Janie Richardson CdeP 1983, Molly Perry CdeP 1985, Cecelia Ortiz, Jane McCarthy, Terry Twichell, and more enjoy Don Reed's story. Don and Sue Reed arrived the year after the Twichells to ªscout for a permanent place to raise their children and bathe in California sunshineº for at least a year. They worked at Thacher from 1969 to 2002 and are now retired in Ojai.
Everyone had camping stories, as well as sports stories, performing arts stories, and teaching stories to share, each tale peeling back the years and exposing the venerable Thacher we all love—a place where honor, fairness, kindness, and truth shape lives and characters. Of course, all of the memories revealed the character of these Thacher mentors and cemented the special place all of our educators hold at Thacher, luring alumni back to campus
year after year—to catch a glimpse of a teacher, to share coffee with a former advisor, to reveal new experiences to a trusted friend and counselor. In the end, the stories told that day are at the core of a community of individuals who, as Sherman Day Thacher envisioned, “…do the best work in the world that they can, ’til the best they can do is all done.” We have profound appreciation for every faculty member who has served our community over the past 125 years.
Terry Twichell shares a story at the faculty celebration at the Johnstons' Ventura home. Terry and Cricket Twichell came to Thacher in 1969 ª just until the kids were old enough to dress themselves in the New England winterº to which they assumed they would return in 3-4 years. Instead, they stayed from 1970 to 1985, and retired in the Ojai Valley.
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