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Sherman Day Thacher, (November 6, 1861 - August 5, 1931), was the founder and headmaster of The Thacher School at Ojai, California.
Sherman Thacher’s education, from his high school years at Hopkins Grammar School to his college days at Yale, included strict academic schedules, classics taught by dedicated scholar-teachers, and seated meals in coat and tie.
The Thacher School is a private co-educational day and boarding school in Ojai, California. Founded in 1889 as a boys' school, it began admitting girls in 1977 and is California's oldest co-educational boarding school, as well as the oldest private boarding school west of the Mississippi River. The school educates approximately 250 students in ...
The philosophy of The Thacher School is rooted in the wisdom and work of its founder, Sherman Day Thacher, who embraced the extraordinary natural venue of his school and sought above all else to train his students “in the art of living for their own greatest good and for the good of their fellow citizens.”.
Jan 10, 2023 · Sherman Day Thacher is best known as the founder and longtime headmaster of the Thacher School in Ojai, California. Sherman was the son of Thomas A Thacher, a prominent professor of Latin at Yale College, and Elizabeth Baldwin Sherman, the granddaughter of founding father Roger Sherman.
- Male
- November 6, 1861
- Eliza Seeley (Blake) Thacher
- August 5, 1931
May 31, 2011 · Sharp & Savvy: Sherman Day Thacher (1861 – 1931) by David Mason. Sherman D. Thacher. It was in 1888 that Sherman Thacher took up a homestead claim of 160 acres in the Ojai Valley. At first he thought he might teach as a side line which would furnish him some means of livelihood.
From the moment Sherman Day Thacher opened the School in 1889, his students began to create traditions—an eclectic range of meaningful, quirky, or fun customs that become part of School life—and to pass them on to succeeding generations.
