Description

Thacher School, Ojai, California [Published Date: 1989]. Centennial Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] This is the story of how Sherman Thacher settled in the Ojai Valley in California to raise oranges, and how the job of schoolteaching fell into his lap. The author has caught to an extraordinary degree the quality of the man who was "Mr." all his life to most of his acquaintances, but who involuntarily started a school which flourished almost against his will, and was characterized by its informality and high spirits. Here is the complete picture of The Thacher School, of its founder, its teachers, and its boys - not forgetting their horses. Contents include: Author's Foreword to the Centennial Edition; Preface; List of Illustrations; The Stamp of a Man; A New Haven Boyhood; Growing Pains of a Yale Man; From Carpets to Kansas City; Escape from Failure; The Western Rim; One-Man School; The Inevitable Institution; Out of the Ashes; Years of Growth; The Headmaster as Parent; Problems of a Schoolmaster; Trust for the Future; Recognition and Return; Index