Date:  Fri Jul 20, 2001  4:54 pm
Subject:  Encina Update (pledges/yearbooks/homecoming/parade/davies/del valle/welch/kojima/reunions/siblings/spam/obituaries/internet/whats new)

 
 

ENCINA ALUMNI,

This week's update is sponsored by Peter Boam 63.


ALUMNI CHALLENGE PLEDGES

This week I wrote some of you notes reminding you to send in
your alumni challenge pledge or donation. I received many apologetic
notes from those who responded, but there are a few folks who are
still delinquent who haven't been heard from. I'll be updating
the list as the checks come in. The current pledge list is here:
http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/challenge01/rsvps.htm

You know how I hate asking for money so please send in your pledge
so I can drop this topic. Don't make me publish a list of those
who haven't fulfilled their pledges. After all, these were all
voluntary commitments and I feel very strongly that once you make
a commitment you should follow through. Enough said.


YEARBOOKS

KUDOS to David Jensen Del Valle 69 for DONATING his personal copy
of the 68 yearbook! Now I can return the 68 yearbook Jon Dahlberg 71
loaned me a while back. If there is anyone else who would like to donate
one of their yearbooks to the Encina alumni website, I would be glad to
give it a good home. I own the 1970-2001 yearbooks and now have David's
donated 1968 yearbook.

I have borrowed the 1962-1969 yearbooks from the following generous alumni:
1961 *** would like to borrow ***
1962 Joanna Dwyer 62
1963 Ron McFarland 66
1964 Ron McFarland 66
1965 Ron McFarland 66
1966 Ron McFarland 66
1967 Martha Dwyer 70
1968 Jon Dahlberg 71 (returning)
1969 Jon Dahlberg 71

The yearbooks are invaluable references for looking up siblings and
determining what year alumni should be listed in the class directories.

If you would be willing to loan or donate the 1961-1969 yearbooks for
a year or two, I'm sure some of the above alumni would like to have
their yearbooks back.

Thanks!


HOMECOMING 2001

*** UPDATE ***

If you are interested in helping to plan and organize this year's
homecoming party on October 5th, please write and let me know so
I can add you to the homecoming committee mailing list.

If you have any suggestions or comments about last year's party,
please write.

We have received OFFICIAL permission to hold the Homecoming 2001
party at El Camino HS again this year. The pregame party will
start at 5pm same as last year and the postgame party will end
at 1130pm. If you are interested in helping on the homecoming
committee let me know. Last year we had a great group of volunteers!

Coming...Homecoming 2001 on Friday, October 5, 2001:
http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2001.htm

For those of you who wonder what the heck a homecoming party is...

For information about the homecoming party, including pictures:
http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2000.htm

If you missed the description of the homecoming party see:
http://www.encinahighschool.com/archives/email/001027.txt


HOMECOMING PARADE

If you would like to drive your convertible in the homecoming
parade, please let me know. Last year we tried to provide cars
for both the alumni and the student royalty and were a few cars
short.


MIKE DAVIES 66

Lorna Cline 73 wrote:
"Mike Davies '66 passed away Wednesday 7/18/01 and his obituary
will appear in the Sacramento Bee on Monday 7/23/01, the memorial
service will be held Thursday 7/26/01 at 1:00 PM at the Sierra
View Funeral Chapel 6201 Fair Oaks Blvd. Carmichael. He is survived
by his parents, sisters Sue Davies Salton '64 and Marie Davies Ahola '73
and brother Danny."


DAVID JENSEN DEL VALLE 69

David was know as David Jensen at Encina but graduated as
David Jensen Del Valle. David's stepfather was the late Professor
Wayne Jensen of Sac State.

