Photos (L to R): The Meyer family at Todd and Priya’s wedding: Ryan ’98, Eliza Gregory ‘99, Priya, Todd ’00, Alice, and Kurt; 2009 documentation of William Rigby’s ‘70 pilgrimage to the top of Mt. Whitney, with his son Sam, “the big dude”.
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Bill is now working on a third book while running a small tree company called Urban Arborists in New York and serving on the faculty of New York Botanical Garden. He is married with three children, two in college (Bard and Kenyon) and one working at Patagonia in Boston. WILLIAM RIGBY says he continues to bump into ‘Thacherians’ at Dartmouth, where he teaches in the medical school, and even has SANDER DUNCAN ’05 working in his lab. He and his son, Sam, made a pilgrimage to the top of Mt. Whitney. William shares, “The Golden Trout experiences from 40 years ago have created a love of the east side of the Sierras like no other.”
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JOHN CARVER ’53 and his wife, Susan, just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. DANIEL CROTTY ’54 and his wife, Janet, recently celebrated 41 years of marriage. BRUCE OXLEY ’54 and his wife, Carol, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year with a family cruise to Alaska in June. KYHM PENFIL ’84 announces that she and Arie, who attended Reunion with her, are engaged to be married. KATHERINE KIRKMIRE ’94 is engaged to Michael Vining. They will get married at Thacher in June 2010. JACKIE FESTA PARSONS ’98 and her husband, Daven, celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Sept. 23. STEPHANIE TORRES ’99 will marry Charlie Roraback on April 11, 2010, in Ventura, Calif. (photo 14) LAUREN FRAIM ’00 and ALFRED ENGLISH ’00 were engaged on July 23, 2009, en route to a three-week tour of eastern Europe. The photo shows them celebrating their engagement in Hvar, Croatia. Lauren and Alfred’s marriage is set for Fall 2010. (photo 15) ANTHEA TJUANAKIS ’01 is engaged to Ian Cox, whom she met while at Stanford. CHARLOTTE LORD ’02 was recently engaged to Nicolas Chu. The couple is living in Manhattan and plans to marry at the Outdoor Chapel in June of 2010.
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STEPHEN SCOTT, GEORGE HOFFMAN and JON WALTON revisited old Sierra haunts in August 2009. They went backpacking out of Horseshoe Meadows and stopped by Golden Trout Camp to reminisce about the month of May they spent there almost 40 years ago (1971), doing a senior project on ecology and Forest Service land-use planning. This time they had five extra people along: sons Nathaniel Walton (24), Tyler Scott (18), as well as Alex (19), Will (16), and Jeremy (16) ParkeHoffman. Reports have it that New Army Pass was a “cakewalk” for the over-50 crowd. TODD OPPENHEIMER writes that for much of 2008 he was living a journalist’s dream, with an assignment for The New Yorker magazine to explore bladesmithing as it applies to the art of culinary knife-making. The assignment took him many places, including Japan, where he got to visit with some of the country’s master bladesmiths. The story was published on Nov. 24, 2008, in magazine’s annual food issue under the title “SHARPER: Bob Kramer and the Secret Lives of Knives”. Says Oppenheimer, “I could not have done it without Fred Goode’s constant scolding during my sophomore year, ‘Oppie, your writing would get a lot better if you cut out every second and third sentence.’” JOHN BURNS is residing in the Princeton area, having retired from the investment business several years ago. His career was spent in the management of equity and fixed-income portfolios for several Wall Street money managers. Jeb writes, “I continue to be single. I spend my time teaching English to adults as a second language and enjoying the opportunities in the area in the performing arts. I am active in counseling gay youth. I would love to hear from other graduates of my era.” JOHN BUSTERUD, director and counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, is spending most of his time these days on climate change policy and regulation at the state, regional, and national levels. John says, “I am fortunate to have a great client in PG&E, which supports comprehensive federal legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through cap and trade, as well as energy efficiency and use of renewable resources.” John became an empty nester this summer as his son, Tom (18), entered West Point. Daughter Becky (20) is a junior at Cornell. C. CURTIS SCOTT remembers when he and Jeb were “smuts” in the old Lower School back in 1968-69. His youngest daughter, Allie (14), loves
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RYAN MEYER ’98 married ELIZA GREGORY ’99 on June 27, 2009, in the Shakespeare Garden at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the reception was in the nearby Academy of Sciences building, with the tables around the swamp exhibit. (photo 8) ELLA GOODBROD ’00 married North Moench on July 12, 2009, in Walnut Creek, Calif., with classmate JULIETTE BOWAN WHITE MCCULLOUGH ’00 in attendance at the wedding. (photo 9) CHERYLN LYNN HORTON ’00 married James Click, one of her classmates from medical school, in Charlottesville, Va., on May 9, 2009. (photo 10) TODD MEYER ’00 married Priya Patel on Aug. 7, 2009, in Portland, Ore. They were married on the rooftop of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, and had the reception at the nearby Armory Building. (photo 11) TYLER MANSON ’01 and LAUREN CERRE ’01 were married on June 20, 2009, at the Thacher outdoor chapel. (photo 12) MEREDITH WALKER ’01 married Eric Sapp on June 27, 2009, in Medford, Ore. Witnesses to the wedding were Toads ALDEN BLAIR ’01, HANNAH CARNEY ’01, and LOGAN CLARK ’01. Logan remarked, “They all looked fabulous.” (photo 13)