Date: Fri Aug 10, 2001 4:01 pm Subject: Encina Update (homecoming/reunions/horine/canales/siblings/anonymizer/humor/obituaries/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, There is no sponsor for this week's update. The class of 61 and the class of 81 are having their reunions this weekend! I haven't heard anything about the class of 71 or 76 reunions. If anyone has any pictures they would like to share with classmates who couldn't attend, I would be glad to publish them on the website. HOMECOMING 2001 Only two months to go before the Homecoming 2001 party on Friday, October 5 at El Camino HS. If you plan to attend, please write and let me know so we can start building some momentum. I've received the following RVSPs from faculty so far: Eleanor Brown Ray Klinefelter Christine Kojima Vince Marelich Terry Reed Ivory Rubin James W Smith Jolanne Tierney 81 is unable to DJ for us this year so if we have any alumni who are interested in volunteering please write. Date: Friday, October 5, 2001 Time: 5pm to 1130pm Place: El Camino HS cafeteria 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 REUNIONS CLASS OF 61 *** THIS WEEKEND *** 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 *** HOW WAS IT? *** 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 Date: July 28, 2001 Place: Arden Hills Contact: Matt Shelton at sheltonmk@aol.com CLASS OF 81 *** THIS WEEKEND *** Date: August 11, 2001 Place: Arden Hills Country Club Contact: Melissa Tovar at melissatovar@aol.com CLASS OF 82 Date: August 9, 2002 Place: Croation Hall Contact: 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 91' 10 Year Reunion! Date: Saturday, August 18th, 2001 Time: 5:30 pm....? Location: Grapes Banquet Hall 815 11th Street (corner of 11th & H) Price Per Person: $40.00 (Alumni) $30.00 (Not Encina Alumni) Dress: Casual to elegant Check in and photos...5:30-6:30 Appetizers and cocktails...6:30-8:30 Full bar...non-hosted Reunion Video...8:30 Dancing to DJ Charlie Mac....all night! Please make checks payable to Georgina Smith Note: Reunion... Please mail ASAP to 3500 Data Drive#14, Rancho Cordova, CA. 95670 For more info call Gina (916) 635-7958 or 803-1937. KELLY HORINE 88 "We finally welcomed a healthy baby boy on July 25, 2001 @ 11:10pm. It was the most amazing moment of my life! His name is Nicholas James Hoffman. His daddy picked the name after he saw him. He is Beautiful!!! Kelly (Horine) Hoffman 88" Congratulations Kelly and family! DATE-A-DOC.COM A few weeks back I reported that Date-A-Doc was the brainchild of Joe Canales 88. I heard from Roger Canales 86 this week and evidentally all the Canales brothers are involved. Roger is the webmaster and reports they are doing well in spite of the dot-com collapse. Here is a link to a recent Forbes review which has them in fourth place among the Dating websites: http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=198 SIBLINGS Carol Mills 72/73 wrote: Kathie Mills 72 Carol Mills 72/73 Joel Dupzyk 86 wrote: Richard Dupzyk 74 Joel Dupzyk 86 Bernyne Wright 87 wrote: Steven Wright 86 Bernyne Wright 87 Carlo Santos 79 wrote: Carlo Santos 79 Marla Santos 80 Monette Santos 80/81 Frank Hemmen 66 wrote: Frank Hemmen 66 Patti Hemmen 68 Randy King 77 wrote: Vicki King 74 Randy King 77 ANONYMIZER Anonymous Browsing Gets Easier Privacy Button lets you activate Anonymizer services via Internet Explorer. Tom Mainelli, PCWorld.com Tuesday, August 07, 2001 It just got a little easier to stay anonymous when surfing the Web. Anonymizer.com has offered anonymous surfing services for years, but it has required you to start your Web browsing at the site. Monday the company released a plug-in that lets Microsoft Explorer users toggle their privacy protection on and off, without having to detour to the Anonymizer site first. The new tool, dubbed the Privacy Button, works with IE 5.0 and later versions of the Windows version of Microsoft's browser. It is available as a free download at Anonymizer.com, says Lance Cottrell, the company's president. A Macintosh version of the button is coming soon, but the company has no plans for a Netscape version because that browser's technology makes it impossible, he says. The new tool doesn't change the way the service works, it just makes it easier to access and should encourage people to use it more, Cottrell says. Early response to the tool has been very strong, he says. The company has already seen an increase in how often its existing customer base of 350,000 people uses the service. "It makes it a real no-brainer," he says. Browsing on the Sly By switching on the Anonymizer privacy button, or going through the Web site, you hide your identity from nosy Web sites, Cottrell says. Instead of going directly to a Web site, which might collect your information and track your movements, you go first through the Anonymizer service's server. So, when you request data from a site, the Anonymizer requests it for you, filters out the nosy stuff, then sends it on to you. Because the data takes an extra leg on its journey, the service can slow down browsing slightly. Most people