarthy, Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, Wendi Parker-Dial, and Timothy O Teague Printed with soy-based inks. From the Head of School Head of School The Good High School: A Reflection by Michael K. Mulligan

n 1983, Harvard professor Sara 2005, mailed to all those interested in our School. Lawrence Lightfoot published her This document is the ultimate expression of our Iaward-winning book The Good being “endlessly self-critical.” (“Endlessly” is not HeadHigh School: Portrait of Charac- used lightly here because we intend to follow up sev- ter and Culture. I was fortunate eral of the studies with biannual survey with stu- enough to have been part of a dents, parents, and alumni/ae to make sure we are small group of school heads continuing to actually achieve what we have set out who had the opportunity to to accomplish.) This Plan was driven by good busi- talk to Dr. Lightfoot about ness sense, by an overwhelming desire to make sure her research and writing that we are doing the best we can for the present when I first became Head of student body and for future generations of Thacher Thacher in 1992. At that students, and by the abiding devotion of the Thacher time, I took close notes on community to this School. what she defined as “sign- posts” of a healthy and vig- Dr. Lightfoot’s third criterion of school is that good orous school community. I schools have “permeable-boundaries within the resolved that I would return to larger social context—boundaries crossed by families these notes after a few years “on while the school remains a world unto itself: safe, the job” to see how The Thacher healthy, challenging, demanding, lively.” Time was School was faring relative to Dr. that Thacher, like nearly all independent national Michael Mulligan, Lightfoot’s list of critical indicators of boarding schools, would have fallen short of this Head of School school excellence. You will note that Dr. Light- goal—and happily so, given the tastes of sometimes foot’s hallmarks of health are virtually all about iconoclastic school heads. Families—both faculty school values—a far cry from those who insist that and student—were to be seen only occasionally, and excellence be measured only by government-man- heard from as little as possible. Dropping off Junior dated standardized test scores. on opening day and picking him up at Christmas was quite sufficient, thank you. The truth and the Not surprisingly, first on Ms. Lightfoot’s list of The practice now at Thacher are quite different: Parents Good High School was the concept of core values: don’t lose Junior to Thacher; rather parents (and the school must have these at its center, and, fur- often grandparents) join The Thacher School Fam- thermore, they must be well-understood. I thought ily. School events—on and off campus—are en- at that time—and continue to feel strongly—that livened by enthusiastic parent participation. Some Thacher is one of the best examples there is of a parents of alumni/e have even taken to creating their school with well-defined, well-understood, and long- own reunions given the friendships they developed at established core values. How do I know? Stop any Thacher. From Family Weekends, Grandparents’ Thacher student, staff, or faculty member on The Days, and School sporting events, lectures and con- Pergola and ask him or her: What are the core val- certs all the way to the weekly Mulligan Open ues of The Thacher School? Most often, they will re- House are fully subscribed to by our families, old cite without the blink of an eye the litany of virtues and new. When we say times have changed, I can given to us by our founder Sherman Day Thacher: think of no better example than our Open House Honor, Fairness, Kindness, and Truth. They will where parents drop by for cookies, ice cream sun- then note Thacher’s program wherein these virtues daes, and occasional foosball and Ping-Pong games find their expression: academic excellence, Our frequently. Truthfully, I am not sure what my reac- Honor Code (repeatedly debated and endorsed), and tion would have been as a teenager at boarding our distinctive Outdoor and Horse Program. school having my parents drop in at the Head’s Open Home, (were he to have had an Open The hint of the long-standing critical examination of House—which he didn’t.) That Thacher kids are the Honor Code is further evidence of the vibrancy generally genuinely pleased that their folks have of Ms. Lightfoot’s second road sign regarding school come by is even more impressive. Indeed, even at excellence, that of being “endlessly self-critical while the annual fall and spring Parent Hootenanny, the being simultaneously deeply rooted in the institu- young Toads get over their embarrassment at having tion.” Following several years of internal and ex- mom lead the crowd in a rousing Pete Seeger protest ternal assessments, directed by our Strategic song. It is at times like these that School and Family Planning agenda, I am confident in saying that come together almost seamlessly, and happily so. Thacher has set the industry standard for self-criti- cal examination and feedback. Fourteen studies, Parents are now officially represented on the Board later followed by ongoing debate and discussion, of Trustees as well as through several arms of the Par- have resulted in the shining Strategic Plan, 1999- ents’ Committee. Thacher is not simply more hos-

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 3 pitable to parents because parents want more Dr. Lightfoot then addressed directly the issue rums to be powerful: Students are given strong intimacy with the School; rather, we rely upon of School leadership. She said, “The work of footings to express opinions; thoughtful lis- parents to help us critically examine our poli- the leaders is most importantly to define the tening on all sides is the norm; and I can talk cies of in loco parentis (the current example parameters of meaning: How is it people about what our ideal vision is and how we being our look at the pros and cons of wan- should be in this community?” This work falls should be by virtue of specific example. This is, dering), and we seek to link arms with parents directly on my shoulders. Barely a day goes after all, far better than sermonizing, and I as we jointly share in the all important task of by when I do not think or talk about what learn much from our students at every session. raising these adolescents. This team approach and how we should be at this School. This is Yet I do not fool myself for a moment: I can do Head of School is most often seen during those trying but im- unrelenting and critical work, and the oppor- this work better being a meaning-maker. Every portant times when students lose their way and tunity for modeling this behavior is not some- moment presents an opportunity that should teachers, parents, and teens pull together to thing I take lightly. I have come to experience be seized. Do you think that one can overdo make sense of what happened. In fact, shared directly the veracity of her words. The obli- this? I will know when faculty and students values between parents and the School are ul- gation falls most heavily upon my shoulders as start avoiding me at lunch. timately the single most significant factor in Head, and then fall proportionately to the ad- whether a student succeeds here or not. ministration and faculty, the seniors, and there To a Zennist, of course, there exists only this on down. moment. The future is a mere mental con- It remains true, nonetheless, that there are struction. To put it otherwise, I quote Nick boundaries between the greater world of fam- Dr. Lightfoot emphasized that good schools Thacher, CdeP ’63, Head of New Canaan ilies and the School itself. Thacher has its own have at their core teaching. She refined this to Country Day School, in his recent essay “Re- culture, its own rules—based upon universal say that the “learning in the moment, attend- flections on Stepping Down”: “Time is a pre- principles of good conduct, to be sure, but not ing to the moment” should take precedence cious commodity. Carpe Diem; seize the day! always held by the “outside world”—and its over always “anticipating where you are It’s not a new idea, that: Every parent knows it; own idiosyncratic customs and practices. It going.” Now this is an art. As leaders, we are every teacher appreciates it…Time once lost provides safety and risks, rewards and chal- expected to always be pointing to the future, to can never be recaptured.” The job of a leader lenges, problems and opportunities to its stu- be spelling out where we are going and why, is at once to attend to the moment and yet be dents that go beyond and transcend the culture and then showing how we are going to get sure that every moment is invested with those of families and most other schools. And this there. All of our planning, research, and fund- seeds that sprout into the healthy fruits of the is the value-added of the Thacher experience. It raising have me always looking to the next day next day. It is an ageless paradox: to live this is the fertile ground from which springs rich for change, growth, and improvement. Yet if I moment fully while ensuring that the next does growth, and it is why character development is as a Head and we as a School do not attend to not leave us bankrupt. paramount here. the moment, we have lost our teaching oppor- tunity. We will have created a school environ- Sara Lawrence Lightfoot’s admonitions to Dr. Lightfoot went on to make the argument ment where we are always looking forward to, school leaders are particularly striking to me that excellent schools reflect the pluralism of rather than experiencing the richness of, this these several years later because their relevance our society as a whole and the globalism of very moment. seems not to have been diminished a bit. In- the world in which our students will live and deed, our public officials would do well to read work. Not long ago, independent schools were Sometimes crises are the best venues for learn- The Good High School once again because generally one color, one sex, one religion, and ing in the moment: How must we be? How Ms. Lightfoot’s definitions of excellence tran- one gender. Pick the school and assign the cat- have we fallen short? Where must we go? Over scend that hobgoblin and deceit put forth by egories. Now independent boarding schools— the years I have had more than sufficient op- our politicians that excellence is measured pri- and Thacher is no exception—are oftentimes portunities for this kind of teaching. Tough marily in test scores. She contends, and I con- more pluralistic than some colleges and any times are powerful learning moments for all. cur, that we would be far wiser to examine the number of suburban and rural high schools. That is why they are tough: they require more values of our schools since everything emanates Thacher’s student body, as noted by one visitor than the usual insight and energy. And there from these values. She asks: What are those this year, looks like the United Nations. The are almost always difficult decisions to be core values? Are they understood? Does the faculty, on the other hand, while increasingly made at these times, and then communicated, school seek to improve? Does it have it have gender balanced, is still overwhelmingly white. defined, and sometimes defended and then dis- well defined albeit permeable boundaries? As Ms. Lightfoot would be quick to point out, cussed ad infinitum and ad nauseam. But as Does it provide a global perspective and rich students need to look at the adults in their Dr. Lightfoot notes, these are rich times for role modeling to a pluralistic community? Do community and be able to witness success sto- communities. the leaders define how people should be in the ries of those who were once in their shoes. As school community? Are learning and teaching noted in our Strategic Plan, we still have sig- But relying on crises as a means of teaching at the center of the school? Does the school nificant work to do here despite having Asian, how we should be is rather like relying on a attend to learning in the moment? Latino, and African American role models. Ms. sprint to get you up Mount Everest. The jour- Lightfoot warned that “one of anything in a ney is too long and treacherous to maintain Ask these questions about a school and you school is treacherous…One token releases the such a pace. Defining, modeling, explaining, will learn a lot more about the school than core faculty from the real responsibility of and teaching just what it is that defines our anything standardized scores will tell you. It ‘dealing with it.’” “Dealing with it” means, of best selves must be done every day, in all ways, will tell, first and foremost, whether it is the course, that it is the responsibility of every fac- sometimes at a sprint, but more often at a jog, kind of school you would like your child to ulty member to take prejudice, head-on, not a walk, or simply by sitting down and reflect- attend or not. to turn this and related thorny issues over to ing. My favorite time for discussions about the “race or gender representatives” on the fac- meanings with students is the “Fireside Chat” Thacher measures up well, but not perfectly ulty. Beyond this, she noted, we must provide where I, once a season, meet with students and to these questions. We have work to do, but we to them leaders and models on the faculty have an open dialogue and free exchange with knew that. And that work is also part of the whose very presence suggests that this world is them on some topic of importance to them. fun of enjoying this moment for every school, now one where anyone so motivated can stake Topics have included teen sexuality, campus like every person, is on a “journey.” There is a claim of ownership and leadership. We are after check-in freedom privilege “wandering,” no arriving at the end of the journey really; working on this at Thacher, but there remains the Honor Code, and the “two strike” pun- there is only the travel and, we hope, the cher- lots of work to do. ishment system. I have found these open fo- ishing of each moment along the way. e page 4 The Thacher News Letters Letters

To the Thacher Alumni Magazine: Marshall Milligan responds: I wanted to talk Lakehurst, NJ Lettersabout the spirituality of the Thacher experi- February 16, 2000 When I read Marshall Milligan’s speech from ence, because I think we too seldom acknowl- the Outdoor Chapel, reprinted in the last issue, edge it and because our non-Thacher friends Dear Jane, I felt so relieved that someone else could put too seldom appreciate it. Apparently, Ken’s ex- into understandable words the sense of spiri- perience is just such a case. I’m wondering if This is a brief note to say what a splendid job tuality that we all received at Thacher. there are others among us who might have rec- you did on the latest Thacher News— ollections or comments on the subject of spir- Spring/Summer ’99. You always do a fine job, And you all are the only people in the world ituality and the Thacher experience. Let us but this time I was prompted to write. The lay- who can understand what happened to me hear from you. out is excellent, because it is both artistic and years ago, as I broke up with a girlfriend. She compelling. said, “You are not spiritual!” Again, I say to you, my brothers and sisters, only you can un- The Headmaster’s words constitute truth at a derstand how my mind went that very moment deep level. News of the School is full of inter- to the past, to a hilltop overlooking the Ojai esting reports and vignettes. I am always happy Valley, sitting on top of my horse, and soaking January 27, 2000 to read of people I have known and worked in the very essence of spirituality—the nature with: Tom May on the past Buildings and around us, as Marshall said, and as he alluded Dear Ms. McCarthy, Grounds Committee; John Lewis and his to the sensibilities of Sherman Day Thacher 100% loyalty; Herb Moffitt, former hard- (and his aversion to organized religions). I I felt nostalgic reading the latest Thacher working Board member, whose sons, Jim and knew my girlfriend was totally wrong, but how News. My family and I had some good years David, were mathematics students of mine; could I explain it to her? there in the 1960s. I fondly remember doubles Bob Hunter, Board Member in my day; David matches with Hub Segur, Tim Carey, and Bob Garden of 1999 Shangri-la whose son, David, Then, just yesterday, I found the following Chesley, faculty gatherings at the Sheahans’ or was another of my students; Tony Thacher; poem in an old long-forgotten box. It was writ- Betty Saunders’, early years with the Halsey Marshall Milligan. ten my Junior year at Thacher: clan, Upper School management with Milt Frye and Roy Bobby, and so much more. I Your section, “From the Earth,” is fascinat- OJAI SUNSET came at a time of change for the School, ing…digging out interesting material about change that now seems relatively insignificant alumni… With the sun in my eyes given where Thacher stands today. However, I And the wind in my ears do have the feeling from reading The News Very best wishes, On a mountain top. that much of what was Thacher then remains. David Koth, My cheeks are stretched cold But life moves on. I now live in Brookline, MA, Mathematics Instructor, Business Manager And my coat keeps me warm a psychologist with a second family (my wife 1970-71, 1972-74, 1975, 1976-78, 1980-83 On a mountain top. Peg, 12-year-old Sam, and 9-year-old Anna), and I have lost touch with many of those I January sunset seen at its peak knew in The Ojai. I’d like them all to know From atop a horse called Rufus they remain in my mind and heart and it would On a mountain top. be a pleasure, over time, to talk together and to remember. Rufus and I admire the sky And listen to the world below Fondly, From a mountain top. Dick Burhoe Hungry, Rufe? Just another minute English Teacher, 1959-67 While I sort things out On a mountain top.

Long ride down to dinner and bed I won’t forget he peace I had On a mountain top.

You know what I mean?

Ken Jacobs, CdeP ’68

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Family Weekend

Acquaintances Renewed by Jane D. McCarthy Family Weekend

t Class Barbecues scattered across campus tled “A Roving” and William Shield’s “O Hap- on Friday evening, parents donned chef hats py Fair”; the Thacher Chorus wrapped up the Aand aprons to barbecue tri-tip and chicken evening with the traditional folk song, “The Wa- for the assembled children, ter is Wide” and “Matilda,” a traditional ca- families, and faculty members. lypso folk song. An equally impressive array of They also brought copious desserts including brownies, assorted bars, and amounts of desserts to share coffee on The Pergola was the evening’s finale. before the community gath- ered in the Lamb Auditorium At the Outdoor Amphitheatre on Saturday for Friday evening’s impres- morning, parents witnessed what students do sive Sampler of Performing at 10:30 a.m. three times each week: Assembly. Arts. The Chamber Music Features included the debut of a new faculty Ensemble played Mozart’s singing group, Locus Vocus, various reminders “Romanza” from Eine Kleine about the Weekend’s activities, and Wayne Nachtmusik and “Gavotte” Chang giving a Senior Reading. Students led from J.S. Bach’s Suite #3 in D their families to classrooms, where they were Major. The Dance Ensemble reincarnated into teachers to explain chemical performed “Interplay,” cho- reactions, write/draw Chinese characters, or reographed by Gallia Vickery, share solutions and rationales for statistics an intricate modern piece questions. Throughout the morning, the library complete with special lighting staff displayed books on topics as wide ranging effects. Jake as modern art to Cold War archives, and Chi- Freshman parents: Jacobsen di- nese philosophy to the history of cryptogra- Helen Keane (mother of rected his cast phy. People purchased and donated these 86 Brian ’03); Carolyn and Randy Tapscott (parents in a “Ten- volumes that can now be found in the library of Sarah); John and Betsy Minute Earn- stacks. The Parents’ Committee did a swift Grether (parents of est,” a syn- business at the Thacher gear sales table: caps, Robert, CdeP ’99, Ted opsis of Oscar sweat shirts, and t-shirts were this year’s big ’01, and Russell ’03), and Wilde’s play sellers. Some families found their way to the Sally Pollet, mother of The Impor- Sidney Brody Gallery to enjoy the extensive Troy ’03 tance of Being exhibit of student art that ran the gamut of Earnest. The sculpture to photography, water color to pen- Susan and Tom Stenovec Chamber cil sketches. (parents of Tim ’02) and Singers, di- Liz and Newlin Hastings, rected by Gre- Towards the end of Saturday morning, Michael CdeP ’70, (parents of gory Hag- Mulligan spoke to the families of the sense of Shannon, CdeP ’99, and gard, sang a peace and well-being of the Ojai which are ben- Jamie ’02) gear up for the Sophomore Class traditional eficial for students as they face pressures of Barbecue chantey enti- work, sexual experimentation, drugs and al- cohol use, and peer acceptance. Beyond Ojai’s healing powers, however, Michael enforced that “Teens need to be known and held ac- countable for learning, homework, and writing. They learn through connections with caring adults…who can help mentor them to adult- hood.” He emphasized the need for smaller classes and schools that create a community where every individual offers his unique tal- ents, gifts, and strengths to the betterment of the community. Michael then introduced Diane McKoy, Senior Associate Director of Admis- sions at Columbia University. Beyond recom- mendations to bear in mind about the college- application process, Diane reiterated the importance of reciprocal involvement by all community members to better society. Since Columbia University Senior she came to the balance of the Family Weekend Associate Director of Admissions activities, seniors applying to Columbia and Diane McKoy served as Saturday’s their families could individually discuss Keynote Speaker Columbia’s admission process with her. page 6 The Thacher News Celeste Thomas (’00) and her father, John Family Weekend

Color Guard leads the Horse Exhibition Grand Entry There was barely enough time for all of the parent/student teams to shoot trap on Saturday Li Li watches Chance afternoon. Chris Brown ’01 and father Fred, Phelps ’03 write “Hello” in Chinese who shot 46 out of 50, achieved the highest overall score for the Weekend, while Michael Dachs ’03 hit every disc thrown his way. Just as the shooting wound up, the athletic events began with four Boys’ Soccer teams playing against Cate and Ojai Valley School, and the Girls’ Tennis and Volleyball teams duking it Art and Riding Instructor out against Cate. A highlight was the Varsity Steve Carter watches as his Soccer team’s win over Cate, 5-1, just one riding group, the “Low week after losing during Cate’s Parents’ Week- Riders,” square dance their end game. horses to Jesse Kahle’s calling from Jack Huyler’s New this year was an information/question- golf cart answer session for parents and students to treated to the well-known learn about the various exchange programs strain’s of Pachelbel’s available to juniors: English-Speaking Union, “Canon in D,” played by School Year Abroad, and Maine Coast Semes- a quintet of flutes, viola, ter. This meeting adjourned in time for parents and cello. Nan Grand- to sample the local Ojai cuisine or head to the Jean, mother of Addie Dining Hall for a spread of Prime Rib, Vege- Hearst ’01, spoke about tarian Quiche, and Chocolate Mousse Cake. three important lessons The traditional hootenanny at the Mulligan that she learned between Open House got underway around eight and the ages of 15 and 50. featured parents embarrassing their children First, Nan spoke of the with their musical talents. difference between the in- side and the outside of Bright and early Sunday morning at the Out- ourselves and of her at- door Chapel, the Thacher Community was tempts “to give as much love as possible to the ones I love.“ Next, she spoke of discovering our giftedness and developing whatever gifts/talents to the best of our abil- out of each other in intricate patterns that re- ity.” Third, she talked of our limited life span quired coordination and timing, to bare-back and the importance of spending it on the peo- stunts and standing on saddles. Given that the ple and things that we love. In closing Nan majority of riders had ridden for only seven said: “Always look inside. You will find infinite weeks at the time of this display, they were fun and energy, plus eventually a sustaining amazingly composed and well-heeled. As one passion that will pull you joyously through life parent observed, “only one spill [a bareback and make you wish that you could have more rider who immediately remounted, unscathed] than only one lifetime.” and definitely no chills”: the thermometer reached the century mark. Horses, feet, and An astounding exhibition of riding expertise buses brought the group back for a final was Sunday morning’s main event. Following brunch at The Pergola before families wound the traditional entrance of the Color Guard their way down Thacher Road with happy but (Seniors Lucinda Brown, Devon Tarasevic, and tired hearts from this jam-packed three-day Wallis Adams), Esther Guzman ’01 led the au- Weekend. e dience in singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Next, seven riding teams led by the Horse De- partment faculty displayed equestrian skills that ranged from square dancing on horseback to the calls of Jesse Kahle to weaving in and

Nan Grand-Jean, mother of Addie Hearst ’01, gives her message at Sunday’s Chapel Service: “What I Learned Between 15 and 50”

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Footlights, Moonlight, Campus Life and Charity

he Thacher Masquers performed two plays Employed as a hostess at a New York dance this year: The Importance of Being Earnest hall in the late 1960s, Charity Hope Valentine Tby Oscar Wilde in the fall, and the musical displays her innocent vulnerability repeatedly PlaysSweet Charity by Neil Simon (choreography throughout Sweet Charity as she tries to find by Bob Fosse) in the winter. Although these happiness with various unimpressive plays represent settings boyfriends. Her “real” chance for marriage and characters as differ- comes when the “fickle finger of fate” traps ent as one can imagine, her in an elevator with a claustrophobic tax the Masquers portrayed accountant (Oscar Lindquist) who also seems their roles deftly, to the to be in search of “something.” Romance blos- delight of the audiences. soms only to falter when Oscar discovers Charity’s true occupation and dating history. The Outdoor Theatre Through trials and tribulations, Sweet Charity was a perfect backdrop continues searching for love, wide-eyed and for the witty Impor- hopeful. tance of Being Earnest, a play that was first per- Oscar, etc.: Paul Bonewitz ’00 formed at Thacher in Vittorio, etc.: Chris Bonewitz ’01 the same spot in 1913 Charity: Mariposa Widdoes ’00 with boys playing the Herman, etc.: Emmett Hopkins ’01 women’s roles in full Daddy Brubeck, etc.: Kirby Williams ’00 Victorian dress. At Daddy’s Assistants, etc.: Andrew Warren ’00 Drama Director Jake Ja- and Peter Warman ’00 cobsen’s side (and, in his Cops, Customers, Street People: Will Barkan words, “significant in ’02, Alden Blair ’01, and Emery Mitchem ’01 the establishment of cast Lead Hostesses: Margaux Lloyd ’00, Esther unity, focus, and trust”) Guzman ’01, and Julia Erdman ’03 Chris Bonewitz ’01, Paul Bonewitz ’00, was Associate Director Mariposa Widdoes ’00, Ursula, Hostess: Monique Gaskins ’02 Logan Clark ’01, and Grace Carter ’01 who put to use many of the techniques and Hostesses, Street people, etc.: Lily Mitchem in The Importance of Being Earnest. skills she honed last summer at the compre- ’01, Lacey Gordon ’00, Zoe Towns ’02, hensive National High School Institute The- Heidi Cole ’02, Youna Kim ’02, Meredith atre Arts Program, held at Northwestern Walker ’01, and Emma White ’01 e University. The fantastic plot and ironic twists display Wilde’s wit in what he understatedly called a “somewhat farcical comedy” about the amorous misadventures of two young Eng- lish gentlemen.

Lane: Will Barkan ’02 Merriman: Alden Blair ’01 Algernon Moncrieff: Chris Bonewitz ’01 John Worthing: Paul Bonewitz ’00 Lady Bracknell: Anthea Tjuanakis ’01 Gwendolen Fairfax: Logan Clark ’01 Miss Prism: Meredith Walker ’01 Cecily Cardew: Grace Carter ’01 Rev. Canon Chausible: Emery Mitchem ’03, Youna Kirby Williams ’00 Kim ’02, Margaux Lloyd ’00, and Kirby Williams ’00 in Sweet Charity.