Below is David's bio from imdb.com (internet movie database):

Since leaving San Francisco State University in 1974, David Del Valle has
achieved national recognition as a journalist, columnist, film historian,
radio & television commentator and is one of the leading authorities on the
horror/science-fiction/cult & fantasy film genres. He has contributed to
magazines internationally and has been interviewed by the BBC, A & E
Network, Channel 4 (London) and The Sci-Fi Channel. He appeared prominently
in American Movie Classics documentary entitled IT CONQUERED HOLLYWOOD!, the
history of American-International Pictures. He is also the producer and
on-camera host of Vincent Price's only interview regarding his career in the
horror film. This interview has already won awards in Italy's prestigious
Mystery Festival and is now available for American distribution as it has
never appeared on American television. Del Valle oversees The Del Valle
Archives, a collection in progress of thousands of still photographs,
artwork and ephemera dealing with the horror/fantasy/sci-fi and cult genres.
David Del Valle produced and hosted a series of television interviews
entitled "Sinister Image." His guests ran the gamut from Cameron Mitchell to
Russ Meyer. His print articles and interviews have appeared in such
publications as Cinefantastique, Scarlet Street, Cult Movies, Fangoria,
Films and Filming (Del Valle was Hollywood correspondent for this British
magazine from 1983-1987), Video Watchdog, The Dark Side (UK), Fantastyka and
L'Ecran Fantastique of France for which he was also West Coast
correspondent. Del Valle recently completed a year as a radio host in Palm
Springs, California in an entertainment-oriented program on AM as well as on
the Internet around the world.


BRENT WELCH 74

Brent wrote:

If you remember I had a lot of fun portraying Al Gore as a lookalike prior
to the election. Well, believe it or not, I have had performances booked
after the election as well. Next one is in Bloomington, Indiana at a Web
Developers gathering in October. (Al did invent the internet, remember????)

The more fun news is that I filmed a segment for a TV show called The Downer
Channel which will be on NBC TV July 24th. I'm not too sure if it's at 8:00
or 8:30. The website at http://www.thedownerchannel.com lists both times.
The folks at The Downer Channel told me I'll be on the first segment of the
show on the first show on the 24th. It was filmed at the LA airport among
the people waiting for their flight.

Now if they don't show it at that time, it will most definitely be a
downer.....

Thought you might want to pass it along.

Brent Welch
Class of '74


CHRISTINE KOJIMA

Janet Russel Mason 79 wrote:

HI, Harlan, well, we had the get together for Christine Kojima on Saturday,
and had a really nice group show up. There were 20-25 alumni and their
families come and go, spanning the years from 1974 to 1989. One Del Campo
alum even showed up to wish her well. (The faculty at Del Campo held a
retirement party, but the alumni didn't...do we have more class or what?)

Tom Dugally ('78) purchased a GORGEOUS strand of black pearls while in Hong
Kong recently, and we presented those to Christine-"that for every pearl,
she had touched at least 10 lives."

Thanks to all of those who attended, some I hadn't even known were planning
to come, and to those who couldn't make it, Christine would love to hear
from you.
Please e-mail her at: Tenista@aol.com

Thanks again to Tom Dugally, my "co-host" for all his help and support...
Janet


REUNIONS

The first reunion is coming up shortly. The class of 76's
reunion is next Saturday, July 28th!

If any of the classes have finalized more details, please let me know.

If you have siblings or friends from these classes, please let them
know their class is having a reunion so they don't miss it. This
especially applies to those who aren't online.


CLASS OF 61

Date: August 11, 2001
Location: River Cruise on the Mathew McKinley in Old Sacramento
Time: Boarding 6.30
Sailing: 7.00pm-10.00pm
Contact: John Russell at john_carolrussell@yahoo.com

CLASS OF 66

Saturday, September 15, 2001, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Clubhouse at Swallow's Nest, off Garden Highway in Sacramento
Cost: $25
Contact: Kathy Cooper at Encina66@aol.com

CLASS OF 71

Date: Saturday, August 4, 2001
Location: Doubletree (original Red Lion Inn)
Time: 6:30PM
Contact: Mike Billings at Showzrd@aol.com
Laura Simons - 916-972-7077