will notice, but they don't mind, he says. They're more worried about protecting their information. "Even browsing at an online bookstore you're giving up your data," he says. "Plus, people are worried about identity theft." Free Versus Paid Regardless of whether you use the Privacy button or go through the Web site itself, Anonymizer offers two levels of service: free and paid. The free service is intended as a trial, Cottrell says. It offers basic safe browsing but blocks out random sites and doesn't offer extra features. For $15 every three months, or $50 annually, you get the full service. In addition to the basic services, you get URL encryption to prevent tracking by your Internet service provider or boss, safe cookies that let you accept cookies without being tracked, and advertisement-blocking. Anonymizer isn't the only company to offer safe-browsing software or services. Others include SafeWeband Zero-Knowledge Systems. But Cottrell claims Anonymizer's new tool makes its service the only one accessible purely through your browser. He also claims few, if any, people are using Anonymizer's services to do bad things themselves. "We've had very little trouble with people misusing this service. You can't hack through us, and you can't abuse others through us," he says. In fact, the company has established good relationships with law enforcement agencies, he says. That's because the service also lets cops check out potentially illegal sites without giving away their identities, too, he says. HUMOR This nominee for "flame of the millennium" was spotted on the usenet group alt.autos.dodge.trucks. "You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. B*gger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you. John's reply: "Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice letter. It was great to hear from you. I certainly feel that it is important that you express your feelings. Let me know when you get out of the institution and we'll do coffee." OBITUARIES PATRICIA O'CONNOR 67 Courtesy of Kathie Kloss Marynik 67 and Chuck Long 65... Sacramento Bee, August 8, 2001 PATRICIA SUE KAESTNER Was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 7, 1949 and died on August 5, 2001 at the age of 52. Patty moved with her family to Sacramento in 1960 and graduated from Encina High School in 1967. She was preceded in death by her mom Dorothy O'Connor and her dad Larry O'Connor. Her memory will forever be in the hearts of her son and daughter-in-law Troy and Lisa Kaestner, her granddaughter Payton Marie Kaestner and her brothers Tom, Dan and David O'Connor, all of Sacramento. Patty also had two older sisters, Kathy and DeDe and a nephew, Rodney who loved her dearly. A family memorial gathering in Patty's honor will be hosted by Troy and Lisa at a later date. Patty lived her life as she wanted and was always good for a laugh. May she finally rest in peace. BILL SPENCER 81 Courtesy of Marleen Edwards Newey 82... Born January 10, 1964. He passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends on June 7, 1996. Preceded in death my Mother, Nancy J. Spencer. Survived by Loving Father, Ray W. Spencer, Step-Mother Betty Hopkins Spencer. Brothers Ray W. Spencer III, Tom Spencer. Sisters Kathleen Spencer, Mary Bennett & Susan Loheit. Brother-in-law of Bonnie Spencer, Emily Spencer, Steve Loheit & David Bennett. Uncle of Joshua, Daniel, Taylor, Haley and Spencer. Longtime friend, Ron Henson. He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins & friends. A Realtor for Prudential Real Estate - Former employee of Del's Barber & Beauty Supply. A native of Sacramento, graduated from Encina High School, Class of '81. Friends are invited to attend a funeral service at W.F. Gormley & Sons, 2015 Capitol Avenue, Tuesday at 1:00pm, thence to St. Mary's Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to a charity of your choosing. WHAT'S NEW 8/9/01: Roger Canales 86 update, Kerry Shaw 80/81 update, Gregory Ellis 86, Aaron Ford 88 update 8/8/01: Martha Dwyer 70 update, Sande Byerley 74 update, John Smith 66, Dave Little 66, Carlo Santos 79, Marla Santos 80, Monette Santos 80/81, Ellen Rake 73 update, Frank Hemmen 66, Patti Hemmen 68, Karen Holstein 61, Lisa Morris 81 update, Susan Green 66, Chris Figg 66, Andrea Howard 83 update 8/5/01: Kathie Mills 72, Carol Mills 72/73, Carol Staples 64, Kenneth G Smith 62, William Farmer 88, Linda Francis 69, Stephanie Dugas 73 update, Carrie O'Leary 01, Steven Bender 99/bio, Bernyne Wright 87, Steven Wright 86 classmates.com: Linda Mackey 61, Karen Holstein 61, Sandra Elrod 62, Venn Vranas 64, James Nolan 73, Kevin Krause 74, Margaret Crockett 75, Dwight Kinken 79, Danbar Ogawa 79, Kimberly Webber 82, Linda Hargis 82, Theresa Fischer 83, Diane Weber 83, Richard Dickson 85, Joel Dupzyk 86, Dirk Crews 87, Scott Breakey 89, Joseph Cutty 89, Michelle Dawson 99 Don't forget to submit your contact information or bio: contact: www.encinahighschool.com/directory/submit_contact.htm bio: www.encinahighschool.com/submit_bio.htm Harlan Lau '73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com