Sound and lighting technicians Kevin Schmidt ’01, Matt Schuman ’00, and Sara Thacher ’00 page 8 The Thacher News Campus Life Campus Life Pack up Your Horse and Head for the Hills W. Austin Curwen, Director of the Horse Camping Program

yon’s Camp. Ladybug. Pine Mountain and over The Ridge. On the home front, the Lodge. Ten Sycamores. To some these are pack station is getting ready for some reor- Ljust words on a page. To others, they are ganization to complement the new barn proj- Packingindelibly etched in their minds from horse ect. Meanwhile, on the other side of The camping trips harking back to the founding of the School. In many ways, these names are as much a part of one’s Thacher career as Upper School or Chick Barn Alley, and there is no reason to believe they won’t continue to make their mark on our students. The Thacher Horse Camping program met its goal of getting all of this year’s freshmen class out on a trip during the year. Austin Curwen and Brian Pidduck, CdeP ’92, entice all students to This year’s smuts seem to be es- participate in the Outdoor pecially keen on getting back into Program during Assembly the Sespe. Several members of the class of ’03 have reflected on the impact of Ridge, work continued at Patton’s Cabin. A their experiences. Robert Cerda likened his ex- new tie-rail was installed, along with a fence in perience to “taking the step into the unknown front of the cabin to create a more permanent campsite and to allow for easier loading and unloading. In addition, the enclosure was ex- panded toward the river to allow easier access to water.

With a vast wilderness as our backyard, along with the School’s continued commitment to bringing students into the backcountry, the Thacher Horse Camping Program is poised to continue providing camping opportunities far into the next millennium. e

Chris Bonewitz ’01, Emma White and unraveling the mysteries as they lie on the ’01, Alex Herbert ’02, and David path ahead.” Russell Grether enjoyed being Gal ’02 enjoy breakfast before part of a group: “I think that the main focus of hitting the trail our trip—after we found out what we had done—was unity.” Katie Kuhl summed up her feelings: “My trip never failed to be exciting, and I won’t ever forget it.” Clearly the value of our outdoor excursions remains as strong as ever.

While the terrain was a bit dry in the fall, trips went off without a hitch, relying on packed feed and careful planning to go where the water was, namely Patton’s and Willett’s. Once the rains came in the winter, the river rose and native grass grew, thereby assuring adequate horse feeding through the spring into EDTs.

In addition to motivated students and good luck with the weather, the Horse Camping pro- Sophomores Alex Herbert and Maddie McQuillan gram has done some fine tuning both at home see how much they can stuff into a pack

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 9 Campus Life Music Campus Life Weekend

Alexander String Quartet his rich piano style, kicks off February’s mesmerizing stories, Departmental Weekend and charming person- ality.

Speaking of piano, Fri- of a coy- day night featured Boo- ote. The gie Woogie pianists Rob pair then Rio and Clark Sonny struggles Horton. Their coming against from different stylistic overwhelm- schools of Boogie Woogie ing odds, added intrigue and excite- frustrations, and ment to their performances, tragedies to realize especially when the two pianos their dreams. The film’s writers, were dueling with left-hand bass lines and daz- usic Weekend” is a more apt name for Anna Thomas and Greg Nava (both of whom zling right-hand riffs. They stretched the limits “ this year’s Departmental Weekend in live in Ojai and Greg was also the film’s direc- of what can be done on 88’s and inspired bud- MFebruary, since it featured a wide vari- tor) conducted the discussion portion of the morn- ding Thacher pianists to further their studies. ety of musical performances. Kicking off the ing’s events. Ever since, the sound of fledgling Boogie Woo- festivities Thursday afternoon was a master gie enthusiasts can be heard from the various class for the AP Music Theory students con- Later that afternoon, Van Dyke Parks, father pianos around campus. ducted by the Alexander String Quartet. In that of Richard ’00 and songwriter, led his trio the class had been studying Beethoven’s style through an eclectic mix of musical pieces with On Saturday morning, science teacher and and how his composing differed from others of themes ranging from the Marines to Califor- world-class dance competitor Andrew Ho and his era, the Quartet demonstrated what nia, with nuances of Randy Newman, Gordon senior Margaux Lloyd taught swing dancing Beethoven was trying to achieve. They then Lightfoot, and Bob Marley that crossed the to a full au- played the same music as if it had been written borders between pop, Broadway musical, clas- ditorium of by one of his peers so that the students could sical music, and jazz. He interspersed his songs students in identify the differences in style. This was a fas- with amusing banter about the origin of ideas preparation cinating exercise for these young musicians and that spawned the songs and funny incidents for the big gave them a greater appreciation for the con- from when he’s previously performed them. dance Satur- cert that the Quartet presented to the entire The students and faculty were captivated by day night community following dinner. It featured music featuring by Beethoven, Bartok and Mendelsohn, and swing band proved to be an interesting comparison of Lee Press- styles that spanned from the Late On and the Baroque/Early Classical era to the atonal pat- Nails from tern of Modern Music. This Quartet is widely San Fran- admired for its interpretations of Beethoven cisco. Stu- and Bartok and has established itself as an im- dents portant advocate of new music through over perfected 25 commissions and numerous premier per- their peek-a- formances. Many students had never heard a boos, rock string quartet before and were impressed by steps, and the variety and intensity of sound that the en- arch turns, semble made. and then dis- played their The entire School assembled at the Ojai Play- best moves house on Friday morning for a private screen- that evening. ing of El Norte, and a question-and-answer dis- The dance cussion about the director’s use of indigenous floor was a Science teacher and world-class Latin American music. This gripping story fol- bit tight dance competitor Andrew Ho and lows two teenage siblings who are forced to leave since nearly Margaux Lloyd ’00 demonstrate their Guatamalan homeland because of polit- everyone dance steps to the students ical turmoil during the 1980’s. Their arduous danced con- journey north—El Norte—to America contin- Joy Bergeron ’02 and Nate Wallace ’02 learn some tinuously, but that didn’t stop the smiles and ues with their crossing the border with the help swing-step basics on Saturday afternoon cheers for a terrific Music Weekend. e

page 10 The Thacher News Campus Life Campus Life Environmental Science Learning from the Earth

ust before leaving on sabbatical a few years problems, and examine alternative solutions randomly selected from a 100-meter transect back, Science Chair Rae Ann Sines spotted for resolving and/or preventing them. line. Monthly, the class visits the quadrants Jan ACORN course outline for a year-long to observe the re-growth of various plants. AdvancedScience Placement Environmental Science Thacher’s location adjacent to the Los Padres Two months after the fire—following the rainy course. Having received a Masters from Duke’s National Forest—brimming with streams and months of February and March—the seedlings School of Forestry and Environmental Man- fields, flora and fauna—offers an extensive and began to sprout. The following month, stu- varied stage for environmental dents found up to a dozen different types of field studies. For instance, the plants growing, including burr clover and wild class tested and compared the hyacinth and peonies. Visual inspection indi- water quality of the Ventura cates that where goats had grazed before the River watershed. Thacher Creek fire, more burr clover is evident; fewer plants on campus is virtually the head- seem to be sprouting where the fire burned hot- waters of the Ventura River wa- ter and the goats had not grazed. This study tershed while the Main Street field will continue for the next 10-15 years or until site in Ventura is the mouth of the the hill returns to its natural chaparral-covered Ventura River and the final desti- state. nation of the waters from the Ojai Valley. Students noted the Another ongoing study employs ozone-detect- moderate increase in nutrients in- ing patches hung across campus to determine cluding nitrates, phosphates, and ambient levels of anthropogenic ozone gas. ammonia that were most likely Foggy, humid versus dry, warm days; copier from treated sewage, fertilizer, machine versus Perimeter Road vehicle ex- and agricultural runoff from the haust; orchard versus classroom sites: one- Ojai Valley. More impressive was inch-square swatches will yield air pollution Seniors Carlos Soriano and Marley Orr detect oxygenation of the the increase in the biological oxy- data that this class can compare with last year’s Math-Science Courtyard stream gen demand in agement in the mid-80s, she was intrigued with the waters between the two expanding her one-semester elective course to sites, indicative of what is a full-year Advanced Placement course. An en- otherwise known as eu- thusiastic group of students greeted Rae Ann trophic conditions found upon her return and anxiously learned about commonly after water has environmental problems through both didactic passed through farms, fields, and hands-on field studies. Employing various and towns. Last year when scientific principles, concepts, and methodolo- Thacher Creek ran year gies, they could further understand interrela- round, class studies focussed tionships of the natural world. By identifying on the insect larva and their and analyzing environmental problems—both food preferences, specifically natural and human-made—they would evalu- leaf detritus. ate the relative risks associated with these This year’s Ranch Fire offered the perfect backdrop Seniors Lauren Fraim and Cheryl Lynn Horton receive instruction on for observ- setting up ozone-detecting patches ing the re- growth of vegetation on the data and subsequent classes can use for com- hills overlooking the Gym- parison studies. khana Field, otherwise known as secondary succes- This successful and interesting course rounds sion. While the earth was still out the Advanced Placement course offerings blackened in January, four at Thacher and gives students practical tech- one-square-meter grids were niques from which to examine their environ- ment. This mindset not only benefits the Seniors Carlos Soriano, students, but shows students how they can pre- Cheryl Lynn Horton, serve and restore their environment for future Wayne Chang, and Justin generations to enjoy. e Arnold with Science Chair Rae Ann Sines

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 11 TOAD Talk

Reflections on

Campus Life Becoming a Parent Molly Twichell Perry, CdeP ’85

hen I was eight months preg- nant with Jordan and big as Wa barn, I ran into the mother Toadof Califia Davis, [CdeP ’98], a for- mer Thacher student. Seeing a pregnant woman always seems to elicit words of parenting wisdom from the observer, and this case was no exception. Califia’s mom, Lorraine, said something that struck me as odd at the time, but it has stuck with me ever since. She said: “The love you have for your children is a strange thing. They can light up your life or they can drive you to drink, but, without a doubt, my child is the only being for whom I would willingly throw myself in front of a bus and be happy that I did.”

“Oh yes, I’m sure.” I replied, just as I had replied to those who had said that I would never sleep more than three hours in a row again, or that breast-fed babies’ diapers did- n’t smell, or that stretch marks were sexy. I thought “There must be something about parenting that Molly, Derick, and Jordan Perry addles the brain. I’m sure that I will love my baby, but it would be sheer lunacy to pick a fight with a ten-ton moving mother thought that it was the friendliest place vehicle. Self-sacrifice is not a pastime in which on Earth because everyone waved at us as we I frequently engage.” drove up the Main Street—only later did we discover that, in fact, the street was one way, in Yet, here I stand, just short of a year later, the other direction. Needless to say, I didn’t ready to admit that my nine-month-old baby apply. Someone on the Admission Committee TOAD Talks are those often- has me wrapped around her one-and-a-half- might have remembered my face. It was too inch-long little finger. The logical conclusion— large of a risk to take.) Remember that they memorable addresses given parenting does, in fact, warp your brain. I are the ones who love you so deeply that they by a faculty member who is don’t know how it happened. I don’t know would sacrifice (and most likely already have) what changed, but now I know that I wouldn’t themselves for you. Are a few hours of your on duty for the week. think twice about hurling myself into the path time too much to give up for the ones who of any rapid transit vehicle if I knew that by might be the only thing standing between you doing so I would save my little girl. and ten tons of steel? I doubt it. e We will print one of those most topical TOAD talks in So, you’re thinking… “Interesting, masochistic, but interesting. But what does this have to do each issue. with me?” My point is this: In five short days Molly Twichell Perry, CdeP ’85, is a Pioneer in we will depart for a long-awaited vacation. her own right: She is the first Fac Brat to come Most of you will spend at least some of the back and teach at Thacher since Anson S. time during these precious two weeks—when Thacher, CdeP ’23, and she is the only one you aren’t sleeping—with a parent or two. with the additional title of “Mom.” When you are with them, you may be tempted to walk five yards ahead and pretend that they don’t exist. (College trips provide priceless fod- der for embarrassing parental encounters. Take my experience at Dartmouth, for example. My

page 12 The Thacher News Tidbits Tidbits

he calm of Thacher’s winter break ended be- ive seniors received word recently that they Tfore dawn on December 21,when a brush Fare Finalists in the 2000 Competition for Na- fire threatened the eastern side of campus. tional Merit Scholarship Awards. Lucinda TidbitsKnown as the Ranch Fire, it began in the Brown from Chevy Chase, Maryland; Brooke Upper Ojai when some firecrackers were set Halsey from Ojai; Clay Pell from Tucson, Ari- off, and quickly spread west (at one point in zona; Allegra Towns from Santa Paula, CA; the night it moved one mile in fifteen minutes and Juliette White from Colusa, CA, will hear due to 80 m.p.h. winds) towards Meditation later if they will receive scholarships toward Mount, Ojai Valley School’s upper campus, their college education. and Thacher’s Gymkhana area. Fortunately, Dennis Hill, one of the Maintenance workers, allia Vickery, one of Thacher’s mathematics aroused various co-workers who met him on Gteachers and Dance Instructor, choreo- campus to fight the fire shortly after midnight. graphed and then danced in “Cantatas: An They cut fire breaks, took a stand at Diamond Evening of Contemporary Dance and Renais- Hitch Campground, employed the School’s sance Song” at the Ojai Art Center in January. water truck to fight the flying embers, and saw This same show premiered at Santa Barbara’s how important the end-of-season brush re- Center Stage Theater last June. Gallia is a View of Gymkhana area two days following the moval was in saving the campus. Several fac- member of the Ajiva Dance Theater—a troupe Ranch Fire ulty homes closest to the flames were sprayed of seven dancers, aged 25 to 50, who also with fire retardant; the fire came within yards choreograph their dances. In “Cantatas,” they of these structures but they were saved. The danced to Renaissance songs performed by the School’s remuda of 120 horses was shuttled Madrigali Singers, an eleven-voice, co-ed group from Carpenters Orchard to the safety of the based in Ojai. corrals and arenas with the help of various fac- Numeracy Puzzle ulty families, staff, students, and neighbors in echnology Director and Mathematics In- Last issue’s question was attempted, but the early morning hours. Miraculously, the pre- Tstructor Kurt Meyer was named Educator of not completed. Here was the question… vailing winds shifted easterly at dawn and the the Year by Ojai’s Chamber of Commerce. At fire turned towards the Los Padres Forest a celebratory dinner/dance at the Ojai Valley A courier starting at the rear of a moving where it continued blazing for nearly a week. Inn, Kurt was honored for his dedication to army 100 miles long rides to the front, de- Only one tack shed in Carpenters Orchard— his profession, his efforts to establish state-of- livers a message, and rides immediately to the School’s latest piece of construction—was the-art technology skills for teachers and stu- the rear, where he finds he is 100 miles lost, but the outlying foothills that Thacher dents throughout Southern California, and for ahead of his starting point. In all, how far students have climbed and ridden on for over being instrumental in providing Internet con- did he ride? Of course, the army was mov- a century resemble a gray moonscape. Work nections for many local community organiza- ing at a steady pace and the courier’s speed crew spends its time re-establishing lost and tions including the public library and schools. was constant…and here is the solution. forgotten trails and trying to avert major ero- e sion problems. 100 Army x So: r = 100 + x and r = x Army x 100 - x Here’s the new question: Courier’s Route and x2 = 1002 – x2 This is an old chestnut that people may 100 x = 50 √ 2 have seen in various forms: Army x = 70.70 miles Position eight checkers on a standard 8×8 Distance travelled: checkerboard so that no row, column, or Let the Army’s rate be 1; the courier’s To the front: 100 + 70.7 miles diagonal contains more than one checker. rate be r. Then There are many solutions, some of which To the rear: 70.7 miles Rate · Time = Distance are just rotations or reflections of one an- So the courier rides a total of other. Courier up r · (100+x)/r = 100 + x 100 + 70.7 + 70.7 = 241.4 miles Courier back r · (x/r) = x Now for a twist…Postition sixteen checkers on a standard board so that no column, The time for the Army to move x miles is Our thanks to Richard Myrick, CdeP ’39, row, or diagonal contains more than two x. Therefore: of Washington, D.C., and former math checkers. This one is a little more fun! 100 + x = x and x = 100 – x teacher Stephen Hauge (1976-81) for rrsending us their attempts to solve this puzzle.

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 13 Technology TEACH THE TEACHERS Thacher’s Initial COLLABORATIVE Public Offering Technology by Kurt R. Meyer

ioneers are forever exploring most importantly, what does this success mean boundaries; pioneers in education for private education and boarding schools in Pare no exception. The last century’s particular? legacy of Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg, and Gilligan leave us with firmer under- Necessity—in this case, size—mothered the in- standing of human development and ventive partnering of these two venerable challenge us ever to improve the edu- schooling institutions, but it has been the en- cational experience of our children. In during quality of our mutual respect that keeps recent years, Ted Sizer and Howard us together. The sheer scope of the Teach The Gardner also have contributed signifi- Teachers project—as dictated by Vons’ market cantly to our thinking about schools area (328 stores in 14 counties)—required that and schooling. And, as the Internet Thacher seek out an institution with “reach” continues to erode traditional bound- whose name represented quality and credibil- aries—international, socio-economic, ity, and LACOE was it. After all, forming an legal, and even generational (grown eight-week training program for 1,344 public adults are addicted to video games; pre- school teachers this summer was not to be ac- teens are trading stocks)—it is no sur- complished by Casa de Piedra alone. Coordi- prise to find pioneers at the forefront of nating with 14 county offices of education in its myriad applications. When barriers Southern California; selecting participants; or allegiances that traditionally delin- identifying instructors; auguring course con- eate groups are disassembled—or re- tent for—and teaching—twenty-five unique assembled—new possibilities for teams seminars; feeding and housing our guests (no, arise and, with them, new potential for not a chocolate on every pillow); organizing learning and achievement. software and hardware—these tasks require a staff of over 120. Such has been Thacher’s experience with the Vons/Pavilions Teach The LACOE’s mission—to provide support serv- Teachers Collaborative (TTTC), an ices to 1,700 Los Angeles County schools— ambitious, groundbreaking teacher- fits hand in glove with that of Teach The training program for K-12 educators Teachers. To help meet the organizational chal- in a fourteen-county region in Southern lenge of TTTC, LACOE retains a full-time staff Chris Grant ’02 unpacks laptops California. A little boarding school in a rural member, Cheryl Lee, who is the project man- lent by Gateway Computer community has found a partner in a very un- ager there for the Vons/Pavilions Teach The Corporation for participants to likely place: the enormous Los Angeles County Teachers Collaborative. With Thacher’s Pro- use this summer Office of Education (LACOE). As the largest gram Manager Alice Meyer, Cheryl helps bring public educa- together the course content and instructional tion agency n staff that comprises this summer’s program. A the U.S., this great deal of the trust between Thacher and 800-pound LACOE stems from the extremely positive gorilla not working relationship these women have only engages achieved. Their effectiveness as a team is re- in, but often flected in both the strength of the summer cur- dictates, the riculum and the quality of the staff we’ve agenda of Cal- assembled to teach it. ifornia State education pol- From our “first date” Thacher and LACOE icy-making have viewed each other as extraordinary. When and fiduciary we first approached the County Office leader- funneling. ship, Thacher was immediately seen as pecu- With influence liar. We were not selling something; we were that extends not asking for something; we had no political to the heart of axe to grind; we had no turf to protect. In- Sacramento stead, we were offering to help build an all- politics, expenses-paid summer program for LACOE’s Benjamin Wallace, LACOE is as constituents! Thacher was the mouse removing CdeP ’99, helps unlikely a the technology training thorn from the great configure the network Thacher bed- lion’s paw—and we have been treated like fellow as it has been a favorable one. How— kings. In partnering with Thacher, LACOE is and why—has this partnership worked and, able to enhance its leadership throughout both page 14 The Thacher News Technology the County and Southern California by its fessionally contented partly “owning” a flagship program that no teachers back to their other public education agency can match. communities in Comp- LACOE’s pioneering spirit—to extend a hand ton, East L.A., Imper- toward the “peculiar”—and wholeheartedly ial County, Fresno, and embrace of this experiment to combine educa- Bakersfield, for exam- tional resources in unusual ways—was ab- ple, Thacher becomes solutely key to the early success of TTTC. One much more than a need only a marginal sense of public educa- mailing, a poster, or tion bureaucracy to understand the degree of even a video segment risk-taking that was required of the LACOE can make us. Thacher leadership; to say “yes” to this project. is understood as a home where scholarly As public education comes under increasing pursuits and personal scrutiny (and California’s educational ranking reflection go hand in continues to languish in 49th place in the U.S.), hand. the importance of program credibility cannot be over emphasized. School leaders and teacher Head of School TTT participants last participants are desperate to produce results, Michael Mulligan has summer and they will spend their time only on pro- been heard to quote Shakespeare often enough: grams that do so. This means that TTTC must “a rising tide lifts all boats.” What TTTC be “aligned” with the State Academic Content achieves for teachers and youngsters in our im- Standards (the “what”) as well as the Subject mediate California neighborhood will come Frameworks for pedagogy (the “how”). We back to help Thacher; as a lesson, we hope, it are able to achieve this through LACOE’s con- will help public and independent schools siderable resources that already committed to across the entire United States. Michael’s work these standards (another indication of their pi- with NAIS committees and other national oneering spirit), and as a partner they are able groups will help to preserve and protect the to share them advantageously with TTTC. future of boarding schools; let our public-pri- With such a “standards-based” foundation, vate partnership experience at Thacher be a TTTC is a program LACOE can proudly pro- guiding beacon. e mote throughout its vast sphere of influence— a benefit of great value to Thacher. Meanwhile, LACOE is happily discovering the organiza- tional agility, programming creativity, and the special opportunities that Thacher’s premier residential facilities offer our program. To- gether, the institutions are auguring a unique solution to the professional development goals for California teachers. We have a healthy ap- preciation for the essential nature of our re- spective contributions—and with this a frontier is crossed; a new allegiance is born. We are combining the best of what’s “private” with the best of what’s “public” to create a pro- gram that achieves both soundness and flexi- bility.

The benefits for Thacher are enormous—as, I believe, they are for education in general. Through TTTC, a broad spectrum of educa- tional leaders in Southern California live for a week at Thacher and return to their colleagues and students with a strong, positive message about residential education. Like a throwback to their college days, the Thacher experience engenders strong social and professional con- tacts among TTTC participants that enrich each teacher’s work well after they leave CdeP. And, they express a corresponding loyalty to the Program. As Diane Tengan of Gahr High School puts it, “I could feel the traditions of Thacher—honesty, trust, diligence, creativity— in the room.”