CLASS OF 76

*** Next Saturday ***

Date: July 28, 2001
Place: Arden Hills
Contact: Matt Shelton at sheltonmk@aol.com

CLASS OF 81

Date: August 11, 2001
Place: Arden Hills Country Club
Contact: Melissa Tovar at melissatovar@aol.com

CLASS OF 82

*** UPDATE ***

To Class Of 1982,
We are glad to announce that we have a date. The
date is going to be April 1 2002. We found an awesome
sight to hold this great event. It is going to be at
the Encina Cafeteria. The theme is going to be
"UNMENTIONABLES" so you can dress up in your favorite
bra,panties or boxers. Since there is no drinking on
the campus we the committee decided to put the KEGS of
beer in the bathrooms. This way you can fill up your
glass and get rid of the old stuff at the same time.
okay okay well maybe we are just kidding

On a more serious note we did come up with a date
and it is going to be AUGUST 9TH 2002. We have
reserved the Croation hall which from what Kevin and
Laura say it is very nice.
Now the 9th is on a friday and the reason we
picked it was because we are working on getting a good
deal by picking the croation hall. The owner is going
to take care of alot of the arrangements And we are
very pleased to announce. Are you ready? Are you sure?
Well the owner of the hall is going to have an OPEN
BAR yes you heard it right an OPEN BAR.
Joe Lawand is working on a questionare that we
are going to send out to find out information about
everyone. Don't worry nothing to personal.lol In that
questionare we will be asking if you are interested in
having a 2nd day for the families. Maybe a bar b q at
the park with jumping balloons for the kids. So once
you get these please fill them out and send them back.
For you "out of towners" we thought by having the
party on friday and the picnic on saturday would give
you time to fly in on thursday and be able to take a
flight out on Sunday so you could get back home in
time for work and school.

Anyway please mark you calendar on August 9th. We
still have a ton of work to do and now is the time for
you to help us out. If you know anyone from the class
of 1982 contact them and let them know that we are
having a reunion.
if you could get their address, phone number and email
address that would be great. Soon we will ask you to
email this information to one of us so we can put it
all together for mailings. We figure if everyone
contacts at least 5 people we could have a hell of a
party. So if you could help us out in this way that
would be great.

Also one last thing if this reunion is half as
fun as we have been having so far then it is going to
be guaranteed a "blast". Everyone on the committee
didn't hang around with each other but we have shared
so many stories from the past it has been totally
hilarious. Hey again thanks and we will seeya on the
9th

Soames Funakoshi

CLASS OF 86

Date: September 15th
Place: TBD
Time: approx 630-700pm
Dress: semi casual (no gowns or tuxes)
Contact: Kelly Dimmitt at CaliKel@hotmail.com

CLASS OF 91

CLASS OF 1991 REUNION
DATE: August 18th, 2001
LOCATION: Grapes Restaurant upstairs Banquet Hall
TIME: 5:30 P.M. Saturday Evening
PRICE PER PERSON: (To be determined)

Contact: Gina Baker Smith at ginabsmith@hotmail.com
My phone number is (916) 635-7958
If you are calling out of the area, you can call my
800 number at 1-800-496-2935 PIN# 17

Scott Bennett's e-mail is cjbennett@jps.net
Scott's phone number is (916) 480-0732


SIBLINGS

Richard Reveles 82 wrote:
James Curtis 82 (stepbrother)
Richard Reveles 82

Sunny Pitchell 99 is the daughter of Jeanill Pitchell 69

Karen Drury 63 wrote:
Karen Drury 63
Margaretta Drury 66
Ellen Drury 66
Nancy Drury 69

Jeff Slater 77 wrote:
Jeff Slater 77
Kathy Slater 80

Bonnie Rogers 62 is married to William Ricker 63

Lorna Cline 73 wrote:
Sue Davies 64
Mike Davies 66 (deceased)
Marie Davies 73

Fred Shelton 66 wrote:
Margaret Shelton 62
Kathy Shelton 64
John "Fred" Shelton 66
Matt Shelton 76


