trauma she experienced in her own time as a Thacher student in the early 1990s. Campus and facilities The campus, located in the foothills in the northeast corner of the Ojai Valley, about 85 miles north of Los Angeles, was originally the Casa de Piedra ranch. Buildings reflect a variety of architectural styles, including California Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival. An $82-million capital campaign that concluded in 2007 was responsible for adding a new performing arts center and a student commons, two new dormitories, faculty housing, and numerous other improvements. In addition to the normal boarding school mix of athletic facilities (gymnasium, tennis courts, track, three fields, fitness center, and pool, although the pool is not used for athletic events), the campus has barns, pastures, arenas, and fields for equestrian use, including a network of trails that links the campus to the adjacent Los Padres National Forest. The school also maintains base camps in the Sespe Wilderness and the Eastern Sierra's Golden Trout Wilderness, which it uses for backcountry trips, educational programs and alumni retreats. Mascot and traditions While The Thacher School's symbol has always been that of the Pegasus, its mascot is the toad. Notable alumni Phil Angelides, 31st California State Treasurer Riley P. Bechtel, Bechtel CEO Laurel Braitman, science historian, writer, and TED Fellow Rukmini Maria Callimachi, journalist and poet Donald Cooksey, physicist Jennifer Crittenden, television writer (The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld) Paul B. Fay, Jr., businessman and adviser to President John F. Kennedy Sidney D. Gamble, renowned photographer and sociologist of early 20th century China Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside, and I Will Be Complete: A Memoir. James Newton Howard, composer Ye Htoon, Burmese lawyer and political dissident Howard Hughes, aviator and industrialist. Thacher was the second prep school that he attended. He enrolled when he and his parents moved to California, and he was still at Thacher when his mother died. Roger Kent, Naval officer and political advisor Sherman Kent, intelligence analyst D. Andrew Kille, writer, teacher, and scholar of psychological biblical criticism Josh Klausner, screenwriter and director (Date Night, Shrek Forever After, Wanderland) Michael E. Knight, actor (All My Children) Sarah Konrad, Olympian: the first American woman to compete in two different disciplines at the same Winter Olympics (United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics). John Lenczowski, founder and president of The Institute of World Politics Norman Livermore, environmentalist,