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DaviD C. TwiChell has 13 grandchildren: three through college, two in medical school, and one teaching. “Smoke and I are fine. My work at the Perkins School for the Blind is great fun. I work daily in their shop building special items for kids that either are not available or cost fabulous amounts. A great group.”

RobeRT whiTe says: “We (my wife Tookie and I) are still chugging along at a reduced pace. Enjoying life and four children, thirteen grands, and three great-grands. Doubt that we will make the 2008 Reunion—travel is no fun any-more—but have a good time!!”

RiChaRD baRD JR. is now living with his granddaughter in Spokane, following a minor stroke on March 11, 2006. He is going through therapy and should be back to normal soon. He is walking okay and does work on the computer (genealogy and scanning old photos).

John b. lyTTle^, after his daughters’ insistent requests, recently wrote a book of his WWII Marine Corps memoirs including some of his artwork that focuses on the landing at Iwo Jima that he survived. It is titled If I Should Die Be-fore I Wake - One Marine’s Experience on Iwo Jima, a copy of which is in Thacher’s library. He is currently enjoying life and golf in Pauma Valley, Calif. with his wife Sug.

From FReD STanley: “Am still alive. P.S. We of 1943 are in our 80s. Hope I can get to our 2013 gathering!” He is doing well and still living on his own in Carmel. His wife, Pauline, has been in assisted living for the last three years. If any of his classmates swing through Carmel, they are welcome to come by.

niCk Cunningham and his wife are enjoying their crisscrossed life trajectories: his evolving retirement, her burgeoning career. He writes: “I am still (at least on week-ends year ‘round and over the summer) at the same place where I arrived from Thacher in ‘44, and also at a lovely apartment overlooking the Hudson River in NYC. I still play string quartets every week or so, tennis or squash weekly, and ping pong whenever children are around, also roller blade with wife and SCWT (a fuzzy terrier)!…I still crave a small Moto Guzzi, but my sensible wife won’t hear of it!” He teaches International Maternal and Child Primary Health Care at the Columbia University School of Public Health and is working on two books. Tom lombaRD writes, “We have homes in Woodland Hills, Calif., and Phoenix. Spend most of our time in Phoenix to

be near family—our son Justin ‘89 and his wife and two lovely children, Amanda and Jordan, ages six and two.”

DeRek anDeRSon and his wife Pat stopped in Jackson Hole and visited with Jack Huyler. “Talked about old times at Thacher over lunch and learned more about his new book And That’s the Way it Was—In Jackson Hole! Would urge any alumni/friends to stop by and say hello.” John heaRD is still with the Pan American Foundation (PADF) as Country Director in Colombia. PADF provides assistance to families displaced by violence and supports “alternative Development” focused on reducing production of illicit crops. “My wife and I plan to leave Bogota in July of this year and retire for the third time.”

Nan and RiChaRD walDen bought Arabian horses three-and-a-half years ago; they now own six. Their daughter, Deborah Walden Rolls, rode their 10-year-old mare SC Chippewa Chinks to Reserve National Champion at the Arabian National Horse Show in Louisville, Kentucky, in October. He is riding Trail and Western Pleasure in local shows. “My last [show] was the 1960 Thacher Gymkhana.” anThony oliveR-SmiTh was recently named Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute of Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany, for 2007-2008.

maRk lambeRT has relocated to Los Angeles in pursuit of sun, culture, and personal urban renewal!

RiChaRD gRinnell^ writes, “We are now official ‘Puppy Raisers’ for Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc. Parker (nine weeks in the picture) is a Black Lab, absolutely adorable, and very intelligent. We’ll have a hard time letting her go, so keep telling ourselves she has a much higher purpose—to help someone ‘see’.” RiChaRD Paige retired from Law Enforcement and Emergency Management and is currently a circuit preacher and designated “Intentional Interim Pas-tor”. All are welcome to visit. Having finished his work at Nokia, bRuCe PeTeRS has taken a new regular job with Cardinal Health, purveyors of automated drug-dispensing equipment. He and his wife li li were recently on a two-week trip to China through Sichuan Province, Tibet, and Shanghai. Their son, Stone, is now a senior at Thacher.

The Institute of World Politics achieved independent aca-demic accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in 2006. Founded by John lenC-zowSki, who continues to be President, IWP now offers two master’s degree programs and seven graduate cer-tificate programs. It is the only school that teaches all the arts of statecraft. bob hoPkinS^ and wife Toni spent part of the winter working on an “old farm house down

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the hill. In April 2006, while emmett ‘08 was in school, the three of us (including whitney) went to Japan. We had a fine time exploring temples and shrines and learning about the Japanese culture.” TuCk Donnelly writes: “In 2006 I received (on behalf of SeaShare) the first NOAA (Dept. of Commerce) Sustainable Fisheries Leadership Award in the category of Public Education and Community Service. It was an important milestone for our little organization!”

JeSSe aDamS writes: “Eldest son completed Stanford and is working in finance in New York. Second son is a senior at Stanford. Daughter is a sophomore at USC. Jess and Sallie are taking dance lessons, traveling occasionally as

“empty-nesters” do—and enjoying the medical profession.” DaviD RobbinS and his wife of 30 years, Annie, are still raising trees, oysters, and two daughters on Hood Canal, and this summer they employed MIKE MORSE and son El-liot on their farm. From maRShall milligan:^ JuSTin (Faggioli) and Sandy, Gretchen and I, and my cousin John milligan—all three of us ‘69—met up in Buenos Aires for dinner and a tour of the tango bars in San Telmo. Having been there before, John showed us the town and helped demonstrate the dance steps.

Phil angeliDeS^ writes: “Our family logged hundreds of thousands of miles campaigning together. We stood together for our beliefs. We shared both exhilaration and disappointment. We drew strength from each other and grew ever closer together. Megan became engaged to Greg Norris, a fellow Peace Corps veteran. Christina graduated from college. Arianna graduated from high school and went off to college. All of us were inspired by the countless good people we met and touched on our journey and by their hopes and dreams for a brighter future.” The haST-ingS—newie, Shannon ‘99, Jamie ‘02 write, “All is well here in Paso Robles, even with the cold weather! Newlin and I recently returned home from a three-week flying trip to Central America and Mexico in our our Cessna T 206. Some fun and adventure...Jamie is a fourth year Ag. Business student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is still riding his colts and working cattle for local ranchers on the weekends as well as skiing for the Cal Poly water ski club. Shannon is teaching fifth grade at Sage Ridge School in Reno, NV. Quinn, her boyfriend, is the Athletic Director at Sage Ridge. He’s great and lots of fun.”