In population centers most boarding schools can only dream of breaking into, Thacher not only creates a name for itself, it earns a position of esteem—and even affection. By sending pro-

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 15 Fall/Winter Sports Sports

BOYS’ FRESHMAN SOCCER by Joy Sawyer-Mulligan Captains: Tyler Caldwell ’03, Owili Eison ’03, and Troy Pollet ’03 BOYS’ JUNIOR VARSITY SOCCER League and Season Record: 2-1 Varsity Soccer Team celebrates 5-0 victory over Cate at this Fall’s Family Weekend Captain: Darren Bechtel ’00 Coach: Michael Mulligan League Record: 6-0-2 This team’s only loss came in its season opener (to Happy Valley’s Varsity team); from that moment for- Season Record: 6-0-3 ward, there were no more goals for the opposition Fall Sports (great credit to goaltender Richard Smith ’03). Es- Coach: Jack Crawford pecially sweet were two victories (2-0 and 3-0) over Cate on their Parents’ Weekend and ours. Though BOYS’ VARSITY SOCCER The JV Boys’ Soccer team posted a 6-0-3 season often overmatched in size and necessarily limited in record, ending with the Condor League Champi- practice time (their trusty steeds being their first onship title held tight in their hands. According to priority), this group, nonetheless, revealed a pow- Captains: Michael Back ’01, Jake Coach Crawford, the team’s success was “a great erful team concept and some significant talent. High Braitman ‘00, and Todd Meyer ‘00 credit to the captain, whose enthusiasm, diligence, Scorer was Owili Eison; “his speed and goal hunger and rapport with his teammates qualify him as a mark him as someone to watch in coming years,” League Record: 7-10 leader par excellence.” Notable scoring perform- said his coach. Of the season as a whole, Coach Season Record: 2-13 ances came at the feet of Dave Babbott ’01, Trevor Mully had just three words: “Another banner year!” McProud ’00, Blake Caldwell ’01, Chris Bonewitz Coach: Fred Coleman ’01, and Kevin Cahill ’01; Dan Bartlett ’02 and Matt Brewer ’01 were standouts on defense. “In all of the ways we look at the concept of team GIRLS’ CROSS-COUNTRY at Thacher, this was a great one,” said Fred Cole- man of this group of 15. “They balanced tough com- Captain: Juliette White ’00 petitiveness and tenacity with support of each other BOYS’ THIRD SOCCER and of the unit as a whole.” The season’s highlight had to have been the squad’s whistle-to-whistle Captains: Peter Hartnack ’00, Jon Le Coach: Sarah DelVecchio domination of Cate on Family Weekend, a dramatic Plastrier ’00, and Fritz Rice ’00 rebound from a loss on the Mesa the preceding This team of spirited harriers won all their meets but one (against Cate, when half the girls were out), Saturday. High goal scorer and high point player was League and Season Record: 2-4-3 Matty Wilson ’01 (9), who shared most assists hon- including the culminating Condor League Meet at Dunn, where Logan Clark (Most Valuable of the sea- ors with Todd Meyer. Most Valuable Players were Coach: Andrew Ho Jake Braitman and goalkeeper Andrew Warren ’00, son) placed first and set a course record. They then while Justin Arnold ‘00 won Most Improved Player. went on to run at Mt. SAC (San Antonio College— Season’s highlights including tying a very strong “This team played with passion and mental tough- where they’d run two times previously) in the CIFs, Cate team on their Parents’ Weekend without the ness,” Mr. Coleman went on to say, “carrying on placing tenth in their division. “This was, hands- team’s usual goalie and with only a baker’s dozen of the tradition of Thacher soccer in a way that would down, the strongest team I’ve ever worked with,” players and beating OVS 3-zip on our own Family make former players proud.” said Dr. D. Seniors included Juliette White, Marley Weekend. Chris Grant ’02 was a champion in the Orr, Mia Silverman, Hannah Hooper, Felicity Howe, goal; memorable, too, were Dan Moore’s ’02 con- and Allegra Towns. Named Most Improved was Ca- tinuous sprinting, bicycle kicks, and flying headers. rina Fisher ’01. Returning varsity runners in Fall ’00: Kevin Schmidt ’01 won particular praise for his sig- Logan Clark ’01, Laura Neville ’02, Lily Mitchem ’01, nificant improvement on defense during the course Claire Cichy ’01, and Deloria Many Grey Horses of the fall. Lane ’01 who, according to her coach, is “the ath- lete to watch next year” and was voted next year’s captain. page 16 The Thacher News BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL GIRLS’ JUNIOR VARSITY Sports SOCCER Captain: Fred Kim ’00 Captains: Evy Disner ’00 and Cheryl Lynn Horton ’00 Captain: Felicity Howe ’00 Coach: Pierre Yoo League Record: 2, 10 League Record: 4-1-0 This cohesive and highly focused group of run- Season Record: 3, 13 Season Record: 7-3-1 ners—heavy on the juniors—ended its season 1-1 in dual/ tri-meets, and third in the Condor League. Hav- Coach: Chuck Warren ing graduated five of seven varsity runners last year, Coach: Fred Coleman the team relied on experienced sophomore Will A building year if ever there were one, yet this team According to Coach Coleman, “This team learned to Barkan, captain Fred Kim, and new-to-the-sport kept its collective shoulder to the wheel, working hard Chris Brown ’01 (who also won MVP); also proving play a beautiful style of soccer and ended the sea- to improve and genuinely did, maintaining exem- son as Condor League Champions.” Key ingredi- his mettle was Canyon Cody ’01, who finished sixth plary enthusiasm in the face of some close matches in the league finals. In addition to Fred, other seniors ents in this team’s success were the inspiration that ended in defeat. As their coach said, “This sug- from Captain Felicity who continued to support the who provided critical leadership were Justin Mul- gests a depth of character—among the younger holland, Eric Reeser, and Matt Schuman. Junior team at practices and games, despite the disap- players especially—that, when combined with the pointment of her season ending due to a shoulder Matt Cohen won Most Improved. With ten of the gradual improvement of their skills, should carry fourteen runners returning to the team next fall and injury. The Coach’s Award went to Betsy Bradford them to future victories, even when a narrow loss ‘02 for her help, loyalty, and devotion after her ACL at least a few freshmen rising to the ranks, the fu- is a possibility.” Varsity letter winners included cap- ture of the team looks promising. surgery early in the season. Highlights of the season tains Cheryl Lynn and Evy, Jennifer Bowie ’01, Heidi were defeating Villanova twice and Cate two out of Cole ’02 (named Most Improved), Mercedes Farrell three times. Laurel Back ’03 scored the most goals ’02, Betsy Bradford ’02, and Alex Herbert ’02. (11) and had the most points (24). Ellie Fletcher ’00 GIRLS’ VARSITY TENNIS led the team in assists with five. Captains: Besse Gardner ’00 and Samantha Grumman (’00) GIRLS’ THIRD SOCCER League Record: 2, 2 Season Record: 10, 5 Winter Sports Captains: Amissa Bongo ’00, Suriya Jayanti ’00, and Addie Hearst ’01 Coach: Chris Mazzola GIRLS’ VARSITY SOCCER League Record: 1-1-1 Landing a season record of 10-5, this team won Season Record: 1-3-1 several important matches against large public Captain: Sarah Morrow ’00 schools, most notably over Dos Pueblos (Santa Bar- Coaches: Andrew Ho and bara) and Rhigetti (Santa Maria). The team finished League Record: 6-1-1 Wendi Parker-Dial second in the Condor League. The team greatly Season Record: 8-6-2 benefited from the experience of talented sopho- The last game against Midland was the highlight of more newcomers Bea Staley at #2 singles and Coaches: Bill Vickery and Mary the season for many reasons. Thirty Third Teamers Libby Rauner at #2 doubles. Elizabeth Sanseau ‘01 Everett, CdeP ’94 crammed onto a half field, cornered by JV, Varsity, was named Most Valuable Player (and captain for and Freshman made for a crowded field. The final next fall’s team); Emily Dachs ’01 and Meredith Led by five seniors—Sarah Morrow, Kristin Berona, score, 7-0, was in large part due to sophomore Meg Flannery ’01 shared Most Improved honors. Erin Blankenship, Besse Gardner, and Mia Silver- Kwan’s five goals scored in two quarters.Meg won man—started the season bound and determined to the Most Valuable Player award while Lucy Hodg- be a better team by playoff time. They started in man ’03 was named Most Improved Player. November emphasizing precise GIRLS’ JUNIOR VARSITY passing and a possession-style TENNIS of attack while moving players around to different positions to Captain: Marisa Binder ’00 find their most successful for- mation. After some frustrating results early in the campaign, Season Record: 2, 3 persistence and patience paid off in the end. Individually and Coach: David Johnston as a team, they made significant strides, finishing the League “The whole team was most valuable!” said Dr. J at Season with a fine record and season’s end. Led by a committed and optimistic as co-Champions with Villanova. captain, seasoned players Emma White ’01, Smitha In the CIF playoffs, the team Reddy ’01, Yasmine Arastu ’01, and Laura Allen (’01) won its first-round match 3-1 in joined spirited sophomores Claire Faggioli, Laurel overtime against Viewpoint, but Peterson, Satya Peake, and Chelsea Bauch to form was upended in the next round the core of the team; their opposition was most by an exceptionally strong team often varsity squads. Promising rookies included from Pasadena Poly—a team Nikki Silverman ’01, Jane Kwett ’02, and Iyana that was seeded first in our divi- Reid ’02. sion and went on to playing the tournament final. With nine re- turning juniors, this group is primed for continued success next winter!

JV Soccer player Ellie Fletcher ’00

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 17 GIRLS’ VARSITY Boys’ Varsity Basketball BASKETBALL team became the Condor League Champions; Sports Captain: Cheryl Lynn Horton ’00 pictured here with the team are Assistant Coach League Record: 7-3 Rich Mazzola and Coach Season Record: 9-4 Brian Driscoll

Coach: Rae Ann Sines nominee and his shot-block- ing prowess had him Captain Cheryl Lynn broke all of the individual scor- among the best in the ing records set by Katie Russell, CdeP ’99 last year. Southern section. The team Her new records are: Most Career Points: 883; ended its season with a Most Points in a Single Season: 305; Highest Points tough three-point loss to Kil- per Game Average: 21.8 point post season. She patrick in the second round qualified for the CIF Statistics Leader for regular of CIF’s. season points per game average of 22.5. Her high- est game was 35 points against Cornerstone Chris- tian, with whom this team shared the Tony Dunn Award. The team also played in CIF Playoffs against #2 seed Brethren Christian and, unfortunately, lost. BOYS’ Meredith Walker ’01 earned the Most Improved JUNIOR Player award. VARSITY BASKETBALL BOYS’ JUNIOR VARSITY LACROSSE Captains: Blake Caldwell ’01, Wayne GIRLS’ JUNIOR VARSITY Chang ’00, and Guido Soracco ’00 Captain: Nate Faggioli ’00 BASKETBALL League Record: 11-0 League and Season Record: 5-4 Season Record: 11-2 Captains: Lucy Milligan ’00 and Coaches: Peter Robinson and Stephanie Hubbard ’02 Coach: Derick Perry, CdeP ’83 Terry Twichell

League and Season Record: 0-7 This was one of the finest seasons in Thacher’s JV This was a happy and successful team. Plagued by Basketball history. The team’s dedication and dili- injuries and flu, this team never made excuses and Coach: Pierre Yoo gence paid off in well-earned victories and consis- never gave up. The team came from behind in four tent improvement. All of the players contributed to of its five victories, including thrilling one-goal vic- Coach Yoo summarized this season as “Play Bas- an outstanding season. Their teamwork and gen- tories over Windward and OVS. The defense—an- ketball and Have Fun. It really did not matter who uine affection for each other made them a joy to chored by Most Valuable Player Matt Spille ’02 and won the game, but rather HOW you play the coach. Blake Caldwell won Most Valuable Player Most Improved Player goalie Jose Estrada ’02— game.” The team came close to victory when play- status, Simon Xi ’01 won Most Improved Player was the key to the team’s success, yielding more ing against Ojai Valley School, when they outscored kudos, and the team won the Tony Dunn Award. than six goals only twice. The offence—led by goal OVS 20-12 in the second half. Unfortunately, the scorer Bobby Kellogg ’02 and assist-leader Leigh opponents had enjoyed a great first half and these Salem ’02—was well-balanced because the mid- Toads couldn’t surpass them. However, the team fielders made such a strong contribution, especially was proud of themselves for playing clean, non-vi- BOYS’ VARSITY Captain Nate Faggioli, swing man Nathan Wal- olent games even when fouled and hurt by oppo- lace ’02, and the powerful Tim Stenovec ’02. Ac- nents. LACROSSE cording to Coach Robinson, the season’s “high point came against OVS: We were tied 3-3 with Captains: Jake Braitman ’00 and Todd four minutes to play and scored three goals, one Meyer ’00 by Leigh Salem, one by Bobby Kellogg, and one by BOYS’ VARSITY Tim Stenovec, to secure the victory 6-3.” League Record: 5-4 BASKETBALL Season Record: 6-4 Captains: Michael Back ’01, Jay Coaches: Bo Manson and BOYS’ FRESHMAN Thornes ’01, and Anwar White ’00 Jack Crawford LACROSSE League Record: 7-1 “Improvement” describes and defines this season. Captains: Tyler Caldwell, Drew Fleck, Season Record: 10-9 This young team—14 of the 22 players were new to Varsity—enjoyed positive and enthusiastic support and Charlie Munzig Coaches: Brian Driscoll and Rich from the seniors. New Head Coach Crawford Mazzola shared his tremendous knowledge and experience League and Season Record: 6-2 with the team that challenged both returning and This team made it to the second round of the CIF new players to learn more complex systems. The Coach: Greg Courter Playoffs due to its stellar League Record. Andrew newer players were so intrigued that many plan to Warren ’00 became more of an offensive force this attend lacrosse camps this summer. A highlight of This group of neophyte lacrosse players experi- season and Anwar White developed as a defender the season was beating the alumni team during the enced great success due, in part, to the leading and shot blocker. Andrew Ma ’02 provided stability Winter Alumni Days in January. scoring of Charlie Munzig and Tyler Caldwell. Will in the middle and, along with Anwar, was a re- Chamberlain became an excellent goal tender and bounding leader. The lone freshman, Brenton Sulli- won kudos as the Most Improved Player. Highlights van, distinguished himself with clutch free throws were two victories over Cate and a victory at the and intelligent play throughout the year. Anwar was league tournament over the Midland team that had mentioned by many opposing coaches as an All-CIF defeated the Toads earlier in the season. e

page 18 The Thacher News Development Development Gifts of Real Estate An Enduring Contribution to Thacher

f you’ve been thinking about making a sub- This deduction lets you reduce the cost of mak- use and that of any survivor, Thacher must re- stantial gift to The Thacher School, perhaps ing the gift and frees cash that otherwise would ceive the entire property outright. Iyou should consider real estate. If a cash or be spent on taxes and upkeep. Also, you avoid securitiesDevelopment gift isn’t practical, your personal res- tax on the property’s appreciation, the transfer 3. A fractional interest idence, farm, vacation home, commercial prop- isn’t subject to the gift tax, and the gift reduces erty, or parcel of undeveloped land might be your taxable estate. Your deduction for a gift Tax savings for partial gift more suitable. This gift may offer you the op- of appreciated real estate in any year generally portunity for valuable income tax and estate is limited to 30% of your adjusted gross in- Let’s say you have a home you don’t occupy tax savings. You may also free yourself of bur- come, with a five-year carryover of the unused year-round. You can make a deductible gift to densome management and the problems in- deduction. Thacher of an undivided interest, allowing the volved in selling the property or leaving it to School exclusive use of the property for part of each year. A vacation home can be ideal for estate liquidation. Whether or not Thacher 2. A retained life estate keeps or sells the property, you’ll make a sat- this purpose. For example, you could give isfying and enduring contribution to the Give your home but enjoy life Thacher a half interest. You would continue School’s work. to use the property for six months of each year tenancy while the School, as half owner, would use it for the remaining six months. As a result, Choose the time of your gift You can give Thacher your home and receive a charitable deduction for it, even though you you’d be entitled to an income tax charitable If convenient for you, you can make a gift of real continue living there. This is called a “retained deduction based on half the property’s fair estate now. Assuming you itemize deductions on life estate.” Let’s assume you want to continue market value. your return, you’ll receive a substantial income using your personal residence for life. You also tax deduction, and have the satisfaction of see- may want a survivor (perhaps your spouse) to 4. Generate a life income gift ing the results of your generosity. enjoy life occupancy. But, ultimately you’d like The Thacher School to get the property. By Give your home to a trust Perhaps an immediate gift isn’t desirable. You deeding your home to Thacher now, subject to If you don’t want to live in your unmortgaged may want to use the property a while longer, or these rights, you may obtain a sizable income home any longer, consider transferring it to a even retain lifetime use. In any case, you still tax deduction this year. The amount depends Charitable Remainder Trust. The trustee then can make the necessary arrangements now and on the value of the property and your age (and can sell the property and invest the proceeds in benefit from a sizable current income tax de- the age of any person given life use). income-producing securities. You’ll receive a duction. Following are various types of gift life income and so will a survivor named by possibilities for consideration by you and your You keep rights and you. The trust principal ultimately becomes tax advisors. Thacher’s, thus allowing you to reduce and/or responsibilities eliminate estate taxes when spouses are the 1. An outright gift of real estate In addition to the right to live in your home, only income beneficiaries. When you transfer When you make an outright gift of real prop- you retain the right to rent it or make im- appreciated property held long-term, you erty, you obtain an income tax charitable de- provements. You continue to have responsi- won’t pay any tax on the capital gain. Also, duction equal to the property’s full fair market bility for maintenance, insurance, and property you could realize a substantial current income value (if held long-term) instead of the lower taxes. Your gift to the School must be an ir- tax deduction. cost basis. revocable remainder interest. After your life Explore the benefits of a Gift of Real Estate When you give your home or other real estate to Thacher, you create an enduring testimonial to your interest in its important goals. Your personal satisfaction is complemented by valu- able tax benefits. Consult with your accountant or tax-advisor to determine the best option for you. If you have any questions, please call Terry Twichell, Director of Development at Thacher, at 805-646-4377, extension 224. e

Fred Lamb, CdeP ’40, gave his family home in Benedict Canyon, California, to Thacher.

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 19 Thacher Pioneers

EKMAN SCHUBERT HIROSE Thacher PioneerS

n this issue, we profile alumni, one ITrustee, and one former faculty member who came to Thacher from various quarters and walks of life to benefit—as well as con- tribute—to the Thacher experi- ence. The School embraces and en- courages diversity in its student body and faculty as a means of enriching the community and learn- ing to appreciate, respect, and ad- just to different people, lifestyles, and cultures evident in our increasing- ly diverse society and ever-chang- ing world. We became interested in how these “pioneers” heard about BATTS HONANIE Thacher, how their experience here page 20 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneers

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shaped their lives, what they are presently doing, and their future plans. Profiles include some of the first minority students, some of the first female students, and students from various countries before in- ternational travel was common- place. In the past, profiles were written by a cadre of volunteers (friends or relatives of the individ- uals, or School personnel). This time, we chose to let those being profiled write their thoughts and memories of their experiences at Thacher, while the Trustee and for- mer faculty member profiles are writ- ten in the usual style. USSERY CATALAN

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 21 Alumni Profiles

Bertel G. Ekman, CdeP ’51 Content at Day’s End Thacher Pioneer

was born in 1932, the only child of a third- I had not brought a horse from Finland with generation hotel and restaurant couple. My me and did not particularly like the idea of Ischooling was typical, with a burning interest hiking. On various occasions, I had been for sports. Due to many extracurricular activ- warned about a purple horse that nobody liked ities (scouting, tennis, riding, sailing), my to ride. I was also told that this particular scholastic standard should have been even horse never stayed in the big training enclo- lower than it was. As my home and my par- sure; his normal routine was to throw the rider ents’ hotel and restaurant were outside and charge through the high fence, resulting Helsinki—the capital of Finland—my journeys in frustrating repair jobs and telltale scars on back and forth to school were long. Later on, the horse. “If you get that horse, refuse it” was after the War, my parents sold their the advice of my fellow students. hotel/restaurant and started a new establish- ment in the City; I continued attending the One day, Headmaster Newton K. Chase same school for boys. showed me an extremely dirty horse in a cor- ral. He suggested I groom it and at least get It was through the the feeling for being around horses. A funny American Field Service colored creature emerged, purple, with ugly (A.F.S.) that I first heard scar tissue. Mr. Chase informed me later that about the possibility of day that an anonymous sponsor from Ojai had studying in America. My made it possible for me to have a horse during parents and my head- my Thacher year. A strange friendship devel- master agreed to let me oped between the purple thing and myself. I try it. Thacher was my got used to the Western saddle, to being first choice because of thrown at the most unexpected moments and its location in Califor- to a thinking animal, kind, but scheming at all nia and its outdoor ac- times. Neither of us had any previous tivities, especially the gymkhana experience, but we learned enough equestrian focus. My to make the second team. I remember one sack parents and the head- race in particular. Thimbolina, or the purple master looked at the one, had quickly mastered the turn by the sack scholastic standard of when I bent down to pick it up. I did not fall a Thacher and hoped I single time, except once. I could never figure might benefit. I partic- out why she chose to go straight when I bent ularly remember read- down. She left me holding the sack—on the ing the prospectus from ground. From the Gymkhana Field she con- Thacher, where it was tinued straight back to her corral. She came to mentioned that students were allowed to bring me when I whistled for her at the big round-up with them to School one easy-chair, one lamp, after the holiday break, and she earned me the and two horses. Amazing priority! honor of receiving the Dawson Improvement Vest. I arrived in Santa I particularly remember reading the prospectus Barbara after a Other fond memories are of the Glee Club, the from Thacher, where it was mentioned that four-day-and-night togetherness of our choir singing in church in journey by Grey- Santa Barbara, the play As You Like It, the students were allowed to bring with them to hound from New babysitting at Anson Thacher’s, Douglas the School one easy-chair, one lamp, and two York. Although I mule, rattlesnakes, and my right nipple that can’t recall who was cut off on the spring mattress in a friendly horses. Amazing priority! came to get me on wrestling bout with Wilbur Cox—I scraped it my day of arrival, I off the metal strip, rushed down to the Infir- slept for 24 hours before being picked up and mary, where it was taped back on; to this day, brought to Thacher. I had arrived before the it is still upside down. Other favorite memories opening of term and was guided around cam- include my first day in the Upper School, when pus by one of the teachers who was cleaning I was kindly invited to throw a baseball from out the baseball cupboards on each field. I was one end of the corridor to the other and how, told there were spiders in the cupboards and when the ball had left my hand, the chap at that you could tell if they were poisonous by the other end of the corridor stepped away and A Thacher turning them upside down to look for a red watched the ball continue its way through the Pioneer spot on their bellies (Black Widows). glass door; how my green rattlesnake skin dis- page 22 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer appeared during Easter holidays; and how Jerusalem to manage, which I did for five years. could I ever forget the Easter camping trip I then moved to Copenhagen in Denmark to man- made by The Four Fools and a Finn! age the Angleterre, also part of the chain. When InterContinental sold the Angleterre, I I enjoyed studying—probably for the first time chose to leave the chain in order to stay in Copen- in my life—though unused to it as I was, not hagen. It was the summit of my career. I man- very successfully. It was both helpful and fun to aged one of the most famous hotels in Europe, study with other students. I particularly re- we lived close to Finland, and we had the rest member studying for finals in English Litera- of Europe close at ture. Three of us debated over possible test hand. What could questions and finally decided on making a ré- be better? The sumé containing year, principal author, prin- new owners also cipal work, historical and religious influences, bought another as main headings. This covered a time span, if hotel in Copen- I remember correctly, from Chaucer to modern hagen and I spent times (1951). Mr. Huyler was ill with a very my time between sore throat on the day of exams and the test the two. But a paper was pushed to us under the door. There new partner was was only one question to the test: name the brought in from a principal authors, their main works, and his- Swedish hotel torical and religious facts that influenced them, chain. They want- from medieval until our time. All three of us ed their own man passed the exam, but we had a hard time con- in as part of the vincing Jack Huyler that no cheating had taken deal, and I was without a job! We moved back Bertel’s son Niklas place. The combination of outdoor life, camp- to Finland in 1986 when I was 54 years old and and daughter-in-law ing, sports, and hard stud- had, overnight, Xiao Yun ies was unique and become too old unequalled anywhere in to get a job in my experience. The Nor- the hotel indus- man Mackintosh Todd try in Finland. I Memorial Medal for was unem- Sports that was awarded to ployed for a me at the graduation cere- year and then mony touched me pro- worked as a foundly. restaurant man- ager for half a I actually quit school when year until the I returned to Finland, and place was sold. decided to do my military I decided there service in the A.C.A.C. The and then to give Olympics ’52 in Helsinki up my profes- saw me as an interpreter sion. The Uni- for all of the equestrian versity of Majbritt Ekman, teams. By that time I had Helsinki em- Bertel’s wife decided to become the fourth generation in the ployed me as custodian at the Swedish School hotel and restaurant business. I spent a year in of Social Science where I spent the rest of my France in order to learn the language and en- working life in a rolled at the S.S.H., Hotel School in Lausanne, happy environ- Switzerland. Following graduation, I worked ment, enjoying my at a New York hotel through The Scandina- work immensely. vian Foundation. I spent another eight months I became a senior as a night auditor at Holyoke in Massachu- citizen at the age setts. I married Majbritt Hjordis in 1959 and of 65 in 1997. e continued working with my parents at their restaurants in Helsinki. In the meantime, we had two children, Niklas in 1961 and Maria three years later.