SPAM

From Fred Langa's LangList:

Although the topic of Spam is too large and important to be done with
forever, we've covered it a lot recently, so we'll be leaving the topic
for a while. But these final items are *definitely* worth seeing:
Writer/columnist John Woram ( http://www.woram.com ) pointed out a
spectacular anti-spam resource I'd never seen before:
http://combat.uxn.com/ It's an awesome site with just about all the
spam-tracking tools you'd want all on one page, right at your
fingertips. I bookmarked the page about 20 seconds after I saw it: It's
that good. Thanks, John!


OBITUARIES

Courtesy of Kathie Kloss Marynik 67. Note that these obituaries and
articles from the Sacramento Bee are from their archives.

BARBARA ANN CLARK 67

Sacramento Bee, October 30, 1967
ROAD CRASHES KILL 13 IN NORTH STATE, NEVADA
Barbara Ann Clark, 18, of 2816 Berkshire Way, Sacramento, was killed
yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was riding smashed against a
train on U.S. 99 near Live Oak, Sutter County. Two other Sacramentans, Steve
Durham, 18, of 2424 Parkwood Drive, the driver; and Nancy Ann Jonas, 18, of
1040 Jonas Ave., were injured in the car-train crash at Lomo crossing.
Officrs estimated the car's speed at 65 miles per hour in the 35 p.m.h.
speed zone and said it failed to slow for the flashing crossing lights. The
trio, officers said, was headed for Chico State College, where all were
believed to be students.


DAVID HAMILTON 69

The Sacramento Bee, May 16, 1976
Shutgun Ambush Kills Sacramento Man, 24
A 24-year-old man with a history of minor drug violations was shot to
death yesterday afternoon in a Sacramento apartment complex by a man who
allegedly laid in wait for him with a shotgun.
Police said David B. Hamilton was slain shortly after he walked into the
Westbridge student housing complex, 1025 University Ave., with his
girlfriend and her brother. Detective Donald Steed said a single blast from
a .410 gauge shotgun "blew him (Hamilton) over a chair, and everyone else
just took off."
Witnesses said William Lambert, 30, who reportedly held a grudge against
the victim because of Hamilton's reported white supremacist views, had
arrived at the complex earlier with the shotgun hidden in a sleeping bag.
According to witnesses, Lambert waited in a nearby room until Hamilton
arrived about 2:15 PM in Building No. 5 of the complex near California State
University, Sacramento.
He died almost instantly of a chest wound.
Then, witnesses said, Lambert put the shotgun back into the sleeping bag,
walked out of the complex, climbed onto his motorcycle and drove away as
police were being called.
The police, informed that Lambert lived in an apartment complex at 545
Santiago Ave. in North Sacramento, dispatched several patrol cars to that
address. As Lambert arrived home, he was met by probationary patrol officer
Diane Ramsey, the first police officer on the scene. Her service revolver
drawn, she disarmed the suspect and had arrested him by the time assisting
officers arrived.
Neither Lambert nor Hamilton, an unemployed man who detectives said had
lived "off and on" in the Westbridge complex, were students at the
university.


LYNNE VASQUEZ 73

Sacramento Bee, September 2, 1989
LYNNE VASQUEZ
Lynne Vasquez, a longtime Sacramento resident who had been in poor health
the past five years, died Tuesday at Sutter Memorial Hospital. She was 34. A
native of France, she spent most of her life in Sacramento and in recent
years lived with her parents, Richard and Rosemarie Vasquez of Sacramento.
A 1973 graduate of Encina High School, Miss Vasquez participated in school
drama and musical productions both in high school and at the University of
California, Davis, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and
creative writing. She moved to San Francisco after college where she was
office manager for a retail clothing store and active in Republican Party
activities.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Laura Jeanne
Lavalle of Sacramento and a brother, Richard J. Vasquez of Ohio. Private
burial is scheduled Tuesday at St. Mary's Mausoleum.


