Thacher Today
Thacher Magazine Online
-
2025 Spring/Summer
Spring/Summer 2025:
Making History; Learning with Our Hands; Honoring the Class of 2025
-
2024 Fall/Winter
Fall/Winter 2024:
Our Footing in the Forest; From Farm to Fork; Learning to Lead
-
2023 Fall/Winter
Fall/Winter 2023:
Leading Us Forward; Come West, Breathe Deep, Let These Hills Be Your Teachers; The Aims of This Place
-
Spring/Summer 2023
Spring/Summer 2023:
Staying Gold, The Journey Continues, Gates to the Future
-
Solving for X
Fall 2021
Shaping Our School and Our Programs to Prepare Our Students for the Variables of the Future.
-
Home Made
Fall 2019
How do we fashion a community in which all of our members feel welcomed and at home?
-
The Future Issue
Fall 2018
Meet Head of School Blossom Beatty Pidduck CdeP 1992
-
If at first you don't succeed...
Fall 2017
What we salvage from setbacks, failures, and the other unwanted left turns
-
Why We Ride
Spring 2017
The gift of the horse and what it means to us
-
Array of Hope
Spring 2016
Stewardship, education, and investment in a sustainable future
-
Home
Spring 2015
Where We Find It and How We Care for It
-
The History Issue
Spring 2014
Looking Back While Looking Ahead... 125 Years and Counting
-
Our Daily Bread
Spring 2013
What We Consume, Where It Comes From, and What It Means to Us
-
2024 Spring/Summer
Spring/Summer 2024:
30 Years of 30 Minutes – Senior Exhibitions Celebrate a Milestone; Supporting Civil Discourse; Riding for the Brand
-
Breaking Away From the Pack
Fall/Winter 2022
The Uncommon Threads that Bind Us
-
Looking Back to Look Ahead
Spring 2022Taking inspiration from the timeless elements of our past as we grow and adapt for the students of today.
-
Finding Our Way Together
Spring 2021
Learning From A Year That Challenged Us To Do Hard Things
-
Kids These Days
Spring 2019
The challenges facing today's adolescents and what adults can do to help.
-
The Good Goodbye
Spring 2018
Thacher salutes Michael K. Mulligan and Joy Sawyer-Mulligan as they retire from decades of service
-
Special Campaign Issue
The Next Peak
-
How Mentors Matter
Fall 2016
From Marvin Shagam to student leaders and alumni making a difference
-
Great Teachers
Fall 2015
An Impact That Transcends Learning
-
Talking About Our Generation
Fall 2014
Millennials on Millennials
-
Fraught Topics
Fall 2013
The courage and ability to take on tough topics with the right mix of candor and compassion, understanding and urgency
-
Going Global
Spring 2012
Bursting the myth of the Thacher bubble
Thacher Magazine Online
Click the images to access the Thacher magazine archive, which includes past issues along with links and bonus web content.
Extra Copies
We do our best to minimize print overruns, but we usually we end up with a few extra copies. If you are a digital-only subscriber who would like to request a printed copy, or if you would like additional copies of a particular issue, please make your request here.
Extra Copies
We do our best to minimize print overruns, but we usually we end up with a few extra copies. If you are a digital-only subscriber who would like to request a printed copy, or if you would like additional copies of a particular issue, please make your request here.
We'd Like to Hear from You!
The editors of Thacher magazine welcome and will consider printing letters that are timely, constructive, and presented in a sprit of honor, fairness, kindness, and truth. Letters will be edited for length, clarity, grammar, and style.
To submit a letter, send an email to thachermagazine@thacher.org,
or mail to
To be published, letters must be signed and meet one of the following criteria:
To submit a letter, send an email to thachermagazine@thacher.org,
or mail to
Thacher Magazine Editor
The Thacher School
5025 Thacher Road
Ojai, CA 93023
The Thacher School
5025 Thacher Road
Ojai, CA 93023
To be published, letters must be signed and meet one of the following criteria:
- Relate to an article published in Thacher magazine
- Pertain to events and issues connected to The Thacher School or of particular interest to our audience of Thacher alumni, parents, students, and friends
A college preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12
Notice of nondiscriminatory policy as to students: The Thacher School admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other School-administered programs.