My wife continued working with her parents- in-law, but I broke away in 1966 to manage a The Ekmans’ son- luxury hotel 50 kilometers from the capital. Four in-law Jan and years later, I was asked to join The Interconti- daughter Maria nental Hotels that was about to open a hotel in Helsinki. I stayed with the hotel as assistant manager for three years, then was transferred to The Portman InterContinental in London, where I worked as resident manager for four A Thacher years. In 1978, I was offered the InterContinental Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 23 Alumni Profiles

Klaus Schubert, CdeP ’56 Trading One Casa Rustica for Another Thacher Pioneer

hile writing this I am sitting on the porch off the coast of Bar Harbor, Maine, where they of our “finca” on the beautiful island of spent their summers. Driving across America WMallorca, Spain, in the Mediterranean to their home in Pasadena, I got the first im- Sea, where my wife and I live about half of the pression of this vast country and I admired the year since my retirement three years ago. A Purcells’ patience in answering all my ques- “finca” is a “casa rustica” with a pool and tions. Towards the end of vacation John, CdeP quite a lot of land surrounded by orange and ’58 (my foster brother) and I left for Thacher. almond trees. The climate and the landscape often remind me of Thacher and my year as a What follows is a brief résumé of my year at student at the Casa de Piedra 45 years ago. Thacher. I believe that at the age of 17, a per- son’s character is formed more than at any What was the situation for my family and me other time during one’s life. This is the time when I became a Thacher student in 1955? The when values such as honesty, modesty, team time immediately after World War II was very spirit, and social and multi-cultural under- tough for the people living in Germany. Be- standing are laid and accepted as basic rules cause we had lost our home in Berlin in the for future behavior. This year was the time bombings, we went when my interest for outdoor life was roused: westward in 1945. My I very much liked horseback riding, camping, father, a celebrated ar- and all kinds of sports. I still remember my chitect, was not allowed Easter trip in ’56 with seniors Gerry de Santil- to work as an architect lana, Gordon Chamberlain, Ralph Cross and for about four years; in- Michael Shore, CdeP ’57, when we lost the stead, in order to sur- trail somewhere in the mountains, but found a vive, he had to stoop to miner’s cabin instead. I remember the rattle- making—with his own snake we hunted (I still have the rattles), the hands—and selling toys condors we saw, and it being pretty cold at for children. Germany night. was divided into a dem- ocratic western part and I was fascinated by the landscape of Southern a communist eastern California, especially the Mojave Desert, which part. Democracy in West created my deep love for deserts in general. Germany was still a (Last year my wife and I toured the Namib weak plant, but rooted Desert, and this year we will be in Maroc and firmly and growing the Sahara.) steadily. The industry re- covered fast and the What impressed me most during that year at Volkswagen was the most admired and wanted Thacher, however, was the personality of the car in those years. Winston Churchill named the teachers. They did not merely teach but felt re- political border between the two sections the sponsible to transfer those values I mentioned “Iron Curtain” which, in 1961, became visible above, especially Fred Lamb, CdeP ’40, David as “The Wall” that divided the city of Berlin into Lavender, Bob Miller, Michael Ehrhardt, and two parts. Fortunately, this is now history with finally Jack Huyler, H ’51, whom I admired the fall of The Wall and the overwhelming re- most, and still do. My wife agreed when she union of both parts of Germany in 1989-90. met Jack and his charming wife, Margaret, in Munich in the late ’60s and later again when As a high-school student in Hannover, a city our family visited Thacher in 1987 and we located 70 miles from the “Iron Curtain,” I were guests of Margaret and Jack at their heard of the American Field Service (A.F.S.) home in Wyoming. Music Director Michael offering scholarships for a one-year stay in the Ehrhardt was probably a little disappointed United States. I applied and—although there that I neglected playing my cello; but I think he were many applicants—was selected. This was finally accepted it when he noticed how much the start of an unforgettable year at Thacher I liked the outdoor life. I was very happy when and with my host family, the Purcells. I am I became a member of the Pack and Saddle very happy to have had this opportunity and I Club and of the Orange Gymkhana Team. I want to thank Thacher and the Purcell family, graduated with the class of ’56. again, for this experience of a lifetime. In that A Thacher era the way to America normally was by ship. Our family visited Thacher in 1987 and were After sailing for ten days I arrived at Quebec, given horses for a trail ride. My wife and our Pioneer Canada, and joined my “family” on an island daughters had very little or no experience with page 24 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer horses and I hadn’t seen the trails for 30 years! Jesse Kahle said to me: “Okay, Klaus, you know the trails!” and off we rode. We all very much enjoyed the trip and the horses found their way back alone. In Germany, this would not have been possible; a licence is required for everything!

Back home I had another year of school be- fore graduation because of Germany’s different school system. In 1958 I joined the Navy and began my career by becoming a Commanding Officer of a mine-sweeper and a teacher at the Naval Academy. This “normal” career ended in 1965 when I was granted a scholarship to study law at the Universities of Kiel and Mu- nich (which finally took eight years). The West Klaus and his family riding Thacher trails German Navy at that time needed someone who, in one person, could estimate both mili- of our daughters grew up with their families tary and legal aspects concerning personnel travelling around, they speak different lan- and sometimes political issues as well. After guages, they think interculturally, and they fre- my studies I found myself at a desk within the quently work and live abroad, especially here Ministry of Defense in Bonn. I worked there in Europe. for more than a decade in various po- sitions ranked as a What impressed me most…at Thacher…was the personality captain; mainly I de- of the teachers. They did not merely teach but felt veloped rules and reg- ulations on personnel responsible to transfer the…values [of honesty, modesty, issues not only for the team spirit, and social and multi-cultural understanding]… Navy, but for the Armed Forces in gen- as basic rules for future behavior. eral, prepared laws of that matter for the Federal Parliament—the My life-long preferred hobby has been blue- “Bundestag”—and was an attorney at the water sailing, which I started in the early ’60s, Supreme Court level. and finally we called a sailing yacht our own for many years. We sold it three years ago At 48, I left the Navy to become the Personnel when we bought that “finca” I spoke of in the Manager for Bayer, one of the biggest chemical very beginning. This woke up a new and, until companies in Germany and a global player then, unknown interest in Mediterranean gar- world-wide with a headcount of 150,000 dening that I enjoy very much. But since I am (Bayer produces much more than aspirin!). retired time is running out to get a better golf- This was a challenge I wanted to take and it handicap, watch the oranges grow, visit worked very well. I was happy to have this re- friends, see other parts of the world, and do so sponsible job in a very different surrounding, many things I never had time to do before. which included the introduction of an inter- What a wonderful life! e national management train- ing and development system not only for Bayer, but for the subsidiaries abroad as well. Besides that, I ran my bureau as an attorney.

During my studies at the University of Munich, I mar- ried Christiane, and we have two daughters, who are 30 and 25 years old. Melanie followed in my footsteps as an A.F.S. student and grad- uated from a high school in Long Beach, California; she works as a product manager in Italy with the Benetton Corp. Sandra, the younger Daughter Melanie, wife Christiane, daughter Sandra, and Klaus Schubert one, works with an archi- tect’s bureau and lives close to our home near Bonn. When I was young, international expe- A Thacher rience was the exception, but the generation Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 25 Alumni Profiles

Hisakazu Hirose, CdeP ’66 Learning in an American Dream Thacher Pioneer

lease let me start with an old, but the most temple in the mountains of Kyoto. Reality was shining photo of my youth, taken at the slightly different. Students worked hard when Pupper soccer field almost 35 years ago. To they studied, but, once finished, they knew how many of you who don’t know me, I was an to have fun [see top photo on page 27]. When American Field Service student from Japan in I asked a girl whom I met at A.F.S. parties out- the year 1965 to ’66. Life at Thacher was, in a side Thacher whether it would be possible for word, terrific. Thanks to all the people who her and her friends to come to Thacher for a made that year so precious and so meaningful dance, everyone without exception said, “Yes, for me for the rest of my life. I would love to!” The young Buddhist trainee in Japan would have been jealous, but I was Before getting into any of this, allow me to tell happy and thought that the environment was you a little of my story. I was born in Tokyo in beyond the American Dream that I had cher- 1947, two years after the end of World War II. ished. I have to add, however, that after awhile, My father, Sanehide Hirose, was a director of I realized the truly difficult problems that friends a ceramic company, Noritake, and my mother, were facing, in a way more difficult than the Akiko Hirose was the questions with which Buddhist trainees were daughter of Fusaaki struggling: the Vietnam War. And, I had to face Uzawa, a famous lawyer a much lighter but also serious reality that the and a President of Meiji girl whom I dated undoubtedly wanted to come University in Tokyo. My to Thacher, but not particularly to see me. father died when I was ten months old and my Returning to my year at Thacher: Compared to mother, who never re- the general Japanese high school education, married, had to raise her Thacher’s was substantially advanced (the three little sons while ar- textbooks we used for English literature and ranging flowers to sup- Calculus, for example, were college-level which port us. Since mother would hardly ever occur in Japan), more ex- had lived in the U.S. for tensive (not only intellectual or athletic train- a few years before the ing, but included skills for life such as War, she taught us to developing a sense of responsibility, coopera- look at the world with a tion, and leadership), and perhaps longer last- global perspective and ing. The Thacher education gave me skills to pushed us to learn Eng- communicate well enough in English to sus- lish. When I was offered tain my later professional life. My thanks to the highly selective American Field Service schol- all the faculty and friends, but particularly to arship during high school, she was glad and Mr. Huyler, Mr. Burhoe, and Mr. Shagam, my never hesitated to let me go to the U.S. for a year. Dorm Head. They taught me how joyful it is to be with nature in the mountains horseback rid- For me, a year in America was a big dream ing, or at the Outdoor Chapel at sunset, or just that came true in my first few weeks in Cali- lying on the grass quietly looking up at the sky. fornia. My host family was the Grimes of Ox- My gratitude, as well, to Mr. Erhardt, our nard. Mr. Grimes was a newspaper editor; his music teacher, who cultivated not only my ears graceful wife enjoyed playing piano to her to enjoy music, but also my heart to feel the unique and brilliant children: Bob, Doug, and composer’s world. Diana. All of them enjoyed their lives in a pretty house with two cars and a clean pool One last notable episode was a modest but im- surrounded by a lawn garden. This was really portant discovery of an American culture when an “American Dream” for a Japanese high soccer season was about to end. The senior school boy of the 1960s (and still is!). I owe members gathered together one day to decide much to this family all through the year and es- on the junior leader for the next season. I pecially to Doug with whom I spent my time at thought in a society like America, a country Thacher as a classmate, too. of democracy of all people with equal rights and individual freedom, a vote and its major- The next stage, at Thacher, was something out ity rule would prevail over everything. Or, per- of the dream. I had heard that The Thacher haps, as often happened in Japan, the coach School was one of the top boarding, prepara- would nominate the new leader. The decision A Thacher tory schools in the U.S., located in the moun- would, in any case, soon be made. But instead, tains, without any girls (at that time). I thought a long, serious discussion among the senior Pioneer it might be like a dark, Zen-Buddhist training students took place. Everybody spoke out, not page 26 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer have been full professor of this Uni- versity. My work has been mainly in contracts and family law. (I have made some contribution to the law reform in Japan in these fields as a member of various governmental committees.)

As to international activities, after two years in France (1986-88), I was appointed to be a member of a working group of the International Institute for the Unification of Pri- vate Law (UNIDROIT)—an inter- governmental organization, whose center is located in Rome—and worked with, for example, Professor Classes of 1966 and 1967 on the steps of Upper School Farnsworth of Columbia University, for the promulgation of the for his own sake, nor out of his personal pref- UNIDROIT Principles for the International erence, but for the future of the team, until fi- Commercial Contracts. In 1995, I started to nally a decision was agreed upon. At the end, cultivate a new field, Consumer Law, in which an eye-closed vote was taken. Americans seem we are far behind the U.S. to respect the majority of opinions, but try to get the best answer from within for the While attend a Symposium on “De-regulation” strength of the team. And, once they decide on at U.C. Berkeley last November, I decided to a leader, they let him take initiative that gives visit Thacher after 33 years of separation. Al- him stronger leadership than would occur in though it was an abrupt and short Japan. This discovery—which may hit only the visit, I was warmly received by the Compared to the general Japanese high surface of the deeply rooted complex of Amer- faculty members, including the Head ican society and its culture—gave me an en- of School, Mr. Mulligan. I was quite school education, Thacher’s was during interest in studying social sciences. lucky to see some of my old friends substantially advanced…more extensive… on the soccer fields, where they After returning to Japan, I had a hard time watched their children playing games. and perhaps longer lasting. readjusting to the preparatory study for the Talking with them, sitting on the Japanese college-entrance examination, and grass, watching the squirrels with the Twin failed to get into the most difficult one, the law Peaks behind, feeling the soft winds, I remem- school of the University of Tokyo. Although I bered the same precious moment long ago. could enter into other universities, I decided to try one year later again and succeeded that And I contemplated quietly as I had done be- time. Much later when I thought about this fore. I could gradually regain the spirit I had failure, I wrote what follows to one of my long forgotten in the midst of the exhausting Thacher teachers whom I respect very much: everyday life in Tokyo. The beautiful sunset in “…I have always been proud and never re- the Ojai Valley from a seat in the Outdoor gretted that I studied a year at Thacher even Chapel was an addi- though my entrance into our university was tional present to me. postponed because of this different experience I was refreshed. of a year abroad. It was not true that my fail- ure was related to my A.F.S. experience. And Coming back home, not only for me, but also for so many A.F.S. re- my elderly mother turnees in Japan—I would say for all of with whom my fam- them—one year in America was incomparably ily lives, was so happy important and fruitful that one or even two to hear my story of years’ extra work for the preparation to enter Thacher. So were all into a Japanese university meant nothing. You of my family mem- might not believe it and you might think that I bers. Please take a wrote this to make you feel better. But, I say look at the last photo. Atsuko and Hisakazu Hirose with their this honestly from my heart. A year in your It was taken in the three sons: Mitsuru, Takayoshi, and country has supported me directly or indirectly country (“Kiyosato” Kazutoshi throughout the rest of my life. It is not just the village in Yamanashi) skill in English or other knowledge, but some- last summer. The green field and the farm was thing far more important that was given by cultivated more than 60 years ago by an Amer- you and your people.” ican teacher, Mr. Paul Rosdie. Thanks to him, this village has become an oasis for those who When I graduated from university, I was lucky live in the Tokyo area. As The Thacher School to have a seat in the law faculty of research and Mr. Rosdie did for so many people, I would assistant on civil law. Four years later I became like to contribute something meaningful to the associate professor at Sophia University and people around and hopefully to the whole A Thacher then at the University of Tokyo. Since 1994, I world, too. e Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 27 Alumni Profiles

Cynthia F. Hunter, CdeP ’80 Lessons Learned amid Manure Piles Thacher Pioneer

ou probably haven’t noticed it. The horses teacher, Peter Robinson, who encouraged me gaze over it from their corrals. In the early to speak out in the School newspaper about Ymornings, freshmen stumble by it as they my feelings on the hot topic of the days: pub- empty their wheelbarrows of the previous lic display of affection or “P.D.A.” I had tried night’s fresh manure. It’s been there for awhile to avoid taking a stand by making a joke—“If now. It’s just a rock. A rock with a fading you have the itch, scratch”—and he called me plaque. on it, saying, “Why don’t you say something about how you really feel?” It wasn’t there when I arrived at Thacher in 1977, among the first group of women “pio- But in those days I didn’t dare show my serious neers” to shovel with the boys. But that’s feelings except in the privacy of Dostoyevsky where I go now when I want to talk with my papers. But Robi’s words etched my psyche, father. It’s his rock. The place where his inspiring me to trust the power of my own Thacher friends wanted to remember him and voice. the place that he would remember the most. The Thacher Legacy It’s also a reminder of what I have valued most My father learned such lessons of integrity in from the early coed days the 1920s at Thacher. When he left the views at Thacher. from Topa Topa and the walks through the or- ange groves, he never let the wisdom of Casa The Values of Manure de Piedra fade from his heart. More than 60 years later, as his time grew short from cancer, I’m sure my Dad, who it was still the Thacher days about which he graduated in 1924, would reminisced. appreciate the location chosen for his rock, adja- When I was 14, he and my mom, the first cent to the horses’ manure woman honored as a Thacher Trustee and a pile. He, like the rest of us veteran horsewoman herself, asked me which Thacher grads, under- high school I wanted to attend. My choices stood manure. He under- were a Bay Area private girls’ school near stood that from it came home where we wore uniforms or Thacher, its many of the greatest joys first coed year, with a ratio of three boys to in life: a spontaneous one girl. And, of course, you had to have a nicker from a four-legged horse. companion, rides with the boys at sunset along the Sespe, and the wisdom of discipline and I remember how my older sister suggested Cate responsibility taught by the shovel. and how puzzled I was by my father’s vehe- ment response that under no circumstances For us Thacher gals, it also taught us about My father learned such lessons of integrity in the equality. From the 1920s at Thacher. When he left the views from first day on campus, we shoveled right Topa Topa and the walks through the orange along with the boys, groves, he never let the wisdom of Casa de Piedra never questioning our shared roles. And un- fade from his heart. More than 60 years later, as like my years after his time grew short from cancer, it was still the Thacher, there was no boys’ club with which Thacher days about which he reminisced. to contend; they wel- comed us. Despite a century of catering to was Cate an option. “But Dad, if you’re giving boys, camaraderie overcame any lingering me a choice.....” “NO!’” chauvinism in the transitional years. Unlike the college I later attended dominated by fraterni- There was no choice in my mind. I was headed ties, Thacher embraced the opposite sex. south for the boys and the horses. My parents A Thacher trusted that somewhere between the barranca I remember how I found my voice in those self- and the barns, the education would follow. Pioneer conscious high school years. It was a male Then there was Uncle Jack Huyler’s pointed page 28 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer acceptance letter about “all play and no work makes for....”

Of course, from the moment I arrived to this day, I’ve conveniently forgotten the rest of his precautionary advice, lost amidst the boys, horses, camping trips, and other unexpected adventures.

Boys Will Be Boys

As newcomers and females to Thacher, we bore the brunt of some remarkable pranks and School inductions. Several of us were selected into a secret male society and given instruc- tions to sneak out of our dorms and be at the Headmaster’s house at midnight. I will never forget a disheveled Bill Wyman standing be- fore us in blue pajamas asking what we were mate Bob Foss, after his diag- all doing in his living room. nosis with schizophrenia, al- ways wanted to talk Or the time Nick Ault, CdeP ’79, one of the about—his days at Thacher. senior ringleaders, crashed into my dorm room at three o’clock in the morning, swearing me to No one except those of us secrecy. He then delivered the news that he and who have sat at the Outdoor some friends had just rolled the Headmaster’s Chapel at dusk with the car after an evening joy ride to Ventura. At the aroma of manure over the hill time, being in on that secret was an honor as understand the value of this great as unproctored exams. time and place, and how these were the best years of great lives A few of us had the privilege of appearing in that take us to other people’s the secret tradition as one of Mr. Shagam’s Shangri-las. hand-picked ghosts in the twilight hours on Piedra Blanca. Outfitted in gobs of makeup But when I drive into the Ojai and and a yellow gown, as if debuting for Gone glimpse the faraway bluffs, they with the Wind, I was to sway onto the rock seem to mark the passage of time with classmate David Budlong as Mr. Shagam and the century of lives that have heralded our spirits before a terrified band of passed under them. It’s then I go freshman. Thrilling! back to the stables, and lean against the rock with the fading plaque Then there was the Extra-Day Trip that had where I’m reminded of the lessons the whole School talking: when the young and gathered amid the manure piles. e handsome Mr. Sutphen bravely took seven of us girls on an Extra- Day Trip into the Sespe our first spring. That was the trip when, dur- ing lunch, I had to pull my pants down in front of him to get the red ants off, a mortifying experience for a soph- omore.

What Remains

Somehow between these episodes, “all- nighter” papers for Robi, Mr. Miller’s Spanish homework, and Cynthia received her Bachelor’s of Science de- Gymkhana Weekends, when Mom and Dad gree in Economics from Trinity before receiv- would come to check up on me, I managed to ing her master’s degree in Journalism from get my horse’s corral shoveled and still receive Columbia University. She now lives in Steam- my diploma. boat Springs, Colorado, specializing in equine photography when she’s not on the ski slopes It is twenty years ago this June that I left the as staff photographer for Steamboat Ski Re- place my father remembered so vividly from sort. The images on this page are a sampling of A Thacher the 1920s. The place my late friend and class- her equine photography. e Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 29 Alumni Profiles

Carol J. McConnell, CdeP ’81 A Product of Her Environment Thacher Pioneer

When Jane McCarthy, editor of The Thacher California. But Thacher was for boys! What a News, contacted me to ask if I would write about disappointment. my experiences as a “pioneer” at Thacher, I kept thinking, “She must have the wrong person.” Pi- Fast forward to the year, 1976: I am a twelve- oneers are people like my great-grandfather, who year-old girl eating breakfast cereal at the din- attended Thacher at the turn of the century. That ing room table when I happened to read an ar- is, the last turn of the century, 1900. James Gif- ticle in The San Francisco Chronicle: The ford Kellogg, CdeP ’01, traveled from Chicago Thacher School was admitting girls!!!! My via train and carriage to make the journey into mind was reeling. Could this really be the same the Ojai Valley. His physicians hoped that the “Thacher” that I heard family members talk warm California winters would improve his trou- about for years? Is this the same “Thacher” that bled breathing. They were right! Not only was emphasized academics and horses? What a living in Southern California an inspired reme- dream come true! I could leave San Francisco dy for his respiratory ailments, but he instant- (city life never really agreed with me) and head ly fell in love with the cultures of California and out to the “country.” I could go to school with the West, as well. From boys (a dramatic change from The Hamlin that time on, he recited School for Girls that I was currently attending). stories of the Native Americans, orange I remember my first visit to the Thacher cam- groves, and missions to pus as a prospective student. It was still all all who would listen. Af- boys. As I was escorted on a campus tour, the ter graduating from young men stopped and stared at me. Wow!!! Thacher and complet- This was sure different. They greeted me with ing an engineering degree some apprehension. I sensed that students and at Cornell University, my faculty alike were excited about the idea of co- great-grandfather re- education but were hesitant to welcome fe- turned to California to males onto their campus. In this respect, I guess build a “winter home” in I really was a “pioneer.” The following Sep- Pasadena. That house tember, I arrived to begin my freshman year. I still stands today and was thrilled about being assigned my very own serves as the President’s horse. His name was Sky and he was superb at Home at Cal Tech. Need- Gymkhana. Then, there were all of these boys. less to say, his time at Our entering class (CdeP ’81) was composed of Thacher changed the thirteen girls and approximately thirty-five path of his life. boys (the ratio was even more skewed amongst the upperclassmen). It was a little overwhelm- His son, James Hull Kellogg, CdeP ’31, also ing, but I just thought of them all as big attended Thacher. My grandfather shared his brothers. love of the open chaparral and his deep affec- tion for animals with all who would listen. It took about a week for me to realize that that Whether they came from Chicago or from was not how they viewed us. In fact, we were quite the at- I realize that one old adage is true: We are, indeed, products of our traction. All the girls lived environment. I am certainly a product of The Thacher School. I on “The Hill” learned that working hard has its rewards; that one should always (in the Sespe, Topa Topa, consider the position, needs, and views of others before making and Matilija decisions; and that the beauty of the environment around us is Dormitories). Each night, something to cherish. Perimeter Road was the Pasadena, they heard embellished stories of the boundary beyond which no boy could cross. grandeur of the Sespe and the uncanny virtues After a few short months, the intersection of of his faithful horse Sheik. Although my grand- the walking path and Perimeter Road turned father raised his family in Chicago, he would into “Lover’s Lane:” If a guy walked you up A Thacher describe his time in the Ojai Valley with such the hill, everyone in the dormitories above was merriment and wonder that my mother gossiping about it by the time you arrived at Pioneer dreamed of attending the boarding school in your room. page 30 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer For me, the day-to-day experiences were both As a practicing small-an- exhilarating and exhausting. The homework was imal veterinarian, I soon tough, but the trail rides, Gymkhana events, and learned that one’s ability sports teams were great fun. I loved the orange to make educated deci- and avocado orchards, the smell of the chap- sions and judgments is es- arral, and the sound of wildlife in the mountains sential to the “art” of behind us. It really was a dream for me. medicine. Over time, I found that I had more of By my fourth year, I started to go through an interest in the man- withdrawal. I loved the Ojai Valley, and the agement side of things. friendships were priceless; but it was time to How do we keep things or- move on. As the spring approached, I found ganized and working effi- that the students I would miss the most were ciently? How do we ensure my prefectees. What a wild bunch of sopho- that the veterinary pro- more girls! They looked to me for guidance fession receives the recog- and friendship, and I loved being a resource nition and respect it de- for them. Through their eyes, I could see how serves? Hence, I joined much I had grown in four years. Priority Veterinary Con- sultants, a veterinary man- It was not until I left Thacher that I realized the agement and legal con- importance of my experience there. I was very sulting firm in Philadel- independent and not afraid to be away from phia. Through consulting home. The academic demands were almost with other veterinarians, negligible my first year of college, since my public speaking, and pub- high school preparation had been so strong. I lications, I have, I hope, majored in Physiology with a concentration in made a contribution to Nutrition at my great-grandfather’s alma my profession. mater, Cornell University. James Gifford Kellogg, CdeP 1901, in 1898 As a natural extension of I returned to California and applied to the my consulting experience, School of Veterinary Medicine at U.C. Davis. It I attended Purdue University’s Executive Busi- had been a lifelong goal of mine to be a vet- ness Management Program. I completed my erinarian. Admission into the school, and M.B.A. degree last spring, and I am currently therefore the veterinary profession, has always Associate Manager of Professional Services for been very challenging. I literally had to have Alza Pharmaceuticals. straight “A’s” in all of my science classes. Thank goodness for Mrs. Anne Thacher (wife As time progresses, I realize that one old adage of Anson “Tony” CdeP ’58), my Chemistry is true: We are, indeed, products of our envi- teacher, who taught me how to pay attention ronment. I am certainly a product of The to details and think concepts through method- Thacher School. I learned that working hard ically. I did succeed in gaining admission to the has its rewards; that one should always con- Veterinary Program, followed by four glorious sider the position, needs, and views of others years of studying the concepts of medicine and before making decisions; and that the beauty of surgery, as applied to companion animals. the environment around us is something to cherish.

