CLASS NOTES… Photos (L to R): Peter Cole ’83 with his family; Samantha Hartley Hewitt ’86 with daughter, Cate, at the Tower Bridge, London; Back row (L-R) Bucky, Carolyn, Liam Kirkpatrick ’17, Eric, Colly Smith ’16, Sarah Lavender Smith ’86, Morgan Smith ’85; front row: more kids with Eric’s wife, Carmen; Sarah O’Brien with kids, Ronan and Pierce; Cole, son of Kate Twichell Mason 86, Cole; Victor Wykoff ’88 with his family in Europe; Marc Ganzi ’89 with Prince Charles at the Westchester Cup.
Buffalo as I was in need of some critical neurosurgery to remove a disk from my neck. Fear not, friends and foes! I recuperated easily and am fine, though missing the great music of LA!
Tripplehorn, work together in Leland’s film, Morning, about a couple struggling after their only child dies (see page 11).
MARK SLICHTER shares, “I’m pleased to report that my daughter is now a freshman at Thacher. I know, a lot of you are doing the math and are opining: ‘Well that sure took a while.’ To which I can only respond, ‘Better late than never!’ Erin ‘17 is in Casa (same location, different dorm) and loving it! We are anxiously awaiting our first trip to the School since dropping her off, when we attend Family Weekend.”
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TIM BOWMAN says, “Spent a few days with BILL ARNOLD at Miller Motorsports Park. He was officiating a race, and I must say he was intimidating! Also PETER DOWNEY and Robin are coming by next week on a combination camping and business trip. Pete and I see each other at least once a year and my son, Jon, was employed by Peter to dig geoducks a few years ago. (Look it up— it’s an episode of Dirty Jobs.) I also stay in touch with LIZ WESTBROOK ’75 (Emma Willard), and hope to visit her and BRAD SMITH next year if I can.” PAUL YELDER announces that, “After a 36-year lapse of sanity, I have finally come to my senses and moved back to the West Coast! Now that I’m living in LA, expect to see even more of me on campus and at Southern California CdeP events.” GRANT FLETCHER and family are “doing well in San Diego area with commercial real estate and still working as an ocean lifeguard supervisor. Jamie, 20, at UCSD/UCLA; Katie, 18, playing soccer for Yale; and Corie, 14, a freshman in high school. Still traveling, investing, and living part time in our home in Hanalei on Kauai. Our best to the Thacher community. Aloha!!!” PARKER MacCREADY notes, “I finally attended a class reunion this year, and was pleasantly surprised to find out what amazing things my classmates had done in the interim. In Berkeley, I had a great visit with DAN MILLER while dropping my daughter off at Santa Clara University. My wife, Molly, and I also have a son who just started high school here in Olympia. I’ve been an oceanography professor at the University of Washington for 20 years! However, I am taking a break and starting a four-month stint as a visiting scientist at Microsoft Research.” ABHI MANERIKAR writes, “After nearly two years in Norway, I have returned to Calgary and back to the consulting life. I am enjoying the freedom of being a parttime empty-nester, when the girls are at university. Tracey and I are taking advantage of the situation by traveling extensively: trips to Germany, Egypt and Jordan, and Spain in the last year. Be sure to look us up if you are in the Calgary area—assuming we are in town!” LELAND ORSER and his wife, Jeanne
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TRACEY STEVENSON GARRETT shares, “Daughters, Toads and Strawberries! Sounds like a unique combination or rather a saucy title to a novel, right?!! But no, it was just our third annual summer camp out in the Strawberry Mountains of Oregon! Four Toads, their daughters, and their dogs made up the camp, but don’t forget good food and libation to boot! All we were missing were the horses and guns! That’s not right, we had guns. JILL OXLEY SOUTO-MAIOR, TRACEY STEVENSON GARRETT, RACHEL OXLEY ‘89, and JILL STEVENSON ‘82, and our respective daughters, enjoyed the annual get-together that would make Extra-Day Trip campers blush! Lots of fireside tall tales and laughter and too many paths to hike; it reminded us of Mr. Sutphen’s and Mr. Close’s outtings! We were together again Oct. 5 to support NICOLE ‘83, KIT ‘80, and JANET ‘78 for their father’s, beloved Bob Miller, memorial at Thacher. We miss you, Bob and Denise. Thank you for the guidance, values, humor, and my enduring love of huaraches! Da, Domine, propitius pacem. CAROL McCONNELL visited San Francisco last month and saw ALEX ‘81 and KATIE CALHOUN ‘83 and enjoyed a short visit with HEATHER FINDLAY. “Everyone is doing well, but too much time has passed. How did we get so old? CdeP 1981 members are turning 50 this year! Surreal, but true! Everyone I’ve spoken with seems to be upbeat about it.” HUNTER HOLLINS writes, “This year, in addition to my work at the Smithsonian, I joined the board of ArtWorksProjects, a nonprofit that uses fine-art photography to raise awareness of global humanitarian crises. ArtWorksProjects is the creation of our classmate, LESLIE THOMAS, and we are doing great work! Check it out: www.artworksprojects.org.” DREW HORTON shares that “Three years making wine in Minnesota have gone by so quickly! I am proud of the handful of gold medals I have won with these Minnesota-grown wines at competitions in California and New York. I never took chemistry while in college, but so far Anne Thacher’s tutelage has served me well! I invite anyone visiting Minnesota to come see what ‘Napa of the North’ looks like! Cheers, in vino veritas.” JOHN WINSELL DAVIES announces, “Elizaveta and I were married in June and, after 11 years in Moscow, emigrated to London. Had a dream-world, three-month, honeymoon in Taman Negara, Nepal, Chiang Mai, Malapascua Island, Boho, and Phi Phi Islands. We arrived in England in September, where I started work as CIO of Machlin Oracle Ltd. in Marylebone.” SIBYLL CARNOCHAN CATALAN shares that “In early October, I am going to NYC to host a group of outstanding