Kimberleigh and Paul gavin^ continue their art projects; she creating civilian and military event designs (Return of the Capistrano Swallows, Fleet Week New York City) while Paul paints Southern California Beach and Yosemite land-scapes (see his painting on page 17 of this issue.) Their con-tinued support of young Marines and their families found them at the 62nd Iwo Jima Anniversary Dinner where they

saw family friend and former Marine John b. lyTTle ‘42 (see his note). billy volkmann is filming his second series of adventure travel which, when done, will total 26 1/2 hours of TV. Series 1 was sold in the 90’s to the Travel Channel and over 40 countries. Next up is Fiji in April with the family. Son Kenny, 12, is newly certified in scuba and he passed his potato gun certi-fication on the Upper School Lawn last June at the reunion. At Paul Gavin’s urging, aDam englunD shared his latest doings:

“I am managing the effort to develop the world’s first interna-tional airport, floating in the open ocean here, off San Diego (see, www.EUPHLOTEA.org). On the family side, I am engaged to marry the lovely Victoria O’Neil, nee Araujo on April 6. My beautiful, 15-1/2 year old daughter Arielle, though not attend-ing Thacher, has, I believe, embraced the character traits that mark a Thacher student. I am very proud of her for that. We also have a corn snake, Buddha, and Chocolate Lab, Stella.”

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Miles Everett Sears (top, left) was born October 1, 2006 to Beth and MIKE SEARS ‘81.

Lauren Talmadge Kopperl (second, left) was born August 13, 2006 to Leslie and BRIAN KOPPERL ‘82, and is shown setting off on her first autumn hike.

Sofia Hart Senunas (third, left) was born February 2, 2007 to ALISON FIELD ‘84 and her husband Eric Senunas.

GLORIA VILLAGOMEZ GAVIN ‘85 gave birth to a son, Ashford Gavin, in July.

LESLIE CLAY CARON ‘86 had twins September 15, 2005: son Wyatt Clark Caron and daughter Elsa Clay Caron.

Jason and HILARY SWIFT KEITH ‘88 had a baby girl on August 29, 2006: Annabelle Holyoke Keith. She has already been on a horse.

JAIME ARAUJO ‘88 and Stéphane announced the November 20, 2006 birth of their son, Aidan Jacques Araujo Bézian.

ELIZABETH MCLAREN LEVI ‘88 announced that “son Alexander welcomed his little sister, Harriet, into the world on April 10, 2006.”

Dashiell Friend was born to Michael and NATASHA SIZLO BARRETT ‘92 in July of 2006.

ZOE PENNEBAKER BREEN ‘92 has a son named Jack Breen, born October 31, 2005 and another on the way. She lives in Washington, DC, but is spending two years enjoying New York City.

Sarah Catherine (fourth, left) was born April 28, 2006 to John and DEE DONAHUE THELE ‘93.

Chris and JENNIFER SILVERMAN ROWLAND ‘98 welcomed Sawyer de Lisle Rowland (bottom, left) on January 20, 2007.

Photos (l to R): John b. lyttle ‘42; the whea-tons: John ‘56, Cal ‘88, and mele ‘91, and families; bob ‘67, ali, matt ,and nick Johnson at Cannon beach, oregon; Toni and bob hop-kins ‘67; Richard grinnell ‘65, lynn, and Park-er; gretchen, lucy ‘00, Claire ‘02, and mar-shall ‘69 milligan; megan, Christina, Phil ‘70, Julie and arianna angelides; michele, kathryn, anne ‘09, and Rod ‘70 Turner; kimberleigh and Paul gavin ‘71; newie ‘70, Jamie ‘02, liz, Shannon ‘99, and Shannon’s friend Quinn.

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Chuck Warren informs us that a recent IMAX movie fea-tured the ranch of walT FoSTeR, JR. and his wife Carol (visit www.ridewithcowboys.com). Walt is the son of walt Sr. ‘50; and father of three sons: Joshua ‘95, Ryan ‘96, and Jacob ‘99.

Still in New Zealand, geoRge aRnolD is currently focused on helping health IT companies there expand offshore, particularly into the Canadian and US markets. If any Thacher alum/faculty/friend of the School find themselves Down Under, they welcome visitors! They’re a short ferry ride from downtown Auckland, and usually have a spare bedroom. bRyan beCkham and neD banning traveled to Peru and Ecuador this past fall celebrating their 50th birthdays. “Trip was just great.” On January 1, STePhen FeingolD’s law firm, Pitney Hardin, merged with Day Ber-ry and Howard to become Day Pitney, a 400-person law firm with offices from Boston to Washington. He chairs the firm’s trademark copyright advertising and internet group (“shades of our ninth grade advertisement assignment for Mr. Knight”), works in Times Square, and lives in Scarsdale with physician wife, Rebecca, and three kids, Josh, Jake, and Sarah. “Life is busy as we are preparing for Jake’s Bar Mitzva, plus I was just elected to the Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee.”

John wagneR’s youngest son, Joe, is attending Wesley School this fall. The head of Wesley is Ruth Glass, Jack huyler’s daughter. Reilly PollaRD writes: “Recently completed six years as president of the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics—non-profit medical and dental clinics for Santa Barbara’s underserved and low-income population. I still play the occasional show with the band I’m in—the Slack-Jawed Locals. Recently hosted John aaRon ‘71, and had dinner up in San Francisco with miguel De Sanz. Still working at UCSB—my 26th year.” From JoSh RoSenblaTT: “I left independent school development and am back with my old team at IBM—still working from home in western Massachusetts and loving it. Daughter Sarah is in her second year of the RPI archi-tecture program and Ali is doing great as a junior at Wil-liston Northampton.”

STeve PeleTz and Kyra Minninger are residing in San Francisco raising two children, ages 9 and 12. The fam-ily went to Nicaragua, where they enjoyed scuba diving, snorkeling, hiking, and relaxing. Steve hopes all the Class of 1977 will show up for their 30th Reunion in June!

After 24 years of service, anDRew ShooP is retiring from the Air Force. The family will stay in Grass Valley, where he hopes to find work so he can support his “renewed love affair with the game of lacrosse.” He co-founded a club for junior and senior high school boys this past year and is head coach. Look out, Robbie! will wyman^ reports that all is well in Waterville, Maine, where daughter CaiT-lin ‘06 is a freshman at Colby. “Lots of snow has not ham-pered her ability to keep smiling while tromping through the snow drifts to her classes….” Meanwhile, back at CdeP, son CaSey ‘10 is thriving as a freshman and surpris-ing everyone with his sweet shots on the Varsity Basketball team. (I had a hard time trying to keep up with him in the recent alumni game... as he outscored and outplayed me, but the ol’ Toads somehow won in overtime!) Finally, youngest daughter Molly is a seventh-grader at Blue Oak School and someday hopes to ride off into the sunset of a Topa Topa pink moment. If ever you’re in the North Bay, come by to visit me and Michelle and taste of my garajiste winemaking efforts. maRk SPellman’s^ daughter Mor-gan turned 11 on Christmas Eve 2005 and his son Dean is 9.5 (7-15-97). From maRganne winTeR oxley: “DaviD

‘79 and I enjoy being Ojaians and really love the mild win-ter! The pink moments on Topa Topa ridge are a daily treat and we enjoy seeing more of our daughter, SonDRa ‘09. David loves the horse camping, teaching, and riding with the students. I keep busy with my work and play. Funny how many visitors you get when you live in the beautiful Ojai Valley! I really enjoy seeing maRy noRTon lawSon and JaneT milleR CiPRiano when they come to town to

LETTER FROM LAOS: PAUL COHEN ‘71I have long been aware of my yearning to volunteer abroad. This wish ema-nated from both my Thacher education and a childhood experience of living in the Guatemala highlands while my father volunteered as a pediatrician through a Catholic relief organization. For me, and my wife Annie, it was just a matter of time until the right opportunity would emerge. Two years ago, this longing was fulfilled through an invitation from an International School in Laos, Southeast Asia.