I have always journeyed far from home. I have lived on the East Coast on two separate occa- sions, and I lived overseas for two years, with solo trips in and around the Pacific Rim and Africa. I attribute my love of travel to Thacher, as well. One gains a tremendous sense of in- dependence and competence when one treks off to boarding school at age thirteen. In this sense, I suppose that I am somewhat of a pio- neer. I just see myself as someone who wants to learn as much as possible and experience as much as possible, while the clock is still ticking. e

A Thacher James Hall Kellogg, CdeP ’31, with Sheik Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 31 Alumni Profiles

Cindy Castañeda, CdeP ’88 “The Banquet Song” Becomes a Lullaby Thacher Pioneer

n 1983, I was an eighth grader looking for that had a zoo on campus and one in Colorado options. I didn’t want to go to Central Union that was also outdoor-oriented and had horses. IHigh School, the single high school in our small town of El Centro, California, in part I completed the applications and sent them on because I was a bit scared. I had never been their way and made a request to have a site set among the social elite and from my observa- up nearby to take the SSAT; the closest sched- tions of high school students it seemed that uled location was San Diego, 120 miles away. those years in school were some kind of run- Not many people from my county attend way fashion show, at least for the girls—after boarding school; I only know of one other and 1 all my older sister took about 1 ⁄2 hours get- he attended The Webb School. Needless to say, ting ready for school! Furthermore, I was aca- I am indebted to all of the folks who helped me demically inclined and knew by then that I along the way: my teachers, especially, Mr. wanted to go on to college and not many of the Thomas W. Henderson and my best friend’s students from Central were choosing that op- mother, Karen Stiegler, who wrote letters of tion. I wanted to go to a high school were stu- reference on my behalf. My Uncle Frank, a dents were there to learn and had all made the custodian for a school in the Los Angeles area, decision to go on to college. also tried to help me by arranging for me to meet with a counselor who knew something I did not know anyone about a school named Cate. And, who knows, who had ever attended if it had not been for a mix-up in directions boarding school either. So and the fact that we were never able to find where did my inspiration his home, I might have ended up there! come from? Believe it or not from the long-ago can- My first news back was from the school in New celled sitcom The Facts of York. They would love to have had me join Life—really! After all, them but were unable to meet the level of fi- where else would the nancial aid that my family required (read “full daughter of a migrant farm- scholarship” here). I was devastated. I felt sure worker dad and a home- that the others would turn out the same way. maker mom get such no- Again I waited. I heard from Thacher, or more tions? My dad had dropped precisely, Mr. Stephenson, next. They had read out of school at sixth grade my application and were interested in having me to work in the fields and my visit. However, it was late in the application mom had dropped out in process and they couldn’t wait until April when tenth grade because she my SSAT scores would be ready. Did I have felt her English wasn’t good any other scores I could send them? I had taken enough after spending most an IQ test to be admitted into the gifted pro- of her elementary years in Mexico. Of course, gram, but it had been five years prior. I was re- I didn’t think life at boarding school would be tested despite being discouraged by the school like the television show and I was not interest- psychologist who pronounced, “Well, your ed in going to an all-girls school either. score will probably go down because you are older now. People rarely do better on these My next stop was the public library where I things the second time around.” Whatever my looked up boarding schools in the card catalog score was, it actually went up and my scores and found only one entry, Boarding School were sent to Thacher; I never did take the SSAT. Guide 1975. I found it in the reference section and skimmed through it. I discovered they had My family and I visited Thacher on a beautiful a helpful index in the back with special topics spring day in 1984. It was a six-hour drive taught at each school. At the time I was fo- from our desert home to Ojai on the foothills cused on becoming a veterinarian and was of the Sespe. I’m not sure, but I think the or- overjoyed to find an entry titled “Veterinary ange trees were blooming and a light rain had Sciences.” As I recall, only one school was recently washed the campus and left small pud- listed: The Thacher School. The School dles. Of course, the campus was stunning. The sounded great, but, unfortunately it was listed huge pepper trees on the Pergola, the students as being an all-boys school. Undaunted, I gathered at Assembly, milk and grahmmies, copied the address of the National Association people in cowboy boots and blue jeans: an odd of Boarding Schools and requested an updated collection all in all. We toured the campus and A Thacher copy. When it arrived a few weeks later I was my family and I were awestruck by the vast elated to find that Thacher had gone co-ed! I resources, dorm rooms, small classes, hundreds Pioneer also chose two other schools, one in New York of horses, delightful Spanish architecture and page 32 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer modern science labs. On the way home we all high. It was also no fun when a particularly talked about the beautiful campus and how mean burro bit Shoshi Asnis, CdeP ’88 and me friendly everyone seemed to be. I was thrilled on a trip sophomore year. Finally, the School’s by the horses as was my younger sister, Lil- collective sadness and grief when we learned iana, who was three at the time. We headed that Amy Klausler had died as a result of a home to wait again. But it was not too long horse riding accident is also a poignant mem- before Mr. Stephenson called us again with the ory. Each memory is a reminder that a very good news that I had been admitted. My fam- good life can also have its low moments. ily was thrilled but we held our breath until we received the financial aid offer. A generous My twelve years since graduation have led me financial aid offer made it possible for me to at- in unexpected directions. As Mr. Robinson tend Thacher and I enrolled in the fall of 1984. predicted, I attended Harvard and picked up a I was also admitted to the school in Colorado degree in Social Studies. During my junior year although it was a rather moot point after I was selected as a Truman Scholar and won a Thacher captured our hearts. I am fortunate $30,000 scholarship for graduate studies with that my parents placed education above the a goal of pursuing public service. That led me traditional Mexican norm of keeping their to work at the Truman Foundation and the daughters at home and supported me in at- U.S. Department of Education for a year after tending Thacher; they’re the best! college before I enrolled at the University of Chicago and earned a Master’s in Public Pol- The Horse Program, camping, and senior year icy with an emphasis in higher-education pol- serving as a freshman prefect were the ex- icy. In my professional life since, I have worked tracurricular focuses of my life at Thacher. I for the Chicago Community Trust, DePaul rode every season, all four years—back in the University, a consortium of Big Ten Schools, and day when you could still get by without par- most recently at the University of Illinois as ticipating in a team sport. Still there were many Assistant Dean at the School of Social Work. notable moments that seem particularly vivid I take pride in the work I’ve done in higher in my memory. When riding the trails, either education, even if it is a far cry from being the alone or with company, it seemed that the hills veterinarian I once thought I would become. of the Sespe were a revitalizing force and spurred reflection on the fact that each of us is a very Now, I’m preparing for my greatest challenge small part of a larger community. The pack- to date: parenthood. My husband, David Fan- ing contest in which classmates Christine John- ning, and I are expecting our first child in June. son, Patrick Chu, and I landed first place in [Editor’s note: At press time, Cindy and David the humor category with our “Breakfast at the announced that Daniel Declan Fanning arrived Country Chicken,” with Patrick as the female on May 23 at 5:07 p.m. All is well.] Dave and lead and I as the male. We packed a small table I have been married for almost five years and onto the horse and glued food and paper plates started dating over ten years ago thanks to from the dining hall onto it for our winning Patrick Chu, CdeP ’88, who enrolled at M.I.T. entry. Christine served as the maitre d’. I also the year before David. Dave completed his doc- When riding the trails…it seemed recall having a conversation with Mr. Robinson torate in physics last year and started as a sen- freshman year discussing colleges in which he ior research scientist at TriQuint Semiconduc- that the hills of the Sespe were a boldly predicted, “Sure, in four years you’ll be tor in Dallas, Texas, last October. When I left revitalizing force and spurred at Harvard.” How did he know? Catching my position as Assistant Dean and moved to bluegill in the Sespe with Wonsik Choi, CdeP Texas to join my husband, I was concerned reflection on the fact that each ’88, with nothing more than a line and hook— about making the transition to being at home. of us is a very small part of a not even any bait—and then having to eat them However, I’m enjoying myself by taking time to for dinner. Drifting down the Colorado River learn things that I had deferred until now: gar- larger community. in a kayak my freshman year with Seth Shaw, dening, sewing, cake decorating, country/west- CdeP ’85, as team “Cinnamon Toast,” in a trip ern dancing, and preparing for the baby. I won- led by Mr. Wales and Mrs. Edwards. Unfor- der now, just like when I was working, how gettable food feasts (a.k.a. munchouts) with will I get everything done? my charges in my senior year. Navigating my way through Thai culture, during my summer I may return to graduate school in a couple of as an A.F.S. student in Bangkok. years to pursue a doctorate in education or public policy, return to higher education ad- Of course, there were other less pleasant mem- ministration, or perhaps life will take me in ories as well. Having to ride to the ranger sta- another direction altogether. After all, I never tion with Jennifer Ybarra, CdeP ’88, to find a thought I’d be the first in my family to gradu- ranger and request a helicopter evaluation for ate from college and get a master’s degree to Christine Johnson who had been kicked in the boot! Or that my high school years would be face by her horse, Caribou. After getting on the last time I lived in California. our horses, Jen fell when her saddle slipped down to the horse’s belly. By the way, Christine I cannot imagine how much more hectic things went back to riding as soon as she was able, will be when our baby arrives, but I’m looking earned the ranks of Top Horseman and “A” forward to finding out. One thing is certain: Camper senior year, and is now a veterinarian this child and any who may follow will grow up in Oakland. Trudging out of the Sespe on foot hearing stories about horses, camping, and av- A Thacher during a pouring rainstorm and crossing the ocado and orange orchards, and thinking “The creek which was running fast and about thigh Banquet Song” is a children’s lullaby. e Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 33 Alumni Profiles

Stephen M. Batts, CdeP ’76 Flying His Dreams Thacher Pioneer

guess I would have to say that I took an un- of the personally enriching experience that common path to Thacher. Born to a lower awaited me at Thacher. As I look back upon Imiddle class family in Los Angeles, Califor- my experience there, I fondly recall the sense of nia, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. I at- caring and family that I felt among the faculty, tended public schools prior to my exposure to students, and staff. I never doubted the gen- Thacher. I say exposure, because I had not a uine concern for my well-being and my future clue of the place until I was called before my that virtually all of my teachers exhibited. counselor one day as a ninth grader at San Fer- From what I have witnessed during recent re- nando Junior High School. My counselor told turns to the campus, some of these same indi- me that my academic record made me a can- viduals—Peter and Bonnie Robinson, Terry didate to take advantage of a scholarship offer and Cricket Twichell, Marvin Shagam, to by The Thacher School. As soon as she ex- name a few—are still there, not just molding plained to me what Thacher was, I immedi- young minds, but also shaping extremely well- ately told her I wanted prepared world-class citizens. to go. At that time in my life, I was on a path Apparently, my logic while in junior high was to fulfill my dream of sound, as I gained Congressional appointments becoming a fighter pilot to both the Air Force Academy and the Naval in the United States Air Academy (my back-up plan). I entered the Force. Many thought Class of 1980, the first class to admit women this to be unusual to the service academies. Thacher had made since—although my fa- its indelible mark upon my soul. Thanks to the ther, brother, and uncles painstaking efforts of folks like Steve Griggs served briefly in the and Geoff Bird, I did so well on my French Army—there were no language placement examination that I was career military people not required to take any French classes. The in my family. I like to highly rewarding experience I enjoyed with think that I became en- Marvin Shagam during debate exercises surely amored with the idea had something to do with my selection of Hu- because of my favorite manities as a major. Those many nights of television show at the agony I endured as David Koth welcomed me time (12 O’clock High). to his humble home in the shadow of Upper Around the time I was School and patiently explained to me the eight years old, I seri- foibles of higher math also paid off, as I was ously embraced the concept of “strapping on placed in the accelerated math program at the an airplane” and going into battle. I later Academy. Thanks to Peter Robinson and Terry formed a plan by which I would attend the Air Twichell, I played lacrosse well enough to Force Academy, play football there, and be- make the Varsity Air Force team for all four come a fighter pilot upon graduation. There- years. I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science fore, the offer by my junior high counselor degree in Humanities in 1980. merely required a quick “cost-benefit analy- sis,” comparing my chances for admission to Then began my odyssey of travel. First was a the Academy as a public high school graduate stop in Columbus, Mississippi, to earn my wings. During that Finally and perhaps the most profound gift of all for me has year I not only learned to fly a jet been the development of the drive to never tire of learning. but I met the This drive was not only nurtured in me while at Thacher, but woman who would later become my also fortified with a type of fearlessness that tells me that I wife, Moteshia can learn anything if I want to. Odom (she was at- tending the Missis- sippi University for versus my chances as a Thacher graduate; the Women). I graduated from pilot training and choice was a no-brainer. was assigned to Anchorage, Alaska, where I flew C-130 transports and re-supplied the A Thacher While I immediately realized the prestige ad- string of early-warning radar sites along our vantage I would gain for college admission by extreme northern border with the Soviet Pioneer attending Thacher, I had no idea of the depth Union. I married Moteshia and we were trans- page 34 The Thacher News Thacher Pioneer ferred to Frankfurt, West Germany. There I be- which came into play as I traveled to the jun- came a Special Operations pilot, and I trained gles of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam to aid to use the C-130 to infiltrate, re-supply, and in the search for answers regarding the over exfiltrate highly-trained, special-operations 2,000 American servicemen who did not re- forces hundreds of miles behind enemy lines turn from the war in Southeast Asia. The dis- (the Cold War was still very much in effect, so cipline I developed (thank you Bob Coombs) you can imagine which enemy we trained to surely saved my life in the skies over Iraq and counter). We thoroughly enjoyed Europe and Kuwait, as we flew through the oily black saw the birth of our first daughter, Marlena. plumes caused by the burning oil wells set Then, we were off to the panhandle of Florida ablaze by Saddam Hussein’s forces during Desert for more flying and the birth of our second Storm. Finally and perhaps the most profound daughter, Marion. I have also been assigned to gift of all for me has been the development of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, the drive never to tire of learning. This drive was D.C. Perhaps my most challenging assignment not only nurtured in me while at Thacher, but has been the one I just completed: after study- also fortified with a type of fearlessness that ing Spanish for six months I was sent to the tells me that I can learn anything if I want to. Argentine School of National Defense, in While in Argentina this past year, I realized Buenos Aires, for the entire year of 1999. that I have not yet lost that drive. Today, I am a Lieutenant Colonel, preparing again to fly God has truly blessed me throughout my life. my airplane, this time in a Combat Search and Not the least of these blessings was the oppor- Rescue role. My only remaining military goal tunity to attend Thacher. In addition to the is to become a Commander. The time is rapidly things I have already identified, Thacher sub- approaching when I will have to leave my mil- tly prepared me in many other ways to deal itary adventure and pursue something else. I with various other adventures. I learned hu- don’t yet know how I will transition, but I do mility, which served me well as our crew landed know that whatever new career I take, it will under fire by enemy forces during the invasion have to make me excited to get up in the morn- of Panama in 1989. I developed compassion, ing and go to work everyday. e

Stephen played on the Varsity Lacrosse team during his upper- class years at Thacher

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Hubert Honanie, Jr., CdeP ’57 Dances with Snakes, Toads, Sunlight, and Gems Thacher Pioneer

write this letter with a mind filled with fond eling, living daily life, and running soccer with memories. My name is Hubert Honanie, Jr., me. Thacher was the best time of my life. My ICdeP ’57. Honanie is a Hopi Indian name friends are the young men of Athens. A hello to meaning “badger.” The Hopi are people, few Peter Henze, Paul Helms, Fred Shore, and in number, who live on the chilly plateau of Leslie Roos. Northern Arizona. We are the people who never change our last names and who are the From Jack Huyler’s book The Stamp of the strange ones who dance with snakes to make School: the rain. Even other Indians are in awe of us. Hubert Honanie...a Hopi, was Thacher’s first Thanks to classmates Richard Grant and Aldwyn Native American. Hubert was a leader; a good Hewitt, I have kept in touch with Thacher. We student who went on to Stanford; and a tal- all work in downtown Los Angeles. ented artist; but it is for his sophomore English themes and for his camping skills that I re- With deliberate and slow pace, I am stepping member him with special fondness. into the dimension of Millennium 2000. I have a new wife and new In English II boys were encouraged from time- life. This lady is from to-time to describe real-life experiences. On the far-away land of such occasions, Hubert would usually write Guatemala. Her town fascinating accounts of trips shared with his is Santa Lucia, Cotzu- grandfather; attending the ancient tribal ritual malguapa, a southern dances, going into the mountains to seek a province on the Pacific totem for young Hubert… side. Her name is Marisol that translates I learned much from camping with Hubert, to “dancing sunlight on who gained the coveted “A” classification early the ocean waves.” in his Lower Upper year. As well as being a Upon reading this in- fine camper, he was an outstanding camp cook. formation, I suspect His apple pies, tacos, and tortillas were espe- amused smiles will cially tasty... cross the faces of my former classmates. Hubert had learned from his grandfather never to lie on his face to drink from a stream, but to For 22 years, I origi- hunker at stream’s edge and with a very rapid nated a fine jewelry movement of the hand send a stream of water concept in the city of up to his mouth. The motion was more rapid Pasadena. I am a goldsmith and cutter of gem than the lapping of a dog; and I was reminded crystal and stone. In this time, I constructed of Gideon in the Old Testament, who chose as original and personal items for Pasadena clien- his commandos those who did not lie face tele. Being only a short hop from downtown down at the stream when they drank. They L.A., I launched myself into the international could look about themselves at they drank and marketplace. I am sensitive to the fact that the were less likely to be taken by surprise. The I will always remember my world is changing and there is a schism on the bond between Hopi brave and Israelite war- perception of world trade. I view the world as rior is intriguing... classmates…studying, horse a panorama of colors. Armed with my Cali- riding, shoveling, and running fornia resale permit, I am able to unlock the During his four years at Thacher, Hubert was doors of superior gem dealers and designers, chosen captain of the Second Baseball Team soccer…the young men of Athens. from the diamond to the pearl. With conven- in his sophomore year and of the Second Soc- ient appointment by home phone, I can meet cer Team his senior year. He was elected mem- clientele in the lobby of the International Mart ber of the Student Council, the Honor on Hill Street in Los Angeles. Committee, and of the Outdoor Committee, secretary of the Bit and Spur, and Prefect in I love the high energy and the comings and go- both junior and senior years. ings of world people in this marketplace. The world of nature’s gems is always interesting The quotation which appears beside his pho- and the unlocking of nature’s secrets is sur- tograph in El Archivero is from “After Sun- A Thacher prising and never-ending. set” by Grace Hazard Conkling. It is clear that the classmate who selected the passage knew I will always remember my classmates who Hubert well: “I have an understanding with Pioneer e stood beside me, studying, horse riding, shov- the hills…” page 36 The Thacher News Trustee Profile Trustee Profile Terdema L. Ussery, Jr., CdeP ’77