TONIA SEABRON 80

The Sacramento Bee, March 14, 1988
EX-BOYFRIEND HELD IN WOMAN'S STABBING DEATH
A 24-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her downtown Sacramento
apartment Sunday morning, and her ex-boyfriend was arrested Sunday afternoon
in connection with the killing, police said. Tonia Seabron, 662 N St., died
Saturday night after being stabbed several times in the chest, according to
Sacramento Police Sgt. Ronald Meadors and the county coroner's office.
Arrested was Reavous Van Thomas, 32, of Sacramento, who had told the
apartment manager Sunday morning that Seabron wasn't answering the door when
he knocked. He accompanied the manager, Vern Gore, who opened the apartment,
and they found the victim's body on the bedroom floor and notified police at
7:49 a.m. There were no signs of forced entry to the second-floor apartment,
part of the Capitol Towers complex three blocks west of the state Capitol,
Meadors said.
Thomas, who had been with detectives throughout the day, was arrested at 4
p.m. Meadors said Thomas had been stabbed in his leg and was treated at
University Medical Center. Meadors declined to say how Thomas had been
injured. Meadors said Thomas would be held without bail at the Sacramento
County Jail, and would be booked on unspecified murder charges later this
week after the homicide detective confers with the district attorney's
office.
According to police, Seabron and Thomas moved into the N Street apartment
about a year ago with her toddler son. Thomas lived there until a few months
ago, when Seabron broke up with him, although the couple still socialized,
Meadors said.
After Seaborn's body was found, police placed the toddler in his
grandmother's custody. She was visiting her daughter from Memphis this
weekend, but was not at the apartment when the slaying occurred. She and
other family members arrived Sunday morning while police were still inside,
Meadors said.
Gary Chartrand, a cartographer who lives in Sacramento and commutes to San
Francisco to work, said he often heard the couple fighting in their
apartment above his. Manager Gore described Seabron as a "really nice lady"
and a good resident who always paid her rent. Several months ago, however,
other residents had complained about loud noise from her apartment, he said.
Gore saw Seabron Saturday and said that she joked with him about wearing
green on St. Patrick's Day. "She was really happy the day before, with her
mother here," Gore said. He said she recently got a new job.
Chartrand said he had a group of friends over Saturday night and didn't
hear anything in the apartment above him. The neighborhood had its share of
domestic disputes and drunks, but "never anything like this," he said. "This
complex has a pretty good reputation for security," Chartrand said. "I'm
sure this will rock the whole community for awhile."