Prompted by twin desires to participate in the growth of a developing nation and provide our family with the cultural experience of living over-seas, Annie and I decided to spend the past two years living and working in Laos. Our boys, Davis and Jess, aged seven and five respectively at the time we moved, were old enough to remember and benefit from the experience, yet young enough that we could still extricate them from their school and sports activities at home. Annie, as a teacher of Spanish and ESL, wanted to teach in the multi-cultural environment of an International School while I desired a hands-on volunteer opportunity on a village level. Our experience proved to be all that and more.

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visit their folks and hope to see a lot more of them! Other classmates that I’m thrilled to see quite often now that I am a “faculty spouse” are bRaD hanSon (the new Alumni Association president—cheers to “The Pres”!) and Reza zaFaRi, will wyman, and John bReCkenRiDge. It is fun to see one of my former sophomore charges on cam-pus, beCky beCkeTT ‘80, as her daughter ANNA ‘09 and my SONDRA are classmates!”

Deb RoSenbeRg SmiTh writes: “I got a chance to con-nect with both Jill komuRa (who came to visit me in Vermont) and maRy ellen (FiSh) PeSavenTo (whom I visited in Montana) within a few weeks of each other this fall. It’s hard to believe that we’ve known each other for close to 30 years! My husband continues to coach one of the US National Team crews in Boston while I man the hill-top in Vermont with Keegan (15 and 6’5”!), Eli (13), Hallie (6), Ruddock (5), 5 dogs, and 2 cats. I continue to row and compete, when I’m not tracking down lost homework.”

“My husband Kevin, son Matt,^ and I just got back from a quick trip back to New Zealand for a summer Christmas break,” says elizabeTh aRnolD muRRay. “We saw my brother geoRge aRnolD ‘74 and his family, including son PeTeR ‘05, and spent ten days playing football on the beach and enjoying the long days and warm nights. Now it’s back to life, back to reality—and work and school and jackets—just outside Washington, DC. I was sorry to miss the reunion this past summer, but I hope to make the next one.” alex and kaTie ballou ‘83 Calhoun^: Alex left his job in February 2006 and has taken the full-time position at home of dad and chef; Katie ran a half marathon, renamed her company to Calhoun & Company Communications, and grew it by 50 percent…again. From CaRol mCConnell: “The Class of 1981 had a great 25-year reunion last June. Over 28 classmates, plus spouses, plus children, returned to the campus. Fun was had by all, especially after glen golD’s hysterically entertaining class toast.”

“Being up at 2 a.m. is bad enough, but on an actual (glacial) volcano in subzero temperatures at 17,000 feet is crazy! Actually, it was exhilarating! It’s fun to be out there on the edge.” John heRzog was climbing Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador to raise money for drug treatment for teens.

RanDy beSSolo has retired from the business world to coach youth basketball including: 1) varsity men at Univer-sity High School in San Francisco; 2) AAU basketball; and 3) junior high school programs for city youth. To the great joy of his family, he has moved to SF from Chicago.kRiS anDeRSen writes: “This last year has been very chal-lenging as our daughter, Karina,^ was diagnosed with

acute lymphoblastic leukemia last Thanksgiving when she was 31 months of age. With continued luck and chemo-therapy for about 2.5 years, she will be successfully cured.

From elizabeTh RobeRTS FaRley: “The Puget Sound is a beautiful place to raise our children (three of them: almost 13, 5, and 3), but I am wishing for sunshine as we hit record rainfall in November. I teach part-time in a K-8 school as the technology teacher. Thinking about a change in careers, but not sure what. I am missing horseback riding, trying to find a stable nearby to swap labor for les-sons...trying to get back to my roots. ClauDia oReJuela STeeveS^ writes, “My family and I are living in Curacao. Our daughter Carina is 9 and son Nicolas is 6. We are really enjoying the Caribbean life. We hope to make it to a re-union some day. My e-mail is claudia@steevesfamily.com. I am still teaching ESL and am very happy. My husband Mark is loving the island, too.” Good news from aliSon FielD: “I was promoted from assistant to associate pro-fessor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Much more important, however, is the arrival of our first child. Sofia Hart Senunas was born on February 2. She is an absolute

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In mid-November, ERIN ROSEN ‘88 married William Moise Antebi (top, left) in a small, beautiful ceremony at his parents’ home in Cambridge, Mass.

JENNIFER KRITZ ‘94 married Sam Ditzion (second, left) in Santa Barbara on October 7 in the presence of many Toads from several classes.

JAMES BOWIE ‘98 married Elaine (third, left) on November 11, 2006.

ADAM CLAMMER ‘88 got married in the Bahamas on January 27, 2007. Her name is Kate Harbin. We were joined by classmates Hod Dunbar, married and living in Wisconsin finishing up his residency, and David Shor, married and running a start-up down in Los Angeles.

PETER MUNZIG ‘99 and Margaret Osborn (fourth, left) wrote to say they were married in Sunriver, Ore., on September 9, 2006. “We are currently living in San Francisco and I’ll be heading to Stanford Business School in the fall.”

EVY DISNER PAULINO ‘00 “ recently married the man of [her] dreams, Erick Paulino. We were married in Newport Beach.”

PETER FRYKMAN ‘01 married Allison Prentiss Lyon on July 29, 2006.

Nicole Silverman and ERIC BUTTS 2001 (bottom, left) married in Camarillo on October 21, 2006.

Photos (l to R): mark Spellman ‘78; michelle, willy ‘78, molly, Caitlin ‘06, and Casey ‘10 wyman; Javier ‘81, antonieta, Javi, andy arango, and Thunder; mary (everett) ‘81, anthony, hannah, Sarah, and liam bourke; natalie, henry, katie ‘83, and alex Calhoun

‘81 near Tuolumne meadows at the start of a 25-mile backpack trip to mt. vogelsang; matthew murray, son of elizabeth arnold ‘81; karina, daughter of kris andersen ‘83; Jack huyler and katie ballou Calhoun ‘83 at re-union; nicolas and Carina, children of Claudia orejuela Steeves ‘84.