Making the Most of Hoops and Hopes by Jane D. McCarthy

t first glance, it may appear that Terdema ment, freedom, and bonding between myself Ussery, CdeP ’77, was born under a lucky and the animal, which I will never forget.” Astar. This President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dallas Mavericks holds a bach- Terdema’s struggles with the Thacher lifestyle elor’s degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wil- were pervasive. When first accepted to Thacher, son School of Public and International Affairs, his long-time boyhood friends warned him, a master’s degree from the John F. Kennedy “You’re gonna be a white boy when you come School of Government at Harvard University, back.” Indeed, upon returning to his hometown and a law degree from the University of Cali- during school breaks, toting his lacrosse stick, fornia at Berkeley, where he also attained the his friends told him, “You’re in a different coveted position of executive editor of the Cal- world. We don’t want to hang with you any- ifornia Law Review. more.” Terdema found himself in a different world at Thacher, as well; he didn’t know Terdema, however, wasn’t spoon-fed any of these many things that most take for granted such as educational or subsequent business opportunities. what a goose down jacket is; that a stereo can Instead, he employed his diligence and perse- have more than one component; and that some verance to overcome the obstacles of growing cameras have detachable up in the poor Compton/Watts section of Los lenses. “I remember ask- Angeles, and to fulfill his goals. Terdema recalls ing Loren if I could take his parents telling him he could do anything he his Nikon camera home wanted, but it was up to him and that the de- for a weekend,” Terdema cisions he made would determine his destiny. remembers. “I had no Terdema faced a significant destiny-directing intention of taking pic- choice towards the end of his junior high school tures; I just wanted to years, when a school counselor suggested that, show my neighbors that as a promising minority student, he should ap- you could actually re- ply for a scholarship to Thacher. He accepted move and change lenses.” the challenge only to find that his shining-star status in Watts fell to mediocre standings at The socio-economic dis- Thacher. “I was woefully behind,” he remem- parity between his bers, “and I had to work very hard to catch up worlds at home and at academically. There were a lot of kids who had Thacher put Terdema been in private schools all of their lives and who squarely on the fence were better students; better prepared.” and uncomfortable in both settings. As he re- On Terdema’s first day at Thacher, he and his members: “The Thacher parents headed to the barn area to choose a kids were wealthy. They had never seen anyone horse since Horse Director Hal Johnson felt a like me before and I was one of only two stronger bond between horse and rider would blacks in my class and seven in the entire result if the students classified themselves and School. I missed girls! I couldn’t stop staring at had a choice in their equine companions. Hal the wet hair of some of my classmates. It was indicated the level of horses on the corrals— strange to see it lay down and change colors “Bunny” for beginners, “Patches” for inter- when it was wet. Simple things, but dramati- mediate, and “Rowdy” for advanced. Terdema cally different for me.” saw “Beethoven-Beginner” and grabbed for the tag at the same time freshman Loren To fit in better at Thacher, Terdema toned Churchman reached for it. Both held on firmly down his Afro, threw away his steel comb, ex- to the tag and Loren asked Terdema, “How panded his music selections, and polished his are we going to decide this?” manner of speech (“I’m trilingual: Spanish, English, and ‘Hood,’” he says with a smile.). Resorting to his childhood ways, Terdema said, He became involved with “The Notes,” Indoor “I guess we’ll have to fight for it.” Committee, and Judicial Committee, and played Varsity Lacrosse. Still, in his sophomore Loren thought better of that idea: “I’m not year, Terdema confided in Terry Twichell that going to fight you over a horse!” and relin- he was seriously considering returning to Watts quished the tag. Terdema kept Beethoven High School, where he could become an A stu- throughout his first year and presently says dent again and concentrate on sports, espe- that one of his most thrilling memories of cially football in which he excelled. “If you’re Thacher was the first time he and Beethoven a quitter,” Terry told Terdema, “go ahead and A Thacher ventured out of the ring and up onto the trails quit. But, I don’t think you are. You think alone: “There was a feeling of accomplish- you’re working hard now, but if you worked Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 37 Pioneer page 38 A Thacher Trustee Profile The Thacher News knew howtostudy. however, I… time, competition asIhadatThacher…this I thoughtbeingatPrincetonwasenough,butencountered and bleeding onthestreet. Terdema hadbeen the stores’security guard,butbadlyinjured shot inaholdup—fortunately notkilledlike neighborhood grocery store,hisfatherwas ment whentragedystruck. At hisfamily’s Law Review Terdema hadjustbeenelectedtothe School, aswell. entrance examsandentered HarvardLaw but foundhisinterestslayinlaw. Hetookthe Kennedy SchoolofGovernmentatHarvard, career inpolitics,Terdema enteredJohnF. back togetherafterafewdays.”Pondering long: hewas“scrapedoffthefieldandput he reportedtotrainingcamp.Thatdidn’t last cally fitfromliftingweightsandplayingsports, football. Weighing inat210-plusandphysi- entering graduateschooltotryprofessional with highhonorsandthoughthewoulddelay his junioryear. Hegraduated fromPrinceton School ofPublicandInternationalAffairsin gained admissiontotheWoodrow Wilson jobs topaybills,andrediscoveredgirls.He Princeton ForensicsTeam, workedacouple had madetheacademicteam,joined piece forthecello.”Offfootballfield,he cello, especiallysinceMozartneverwrotea with him,listeningtohimplayMozartonthe cellist. “Itiredofspendingmyeveningsalone were footballplayers,exceptforoneclassical during hisfreshmanyear. Allofhisroommates university footballteam,butTerdema did,and It’s unusualforaThachergraduatetomake ever, Iwaspreparedandknewhowtostudy.” I hadatThacheralloveragain;thistime,how- was enough,butIencounteredcompetitionas academic results.“IthoughtbeingatPrinceton Thacher class,butcameupwithonlyaverage ter there,hespenttimefundraisingforhis hard-working students.Duringhisfirstsemes- once again,foundhimselfamongverybright, Terdema matriculatedatPrinceton,wherehe, that Thachershouldremainsingle-sex.” the perfectpoint/counter-point totheargument the girlsatEmmaWillard helddear. “Itwas (along withalltheotherThacherboys)towhat and theintimidatingfeelingofbeingathreat verse intellectualprowessofbrightwomen, He learnedalotaboutcamaraderie,thedi- ratio wasn’t badeither:40boysto440girls. least hecouldinteractwithgirlsagain.The Emma Willard SchoolinTroy, New York; at student withotherboyswhotraveledtothe of hisjunioryearwasspentasanexchange he beganconsideringIvyLeagueschools.Part mendations inAlgebraandU.S.History; some ofhispeersacademically, earnedCom- extensive studying,hegraduallysurpassed academic deficit.Throughperseveranceand career, andchallenginghimtoovercomehis Terdema creditsTerry withsavinghisThacher even harder, you’dhavethegradesyouwant.” and hadreceivedhisfirstassign- Harvard on thefinancial andmarketing sidesof sports kind ofsportsexecutive—[he] hasafirmgrasp time Imethim, ‘T’ impressedmeasthatspecial Terdema’s management style:“Fromthe first N.B.A. CommissionerDavidStern saysthisof anti-drug andplayereducation programs. bility totheC.B.A.Healsopioneered C.B.A.’s brought rapidgrowthandmuch neededsta- work togetherclosely. These circumstances ment withtheN.B.A.for two leaguesto tive mediacontractsaswellathree-year agree- agreements, nationalsponsorships,andlucra- cess totheleagueashenegotiatedlicensing brought unprecedentedrecognitionandsuc- major sportsleague.Terdema’s workthere American toserveinthatcapacityofany came C.B.A.Commissioner, thefirstAfrican- Terdema joinedtheC.B.A.andayearlaterbe- counsel. the jobofdeputycommissionerandgeneral sioner IrvKaze,whoeventuallyofferedhim through sports,hemetthen-C.B.A.Commis- program thattaughtyoungstersaboutlaw franchise. Throughhisvolunteerworkina without aNationalBasketballAssociation tion, a“farm”leaguewithteamsincities covered theContinentalBasketballAssocia- the ConstitutionalRightsFoundation,hedis- help youngstersbridgethissamegapthrough ileged worldforcedTerdema tolearndiplo- This journeythroughamostlywhiteandpriv- the representative/agentangleoffield. ing toworkonthebusinesssideratherthan sports lawinthesamemanner, alwaysintend- odically askedforhishelp.Heexpandedinto cian friends(Terdema playsthedrums)peri- practice toentertainmentlawwhenhismusi- corporate banking.Hegraduallyshiftedhis Morrison andFoerster, initiallyfocusingon the prestigiousSanFrancisco-basedlawfirm, accepted apositionattheLosAngelesofficeof offers onceTerdema finishedlawschool.He This stringofdegreesresultedinnumerousjob when theywereonly13yearsold.) “date” awayfromhomehadbeenatThacher adolescents backinWatts. (Infact,theirfirst years, asshehaddonefromthetimetheywere came true,butshestoodbyhimthroughthose n’t seeherforacoupleofyears.Thatomen that becausehemade to lawstudents.Hetoldhisnewbride,Debra, Review, he waselectedExecutiveEditorofthe the UniversityofCalifornia’s BoltHall,where ues torunhisstore.Terdema transferredto friend—live. Mr. Usseryrecoveredandcontin- mattered tohimwasthathisfather—hisbest next planehomesincetheonlythingthatreally into hisroomtohearthisnews.Hetookthe spending hiswinterbreakathome,andwalked returning toHarvardthatsamenightafter the mostprestigiouspositionavailable While searchingforawayto in Watts anymoreeither.” I’m nottotallyacceptedback man’s world,”hesays,“and ally beenacceptedinthewhite points ofview. “I’veneverre- macy andtoacceptdifferent Law Review he would- Law Trustee Profile while never forgetting that what takes place This $350-million project, scheduled to open on the basketball court is the core of your busi- next year, will be the core of a retail/entertain- ness. He likes people and they like him—for ment center in the image of Times Square. his manner, his competence, and his integrity.” The Dallas Mavericks is about a $100-million Ultimately, Terdema’s accomplishments with business, and Terdema runs the daily opera- the C.B.A. brought him to the attention of tions. In order to secure fans from every segment sports marketing giant Nike. He served as pres- of the community, he carefully manages every ident of Nike Sports Management, where he aspect of business, from the way they market was responsible for marketing Nike’s elite pro themselves to the way they design their licensed athletes and negotiating contracts. “We re- merchandise. He wants to use sports to reach structured that side of the business,” said Ter- the community’s youth and make a positive dema, “and it evolved into what is now Nike impact. When he first worked at the Maver- Sports and Entertainment.” Twice during this icks, he heard gripes about the team’s lack of stint, he was included on The National Sport- presence in the city’s minority neighborhoods. ing News’ annual list of the top-100 most pow- He also heard rumblings that the only reason erful people in sports. occasional sports clinics were held was to gar- ner support for the new arena. He was very While the accolades were piling up, however, familiar with these complaints, as he’d heard Terdema realized that something was missing similar grumblings back in Watts. He sought to in his life. Extensive traveling (logging 300,000 greatly expand the Maverick’s presence in every miles annually on cross-country and overseas Dallas community and to make a positive im- trips), coddling rich athletes, and spending pact on kids’ lives. Besides having his athletes more time in the airport than at home with his offer routine clinics, he feels it’s important for family was not the way he wanted to live. He the city’s youth—especially African-Ameri- reflected on the quality time he’d spent with cans—to see African-Americans who are suc- his father: “It was just being around him, see- cessful even though they don’t play sports. “In- ing how he carried himself, being exposed to stead of hero worship,” he said, “I think we his values, and watching him interact with peo- should respect and applaud professional athletes ple,” Terdema remembers. “You only get one who have gone on to do great things. But there’s shot at fatherhood and I didn’t want to mess it no equilibrium. We don’t applaud the physi- up for our two children.” He left Nike and cians, the journalists, the teachers, and the sci- planned to take a year off to shift his focus, entists who are also doing great jobs.” starting with a family vacation to Mexico. As if the daily management of the Mavericks Just a short time later, Ross Perot, Jr., had pur- weren’t enough for Terdema, he is intimately chased the Dallas Mavericks and wanted to involved in the Dallas/Fort Worth business round out the organization’s leadership struc- community. He sits on the boards of the ture with someone who possessed a strong fi- Greater Dallas Chamber, Dallas Museum of nancial background and could provide a major Art, Dallas County Advisory Board of The Sal- marketing boost to a brand name that ranked vation Army, Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs of Greater at the bottom of N.B.A. merchandising. De- Dallas, California Science Center, Y.M.C.A. of spite his apprehensions, Terdema interviewed Metropolitan Dallas, N.B.A. Board of Gover- for the position and gradually warmed to the nors, and W.N.B.A. Operating Committee. notion of joining the Mavericks through sub- This past summer, Governor George W. Bush sequent discussions with Perot at the N.B.A. announced the appointment of Terdema as one All-Star Game. One of the major reasons for of six new additions to the Texas Higher Edu- his change of heart was Perot’s emphasis on cation Coordinating Board. family. “As always, I took my father to the All- Star Game and we talked with Ross,” Terdema This is the second year that Terdema has served recalled. “Later, we sat in chapel together and on Thacher’s Board of Trustees, focusing on my father talked with him awhile. When the Program and Development Committees. everyone walked away, my father talked about He felt compelled to join this Board because he Ross’s family values and how impressed he was wanted to help Thacher continue its tradition with them. This man works at a very quick of uniqueness in secondary education, and, in pace and still finds time to focus on raising his some small way, give back to the School that family. That was an inspiration to me because changed his life. He wants to do all he can to most of the people I have met talk about being ensure the long-term health and well-being of successful, but they regret that they lost their the School and its students, and to acquaint as families in the process. So, I would pray, many people as possible with the unique insti- ‘Where are the successful Christian people?’ tution that is Thacher. The special strengths Then I slammed into one. The opportunity to that he brings to the Board are his marketing work with him took it over the top.” and his sports expertise, along with a sensitiv- ity to low-income students and their needs. He Perot is mutually complimentary about work- hopes to impart his personal philosophy to ing with Terdema: “[He] is an innovator and a these students: Don’t ever quit; don’t ever give dynamic leader with phenomenal contacts.” up; pursue your dream. “As my father always In his first season with the Mavericks, Terdema told me: ‘The higher up you go, the bigger the played a key role in the campaign that led to bullseye on your back.’ I just hope I can make A Thacher the early January 1998 election by City of Dal- a big enough difference in the lives of others las voters to help fund a new downtown arena. before I get ‘hit.’” e Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 39 Former Faculty Profile

Edgardo Catalan, 1964-75

Artistic Endeavors by Jane D. McCarthy

ith Headmaster Newton Chase’s bless- were somewhat difficult to comprehend. But, Former Faculty Profile ing, Thacher’s Art Director of the ’50s as Bob Miller remembers, “he was a quick Wand ’60s, Gui Ignon, reincarnated the study,” and the language barrier wasn’t a dif- old Bixby Handball Court into the Bixby Fine ficulty for long. Beyond that, when he set his Arts Studio. He also got a large proportion of brush, crayon, or pencil to paper, he commu- the student body involved in artistic pursuits. nicated beautifully. Edgardo’s philosophy Upon Gui’s death in the summer of 1963, about teaching art to teenagers in a high school Thacher’s new Headmaster David Twichell setting, was that “talent is not as important as scrambled to find a replacement art teacher to the development and expression of the creative continue the momentum of the Fine Arts Pro- process itself. That is why so many students gram. Hearing of David’s predicament, Otis who felt they didn’t have any ‘artistic talent’ Wickenhaeuser, CdeP ’49, suggested that whatsover, discovered that they could do—and Thacher consider hiring a young Chilean artist did—so many interesting things in art.” He whom Otis had met while overseeing an aca- expanded the art curriculum by offering hands- demic program for some Lewis and Clark Col- on courses in photography, cinematography, lege students who were studying in Valpairiso. ceramics, sculpture, and jewelry making, as So impressed with the well as more non-traditional art forms such as paintings was Otis that he non-tie-dying, silk screening, and “junk” sculp- tracked down the artist to ture. He also added art history and apprecia- his studio at the School of tion courses, complemented by seminars about Fine Arts of Viña del Mar, art in society. At his peak, three-fourths of the where he’d just begun School were studying or creating art in studios teaching. Otis purchased and darkrooms. Finally, he initiated a program several of Edgardo’s of guest artists (to conduct workshops) that paintings and kept in brought to the School, among others, the black touch with him when he sculptor Noa Purifoy; the actors Karl Malden returned to the States. (being a cousin of Les Larsen helped), Woody Sight unseen, David hired Chambers, and Vincent Price; and a director of Edgardo; so began his in- cinematography, his dear friend Floyd Crosby. troduction to the States. Some remember Edgardo as a somber fellow; Edgardo and his bride of it’s likely that those people didn’t experience a few weeks AnaMaria, his lively sense of humor and the occasional were part of a “miniature zany comments that he often sequestered. United Nations” that Many students sought his companionship for started working at horse camping trips, treks that didn’t always Thacher in 1963: Betty Saunders from New turn out as planned. Among the more unfor- Zealand; Jorge Ramos, an exchange teacher gettable trips was an Extra-Day Trip with a from Peru; Wilfred Tims from England; Michel group of “A” Campers and a backpack trip with Jim Watts, Steve Some of his fondest memories are of those early years at Thacher. From the Abercrombie, viewpoint of an artist and an immigrant, trying to keep up with his art while Neil Howe, and others to teaching, learning a new language, and starting not only a family but also the upper a new life was difficult, but those years were some of the most important lakes in Yo- semite. A trip and happiest of his life. that falls in the “interest- Normand from France; and shortly thereafter, ing” category was a backpack Extra–Day Trip Peter Reid from Scotland. The Catalans to the High Sierra, when a bear strolled quickly acclimated to the new language, cus- through camp on the first night out, taking ad- toms, and boarding school lifestyle. “The vantage of the full stock of food. Edgardo wit- Thacher values of honesty, integrity, hard nessed the pillaging, but was so worried about work, and concern for others,” recalls freezing to death if he climbed out of his sleep- Edgardo, “were already part of our own up- ing bag (there was plenty of snow on the A Thacher bringing so we felt right at home with them.” ground) that he opted to stay bundled up and English was a struggle in the beginning for try to relax. Pioneer Edgardo and his announcements at Assemblies page 40 The Thacher News Former Faculty Profile During his second year at Thacher, Edgardo in Hollywood for five years before attaining a took a bunch of freshmen on what became master’s degree in economics at Thunderbird. known during a subsequent Reunion Weekend He and Thacher classmate Sibyll Carnochan as an “infamous” weekend horse camping trip. married a few years back and reside in Santa Edgardo remembers it as a disaster from be- Monica; Rodrigo now works for Epson Com- ginning to end. One of the “survivors,” Phil pany. Angelides, CdeP ’70—a California Congress- man when the story was retold at Reunion— Finally, Edgardo keeps in touch with a few of quoted Edgardo as yelling as all hell broke his former students. Some of his fondest mem- loose at Dynamite Canyon Camp: “It’s every ories are of those early years at Thacher. From man for himself!” (see an abbreviated version the viewpoint of an artist and an immigrant, of this story beginning on page 42.) trying to keep up with his art while teaching, learning a new language, and starting not only After 11 years of teaching at Thacher and rais- a family but also a new life was difficult, but ing two children here, the Catalans moved to those years were some of the most important Santa Barbara, where AnaMaria pursued a and happiest of his life. e doctorate in Spanish (she had taught some Spanish classes while they lived at Thacher) and Edguardo pursued his artistic career. He works primarily in oil and watercolor, mostly with glazes, seeking transparency and lumi- nosity in his colors. He strives for order and clarity in his compositions. His iconography comes from nature and he works mostly with the landscape and the human figure in a non- realistic manner. A decade after leaving Thacher, Edgardo and his wife divorced; Edgardo moved back to Chile, where he joined the faculty of the University of Valparaiso, set up a studio on a hill overlooking the bay, and began teaching at the School of Architecture and the School of Design. Pinochet was still in power; Edgardo found his repression harsh, brutal, and not conducive to creative endeav- ors. Therefore, while maintaining his home base in Chile, Edgardo periodically came to the United States to exhibit his art and traveled throughout Europe.

Five years ago, Edgardo received a phone call from his dear friend and former Thacher col- league, Les Larson, who said: “It is lonely here in Tennessee. Would you like to join me at the Webb School?” Edgardo joined Les, but, un- fortunately, a good match didn’t gel between him and Webb. Two years felt much more like several to him and he returned to Europe. There he encountered an old friend, a German musician from Hamburg, Heike. A year later they were married in Denmark and then moved back to Chile in 1997. He has devoted his life to painting, teaching (at the University of Valparaiso, one course at the School of Ar- chitecture and one course at the School of De- Edgardo’s painting, sign), the directorship of the University gallery, Economia de mercado and the organization of its annual national art (Market Economy) and poetry contest for young people. Lately he has been working on a poetic recreation of the landscape of his hometown of Valparaiso, and also with the human figure in autobiographical or social themes, sometimes quoting from old masters. Since childhood, he has enjoyed liter- ature poetry, cinema, music politics sciences, history and, lately, physics.

Edgardo’s children still reside in California. Lorena, a pre-school teacher in Santa Barbara, draws and paints in her free time. Rodrigo, A Thacher CdeP ’83 matriculated to Brown, then worked Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 41 No Man Is an Island Edgardo Catalan Recalls a Weekend Packing Trip from 30 Years Past

t’s every man for himself.” Some Thacher the mountains of the Los Padres National For- “ alumni attending a School Reunion a few est stretch towards the east and disappear Iyears back say they heard that phrase dur- under some dark clouds. Patches of snow were ing a horse-packing trip. I swear I never said everywhere and the ground was soft, moist, such a thing. and slippery from the recent rains. We crossed a creek and reached another narrow trail, Let’s go back to the beginning when I came to about 15 inches wide, that went down and Thacher from a narrow country in the tip of around the slope of a mountain towards a deep south America, having just married the most canyon. It was dangerous, even under normal beautiful girl in town. Horses were part of the weather conditions, cut on the side of the School’s important Camping Program. Horses mountain; the left-hand side was sheer straight were not strange animals to me since I had up, and the right went down via a steep cliff to learned to ride before I learned to walk on a the bottom of a canyon. It was the infamous farm in southern Chile. That is why I wasn’t Shell Cliff. worried when a group of freshmen asked me to take them on a three-day camping trip into the After about 200 yards, the slope was covered Topa Topa mountains in late January. with loose, white gravel—hence the name— which made for very precarious terrain. Here Flattered, I said yes. Little did I know that I was and there, a stubborn bush or small tree clung their last choice. Everybody else on the facul- to the slope. It was getting dark very fast. The ty had found an air-tight excuse to turn them kids were apprehensive. The thought of turn- down. This group of four freshmen and one soph- ing back crossed my mind, but the School’s omore was the most disorganized, helpless, motto, “The stamp of the School is the stamp and incompetent lot in the Horse Program. of the man,” was pretty strong stuff. We would be the laughing stock for generations to come It was a gloomy, cold, windy, and heavily over- if we did return. I wouldn’t mind that, but it cast morning when we assembled in front of would be tough on the kids. the camping depot. We had had plenty of rain the week before and my southern instinct was I decided to take the lead with one of the mules telling me that more was on the way. Every- in case the trail gave way. I mumbled “Geron- body laughed when I asked the supply master imo” under my breath and pushed forward. for a tent. Cowboys didn’t use tents. Still, I in- We were half way through the trail, and I sisted and secured a large piece of black tarp to thought we were going to make it, when the one of our two pack mules. ground gave way just behind me. My horse jumped forward, the rope slipped from my After a final check, we said goodbye to a hand- hand and the mule I was pulling went down ful of friends and curious onlookers. Nobody the cliff. could have mistaken us for the Wild Bunch. The “A” Camper led the way up the narrow In the moment of panic, everybody yelled. I trail that twisted up the hill and bent on the looked back thinking that half the group had side of the mountain on the edge of a deep gone down. A big chunk of the trail had col- ravine. During the first couple of hours every- lapsed, but the group—all shook up—was still body was jolly, talking, singing, and telling there. Only my mule was missing. I looked jokes, until, slowly everybody fell silent, lis- down the canyon. By some miracle, the fall of tening to the huffing and puffing of the horses. the mule had been cut short by a scrubby little tree about 50 feet from the trail. Caught be- Half way up the mountain, we took our first tween the branches, her four legs up in the air, rest. The “A” Camper told me we had forgot- she was trying to free herself. I pulled out a ten an important piece of equipment and asked large hunting knife, secured myself with a rope, permission to return to School for it; “No need and slid down. There was a unanimous cry to wait, I’ll catch up in a jiffy.” Two hours later from the wild bunch: “Please don’t kill her!” when we reached the summit, the storm was (The only time I had tried to kill anything had about to break. An icy cold wind had begun to been in that farm in Chile when I was asked to blow and everybody, except for two boys, had kill a chicken by wringing his neck. I did such on their ponchos. The “A” Camper hadn’t re- a lousy job that the poor thing wandered about turned yet; he never would. in a daze for days afterward, until he collapsed A Thacher and died of sheer exhaustion.) All I wanted We pushed through some thick bushes and was to free the animal from the tangled harness Pioneer came to an opening from which we could see and pull her out of there before it was too page 42 The Thacher News late—that was, if she didn’t have a broken boys took the ends of it and shook it. The big damage. My horse had been caught, but we bone. With relief I noticed that, except for black thing flapped in the air loudly, scaring were missing the two mules and two other some bloody cuts and bruises, she was other- the already nervous horses and mules, sending horses. One boy had stayed on his, but had wise unhurt, but terribly frightened. I cut her them running every which way. One of the been unable to control it and had galloped out loose and with the help of some of the kids mules ran up the canyon and got the packs all of sight. and lots of luck, hauled her out of there. tangled up in the bushes. The other jumped back and fell flat on her back into the torrent, Free of the mules, we moved fast getting to the With a stretch of the trail gone, the group was smashing the packs on the rocks. For a few crest of The Ridge about two in the afternoon. cut in two. Using Army shovels, we started seconds there was pandemonium. Looking at It had taken us six hours to get there. The rain working to build up the trail again. By the time the mess I thought, “What the heck am I doing had stopped and among some low clouds, we we finished, it had started drizzling and it was in this God-forsaken canyon?” could see the Valley. We had almost made it. pretty dark. We repacked the mule any way Then I saw the boy whose horse had galloped we could and kept going. We reached Dyna- By the time we got everything under control, it off. Half a mile down the trail, he was lying mite Canyon, our first stop, about six in the had started to rain again. I thought we would face down on some flat rocks and was not evening and set up camp in a narrow clearance never manage to get the mule out of the creek moving. I thought the worst. The kids started by a small creek. Since there was not enough and pack everything in the damaged packs, but yelling at him, and, to my relief, he got up and room for the horses, we took them across the we did. I was finally trying to saddle the last horse waved at us. With a limp, he started hiking creek and tied them up. with numb fingers and feet because I’d given my down. His horse was gone. poncho to one of the students. The kids pulling Assignments for camp set-up were given to the the mules were already picking up the trail out We arrived at the School at about five in the af- students, including digging a trench around the of the canyon. I thought I was the last one leav- ternoon. It was getting dark and the rain was tent to prevent water from coming into our ing the camp when I heard, “Please don’t leave coming down heavily again. A pitiful sight: the sleeping ground. By the time camp was ready, my brother! He can’t get on his horse. Please sorriest, most miserable looking bunch that the rain was coming down heavily, and it was don’t leave him here.” The boy was too small, ever came back from a camping trip in the 80 pitch dark. We ate a warm meal, and crowded too tired, too cold, to get on his horse, but I knew years of the School’s history. Wet, dirty, muddy, under the tarp, braced for a long cold, stormy if I got down from mine, I would never be able tired, ponchos in tatters, no hats, no mules, no night. With my saddle as a pillow, I fell asleep. to get back on it. That’s the moment when I sup- equipment, and two kids on foot. A group of posedly yelled the infamous phrase, “It’s every students and teachers, including the headmas- The rain on my face woke me up: the wind was man for himself!” ter, had congregated at the camp supply store threatening to blow the tarp away and some- to meet us. When we got there, a big cheer body cried, “There’s water in my sleeping The young, small brother moved his horse near went up in the air. For years it has reverberated bag!” I turned on my flashlight to see two boys a rock so he could climb on it. The rest of the in my ears. sitting in a puddle, shivering and looking mis- group, in the meantime, had disappeared up erable. The trench hadn’t been completed and the hill into the thick fog that now hung over John Donne said that “no man is an island.” I, water was coming straight into their side of the the canyon. We moved fast to catch up with myself, have never liked groups, associations, tent. For the next five hours, we tried to sleep them on steep, narrow, slippery trail. We were fraternities, and the like. I get suspicious when- and keep dry by bailing water, but the rain, thun- finally coming out of the canyon when a horse ever I see more than two people getting to- der, and a roaring sound kept us awake. slipped on some wet rocks. I yelled for him to gether. With Mark Twain, I would say—but jump. He leaped from the saddle and the horse for different reasons—that I’ll never join a club After what seemed an eternity, I got up at first slipped down the hill several feet, but free of that would have me for a member. Throughout light to find a mess under the tarp. All the area rider, managed to hold on, climbed back to the my life, I have been branded as an antisocial, a unprotected by the unfinished trench was a trail and ran away. The boy then rode on the loner, a misanthrope. But even now, I have to pool of water, mud, wet sleeping bags, and back of my horse; we reached the spine of the recognize that man is a social animal, and that shivering kids. The rain had subsided a bit and hill where lay the dreadful Shell Cliff again. most of the time, his subsistence, his well- I told everybody to get dressed. The blasted We dismounted to let the horses rest and to being, and his fulfillment in life depends on trip was over. We were going back to School tighten up the saddles. The packs on the mules this. no matter what. Everybody agreed. were getting loose and I prayed they would hold until we crossed the Shell Cliff. I told the No, it is not every man for himself. As one of The little creek was no more. It was now a kids to pull their horses, but I decided to stay the members of the real Wild Bunch in the Sam roaring torrent coming down the canyon and on mine. We began to cross. It had stopped Peckinpah movie said, “We either hang to- the source of the roar we had heard during the raining, but suddenly, a loud thunder clap gether or we hang separate.” I hope the kids in night. “Impossible to cross it, sir.” With ropes echoed through the mountains. My horse tried that trip learned that lesson. tied around my waist, I began to cross the ice to climb the side of the mountain and I went cold water with a current so strong I thought I the other way. My fall down the cliff was cut A week after our return, Jug Reynolds and Jesse would be swept away. The water came up short by some bushes I managed to hold on to Kahle, the two cowboys in charge of the Horse above my knees, but I managed to cross and a few feet down the trail. I couldn’t see what Program, found the two mules and the two began to pull the horses and mules across the was happening up there, but some pots and horses in a valley five miles away. They also creek. The water kept rising and by the time pans were clattering down the mountain. went down the canyon at the Shell Cliff and we finished, it came up to my waist. When I managed to climb back to the trail, I brought back the smashed packs and every piece saw the mules trampling on the packs. The of equipment we had lost, down to the last spoon The camp was a mess. There would be no hot trail was in shambles. One horse was running and fork. It only added insult to injury. e breakfast since the matches had been left out in with the saddle on his belly. I could see some the rain. One student’s feet were so swollen he kids and horses in the distance. My own horse couldn’t get his boots on. We hurried to pack was nowhere to be seen. By now the tattered the mules before the rain started again. We packs were rolling down the cliff to the dis- packed up the camp, but couldn’t feed the tant bottom of the canyon. I couldn’t care less. horses because all the grain had been used the “To hell with it,” I thought and tried to catch night before for two horses. The tarp was cav- up with the group. We crossed the Shell Cliff A Thacher ing in under the weight of a pool of water. Two and stopped on the other side to assess the Pioneer Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 43 Class Notes Class Notesby Cricket Twichell

1931

Sad news came from Bill Lisle: On November 7, 1999, Lambert “Larry” Hopkins, Jr., died. For the past few years, he had been living with his son, Lambert, CdeP ’60, in Eugene, OR.