TODD JANSMA 86

The Sacramento Bee, December 6, 1989
MAN FATALLY SHOT BY OFF-DUTY DEPUTY IDENTIFIED
A former Encina High School wrestler was identified Tuesday as the man
fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff's deputy as the two fought in a bowling
alley parking lot. Todd Jansma, 21, of Sacramento was shot four times in the
chest and once in the head with a .357-caliber Magnum pistol late Monday
night after he pummeled Deputy John Pashenee outside the Mardi Gras Lanes
bowling alley on Madison Avenue, said Ed Close, spokesman for the Sacramento
County Sheriff's Department.
The confrontation occurred after Pashenee reportedly spotted Jansma
driving a truck hazardously in the bowling alley parking lot. Unknown to
Pashenee as he approached the driver, the truck had just been reported
stolen from the parking lot of the Embers Bar, about a mile from the bowling
alley.
Authorities have tentatively listed the shooting as justifiable, but
Jansma's family questioned whether the deputy used excessive force on the
young construction worker, who they contend was out having a good time. "We
have a young man who never had any trouble and he was shot five times by the
officer," said Neal Jansma, Todd's uncle. "It was overkill." Neal Jansma
said family members met briefly with homicide detectives Tuesday and called
for an investigation to determine
whether the deputy used excessive force.
Close said the department is conducting the investigation, as it does in
all officer-involved shootings, but he said Pashenee, 51,
shot Jansma because it was his last resort. "He was basically helpless,"
Close said. "If the officer did not shoot him at the time he did, he
probably would have lost his life."
Authorities said Pashenee, who was in uniform but working as a security
guard at the bowling alley, went to the pickup and asked Jansma for his
driver's license and he told the deputy that he didn't have one. Pashenee, a
26-year veteran with the department who is stationed at the Sacramento
Metropolitan Airport, then asked for the
keys to the pickup truck. Close said Jansma then attacked Pashenee, beat him
to the ground, stomped on his leg and bashed the officer's head on the
ground. Jansma was yelling he was going to kill him, Close said, and there
was no reason to believe he wasn't going to follow through. Pashenee then
fired his weapon, striking Jansma in the chest and head.
Pashenee is in stable condition at the University Medical Center, where he
is being treated for facial injuries and a double compound fracture to his
left leg that was surgically repaired Tuesday, Close said.
Jansma's family said they were perplexed by the incident. Nelson Jansma,
Todd's grandfather, said the victim worked in construction and had his own
truck, and that he doesn't understand why he would be driving a stolen
pickup.
Investigators said they think Todd Jansma was high at the time of the
shooting. Nelson Jansma said his grandson was out drinking beer with a
friend Monday evening. He speculated that Todd Jansma either thought the
deputy was a security guard or was provoked by the officer.
Close said it could take from four to six weeks to get the toxicological
reports which would determine whether Jansma was under the influence of any
substance. He said there was nothing major in Jansma's record, but he had
had some prior run-ins with police.

The Sacramento Bee, December 23, 1989
SHOOTING VICTIM DRUNK, REPORT SAYS
Todd Jansma, the 21-year-old man shot to death by a deputy sheriff whom he
had severely beaten, had more than twice the legal level of alcohol in his
system at the time of the assault, Sacramento County coroner's officials
said Friday. A toxicology report revealed that Jansma, a former Encina High
School wrestler, had a blood alcohol level of .23, according the report. A
person is considered legally drunk when he registers a blood alcohol level
of .10. Starting Jan. 1, that limit will drop to .08. No drugs were found in
Jansma's system, the report said.


JENNFIER DOBRINSKI 93

The Sacramento Bee, October 7, 1999
DRIVER ARRESTED IN DEADLY CRASH
A Carmichael man was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor vehicular
manslaughter Wednesday evening after California Highway Patrol officers
blamed him for the death of a 24-year-old woman in a four-car crash. Officer
Nick Salmeron said Grant S. Sargeant, 29, of Carmichael was driving a
Pontiac Le Mans west on Highway 50 at 6:10 p.m. when he swerved across two
lanes of traffic in an attempt to exit onto northbound Watt. Sargeant
apparently was unaware that traffic was backed up in the exit lane, and his
car slammed into the back of a Toyota sedan driven by Jennifer Dobrinski.
Dobrinski, 24, was killed as her car was thrown into the rear of two other
cars in the lane. Dobrinski, also from Carmichael, was rushed by ambulance
to the UC Davis Medical Center, where she died at 6:46 p.m., said Salmeron.
Sargeant sustained a minor cut under his left eye. There were no other
injuries.


INTERNET

From the New York Times...

JULY 19, 2001
Looking For Clues In Junior's Keystrokes
By LISA GUERNSEY

It was in the spring of last year when a divorced mother of two teenagers in
Livingston, N.J., realized that her 14-year-old son's online habits called
for drastic steps.

For months he had been glued to the family computer at all hours, getting
into online quarrels. His grades were sinking, and letters from America
Online were piling up, citing violations of its policy against vulgar
language in its forums.

His mother tried parental-control software, but he circumvented it within
minutes. She tried closing the family's America Online account several
times; feigning her voice, he had it reopened. She installed hardware
requiring a password to be entered to start the computer; he reconfigured
the circuitry to get back in. One night, in desperation, she slept with the
power cord under her pillow.