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delight!” JuSTine mCguinneSS (now SneDDon) is still living in Australia “but my family has done a ‘sea change’ and is living 1-1/2 hours from Sydney by the seaside. I have left real estate and am now doing diversional therapy in aged care. We have two kids: Dougal (8) and Amy (5). If anyone gets to Australia please contact me jsneddon@hotmail.com or 61 (2) 4360-2785. Hopefully, I will return for a reunion in a few years.”

anne wallaCe maulDing writes from Park City that she is “teaching French at our 6/7 middle school. The twins are now 2½ and running like crazy. They have a thing for cleaning the horse’s stall, which could be a good thing or a bad thing, I’m not sure. Please call if you are ever in Park City; we’d love to see Thacher friends. 435-649-4081.” In a note from mb Shannon: gloRia villagomez gavin’s family of son Ashford (born in July), daughter Siena (3), and husband Sean “are all happy and well. It’s nice having Gloria and family back in Palo Alto (they moved back re-cently from Westlake Village). We (including Annie 3, Eli 6, and Dan) get together often with them.” eRiC gRoSS en-joyed celebrating moRgan SmiTh’s birthday with SaRah lavenDeR SmiTh ‘86, aDam Ray and bill FellowS. He also enjoyed beginning the New Year with molly TwiChell PeRRy, DeRiCk PeRRy ‘83 and bill FellowS. When not celebrating, he is either working as Principal of Soquel Elementary School or playing with his children Xit-lali (3) and Javier (2). ThaTCheR bRown recently moved to New York City from Toronto with wife Jenny and two girls: Hollis (5) and Crosby (3). “It is great to be back in my home town with family and friends. Working for Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and currently welcoming guests at the Essex House on Central Park South. Looking forward to reconnecting with Thacher alumni in NYC.”

From maRk holman^: “Morgan Barnes’ great grandson is Andrew (Andy) Taft King. Here’s the connection: I’ve known his mother-in-law and father-in-law since I moved to Portland 14 years ago. His mother-in-law, Maria Rosa, is an Italian lady. I met her and her husband Lowell at one of the many Italian events that I frequented when I first moved to Portland. Andy and his wife, Paula Brekke, were surprised that I was so excited about the Morgan Barnes connection. After all, he is also a descendant of President Taft; however, I was more taken by the Ojai connection.”

Newlyweds eRin RoSen and William Moise Antebi were treated to an incredible dinner by zamiRa SkalkoTTaS and her boyfriend Dugan in Santa Barbara over Thanksgiv-ing Weekend. In mid-December, their bridal festivities con-tinued with an evening celebration at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, at which meg FaRQuhaR “kicked up her heels like nobody’s business. Thank you to Toads far and wide

who have shared your warm wishes.” From elizabeTh mClaRen levi: “Our son Alexander welcomed his little sister, Harriet, into the world on April 10, 2006. Then my parents, Kay and John McLaren ‘52 moved to Portland last summer and now live just a couple miles from us, which has been really nice.” eRiC anDeRSon^: “I’ve been hard at work carving out a little niche for myself at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Santa Cruz. My supervisors there have done a great job of insulating me from too many bureaucratic responsibilities, and there’s an unlimited stream of exciting statistical problems to work on. Some of the work that I did for my dissertation has received a lot of attention in Europe, and it seems that each year I get invited overseas to speak at a conference or workshop.

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KAMPALA CONNECTION: TOM COLE ‘87As of September, we as a family are now in Kampala, the capital of Uganda in Eastern Africa (on the very north-ern edge of Lake Victoria). In my role as a food security specialist for Save the Children, I am based in Kampala, though I support a range of food security programs throughout the region. Working with farmers and other members of households, I help ensure that food (primarily maize, cas-sava, millet, and sorghum) is available, accessible, and well utilized by mem-bers of these households. Working in tandem with a counterpart who fo-cuses on food use and nutrition, I address the access and availability side of the equation, helping people grow more crops and gain better access to what is available in local or city markets. Sometimes it can mean helping farmers develop other income streams that are not necessarily farm-based. I never thought of myself as a business-oriented person, my own recent business experiences have provided me a vantage point from which to help others. It is a daunting task, although thoroughly engaging and gratifying.

It also keeps me quite busy: In the last four months I have been to Ma-lawi, South Africa, and Mozambique twice, with several trips up into the north of Uganda as well. Besides this I am also Save the Children’s point person in developing new programs in the conflict-affected areas of North-ern Uganda.

Besides figuring out our family life—where to get food, how to pay bills, dealing with the plumber, electrician, carpenter, getting a phone line—Linda has also been doing some work for CAFWA (Community Action Fund for Women in Africa). Allie and Tobias both enjoy school, which is a blessing. The International School of Uganda is excellent and we are fortunate to be able to send them there. There are kids from over 50 different nationalities so they are certainly learning to understand and respect people of other cultures and religions. I can get most of what I need for the kids here, but if anyone wants to send a package we can always use more books. Not many children’s books here. You are welcome to visit! E-mail us at aloedecurva@hotmail.com

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Kristen has essentially finished up her Ph.D. at Berkeley. I’m so proud of her—she’s done a really impressive job: she has twice as many pubs on her CV than I did when I finished my degree! Her dissertation is on the evolutionary impli-cations of migratory behavior in the Swainson’s Thrush. We are expecting our first child in June—a girl.”

From ChRiSTine CaRTeR^ and family: “We sold our much-loved house on Scout Road in March 2006, and lived with my parents until the end of the summer. It was a special time for our family, especially the girls, who thrived living with their grandparents. We love our new house and neighborhood. Fiona has started Kindergarten and we walk her to school most days. Mike passed the seven-year mark at Bell-Carter, and reports no onset of the ‘itch.’ I’m still working on my dissertation but I’ve also started a great job at a UC Berkeley research center; we publish Greater Good magazine, which you might be interested in (www.greatergoodmag.org)” bRian holl just moved to Seattle and bought a sailboat. “I am looking for a crew. Give me a call if you are in town.”

Michael and naTaSha Sizlo baRReTT live in Los Angeles, CA, with their newborn son Dashiell Friend and daughter Margot (3), who “started pre-school this year. They grow up way too fast! Life is good.”

JoSe anD RoSa baRkuS klein ‘93^ finished their Peace Corps service in Suriname and move to Cambridge, Mass., where Jose is attending Harvard Law School and Rosa is getting a Masters Degree in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Their son Manu turned 2 in November. Please stop and see them in Boston!

bRian benneTT^ writes: “It’s been a year of new pur-suits. Anne took a new job as director of government and foundation funding for a great organization called Build-ing with Books (buildingwithbooks.org). Brian is still a correspondent for TIME magazine and has a new website where you can link to his stories from Washington and recent trips to Baghdad (btbennett.com). This summer the two of us took up rock climbing on the beautiful cliffs overlooking the Potomac at Great Falls, Va. Anne has grace, good balance and determination on the rocks. Brian’s good at tying knots. In July we spent a week in Tuscany, cook-ing and drinking wine and trying our best to do little else.” bRanDale RanDolPh attended the Thacher get-together at the amy biRD ‘90 art exhibit in Los Angeles recently and afterward wrote: “Looking back, the life lessons I learned at Thacher have truly shaped my life. After some years making a film, I am now a commodities broker (final-ly) using my Ivy League education. I’m doing well. My only advice is to buy a hybrid, electric, flex fuel, or biodiesel

car for the next 10 years as oil will get very expensive very soon. For those who may or may not know, I lost the love of my life, my mother, in 2000 to complications from high blood pressure, and my best friend, my younger brother, in 2005. Through it all, my friends, including niCk young, have stood by me.” From SaRa Robboy munDay: After nearly four years in London, my husband Ben and I moved to San Francisco at the end of February. I started a new job as PR Manager with Frog Design, an international product design and creative consultancy. I’d love to hear from any Thacher alums in the Bay Area.

