Rivalry
Cate enjoys a heated athletic rivalry with The Thacher School, and often considers a victory over Thacher (The "Toads") the most important goal in any sport. The Cate-Thacher lacrosse game is the oldest lacrosse rivalry in the west. In 2007, two Cate students formed a cheering squad for athletics called The Blue Crew. The team distributes rally towels, teaches old and new cheers to spectators, and brings an incredible amount of energy to each game.
The roots of Cate School are actually linked to Thacher. Curtis Cate, a graduate of Roxbury Latin School and Harvard College, traveled to California in 1908 with plans to start a boarding school that "combined the academic excellence of the best East Coast prep schools with the can-do, adventurous spirit of the West". Upon his arrival in California, Mr. Cate was hired by Sherman Thacher to teach English "at his famous school in Ojai Valley". He spent a happy year teaching at Thacher before moving to Santa Barbara in 1910 to start his own school (Cate School was originally called the Santa Barbara School). In the 1960s, the student gossip was that Mr. Cate (who was still alive, and revered) had left Thacher because they had stopped using silver butter plates.
Even though Curtis Cate developed his own unique teaching philosophy, Sherman Thacher was a positive influence upon him.
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“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
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