So the mother — who asked not to be identified for this article out of
concern that her son's activities could affect custody arrangements — took
the computer away. For seven months she hid the computer tower in the trunk
of her car, covered with blankets.

In August, she said, "he got it back, with the explicit understanding that I
have the passwords to all his screen names." Since then she has been
vigilant in inspecting the cache of Web sites he has visited, checking the
Recycle Bin for signs of trouble.

"He certainly improved my computer skills," she said.

Teenagers, the moment you have been dreading has arrived: Parents are
starting to get a clue about the Internet, and they are more and more
determined to gain control of where you go, what you read, whom you talk to
and how you behave online. The Internet age is ushering in a new mode of
parental oversight, one in which Mom and Dad draw Web-based boundaries,
issue computer curfews and worry about whether their hack-happy youngsters
are making trouble.

Granted, many parents would still not know a motherboard from Mother
Hubbard, but that doesn't mean they are not trying.

In a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a
nonprofit research center, more than 60 percent of parents reported that
they checked to see which Web sites their teenagers had visited. About 60
percent of the 754 parents surveyed also said that they had set time limits
for Internet use. In a survey of 774 parents conducted for Disney Online, 71
percent said they had set rules about what kinds of content their children
could see online, and 88 percent said they had forbidden Internet access in
the bedroom (a rule that the mother in Livingston swears by).

In interviews for this article, some parents said they had no qualms about
reading their children's e-mail by logging in under their screen names.
Others reported that they had learned to distinguish between the pause-laden
typing patterns that signal that their children are doing homework and the
frenetic tap-tap-tap of instant messaging. It is the modern equivalent of
listening furtively at the bathroom door after the teenager drags the phone
in there for a private conversation.

Roni Murillo, a mother in Syosset, N.Y., said she has "sneak-in times" when
she tries to read the instant messages sent and received by her 15-year-old
son, who once received a citation from AOL for posting a note containing
profanity in a professional- wrestling forum.

"I have to do it," she said, though abashedly. "I've seen other kids answer
him with all these curses. There is no way to monitor that unless you are
right there."

The snooping, needless to say, does not sit well with those snooped upon.
Checking e- mail In boxes is considered the most flagrant privacy violation.
"That's just wrong," said Freddie Alvarez, a 16-year-old from Islip, N.Y.,
who said he bought his own computer so he can use it whenever he wants.
Other teenagers liken the e-mail box to a diary in arguing for their right
to privacy.

Jen Albanese, 16, from Bergenfield, N.J., uses command keys to minimize her
instant-messaging screen whenever her mother walks into the room. "She'll be
like over my shoulder, saying: `Jen what are you doing? Why did you put that
screen down?' " she said.

The primary threats driving them to set rules, many parents say, are online
pornography and child predators. But 45 percent of the parents surveyed by
Pew said they also worried that their children might be the instigators of
misbehavior like online threats or hacking. For some reason, many parents
report, the boys seem more inclined than the girls to get into trouble.

Recent surveys may validate their concerns. In an online poll conducted by
Scholastic News Zone, an educational Web site, almost half of the 47,235
respondents, in grades one through eight, said they did not consider hacking
a crime, even though unauthorized entry into computer networks is illegal.
In Pew's study, about 9 percent of boys ages 15 to 17 reported that they had
sent prank e-mail or an "e-mail bomb," which clogs people's e-mail In boxes
with dozens or hundreds of copies of the same message.

Even when their teenagers seem to have no inclination toward computer
mischief, parents have another concern: the sheer amount of time the
children spend online. Robert and Marilyn Pohn of Chicago require their
15-year-old daughter and 12- year-old son to seek permission before going
online and constantly check to ensure that they are using the computer only
for schoolwork. Lauren, their daughter, seems resigned to the restrictions,
remarking that the situation could be worse: "I have a friend who has an
hour on Fridays. That's it. She's not happy."