After getting a degree in Botany at the University of Ver-mont’s Field Naturalist Program in 2005 (replete with sub-zero camping, fern identification, and watching HCl make calcareous rock fizz), william abboTT has returned to California, where he works for an environmental consult-ing firm in Ojai and helps out his family with the Farmer’s Market now and then. His partner, David, works as an edi-tor for ABC-Clio in Goleta and they are very happy living near family in Carpinteria.

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TONY HERNANDEZ ‘93 and Sarah McIntosh (top, left) in Buenos Aires in November 2006. “Hi Everyone! I just got engaged to Sarah McIntosh in Buenos Aires, Argentina! Hope you are all well.”

PETER WENTWORTH ‘97 and Maria Walker (second, left) got engaged in November 2006.

PETER HARTNACK ‘00 and his fiancee, Ann Pepi of Napa, CA “plan to marry late spring/early summer of 2008.”

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LAUREL PETERSON ‘02 (third, left) graduated from Yale in May with a degree in the History of Art and is now living in New York City, working at the College Art Association.

DAVID GAL ‘02 graduated from Brown last May alongside LAURA NEVILLE and MADDY MCQUILLAN.

BEA STALEY ‘02 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in May 2006 with honors from Emory University. Her major was Spanish, and French and Psychology as minors. She was on the Mortar Board and graduated Phi Sigma Iota (National Honorary Society in Modern Languages).

Photos (l to R): eric anderson ‘88 birding in Costa Rica with his wife, kristin, and mother; mark holman ‘86 with great grandson of morgan barnes, andrew (andy) Taft king; Christine Carter ‘90 and family; the bressies, including Paul ‘86, David ‘87, meredith ‘94, and families; Jennifer (utman) ‘90, mark, and Talia Sommer; Serena, alec ‘91, and will Perkins; Jose and Rosa barkus klein ‘93 and manu; emily (Stenzel) ‘92, Craig, annie, and Cameron Stevens; brian ‘94 and anne bennet at Joshua Tree.

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alexia allen STevenS writes: “Anna the pony has joined Abby the American Bashkir Curly horse in the corral. They are both being trained to harness to do some useful work! Abby and I are headed to dressage shows in the spring. Husband Jeff’s beehives continue to increase and flourish.” JaCk bRown is Assistant Professor of Islamics at the Uni-versity of Washington. maRia banman recently returned to her Southern California roots to attend medical school at Western University. Making the transition with her from Boulder, Colo., was fiancé Tyler Barrell. They plan to marry this July in Santa Paula. Also busy planning weddings are auRiga boRk and mollie oTTSen. Auriga and Edward Martin will get married in December 2007 in the groom’s hometown of Martinborough, New Zealand, while Mollie and Justin Benton will marry next spring. In other news, CaTheRine PinkeRTon keeling will be finishing her master of social work degree this spring from University of Chicago. She has been working with several local families in her internship, utilizing the Spanish she learned while in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. leyla abou-SamRa continues to inspire her fourth-graders at Winn Elemen-tary School in Austin, Texas. Just last Christmas she taught the kids about alternative transportation and arranged for a local non-profit to donate bicycles to all the children who came from economically disadvantaged families and couldn’t otherwise afford them. From Chuck Warren: Ryan FoSTeR is completing a business degree in Tour-ism Management in Vancouver, while continuing with his mountaineering interests (recently climbing Mt. Combat-ant, third highest in the Waddington range) and operating an Adventure Experience business at the Foster Ranch (see www.waddingtonchallenge.com). STeFanie waRRen competed this fall with her Outrigger Canoe Club as they set off for Catalina from Newport Beach, Calif. She recent-ly completed her clerkship and is now practicing law in San Diego. bRooke levaSSeuR continues to balance moth-erhood with her career in San Francisco. Son Ian Lucas Housden turned one in March, and she has been successful in creating a new business venture with her firm, Thomas Weisel Partners. Quinn kanaly and max STePanian

‘95^ are happily adjusting to married life in San Francisco after their October 2006 wedding in Ojai. Quinn’s newest documentary film on “The Boston Strangler” recently aired on National Geographic channel. lauRel bRaiTman is in her second year of graduate studies in Cambridge, Mass., where she and husband Andrew recently became hom-eowners! manDy (SonenShine) wynn and husband James are expecting this May—twins (a boy and a girl)!

From amanDa haRTnaCk^: “I married Carl “Goose” Bennetts on October 21, 2006. The wedding was attended by several Thacher grads, including CynThia lee, luCia halle, SaRah low, and maRgRiT lenT ‘97, cousins luCy

‘00 and ClaiRe milligan ‘02, and uncle maRShall mil-ligan ‘69. My brother PeTeR haRTnaCk ‘00 officiated the ceremony (as an aside, he is engaged to Ann Pepi and will be getting married in the Napa Valley in June 2008). I am currently a first year veterinary student at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedi-cal Sciences, and will receive my DVM in 2010. Carl was a flyfishing guide in Alaska for eight years and is currently completing commercial pilot training in Greeley, Colo. We met four years ago while working at a guest ranch in Tel-luride. We honeymooned in Cozumel, Mexico, and currently live in Fort Collins (at least until I get my DVM).” SaRah low writes: “Having not really kept in touch with anyone from Thacher, it was such a wonderful surprise to be invited to Amanda’s wedding. The wedding itself was a joy to at-tend, and it reminded me how much I love the people I met at Thacher. Congratulations Amanda, and thank you.” anDRew baRkan is in graduate school at NYU majoring in music composition. eRiC moRRill writes: I’m currently living in Rennes, France, where I’m curating and organizing an exhibition of the contemporary artist Victor Burgin, as well as writing for (a little) and working on the catalog that will accompany the show. Also on my plate are a 70-page master’s thesis on curatorial practice—in French—and a sum-mer internship, possibly in Geneva. It looks like I’ll be coming back to the USA next year after these four years and two languages abroad, to enroll in a PhD program in critical and art theory—an area I arrived at through my own artistic practice. Here in Rennes, we also had the pleasure of seeing the School Year Abroad winter show in December, as Rapha-elle, my wife, is the school psychologist there this year!