1937

News from John Ferry: “Still keeping six sheep— our last horse became like the Thacher symbol. Paul Fay keeps us in touch with the survivors of our class when we see him at our annual Naval Roderick Carpenter, CdeP ’47, outside his new studio War College symposium in Newport”

We are sorry to report that Jon Frost’s wife Mary 1943 died in October 1999. “I’m now living alone (with help) in the same house on the ranch in “We’re staying home and getting ready to sell a Colorado.” house that is too big for part-time residents,” writes Roy Holland, who spent five months in 1999 riding the blue highways from Washington 1938 state to Maine with SOWERS—a ministry of re- tired RVers who work at Bible camps. “I’m grateful for good health and a wonderful family,” writes Duncan Patty. Last June all 23 members of his family (including 13 grandchil- 1946 dren) spent a week scuba diving, fishing and snorkeling at Kona Village on the Big Island. In Anthony Arnold reports that his most unusual 1999 he also took a trip to Mainland China. visitor of last year was Leigh Cross, CdeP ’47, who appeared on their doorstep for a quick bite of lunch on his way south to Mexico for Christ- 1940 REUNION YEAR mas. He was accompanied by a charming lady, Velma, and a large German Shepherd. Leigh is From Wheeler North: “I am retired and slowly presently transforming a building in an industrial gathering moss.” part of Vancouver, B.C., into living quarters.

Bill Hufstader was reminiscing about Todd Mac- Nicholas Cunningham just finished two decades Todd (Norman Mackintosh Todd) and Crellin as head of outpatient pediatrics at Columbia Uni- Griffith and “some guy named Don Maron, CdeP versity College of P.T.S. Seeing patients, doing re- ’38, who had a box of raisins grafted to his right search, starting programs, teaching child hand. They have all departed for that big corral in development and abuse prevention, and consult- the sky.” ing for George Soros’s Open Society Institute in Eastern Europe fill his days when he’s not playing Donald Allen is begging off his 60th Thacher re- squash, tennis, and chamber music, or tending to union to attend his daughter’s wedding in Italy. wild grape vines, cutting trees, mowing lawns, or reading Born to Rebel by Frank Galloway. We feel fortunate to have heard from him at all.

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Cowboy poetry was the drawing card for Carol and Bill Oxley, “Buckshot” Bill Crawford, and Jim Griffith, CdeP ’53, when they met in Elko, NV, to bask in poetry written by and for ranch folks.

Retired, but not really, Brewster Knight is teach- ing part-time in the mathematics department of George Washington University.

Janet and Dan Crotty keep busy on the JESUS Film Development Board. This film portrays the Sheri and George Clyde, CdeP ’59 life of Jesus and has been seen by three-billion people around the world, many of whom have never seen a film before. 1960 Cassandra and Rich Look, CdeP ’62 1958 Richard Walden is enjoying the good life these days. His pecan business at Farmers Investment South of the border is luring Alexandra and Mike Company is thriving; his daughter, Deborah, mar- 1947 Ward, who have visited Mexico three times this ried a great guy in December; and his divorce fi- 1 year in addition to taking a trip to Ecuador and nally went through after a 2 ⁄2-year struggle. Now Roderick Carpenter placed his shingle outside a another foray to Chile. he’s found the love of his life in Nan Stockholm, new studio in Amesbury, MA, last fall. As you Stanford ’76, Stanford Law ’80, and a horse lover may recall from a previous issue of The Thacher to boot. News, Rod is an art conservator who cleans and 1959 repairs works of art and frames. From Harry Wyeth: “I took a shot at climbing Mt. Aconcagua (6,964 meters) in Argentina in 1948 January. It’s a huge, cold, and windy mountain. I was in the 60-70% of those climbers who didn’t Chris Boyle explored the down-under of Down make it, and was done in by a combination of al- Under when he went SCUBA diving for 16 glori- titude, 25-kg packs, cold, and wind. But I had a ous days in Australia in October. Our condo- great experience!” lences to Chris whose 94-year-old mother died Jim Acquistapace, this past year. From September through February, Sheri and CdeP ’61 George Clyde were hanging out in Auckland, Michael F. Dorst sees classmates Sam Wright, New Zealand, where George worked as General 1963 Peter Dunne, Bill Bucklin, Sandy Walker, and El- Counsel for America True, one of the boats that liot Hayne from time to time in San Francisco. competed for the coveted America’s Cup. George Deanne and John Huyler went trekking in the was the rules guy: the person consulted on rules Atlas Mountains of Morocco after traveling in issues. And, he was the protest guy: the one who Spain. 1951 dealt with the protests that are infamous in the Amer- ica’s Cup. “Being a part of this bizarre, high-tech, Their five children and seven grandchildren are and enormously expensive sport—and the inter- seeing a bit more of Nancy and Bill Cox now that national yachting scene that accompanies it—has Bill has retired as pastor of the Christ Presbyter- been quite a kick.” ian church in Telluride, CO, and moved to near- by Santa Barbara.

1953 If all goes according to plan, J. Peter Baum- ganizations serving the sick and the poor such gartner, CdeP ’51 will be invested in the Sov- as homes for the aged, AIDS hospice centers, “Looks like I’ll have fun, fun, fun till Daddy takes my T-Bird away,” says Jim Griffith, who is having ereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John and free clinics serving poor neighborhoods a good old time in his retirement, making a CD of of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta on in large cities. In addition, Knights and border corriolos (Mexican ballads) and writing June 23 in Los Angeles. Presiding over the Dames of Malta from San Francisco and Los books on the traditional arts of Tucson’s Mexi- ceremony will be Archbishop Cardinal Angeles enable over 100 critically ill men, can-American community, another on the folk Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles and Arch- women, and children, known as Malades, from saints of the US/Mexico borderlands, and a third bishop William Leveda of San Francisco. the western United States to join thousands about the public religious art of the state of of Knights and Malades from the rest of the Sonora, Mexico. The Knights of Malta was founded as a re- Catholic world in making a religious pilgrimage ligious order in 1099 to care for the pilgrims to Lourdes, France, each year. Membership who became ill while traveling to the Holy is confined to practicing Roman Catholics. Land. Over time it became a formidable mil- itary force defending western Christianity The world-wide order is ruled from Rome against the followers of Islam. In the Great by a Grand Master and a Sovereign Council. Siege of 1565 on the island of Malta, 900 Applicants must serve a probationary pe- Knights and 1000 soldiers delivered a crush- riod, make at least one pilgrimage to Lour- ing defeat to 80,000 of the Sultan’s forces. des to care for the sick and poor who accompany them, and be approved by their Today the Order provides financial and vol- Bishop and the Sovereign Council. Con- untary help to many Roman Catholic or- gratulations, Peter.

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 45 1964 At Pedernales Village 1965 REUNION YEAR CFO-for-hire Kip Witter is working in Silicon Val- Stephen Gardner’s son, Stephen, Jr., is ensconced ley with The Brenner Group. by Bob Isaacson, CdeP ’66 in “Make Way for Ducklings” territory now that he is a student at Harvard University. Jim Preston and his family spent a wonderful hol- Near Point Arguello, Class Notes iday in Cancun, where they went snorkeling and It’s been a long, up-hill battle, but the Citizens did some sight-seeing and lots of relaxing. Ac- below the domed sage hill, for the Carpinteria Bluffs, under the aegis of pres- cording to their Christmas letter, another high- ident Ted Rhodes, has successfully raised the $4.5 light was their trip to Ojai for Jim’s 35th reunion: we park our cars at Pedernales, million necessary to insure this special coastal “For Jim, the pleasure of seeing classmates again land—“82 acres of sweetly undeveloped land of- was a treat beyond words.” Their daughter on the windy Sudden Flats fering unobstructed vistas of the mountains and Kayla, a 7th grader, is doing some competitive the sea”—will be preserved forever as a passive skating, taking piano lessons, and has a very ac- where sixty to eighty Chumash nature preserve. Ted quipped, “I was on top of a tive social and telephone life.” wild elephant. My job was to make sure it was lived for thousands of years, charging in the right direction.” This meant quit- the place where Portola’s men ting his day job and spending an entire year lead- ing the fund-raising effort. found flints for their black-powder muskets 1966 in the outcroppings along Slovakia’s Peace Corps Country Director is Nelson Chase, who, prior to this assignment, was a crumbling sea cliff Peace Corps Country Director in Moldova (1994- 96) and Albania (1996-97). “We anticipate mov- We gaze to the southeast: ing back to the USA in 2000.” a gray-white watercolor fog sweeps the low mound of Point Conception, 1967 Jesse and Rachel Rhodes, kids of Joni and Ted the long hills and mesas summer-dry, Karl Kroeber, the new Executive Director of the Rhodes, CdeP ’65 Sierra Madre Foundation, has two boys in col- bright, weirdly yellow, lege—Gavin in his last year at Reed and Logan in his first years at Sonoma State. framing the dark sea, whale path and white cap, cliff-tearing, deep indigo. On the village terraces wild oat, rip-gut brome, milk thistle, datura conceal the ancient paths between huts, meeting place, Mo, Whitney, and Nori Livermore III, CdeP ’66 fire pit, and grinding stone. Bob, CdeP ’67, Ali, Matt, and Nick Johnson We walk gingerly, 1968 but only to cluster cautiously The traveling Jordans have pulled up stakes once around our parked cars: more and after “living around” the state of Cal- ifornia have returned to the southland, where below the tall, wind-thrown grasses, Alexandra is studying Industrial Design at CSU Long Beach and Peter Jordan is working from Rattlesnake now warms their home in Long Beach. “Come see us.” his liquid, dark skin among the rounded half-buried pestles, Hill, CdeP ’66, Peiper, Laurel ’01, and Bettie the hand-curved fragments Hastings and the Sundance Gang of shattered, empty hoyas, the smooth stones of ancient fire rings that held nighttime heat.

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Claire ’02 and Hailey, Trevor, Lucy ’00, daughters and Henry of Gretchen and Harmon, Marshall Milligan children of CdeP ’69 Kimberley and Mark, CdeP ’73 1969

For four years, Jim Munger has been the numero Paul, CdeP ’71, Kimberleigh, Claude, and Chloe uno at the Dunn School and keeps in touch with Gavin Thacher through the Condor League.

Jutta and Andi Rossman with their four kinder 1972 came all the way from Germany to visit the Huylers in the summer of 1999. “Andy was our Dodie and Bill Dawson AFS son in 1968-69,” writes Jack Huyler. “He and plus their two boys are Jutta came to us for their honeymoon, and most of coping with a major our family have visited them more than once.” home renovation that has meant “moving into From Scott Kennedy: “After 31 years of careful the Marin County evaluation, I have given the OK for a first baby.” equivalent of married Stay tuned for the next episode. student housing” while the contractors work their magic on the Daw- sons’ digs. The whole Sam, Louisa, and Tom, children of Annie and family took off for Bora Harry Hanson, CdeP ’74, at Walden Pond Bora to celebrate Dodie Wils and Parker Daw- and Bill’s 10th wedding son, sons of Dodie and The Hastings anniversary. Bill Dawson, CdeP ’72 Family—Newlin, CdeP ’70, Liz, “My research has been published in the U.S.G.S. Shannon, CdeP Bulletin on local geology (20 page manuscript ’99, and Jamie with map) and I’m willing to share it with inter- ’02—waiting for ested Thacher students,” writes Art Wahl. His wife snow in Taos, of seven years, Diane, spends her time chasing New Mexico two-month old Derek and two-year-old AJ when she’s not working as a geologist for the County Bryan, CdeP of Ventura. Art builds “ultra-custom” homes in ’74, Louise, Santa Barbara. Maggie, and Annie Beckham Thacher and baseball. Fathers and sons. The tra- dition continues when John Busterud and his Kentfield neighbor, classmate, teammate on Thacher’s 1972 CIF tournament baseball team, Bill Dawson coach their sons Tommy Busterud and Wills Dawson in Ross Valley Little league. Rod Turner, John is an attorney for Pacific Gas and Electric CdeP ’70, and company where he supervises the corporate and family environmental section of the Law Department. He also continues to serve in the U.S. Army Re- serve, where he is a Major in the Army’s Special Operations command. Tommy also has a sister, Becky, who is now 11.

1973 Jacquie, Charlie, and Winston Neville, children of Boun Ly and those ladies in his life are keeping Jeanne and Steven, CdeP ’74 busy. Alicia (7) is a tennis player, Megan (9) is a competitive figure skater; Suzanne is taking a sab- batical from college teaching to do work on re- search and curriculum development; Boun works for State Farm and in his free time runs, and plays tennis and basketball. This past year Boun took a trip to Paris to be with his father; the whole fam- ily went to Hawaii for a week and the “girls” en- joyed the Cascade Mountains. Philip Angelides, CdeP ’70, and family

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 47 Class Notes Roberta and Noah Rifkins, CdeP ’75

REUNION YEAR Catherine and Rachel, daughters of Nancy and 1975 Robert Rex, CdeP ’74 While in San Francisco on business recently, Liz Westbrook Hydes (Emma Willard ’75) stayed Caitlin, Molly, and with Jen and Carmaig de Forest. “We had a mini Carey, kids of 25th Reunion with a few classmates (Noah Michele and Will Rifkin, Joe Dignan, and Carmaig) on St. Patty’s Wyman, CdeP ’78 Day at the Beach Chalet. Liz also reconnected with Tim Bowman, CdeP ’77 while on business in Salt Lake City. “We went for a 5.5-hour cross- 1977 country ski trip on April Fool’s Day.” New house, new job, new puppy. “Life has just been getting better and better!” writes Peter 1976 Downey, Financial Policy Manager for the Wash- ington State Department of Transportation. Lieutenant Colonel Steve Batts has returned from Buenos Aires, where he completed The National War College of Argentina (taught in Spanish). His 1978 wife Moteshia and their daughters Marlena (12) and Marion (9) traveled to Buenos Aires to visit It was wonderful to see Ned, CdeP ’74, Laura, Ken Everett charging and Schemmy Banning Steve and came back with wonderful stories of life below the Equator. Steve is now Stateside at down the Thacher la- Moody Air force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. crosse field just like old times (well, almost like Congratulations to Barry Kaye, who married old times) when the Laurel Robinson in Telluride, CO, last November. alumni played the Var- sity Lacrosse team in January. Ken’s son Jaime Everett is a sophomore at Thacher this year. Ken was itching to play Ken Everett, CdeP ’78 against his son’s team and survive; he did. Annie and Charlie, kids of Susan and Scott LeFevre, CdeP ’75

Alexandra and Katherine, daughters of Sophie and Kendric Foultz, CdeP ’77

Robert and Will, sons Harry IV and of Vickie and Carl Donald, sons of Costigan, CdeP ’77 Brooke and Peter Conkey, CdeP ’79

1979

Noah Rifkin, CdeP ’75, Joe Dignan, CdeP ’75, Liz While reading an article in the San Diego Tri- Westbrook Hydes ’75, and Carmaig de Forest, bune, we learned that Itsushi Wakabayashi is liv- CdeP ’75, at The Beach Chalet, San Francisco. ing just north of Rancho Bernardo. Itsushi and his wife Masako have two boys, Ken (3) and James (1).

J.E.B. Pickett was best man for Larkin Bertram- Cox when he married Amy Forest on October 29, 1999, at Mauna Lani on the Big Island of Hawaii. Congratulations to Larkin and his lady- love.

Ally, daughter of Angie Adriana Schwartz, Mollie and Cabot Brown and Murray Orrick, caught up with Diane Downey over dinner in Liz Westbrook CdeP ’77 San Francisco. Diane’s older daughter Courtney is Hydes ’75 and Tim matriculating to Brown this fall. Bowman, CdeP ’77 page 48 The Thacher News Class Notes

Carmen Marysue Pratt, daughter of Sydney Robertson, CdeP ’80, and George Pratt

1980 REUNION YEAR

All the way from Bejing, an e-mail message came John, Gus, and Eve Stacey, CdeP ’83 to Thacher on January 4, 2000 announcing that Sydney Robertson had given birth to Carmen Marysue Pratt. All their friends at Thacher are Leigh and Katharine, daughters of Rob Thomas feeling bereft since they’re missing out on seeing and Belinda Hanson, CdeP ’82 little Carmen in action. Sydney and her husband George Pratt are spending the year in China where George is teaching English with the School Year Abroad Program and Sydney is doing college counseling and snuggling with Carmen. Carmen will be multi-lingual early on as the Robertson- Pratt family will be stationed at SYA in Rennes, France, starting in the fall.

Baby Robert, son of Don and Marian Schinske, CdeP ’82

1982

From Mike Voevodsky: “Big year for the Vo- evodsky family—Mia turned 3, Paule turned 5, Therese started both an Internet company and a private consulting practice, and Mike completed Twichell male bonding—Jon ’83, Cameron, and 1 his first ⁄2 Ironman in 5:38.31 with virtually no Terry training given the entire family’s busy schedules. Hannah, Liam, and Sarah, children of Anthony E-mail us at [email protected].” and Mary Everett Bourkes, CdeP ’81 More Moores: Erica Fiedler Moore and Sam Moore’s ’79 new baby, Kendrick Clifford Leader 1981 Moore, was born in August, 1999, and is little brother to Richard Moore.

This summer watch for a CBS series called “Sur- And more Nikitopouloses: Alison Terbell Niki- vivor.” Mike Sears, who has been commuting to topoulos gave birth to Anthony in February 1999. Borneo, is shooting and directing 13 one-hour Vaki, his big bro, is four years old. Alison, who is Survivor shows. Alex, CdeP ’81, and teaching music appreciation and music history Katie Ballon Cal- part-time at Louisana State University, considers houn, CdeP ’83 With his five-month tour in Bosnia finished, Ken herself “blessed to have found an ideal balance Chance writes, “We’re moving to Baumholder, between working and mothering.” Germany, right near the French border; so if you’re looking to hit both France and Germany, At the end of November, Christy, MacGregor, our place makes for a great way-station!” and Brad Yates welcomed the newest member to their family, a beautiful girl named Bailey Bro- phy Yates. They returned to northern California where Brad continues his practice as a personal coach and hypnotherapist.

Christine, Kiki, Lara, and Jake Cunningham, CdeP ’83

Anthony Aristides and Evangelos “Vaki” Nikitopoulos, sons of Alison Terbell, CdeP ’82

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 49 1985 REUNION YEAR

Hina and Manish Bhakta are looking forward to the—gulp!—15th Reunion in June. Their son Tern was born in April, 1999.

Class Notes Sophie Brown Twichell took a business trip to Peru in March; and it looks as if she’ll be return- ing to South America in April, all part and parcel of her job with the Field Museum in Chicago. So- phie, Jon, and Cameron will be in the Ojai for the Reunion in June.

Camelia and Violet, daughters of Caroline and Even a Florida hurricane couldn’t keep Michelle Bruce Somers, CdeP ’83 Warren from attending Sarah Peapples’ wedding Vicki Nesbitt Palor, CdeP ’84, and family in Boulder, CO—well, not exactly. She did miss the wedding but arrived in time for the reception 1983 that was “beautiful and snowy.” Sarah Konrad, 1984 Stephania Serena, and Betsy McAtee, CdeP ’81, Ellen Loebl, who lives in Palo Alto, is making a were also there when Sarah and Vahe Derounian difference in people’s lives. She’s teaching adults in If you happen to have a copy of the 1999-2000 joined forces. recovery and alternative sentencing programs California Association of Independent Schools how to read as part of the Santa Clara County Li- Directory, Elise Edwards Ruiz-Ramon’s son is “I took a year off from teaching to build my own brary Reading program. In her free time, she goes smack dab on the front cover. “He’s the young house,” wrote Eric Gross last fall. He is serving hiking, rides her bike, and goes to Giants games. boy being read to by the older girl. At the time, he on the Steering Committee of the Resource Cen- was in Kindergarten and she was his ‘eighth grade ter for Non Violence in Santa Cruz, CA, but Teresa, Thomas, and Ed Sanchez have returned to buddy’ at Sonoma Country Day School in Santa found time to travel to China last November. Reno by way of St. Louis, MO, and Charlotte, Rosa.” NC. Ed is responsible for the training and devel- Santiago, Chile, is the present stomping ground opment of Bank of America’s retail brokerage “All is going great for us!” wrote Vicki Nesbitt for Pancho (Francis) Barassi, his wife Anamaria unit in the western United States; Thomas is doing Palor, who is keeping busy with their three chil- Orellana, and their two sons: Sebastian (3) and the WEBELOS, soccer, baseball thing; and Teresa dren. She also finds time to serve as Treasurer for Francis (2). They expect to be there three years is exercising her green thumb and assisting in the East Las Vegas Mothers of Multiples Club. while he works for Xerox. Brother Ted Barassi is Thomas’s classroom. Her e-mail address is [email protected]. married to Christine Kim and is just starting a new e-business: Phlair.com. Dilys Bart saw his way clear of San Francisco to attend this year’s Academy Awards. He has a pri- vate ophthalmology practice.

Diogba Erick G’bye and his wife are expecting their second child in mid-October. They bought a new home in Aliso Viejo in Orange County. He’s currently working for Federated Mutual Insur- ance as a Marketing Representative.

Elizabeth Chiu Gould and her husband Peter are the proud parents of Nicholas Harrison, who was born on December 28, 1999. She is on leave from her investment banking career and thor- oughly enjoys motherhood. Bride Sarah Peapples, CdeP ’85, with Michelle Peter Cole recently sculpted and co-authored a Warren, CdeP ’85, Stephanie Serena, CdeP ’85, Liam Kirkpatrick, son of Carolyn Reed, CdeP ’86, book on snowmen for Chronicle Books. Come and Sara Kendras, CdeP ’85 and Doug Kirkpatrick, CdeP ’86, in London July, Peter will spend time with his sweetheart in Vienna and in Kiel, Germany, to set up an art in- stallation about travels to Guyana, South Amer- ica.