David Blair, a software programmer and father of two teenagers in Fairfield,
Iowa, decided that rules were not enough. He designed a shareware program
called TooMuchPC that enables parents to set an automated timer that shuts
down the computer at specific times or after a specified number of hours.

In his house, where the computer is in the family office, a little window
pops up on the screen when one of his children has been on the machine for
an hour, to signal that it is the sibling's turn. His daughter, he said, "is
addicted to ICQ," the instant-messaging tool, and used to fight over the
computer with her brother, who wanted to play Soldier of Fortune. Now
harmony reigns. "It is great," he said. "It eliminated all those arguments."

Addiction to instant messaging may not seem serious, of course, given the
stories about teenagers' getting into far worse trouble. A wave of attacks
that crippled access to some of the Internet's busiest sites in February of
last year, including CNN.com, Yahoo (news/quote), Amazon (news/quote) and
eBay (news/quote), turned out to be the handiwork of a 15-year-old from
Montreal who called himself Mafiaboy. As a minor, he faces up to two years
in detention.

Dennis Moran, an 18-year-old in New Hampshire who went by the online name
coolio, is serving nine months in jail for defacing DARE, an antidrug Web
site, with pro-drug slogans and images. In April, a 15- year-old in
Connecticut was charged with hacking into government computer systems that
track the movements of Air Force planes — incidents that occurred when he
was 13.

The image of the teenage hacker hunched over his bedroom computer has
existed for some 20 years now. The difference today is that not only are
vast numbers of children online, but many parents also are heavy Internet
users themselves, both at work and at home, and are therefore at least aware
of what their children might be doing.

Chris Goggans, a founding member of a 1980's hacking group called Legion of
Doom, said he was the only person in his family to have a computer back
then — "I got mine from mowing lawns," he said — and his parents never used
one. Eventually federal agents learned of Mr. Goggans's online snooping and
obtained a warrant to search his computer. (He was never charged with a
crime, he said.) His parents had until then been largely oblivious to his
online activity.

"They knew something interesting was going on," said Mr. Goggans, 32, who is
now an independent security consultant in northern Virginia. "They got phone
calls from people who were obviously long-distance, people I'd met in
bulletin boards. But as long as I was on the computer and not on the streets
knocking over mailboxes, there were no indicators that there was anything
negative in what was going on."

Some parents today are still oblivious — either to the online activities of
their children or to the implications of those activities. Sarah Gordon, a
senior research fellow at Symantec, has talked with several parents in
analyzing the behavior of people who write computer viruses. She said she
was dismayed to hear fathers saying that their sons' activities were "cool."

As a result, Ms. Gordon counts herself among a handful of security experts,
including Mr. Goggans, who are trying to get parents to think beyond time
limits, Internet filters and computer confiscation. They hope to persuade
parents and schools to teach children about the repercussions of their
actions online.

One of the leaders of that crusade is Winn Schwartau, author of "Internet
and Computer Ethics for Kids (and Parents and Teachers Who Haven't Got a
Clue)." Mr. Schwartau said the book's aim was to get parents to ask
themselves this question: "It's 3:30 p.m. — do you know where your children
are in cyberspace?"

He said he started working on the book years ago when he realized that his
daughter, who is now 16, might not understand the hazards of hacking. Then
last summer he discovered that his son, Adam, then 9, had stolen a friend's
AOL password to read her e-mail. "I blew a minor gasket," he said.

In an interview, Adam still sounded surprised that his actions — which had
begun with his secretly writing his friend Holly's password on a piece of
paper as she used the computer — caused such consternation. "I was just
bored, it was summer," he said. When Holly found out, he said, "she kind of
kicked me."

Some parents are convinced that online discipline, combined with some poking
around for verification, is the only strategy that will keep their teenagers
in line online. Ms. Murillo, the mother of the 15-year-old in Syosset, said
her next challenge would be the new computer that her son will be getting
before school starts.

"God knows what will happen then," she said. "But I'll be watching. God
knows I'll be watching."


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