From mel laRkinS: “I am looking forward to having the First Annual Atlanta/Southern Thacher Family Gather-ing this fall and to beginning a new career, and on to law school after that!” miChaela anDRewS: “I have been a teacher and performer for the Providence Circus School since winter 2002 and I continue to teach circus arts (jug-gling, plate spinning, flag twirling, Chinese yo-yo, acrobat-ics, stilt walking, etc.) at the Lincoln School and at various events organized through the PCS.” CaiTlin CalDwell^ has taught 11-14 year olds for three years in Lake Bluff, Ill. She does yoga and Nia dance classes. Writes walTeR wooDheaD: “I’m still working at the Bitterroot for RiCh-aRD Fox and the rest of the Fox family, headed towards my eighth season doing maintenance, irrigation, and pack trips in some of the most beautiful country in the world. Since graduating in 2003, I’ve worked an extended season here on either end of the regular dude season (late May through early October), coming down to the Fox’s farm in Riverton in the fall and the spring, and traveling during the winter (Spain, Portugal, Morocco, UK, and Australia). Though I say it every year, this is likely to be my last season

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in paradise. I will follow my girlfriend Mandy to Florida this fall where she’ll be training with an equine acupuncturist. Though this area has a piece of my heart, I’m sure I’ll never be too far from the outside of a horse, and there’s plenty of comfort in that.”

maRiPoSa wiDDoeS is currently at Le Cordon Bleu’s Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago earning her Associate’s Degree in the Culinary Arts. She is married to Chicago firefighter Peter William Brant and they are enjoying their new daughter Sophia Elisabeth Brant, born February 22, 2007. luCinDa bRown is learning about world domination as an energy analyst in Washington, DC.

Newlyweds Erick and evy DiSneR Paulino “are living in Fresno and enjoying married life! I am currently working on the FOX morning news show. I have been here for one year, and I have two more years left on my contract. If anyone is ever in the Central Valley, please let me know!” PeTeR haRTnaCk is currently living in Napa with his fiancee, Ann Pepi. “I am working as a Bread Baker at Della Fattoria Bakery; someday soon I will open my own bakery—of course the pastries will be on the house for all Thacher friends.”

ClaRiSSa CalDwell^ lives in Denver, where she works for a website domain name company. She gets to make use of her language skills and is increasingly internet savvy. She also does yoga and Nia dance classes. emmeTT hoPkinS^ enjoyed working as a teaching assistant in the Earth System Department at Stanford during winter quarter 2006. He fin-ished his master’s degree in June and is currently employed by the university as sustainable foods coordinator.

From DaviD gal: “I graduated from Brown last May alongside lauRa neville and maDDy mCQuillan. bobby kellogg (my senior year housemate who gradu-ated in December 2006) and PRINCE (ANDREW DEYOUNG

‘01 who I lived with junior year and graduated in 2005) helped celebrate in style. (Prince was responsible for the style and Bobby for the celebration.) I studied electrical engineering and started work at Microsoft in Seattle. Other than work, I’m starting the graduate school application process and I run a small electrical engineering consulting outfit on the side. I’m still skiing my brains out and having a great time. Let me know if you’re around the “Pac NW.” bea STaley graduated in May 2006 with honors from Emory University. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her major was Spanish, with French and Psychology as minors. She was on the Mortar Board and graduated Phi Sigma Iota (National Honorary Society in Modern Languages). She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority and is currently taking classes at Emory for a graduate degree. She is working part-time at CNN-International using her languages. ClaiRe milligan writes: “After working for an educational software company in Silicon Valley for six months, I realized that marketing/sales is not really my cup of tea. I’m headed back to school to get a degree in graph-ic design so that I’ll be able to do the work I really love!” will baRkan is living with ChRiS gRanT in Washington, D.C. and looking for a job after six months with NOLS as a marketing intern.

ali aRaSTu is spending the semester on Catalina Island, studying marine biology, scuba diving, and spending “as much time outside as possible.”

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SOCIAL NETWORKING WITH THE TORRES SIBLINGSStephanie Torres ‘99 has recently made a drastic change by leaving her life in Her-mosa Beach, CA, and her Los Angeles job to move clear across the country to Avon, Con-necticut. She has joined her brother Justin

‘04 who was in his third year at Colorado Col-lege pursuing a double major in sports sci-ence and philosophy. Juddy and Stephanie have both decided to put their career paths on hold to try something new. They are working with a few extremely creative and technologically gifted young individuals who have collectively founded the holding company, iPangaea, Inc., which is responsible for the development of qXt.com.

Named after “Pangaea,” a hypothetical landmass in which all continents were connected 200 million years ago, the venture is at the forefront of web 2.0 social networking: creating a website to connect people with similar interests and passions around the world. A few months after his November arrival, Juddy was made iPangaea’s Chief Design Officer whereby most of his time is spent creating the graphical construction behind the site’s de-sign and navigation. Juddy, in turn, convinced the rest of the company to steal Stephanie away from her low-key life on the beach and her cushy Los Angeles job to bring her three-thousand miles East to weather conditions she vowed she would never experience. Stephanie is now iPangaea’s Chief Operating Officer of Core Development.

This is the first time in Stephanie and Juddy’s lives that they have had the opportunity to work collaboratively on such a meaningful venture. It’s also the first time they have lived under the same roof since Stephanie grad-uated Thacher and Juddy was still considering whether or not he wanted to muck horse stalls. They have grown extremely close as siblings and are very happy working on something they are proud of. It’s been an interesting and rewarding experience for both of them and they are very much looking forward to the coming months as they continue to freeze on the East Coast. They will soon be moving to New York City and will continue to nurture the development of iPangaea and qXt.

If you would like to get in touch with either of them, they can be reached at Stephanie.Torres@qXt.com and Justin.Torres@qXt.com.

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Photos (l to R): newlyweds max Stepanian ‘95 and Quinn kanaly ‘96 with Quinn’s family, evan ‘99, brent, and Steve; bob and marsha hartnack, Peter, and newlyweds amanda ‘98 and Carl; emmett hopkins ‘01; Caitlin ‘99 and Clarissa ‘01 Caldwell; Peter Frykman ‘01 wed-ding party; alissa wallace ‘04 running in the marine Corps marathon; will ‘08, bill, Susan, and Peter ‘04 oberndorf.

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There is a lot going on in miChael yun’s life: “I am cur-rently double majoring in Business and Political Science at USC. I joined an a cappella group last year. Last summer, I took summer classes with some USC football players and tutored them in preparation for midterms and finals so they could pass and be eligible to play during football season. After summer school, I interned at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in Seoul, South Korea. Currently, I volunteer at a low-income inner-city school in Los Angeles. It’s prob-ably one of the most satisfying jobs I’ve ever had—teaching Thacher values to underprivileged kids and seeing them grow. I’m also working on a multi-disciplinary research with a political science professor. My understanding of sta-tistics—begun with Mr. Meyer in AP Stats at Thacher and

further strengthened in my Business Statistics course here at USC—is proving quite helpful. Recently, I shook hands with Phil angeliDeS ‘70, and our next president, Senator Barak Obama, at the Democratic rally held on USC campus.” This year, annie STRaChan moved from Queensland to the Philippines to set up ECOCEAN’s ‘Philippine Field Sta-tion’ at the whale shark hotspot, Donsol. Annie spent more than two months in the tiny village, with great support from the local community members throughout the field season. She is currently a freshman at Lewis and Clark and loving it. She plans on a semester in Cuba next fall. ellen aDamS just finished up a year teaching English and taking classes in Granada, Spain. She was chosen as a Matthew Shepard Point Scholar by The Point Foundation.