Bobby and Liz Hunting- ton, CdeP ’84

Jordan Perry, daughter of Molly, CdeP ’85, and Derick, CdeP ’83

Julie Huntington dePolo, CdeP ’86, with husband Dan and daughter Sydney

David and Lukas, sons of Amanda and David Chao, CdeP ’84 page 50 The Thacher News Class Notes 1990 REUNION YEAR

After graduating from Scripps in 1994, Sadie Harrison-Fincher lived in L.A. for a year and then returned to Texas, where she ran the Hallmark di- vision of a family business. Highlights since then Devon Speer Eastman, include marrying a Texan, remodeling an old daughter of Alexandra house, and making plans to start law school in the Wyle, CdeP ’86 fall of 2000. “I often wonder where all my old friends are and what they are doing. Please con- Tom, CdeP tact me at sadiefi[email protected].” 1986 ’87, and RJ Thacher In June 2000, Jonathan Feldman is due to com- “Carolyn and I are planning the wedding,” writes plete his Masters in Middle Eastern Studies at Alex Wyle Eastman after their daughter Devon 1987 Princeton. What’s next? A Ph.D. in Art History. was introduced to that dashing Liam Kirkpatrick, son of Doug and Carolyn Kirkpatrick. In June 1999, Oak Strawbridge became a mar- Jennifer and David Bressie have been married five ried man when he said “I do” to Susan Buck. His years, have one child, and have “zero home,” at next monumental event is graduating from Paul Bressie proposed to Claudia Goria while the moment. They’ve become vagabonds while perched on the top of a mountain at Squaw Val- Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business their house is being renovated and enlarged in this spring. ley. They were married in a small village in the preparation for the arrival of another little north of Italy where “the procession wound Bressie. David, with his Real Estate Brokers Li- through town with the bride and groom in a Alexa Wilson married John Maley last December cense in hand, has been running things at Inte- 4. They are “torturing as many cows as possi- horse-drawn carriage tossing traditional candied real, a real estate company in the Bay Area. almonds to the children.” Now Paul and the Mrs. ble” on her folks’ cattle ranch, and tending to are ensconced in San Francisco where he is es- “six horses, two cow dogs, a passel of aloof barn Michele Barnett joined the East Coast contin- cats, and one cranky green parakeet.” tablishing his company called Boulevard Invest- gents when she moved to Annapolis this year. She ments. sees Ami Becker, CdeP ’86 quite often, but looks Jordana Munk is working toward a Master’s of forward to meeting other Eastern Toads. Plan- Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, PC Magazine knows a good Toad when seeing ning her wedding for September and making busi- one. It just awarded its coveted Editor’s Choice where she will be joined by her fellow classmate ness trips to San Francisco every month or so Amy Bird this coming fall. She is engaged to Ross Award to David Richardson and his web com- occupies the majority of her free time. pany, Zkey.com. Martin, whom she met at Brandeis University, and plans to marry this coming November. Nancy Nichols hiked around Italy, starting in 1988 Zurich to Pompeii and back. Then she zipped off 1991 to San Jose de Cabo and to Guatemala. When Big year for Cindy Castañeda: After her husband, she’s not enlightening her high school freshman David Fanning, completed his Ph.D. in physics with tales of her adventures, Nancy is working After eight years of undergrad and graduate from the University of Illinois, he accepted a job school, Dan Callaghan graduated last May from towards her M.A. in Colonial American History as Senior Research Scientist at TriQuint Semi- and running 30 miles a week. Case Western Dental School. With California conductors in Dallas, TX. Cindy is now busy fix- doing its magnet thing, Dan was drawn to Cedar ing up their new home in Texas, and is getting Sinai in Beverly Hills for his residency. Rebecca Clyde Tenant is juggling her residency used to being a full-time mom. As of May 23, in family practice at U.C.S.F., motherhood (Joey Daniel Declan Fanning is keeping his folks up at is now 3) and domestic engineering (settling into night. Send your congrats to them via e-mail at 1992 their new home in Berkeley). Husband J.P. is [email protected]. studying at U.C.’s Haas Business School. “I like living in Oakland and have become a huge Eric Anderson left Seattle to attend his sister’s Kate Twichell is putting finishing touches on her Oakland A’s fan,” writes Jessica Bliss, who is fund graduation from Harvard. Then he kept travelling raising for a private high school in San Francisco. Master’s thesis while running training programs eastward to England where he delivered a talk at at Mypoints.com in San Francisco. Oxford’s Statistics Department. “Taking an aca- What a year for Anne Berube Gard. Right after demic leave of absence to escape the Seattle win- Dan and Julie Huntington dePolo pulled up her marriage to Steve Gard, she began teaching ter (and spend the months in the mountains of kindergarten at Monica Ros School (right down stakes in Portland, OR, and moved to the Napa CA!).” Valley where Dan is working for Beringer Wine the hill from Thacher on McNell Road). After Estates while Julie is settling into their new home school she dashes off to take courses at Cal State C.P.A. David Callaghan has been commuting Channel Islands where she’s in a credentialing and riding herd on little Sydney (16 months). from L.A. to N.Y. as a litigation consultant with “Please call (707-226-7586)—we have plenty of program. As if that’s not enough on her plate, Ernst and Young. Home Sweet Home is in El Se- they recently moved to the East End within walk- room, and of course, plenty of that Napa Valley gundo. nectar to share!” ing distance of her job. A good move for Steve as well since he’s teaching at Ojai’s Matilija Junior Stephen Kong is working with his brother High. Their new address: 3350 Thacher Road, Michael, CdeP ’83, on magazines in L.A. and Ojai 93023. Chicago: Angelino and Chicago Social, respec- tively. Kendra Schmidt has a to-die-for job which re- quires her to travel to Italy and France several times a year to check out potential villas and cas- tles for a vacation rental business. Blossom Beatty was able to join her in France when one of Kendra’s trips coincided with Blossom’s vacation from teaching high school English in Los Angeles.

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 51 1995 REUNION YEAR

Between classes at Hanover, med. school appli- cations, and thesis writing, Kacey Perkins found time to send a photo of gathered Toads to Brian Driscoll in the Alumni Office. Class Notes

James, CdeP ’98, and Jen- nifer ’01 Bowie

1998

An assistant teacher in a freshman seminar class Anne Berube, CdeP ’92, and Steve Gard at M.I.T., Casey Muller, according to his mother, “lives in a co-op dorm whose members maintain 1993 their ramshackle old house, clean, and cook.” Kacey Perkins, CdeP ’95, Emily Wilson, CdeP ’95, Betsey Greennay, CdeP ’97, Sarah Perkins, CdeP Even at Duke, Ashley Wick can’t escape her fa- Allison Glass is a marine naturalist guide for ther’s uncontrollable screaming during her whale watching trips out of Gloucester, MA. ’97, Jamie Hastings ’02, Graham Donath, CdeP ’97, Newie Hastings, CdeP ’70, Shannon Hastings, lacrosse games. “I particularly enjoyed coaching against Bo Man- CdeP ’99, Kim Turner, CdeP ’98, Katie Kochan- dorfer, CdeP ’97 son last year, “ writes Jesse Wooten, who is teach- 1999 ing social studies and coaching lacrosse at Dunn Middle School. Jesse reports that Jay Gudebski is This past fall, Erin Campbell left Waterville, ME, living in Oakland and running a landscaping 1996 to spend a semester in Salamanca, Spain, where company with his brother, Jordan Gudebski, she brushed up her Spanish. “I am thinking of CdeP ’90. Brooke MacDonald, Aurige Bork, Catherine majoring in philosophy and environmental pol- Pinkerton, Laurel Braitman, Leyla Abou-Samra, icy.” Having finished her student teaching and about to Quinn Kanaly, Maria Banman, and Stefanie War- finish her Masters, Laura Wentworth is now ren celebrated Mardi Gras in the Big Easy with From Tim Johnson in Hanover, NH: “Dartmouth teaching second and third grade in a job-share David Ross. “Ask Pinky about the light pole.” is great, but I still miss everyone.” program. “This school is two blocks from my house so I am very excited.” Nathan Holmes is currently in the process of getting the city of Davis to finance a monument to Gerin River worked for Americorps and Amer- ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. “Funds are low, ica’s Promise in Madison, WI, after graduating so send money!” from Brown University. Now he’s off to spend two years with the Peace Corps in Panama, where little guys will be learning science under Gerin’s 1997 tutelage. Chris Labbe reports that all is well at Montana Kerryn Sanan is still singing in New York City. If State University, where he is a sophomore. passing through NYC, drop her an e-mail at [email protected]. She and Dee Donahue are Natural builder and traveler Kenn Young thinks heading to Oregon for Helen Homes’ wedding in that a straw-bale guest house would be ideal for June. Thacher.

1994 Bobby ’02, Cynthia ’99, and Jaime ’97 Kellogg

Meredith Bressie is due to graduate this spring from Cal Poly with a degree in architecture. She’s been on the Dean’s List and was an intern with the Arthur Gensler firm this past summer.

Rita Howe and Nate Toll are busy planning a June wedding in Ojai. They spent time with Devon Brown in Lake Tahoe recently; Devon lives in Seattle now.

Philipe Manoux is working as a product designer for a privately held medical equipment manufac- turer in the New York Hudson Valley.

Along with Caitlin Crounse, CdeP ’95, and Quinn Kanaly, CdeP ’96, Brian Bennett will Seth ’00, Josh ’94, and Ryan ’97 Kurlinski graduate from Princeton this spring. In July, he’ll leave for Hong Kong, where he’ll work for TIME Magazine’s Asia bureau and start his ca- Ashley, CdeP ’98, and Ian Wick reer in journalism.

page 52 The Thacher News Class Notes FORMER FACULTY NEWS

On December 27 C. Michael Ehrhardt passed away in Georgia, where his entire family had gathered to celebrate Christmas with him. Michael had been a music teacher at Thacher for 31 years (1946-77). A talented musician, a fine teacher, an excellent role model for generations of Thacher students, he left his mark on the Thacher community.

Roger and Barbara Marvin Nozaki added one more little guy to their family line-up when Jacob was born on September 26, 1999. Now living in Fairfield, CT, Barb has put her teaching talents on hold to be a full-time mother for Jacob and his big bro Samuel (2).

Jenn and John Friborg have a new “star” in their home, little Samantha Taylor Friborg, who made Samuel and Jacob Nozaki, sons of Barbara and her appearance this winter in Concord, MA. Roger uke Kai Lin has a new baby brother, Noa, who arrived this winter. John Lin is still Assistant Head of the Middlesex School in Concord, MA, while Marilee runs herd over the boys.

John and Jenn Friborg with Samantha

Noa and big brother Luke, sons of John and Marilee Lin

Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 53 Obituaries Obituaries

Colin Gillespie Jame- dren and great-grandchildren. Reportedly, doctorate. He served in the Navy as a Lieu- son, CdeP ’25, passed Colin’s final parting words were: “Ave atque tenant before finishing his medical training; away on Saturday, Feb- vale: Veni, vidi sed nihilum vici”: Hail and eight months at Yale working with Drs. ruaryObits 5, 2000. Born in farewell! I came, I saw, I conquered nothing.” Gazelle and Amuda; residency in pediatric sur- Winnetka, Illinois, and gery at Children’s Hospital in Boston; research raised in Santa Bar- Lambert Arundel Hopkins, CdeP ’31, died No- in cardiac therapy; and further surgical training bara, CA, Colin arrived vember 7, 1999. His sen- at Peter Brigham Hospital in Boston. He then at Thacher in 1923. ior page in the 1931 El returned to the West Coast to set up his prac- According to the 1925 Archivero, quotes Gold- tice, and worked at Children’s Hospital in Los El Archivero, “When smith: “with meek and Angeles, Pasadena Huntington Medical Center, great clouds of smoke and evil smelling gases unaffected grace. His and St. Luke’s Hospital. roll out of the doors and windows of the lab- looks adorned the vener- oratory and huge pots of bubbling liquid are able place.” To sum up Being a great horseman, Bud was a member borne outdoors, you can be pretty sure Jame- Lambert’s two years of the El Rancheros, and rode throughout son is making up a few chemistry experiments. here: He was Captain of Santa Barbara County with that group until His researches with [Paul] Harwood in the lab the Second Baseball just a few years ago. He loved his days at are either going to blow the place up or make Team during his junior year, and played on the Thacher and spoke highly of his two years in them both famous.” Colin was an Honor man, First Baseball Team in his senior year. Other The Ojai throughout his life. went on to win top commendations in Chem- sports-oriented pursuits included track, tennis, istry, as well as German and U.S. History, and soccer, and the Bit and Spur Team; he was also Bud is survived by his wife Gloria Taylor, spent his non-academic time working on “The a member of the Cabinet, “The Notes” and El whom he married in 1947. They had five chil- Notes” and the El Archivero Board, as man- Archivero Board, Honor Man, Indoor Com- dren: Theodore, Ann, Irving III, Claire, and ager of the Track Team, and in the Drama and mittee, and Big Tournament Committee mem- Jane (who died in 1980); they also have ten Glee Clubs. ber, and Prefect. grandchildren and one great grandson. The family home is in Pasadena, where his widow Colin matriculated at Williams College and Lambert matriculated at Williams, where he still resides. then to Harvard Law School. He began a first earned a Bachelor of Arts degree; he later career with a New York City law firm, then earned a Masters in Business Administration Charles Carey Donworth, happily became a copywriter for J. Walter from Stanford. For many years he was in the CdeP ’42, died of cancer at Thompson in Chicago. After many years at Army or working for the Department of the his Seattle home on Novem- that advertising agency, he pursued his short- Army as a civilian, and he spent a number of ber 30, 1999. Arriving at story writing career. His stint in the U.S. Navy years in Athens. He spent his retirement in We- Thacher from Seattle, Carey Intelligence Department in Washington, D.C., ston, Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, spent two years here and be- during World War II spawned his science fic- Majorie; a son, Lambert, CdeP ‘60, and a came known as a “dynamic tion story that focused on the premise of the daughter, Constance; and several grandchil- fellow with a rare ability of excelling in both Chinese developing an atomic bomb. After that dren. athletics and studies and at the same time help- story was published, the F.B.I. discovered that ing in every way he can the School he loves. Colin had, indeed, guessed correctly. His book, Irving Avard “Bud” Meeker, Jr., M.D., CdeP Fairness and wit are two of Charlie’s out- I Do Not Own a Pornograph, Fiction and Fan- ’36, passed away on standing attributes, and it is no wonder that tasy, a collection of his short stories, was pub- February 12, 2000. he is so popular; he is also continually steady lished in 1967. Although he spent and dependable.” During his junior year, he only two years at played Second Team soccer, basketball, and Colin and his wife, Nancy, were married in Thacher, Bud was en- baseball, but progressed to First Team in all of Washington, D.C. more than 25 years ago and deared to his class- these as well as track in his senior year. He made their home in Key West. He operated a mates as a result of his managed “The Notes” in a “business-like boat sales, maintenance, and service business “sparkling humor and way,” served on the Cabinet, Outdoor and on Stock Island during the late 1950s. Colin feigned cynicism,” ac- Ojai Tennis Tournament Committees, and was was active in the Key West Humane Society, cording to the 1936 El a Prefect both years. Friends of the Library, and the Key West Art Archivero. “He was a and Historical Society, where he served as hard worker and, by virtue of this peculiar- Following Thacher, Carey earned a Bachelor treasurer for many years, and the Old Island ity,” he served on the boards of both “The of Science degree in Industrial Administration Restoration Foundation. He was also record- Notes” and El Archivero. He also played on at Yale. He became a self-employed management ing secretary of Arcturus, a Key West men’s the Second Soccer team, captained the Second consultant and labor negotiator for Personnel group. Baseball team, and established himself as a Strategies in Seattle. He was credited as being miler on the Track team. a key player in creating and leading metro, the Colin is survived by his wife Nancy of Key agency that cleaned up Lake Washington. “He West; his brother, Owen, of San Francisco; a Bud matriculated at Princeton for his bache- was one of the key people in this community in son Colin, Jr., of Alturas, CA; a daughter Adair lor’s degree and then to Columbia Pediatric the last half-century,” said Jim Ellis, who also Jameson of Townshend, VT; and grandchil- Medical School, where he received his medical was a member of the group that worked to cre- page 54 The Thacher News Class Notes ate Meteor. In the year before he died, he formed From 1951 to 1957, Dave was on active duty supporter of Planned Parenthood, volunteered a new corporation, Donworth/McReynolds in enlisted and commissioned service in the for the Pasadena AIDS Service Center, and was Inc., that advises corporate boards and execu- U.S. Army Infantry and was a veteran of the a member and past president of the Pasadena tives on governance issues. Korean War. In 1957, he transferred to military Art Alliance. She is preceded in death by one intelligence in the active reserve from which son, Carl, CdeP ’62; she is survived by three Carey is survived by his wife Martha “Marty” he retired as Lieutenant Colonel in 1982. From children: Natalie, Sarah, and James, Jr., CdeP Lemming Donworth; three children: James, 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he worked ’71; three grandchildren; one great grandchild; Elizabeth “Betsy”, and Cynthia “Cindy”; and for the C.I.A. in the Directorate of Plans, the and her sister, Caroline Rollins. A celebration six grandchildren. Directorate of Operations, the Office of Na- of Liz’s life was held on February 4 at The tional Estimates, the Directorate of Intelli- Athenaeum in Pasadena. Peter Morrison, CdeP ’44, gence, and the Intelligence Community Staff. died at his home in San While working for the C.I.A. and later for var- Marjorie “Midge” Soule Orrick, wife of at- Rafael, CA, on December ious private defense contractors, he published torney and former Securities and Exchange 12, 1999. He was the son several articles on international terrorism. Commission member Andrew Downey Orrick, of the late Stanley Morri- CdeP ’35, died on December 13, 1999. She son, professor at Stanford He married Sally Louise Thomas on September was a socially prominent member of several Law School, and Carroll 26, 1959, and spent three years as vice consul San Francisco civic and charitable organiza- Morrison of San Francisco. in Zagreb, Croatia. He made his home in tions, including the University of California at He attended Thacher for McLean, VA, for the next 35 years before re- San Francisco Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, St. three years and earned a reputation for “his tiring to Sandy, UT. Dave was an avid golfer Luke’s Hospital Women’s Auxiliary and Foun- quickness of mind that won him many argu- and a distinguished leader of the Boy Scouts dation, and Children’s Theater Association of ments.” He served as the captain of the Tennis of America in the national capital area. A bene- San Francisco. In addition to her husband, team in his senior year and was one of the Top factor of environmental funds, education pro- Midge is survived by their five children, two Ten Tennis Players during both of his upper grams and the arts, his generosity was brothers, and five grandchildren. school years. He participated in the Outdoor and superceded only by his depth of character and Parlor Committees, Second Soccer team, Na- caring. Anne Elizabeth Mayhew Pfau, wife of 25 years tional Rifle Association, and was the Associate of George Pfau, CdeP ’42, died at her home in Editor of “The Notes.” David is survived by his wife; his children San Francisco on April 5, 2000. She suc- Michelle Robbins Milbank, Karen Milbank cumbed after a courageous but lengthy fight Following Thacher, he served in the Navy dur- Quackenbush, and Thomas Lightfoot Milbank; against cancer. Anne grew up in Piedmont, and ing World War II, before receiving a Bachelor two grandsons, and a sister, Daphne Milbank attended U.C. Berkeley. She worked as an ex- of Arts degree from Yale University in 1950, White. A memorial service was held at 3:00 ecutive secretary for 20 years, working for and a Bachelor of Law degree from Stanford on Sunday, April 30, 2000, at the Immanuel SPUR and the Junior League of San Francisco. University in 1953. He retired from Salomon Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA. She also managed her apartment building in Smith Barney. He was a stamp collector and San Francisco, but considered her primary and an avid railroad enthusiast throughout his most important profession to be that of mother years at Thacher and beyond. for her only son, George III, who is 17. She Thacher Friends also found time for her favorite hobby, tennis. Peter is survived by his wife, Susanne; his brother Her husband served on the Board of Trustees Stephen, CdeP ’41; his children, Stanley, CdeP as the President of the Alumni Association ’76, Elizabeth Wessel, Stephen, and Madeleine C. Michael Ehrhardt, who from 1967 through 1973. In addition to her Morrison Young; and three grandchildren. A served as Thacher’s Music husband and son, Anne is survived by her sis- memorial service was held on Friday, Decem- Director from 1946 until ter, John Mayhew Beales of Tiburon; and her ber 17, 1999, at the Unitarian Universalist Con- 1977, died two days after mother, Joan Rapp Mayhew of San Rafael. gregation of Marin Church in San Rafael. Christmas following a Her father is the late Clarence W.W. Mayhew, lengthy illness. Last Feb- a well-know architect. David Lightfoot Milbank, CdeP ’47, died in ruary, he had a severe case the company of his family on March 2, 2000, of pneumonia. He also Elizabeth “Betty” Fleming Rhodes, commu- at his home in Sandy, Utah. He was born Feb- had pulmonary fibrosis nity leader, social service agency volunteer, and ruary 22, 1930 in Vancouver, B.C. to Mary and other complications. Michael’s wife, Flo- wife for 61 years of Kenneth O. Rhodes, CdeP and Robbins Milbank of New Hampshire and rence, and their four children were with him ’30, died January 15, 2000, two months after California. when he died. At Thacher’s Reunion Weekend suffering a major stroke. She had served as in June, his life and contributions to the School president of the Pasadena Y.W.C.A. board, vice In his two years at Thacher, Dave established were celebrated. president of the Junior League, and on the himself as an ardent camper and excellent boards or advisory boards of Caltech Univer- horseman, passions that continued throughout Elizabeth “Liz” Rollins Greene, wife of James sity, Westridge School, the Child Guidance his life. “Very quiet and conscientious in his C. Greene, CdeP ’32 (an attorney for O’Mel- Clinic, the Pasadena Settlement, Pacific Clinics, schoolwork,” according to the 1947 El veny & Myers of Los Angeles, who died in Hospice of Pasadena, and Las Familias del Archivero, “he achieved the ‘All Privileges List August 1997) died on Pueblo, and was recently honored as a 50-year many times, and became one of the top stu- January 21, 2000. Born member of the League of Women Voters. She is dents in his class. Dave matriculated at Prince- in Montague, MA, Liz survived by her husband, four children, seven ton and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts de- graduated from Smith grandchildren, and three brothers. A memo- gree in Political Science. He then earned his College in 1938 and rial service was held on Saturday, February 5 at Master’s degree in International Relations at married Jim in 1940. All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. e Johns Hopkins University in 1966. He was a Liz sang in the choir at Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army Com- the Neighborhood mand and General Staff College in 1974 and was Church, was a member honored by the Industrial College of the Armed of the Junior League of Forces as the top civilian graduate in 1982. Pasadena, was an active page 55 Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 Fall 1999 / Winter 2000 page 55 Bookshelf

Stephen P. Huyler, CdeP ’69

Bookshelf Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion by Jane D. McCarthy New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999

his October, Stephen P. Huyler, CdeP ’69, help the reader visualize the heart of Hindu spoke to the Thacher community about his belief: the moment of worship known as dar- Tmost recent book, Meeting God: Elements shan or “seeing and being seen by God.” of Hindu Devotion. Ten years in the writing, Meeting God is really a culmination of nearly Steve’s personal accounts of Hindu practices three decades of study that began soon after and descriptions of contemporary Hinduism Steve graduated from Thacher. The world-re- help the reader to appreciate this often con- knowned, elderly ceramicist Beatrice “Beato” fusing faith. His clear explanations, stories, Wood, who lived in the Upper Ojai and was and stunning photographs of Hindus wor- one of the founders of Dada, had befriended shipping lead the reader to understand the cen- Steve and invited him to travel with her to tral Hindu concept in which many gods India the following year. She had traveled ex- express a single, universal divine principle. tensively there and embodied the Hindu cul- ture and ethics in her lifestyle and artwork. Before his trip, Steve consulted various schol- ars at the University of Denver to develop a plan for his upcoming trip and research. When Steve arrived in India on his 20th birthday, Beato’s wide circle of friends immediately em- braced him and became the foundation of his kinship with India during his subsequent trav- els there.

Through his extensive studies and experi- ences—as a doctoral student at the University of London, as co-curator of the exhibition “Puja: Expressions of Human Devotion,” at the Smithsonian since 1996, as a teacher of graduate courses on Hindu ritual at the Ohio State University, and while living and working with some of the 800 million Hindi in India— Steve expanded from anthropologist to admir- ing believer of this faith. In Meeting God, Steve gives a first-person, detailed account of the daily devotional prac- tices, or puja, that an- chor Hindus in the After listening to Steve’s talk and slide show divinity of the uni- regarding his book at Thacher, English teacher verse, and give mean- Jake Jacobsen said, “What impressed me the ing and balance to most, besides the photography, was that he their daily existence. stills speaks with such obvious passion, let Household rituals and alone expertise, on a subject that is not new community festivals to him. It was wonderful for students and fac- circumscribe Hindu ulty to hear Steve’s own devotion to the cul- life and prayers em- tures of India; he is a teacher who clearly brace the day from enjoys sharing with others his love for that the sacred dawn to country.” e honoring the spirits within one’s work and seeking the security of deities in the evenings. The book’s vivid vi- gnettes of individual Meeting God is Steve’s fourth book on India, Hindus practicing the others being Gifts of Earth; Terracottas their various rituals, and Clay Sculptures of India (1997), Painted coupled with captivat- Prayers: Women’s Art in Village India (1994), ing color photo- and Village India (1985). Publisher’s Weekly graphs, offer an named Meeting God as one of the top ten excellent introduction to this religion practiced books published in 1999 on religion, and one by one-sixth of the world’s people. They also of the 100 most worthwhile books of 1999. page 56 The Thacher News Calendar Thacher Gatherings and Events

Summer and Fall…

Sunday, June 18 through Friday, August 11 Teach The Teachers Collaborative

Saturday, July 15 through Friday, August 4 Golden Trout Alumni Camp

Friday, September 1 School Begins

Thursday, September 14 Ventura/Santa Barbara Gathering

Saturday, September 16 Class Representative/Decade Chair Meeting Fall Alumni Day

Sunday, September 24 Pasadena Gathering (brunch) Bay Area Soccer Fans: Take note and come cheer on Thacher’s Boys’ Varsity Soccer team at pre-season Tuesday, September 26 practice games in the Bay Area: Portland Gathering Monday, August 28, at 3:00 Thursday, September 28 vs. The Urban School of San Francisco Seattle Gathering (Polo Field)

Tuesday, October 17 Tuesday, August 29, at 2:30 Chicago Gathering vs. University High School (Kezan Stadium) Thursday, October 19 Wednesday, August 30, at 4:00 New York City Gathering vs. The Branson School (in Marin County) Tuesday, October 24 San Francisco Gathering

Friday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29 Family Weekend

Saturday, January 6, 2001 Winter Alumni Day Shayla Cooke ’03 riding Cascade Photo by art instructor Wendi Parker-Dial