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faculty notes…GOOdByE TO “A GENIUS ANd A GENTLEMAN”

For nearly three decades at Thacher, JaCk v. “buCk” waleS lived a mindful life and gently taught others to do the same. No matter the venue—a math-ematics classroom, a winding Sierra trail or a windy expanse of the Lost Coast, a rock wall of the Pergola or center stage in a ToadTalk, a stretch of quiet river, sports field, his Formal Dinner table (rigged with a dictionary in close reach)—Buck enlightened by urging others to do their own searching.

So it was with a keen awareness that Thacher was losing a stalwart, a unique educator, and a local icon that Head of School Michael Mulligan accepted Buck’s resignation in December. But sadness was tempered by a certain happi-ness for Buck that he’d be heading off to take a position at St. John’s College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Buck had earned his master’s degree there and had taken a powerful liking to its world-renowned educational approach, one that focuses on the Great Books and emphasizes “an appreciation of the persisting questions of human existence.” His appointment to the St. John’s faculty was, in fact, ful-fillment of a dear wish.

During his long tenure here, Buck not only taught the entire spectrum of math courses and chaired that department, he also camped (all kinds), kayaked, and coached soccer and lacrosse; helped students to found the Philosophy Club; led orienteering courses and oversaw the Dining Room—among an arm-long list of other boarding school duties. Esteemed by Headmaster Emeritus Willard G. Wyman as a “thoughtful, kind, and highly intelligent man who combines practi-cality with philosophical contemplation—a rare teacher,” Buck held the Kendrick Family Chair in Mathematics and Logic from 1992 on, as its second recipient.

Many are grateful for Buck’s influence. “You have been an important voice

at Thacher,” said Michael Mulligan, “both in your work with students and in your role on the faculty. You take the time to examine topics from a broad perspec-tive and you always ask others to think through their decisions to ensure move-ment towards the true and the good.” “From Mr. Wales,” said a junior, “I learned that life really is assembled thoughts and ideas. I found the philosopher in me.” Another upperclassman mused, “Mr. Wales was the only teacher who made me able to like math. I don’t know if it was even the math actually; I just enjoyed his company so much. He taught me how to really think.”

We all should be so lucky—for even one such teacher in our lives.

MORE FACULTy NOTES…

After nearly 60 combined years of teaching, coaching, camping, advising, overseeing dorms, chairing departments, and hosting the UnProm, PhylliS anD DaviD JohnSTon will retire this June. Between spending time at their Ventura beach house and traveling to the Bay Area to cuddle their granddaughter Martha (daughter of Adrian and CaRRie JohnSTon maRTin

’88), retirement is sure to keep them busy. Look for more about their tenure and legacy at Thacher in the next issue of this publication. Fortunately for current Toads who are fans of English and tennis, John anD maRilee lin, along with their sons Kai and Noa, will be with us again next year. Returning next year after teaching at The Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., for four years will be physics teacher DaviD haRRiS. He won’t return alone, however; his bride JOANNA EVANS ’88 (they married during Spring Break) will be by his side. Taking over for Dr. J will be mike mCgowan who has spent the last six years teaching history at Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. Accompanying him will be his wife Susannah and son Javier. After teaching science at Thacher since 2000, newlywed ELISSA EASTVEDT will join her husband Gary in the Los Angeles

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area and help launch a physics curriculum at Rolling Hills Preparatory School. Leaving on sabbatical this year is music teacher and Arts Department Chair gReg haggaRD. He plans to spend the summer at European venues studying choral and orchestral music, followed by settling in an as-yet-to-be-determined country in South America, where he plans to write music. Returning this fall from her challenging and invigorating work in South Africa for The Mothers’ Programmes is French teacher kaTheRine halSey. Several current faculty members are pursuing master’s degrees: Toby elmoRe (history) at Wesleyan; aaRon SnyDeR (Latin, English) at Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English; wei-ying lin (Chinese) at Middlebury; ben FaRRell (Admission) at School of International Transformation in Brattelboro, VT; bonnie laFoRge (Library) at

San Jose State University; and DeRiCk PeRRy CdeP 1983 (English) at Columbia. Before Dean of Faculty Jake JaCobSen finishes his three-year posting and hands the reins to molly TwiChell PeRRy ‘85, he will head the search for next year’s E.E. Ford Fellow. This year’s fellow, who has set a high bar for this position, keiTh noRman, will begin a master’s program in English Education beginning this fall. And, finally, gongming yan (Chinese teacher for 2005-06) left chilly Andover Academy in mid-March to battle against DoC v (Science Chair Chris Vyhnal) in ping pong and then accompany—along with Chinese teacher wei-ying lin and Assistant Librarian bonnie laFoRge—a group of students to China for Spring Break. While there, Gongming married a young woman he’s known since childhood.

John a. hooper CdeP 1934, a for-mer San Francisco lawyer and U.S. rep-resentative to NATO, whose ancestors were early California pioneers, died of natural causes on January 17, 2007. He was 89.

John was born in San Francisco on April 19, 1917, the third generation of Hoopers to be born in the city after the family left Maine in the 1850s. His father, Arthur, enrolled him at Thacher and on September 24, 1931, John Hooper, along with two Orricks and a Swinerton, climbed aboard the Coaster from San Francisco and arrived in San Buenaventura the next morning.

John’s achievements at Thacher pointed towards his later accomplish-ments at Stanford and Harvard Law School. He was a prefect, an A camper, a varsity baseball player, a member of ‘Bit and Spur,’ the Yearbook Committee, and the Dramatics Outdoor Committee. He was known to have preferred staying at Thacher to going home, and one spring he shaved his head in order to postpone his welcome home. It worked! Graduating in 1934, he moved on to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford in 1938 and a law degree from Harvard in 1941. From 1942 to 1946, he served in several stateside assignments as a captain in the U.S. Army. In 1943, he married Trish Lowrey, also a native San Franciscan.

From 1947 to 1957, Mr. Hooper practiced law in San Francisco with the firm of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro. In a bold move to change his life’s direc-tion, he and Trish moved to Europe in 1957 with their four young children. John immediately found work with the Defense Department in the produc-tion and logistics of advanced weapons systems within NATO under President Eisenhower. He was awarded the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award and, for the following decade, went on to serve as the U.S. Defense Representative, North Atlantic and Mediterranean Areas, and as a Defense Advisor, with the diplomatic rank of Minister to the U.S. Mission to NATO under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

“He considered his work for NATO one of the more fascinating parts of his life,” one of his sons said. “All of Europe was emerging from World War II, and the United States was helping Europe to get back on its feet; that was a real high point of my parents’ lives.”

From the time he retired from Diplomatic service in 1968 until his death, John devoted his time to charitable and community organizations. He served as president of Planned Parenthood of Northern California and the entire

western region, as well as serving on the National Board. John believed that the right of determining the number and spacing of one’s children to be a fundamental international human right, and worked for the embrace of that principle, both in the US and abroad. John also served as President of the as-sociation connected to Cypress Lawn Cemetery, as President of the Auxiliary of the University of California Hospital in San Francisco. He was a member of the Woodside Planning Commission, and a 50-year member of the Pacific Union Club.

John Hooper was described by a friend as “tall, elegant, sometimes so ironic and curt he could scare people, but a keen observer always. He could draw the venom from a sloppy argument with a devastating one-liner at one moment, and tell an insightful truth the next. And he knew songs, could sing into the night after dinner parties to the delight of all—save, on occasion, his wife Trish, who knew how the songs came out already….”

John Hooper is survived by his wife of 63 years, Trish, of Portola Valley; the couple’s four children, John C. Hooper of Point Arena, Margo Blair of Chicago, Lawrence Hooper of Twisp, Wash., and Helen McCloskey of Rumsey; and five grandchildren. (three of whom graduated from Thacher, Hannah Hooper ‘00 and Alexandra ‘98 and Alden Blair ‘01)

Thacher is proud to know that a part of John will remain here in the School’s backcountry, where, as he wished, his family will scatter his ashes.

clInton c. scott CdeP 1933 Died May 1, 2006Clinton graduated from Stanford in 1938 and Harvard 1942; His wife,

Elizabeth Bartholoma passed away on April 30, 1999. They were married for 52 years. He attended Thacher from 1929 to 1931. As he wrote in 1998:

“My wife, Elizabeth, and I continue living in Pacific Palisades. We recently celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with our three children and their families. I am kept busy managing real estate business and other family investments. I often reflect on the time I spent at Thacher and the great ben-efits I derived as a student while there.” His son, Curtis ‘72, brother, George

‘31, and his granddaughter, Elizabeth Brooke Toeller ‘02 all attended Thacher. He is survived by his two daughters, Kate Bachmann and Anne Toeller, and his son, Curtis.

gordon e. reynolds CdeP 1946 Died Aug 21, 2006Gordon graduated from University of Louisville in 1951 with a BA in

Sociology; and received a JD in 1965 from Golden Gate College of Law. He attended Thacher from 1942 to 1944. He and his wife Barbara had three chil-dren: Anne, Jill, and Justin.

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A few weeks before Christmas we lost Ike Livermore, a man whose life embraced Thacher values as few others. He was in his 96th year and during his extraordinary career had worn so many hats so ably, that we could honor him for any one of his accomplishments. He was a tireless organizer, a gracious civic leader, an innovative businessman, and a diplomatic public servant. He was also a renowned Sierra packer, bridging an old West with a new. What he saw clearly was that if we were to learn from our unique Western landscape later, we had to preserve it now. That preservation became his lifelong calling, and it suited him well. He had vision and fair-mindedness and patience—and he developed a persuasiveness that brought remarkable diversity into his camp. Most important, he had an instinct, almost a genius, for turning environmental ideas into legislative realities—which he did, time after time.

After Ike’s death, tributes poured in, detailing the countless organizations, boards, commissions, and projects he had served—almost always, despite his self-effacing ways, becoming the leader.* But no list of accomplishments can capture the qualities that helped him do so much so gracefully. Somehow, Ike had this remarkable gift, embodying the Western spirit he loved. Open and inquisitive, rawboned and adventurous, he simply had a Western way about him: unassuming strength, easy candor, natural humility. Ike’s virtues were those Sherman Day Thacher aimed to instill in his students: an inquisitive mind educated as much by the natural world as by books, and a concern for others that was both unpretentious and deep. In fact, his warmth, his steady interest in others, his earthy humor all were Western in the very best way—aimed at including everyone, never at ruling anyone out.

Above all, Ike was Western. My guess is that it took a serious hold on him when he was 14 and spent a summer on a Texas ranch, where he learned about ropes and horses and self-reliance. He, and the four Livermore brothers who followed, were perfect fodder for Thacher’s education, but Ike—getting a job in a Sierra pack station because, having shoed his own horse at Thacher, he could shoe a mule—took it farther than even Mr. Thacher probably imagined. Not long after he completed his famous ride with Carel van Löben Sels from Ojai to Big Sur, Ike began his serious romance with the Sierra, and his adventures in those mountains seem to have informed the rest of his life. Remarkably, these

adventures included spending over 1,500 nights in the Sierra and crossing all 50 Sierra passes over 10,000 ft. He’d even claim that he’d learned as much from those passes and those mules and the odd-packer types he worked with than he learned at Stanford and Harvard.

But in important ways, his life at Thacher—on a horse, on the playing fields, in the classroom—never left him. At Thacher he formed the habit of keeping his famous journals and records. Until his death he was checking Thacher’s books to make sure Horse and Camping got sufficient support. His greatest gift to Thacher, of course, was Golden Trout Camp. In 1929 he wrote Sherman Day Thacher to suggest that the School acquire a cabin in the Sierra. It was a notion he continued to pursue until Golden Trout became available in 1966 and he convinced a budget-conscious Board that nothing made more sense for Thacher than this Sierra jewel.

Ike took great pleasure in stories, enjoying them most when the laugh was on him. When we rolled out hay bales for seats at our dedication of the

“Livermore Pack Station,” no one found it funnier than Ike when he stood to be honored and a bailing wire ripped open his pants. He had stories about everything: how he relieved a sick friend in Milestone Basin by fashioning an enema from his cooking equipment, how one “guest” on a pack trip was so overweight he got a blister on his stomach, how he airily offered help to some green packers at Bench Lake only to find himself being dragged through their fire by his own runaway mule.

For my own reasons, I was always taken by Ike’s baseball career, which—for a boy coming from a little school in The Ojai—was remarkable, including captaining the Stanford team and playing on the American team in the famous exhibition at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Tall as he was, his position was catcher—which seems to me just right for him. It’s the only position facing out, devoted to helping the rest, making sure teammates are in the right spot, helping the pitcher choose his pitch, helping him deliver. In its way, that’s what Ike’s life was all about—finding ways for others to find in their mountains what had fulfilled him so completely in his.

It was years after I met him that I learned he’d actually hit the first home run in Stanford’s Sunken Diamond. I don’t think that impressed him particularly. But it impressed me. After his death I wrote the Livermore family to say I thought Ike’s life was itself a kind of home run. And I do. But the ball he hit out of the park wasn’t for him or a team or even for one environmental group or another. It was for everyone in this world who finds the West so compelling—such a bracing adventure for the mind and spirit.

How lucky we are that Ike Livermore saved so much of it for the rest of us. — Willard g. Wyman, headmaster emeritus

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36 spring 2007

In MeMorIaM…

*Conservationist, civic leader, businessman, Ike served as California Secretary for Resources under Governor Reagan from 1967 to 1975. He played key roles in establishing Redwood National Park, stopping the proposed Dos Rios Dam, establishing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and ensuring the protection of Mineral King. He was most proud of his work blocking construction of the proposed Minarets Road which would have bisected the Sierra. In “retirement” Ike chaired President Reagan’s EPA Transition Team, chaired the California Fish and Game Commission and was a delegate to the UN’s first Conference on the Environment. Recipient of The Sierra Club’s Alba Starr Award, Grand Marshall of Mule Days, Founder of the High Sierra Packer’s Association, Treasurer of the Commonwealth Club and the Pacific Lumber Company… Ike’s honors and distinctions were many, and far too numerous to list here.

IN MEMORy OF NORMAN BANKS LIVERMORE, JR. CdeP 1928