From: Harlan Lau Date: Fri Feb 1, 2002 5:45 pm Subject: Encina Update (alumni challenge/DJ/reunions/siblings/patitucci/ballance/bios/humor/internet/whats new) ADVERTISEMENT ENCINA ALUMNI, There is no sponsor for this week's update 8^(. Just curious. Do we have any alumni who are participating in this month's Winter Olympics? If not as an athlete, how about a torch bearer? Or a worker? Is anyone going to attend? I know we have quite a few alumni living in Utah. ALUMNI CHALLENGE PLEDGES Harlan Put me down for $1 per alumni point. Denni (Schwartz) Mador '74 We're at $4/alumni point. I know we have a LOT of prosperous, successful and generous alumni out there. It sure would be nice to see some big pledges like we had last year to get the ball rolling... ALUMNI CHALLENGE Encina Alumni Challenge 2002 Date: Friday, April 12, 2002 Time: 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Cost: TBD, probably about the same as last year Remember last year's Alumni Challenge? Our alumni basketball team almost beat the Encina Varsity team in a close and exciting game. We raised over $20,000 for Encina programs, had a great dinner, enjoyed a wonderful Alumni Band and saw old friends and the campus. If you missed it, you really missed out! The Second Annual Alumni Challenge will be even bigger and better with a rematch of the Alumni and Varsity teams, great prizes, an even better meal, and more fun! More details will follow soon, but clear your calendar for April 12 and come join us. Our goal is to raise more money and have more fun than we did at last year's event. For more information or to volunteer to help, please contact Steve Palmer '74 at 530-676-2775 or spalmer@innotek.com, or Bob Goosmann '74 at magusbob@hotmail.com. For details about the Alumni Challenge 2002: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/challenge02.htm DJ NEEDED Help Encina Alumni, We are having our 20 year class reunion on Friday the 9th of August 2002 and we were wondering if there was any alumni who are DJ's. If you are out there and can work with us on a decent price could you contact me so we could talk. Thank you Soames Funakoshi '82 alexusfr@yahoo.com REUNIONS CLASS OF 1962 Event: Alumni only pre-party Date: Friday, September 27, 2002 Place: Mace's Format: No host cocktail party Event: Golf tournament Date: Saturday, September 28, 2002 Place: Haggin Oaks Contact: Bill Corrie Event: Reunion party Date: September 28, 2002 Place: Del Paso Country Club Contact: Alice Braio Bogert 62 at ajbogert@yahoo.com CLASS OF 1967 No plans for a 35th reunion. Next reunion in 2007. Contact: Linda Goff 67 at ljgoff@csus.edu CLASS OF 1972 *** UPDATE *** Event: Alumni Preparty Date: Friday, July 12, 2002 Event: Reunion Dinner & Dance Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 Place: Granite Bay Golf Club Contact: Sue Kehoe Jacobson '72 at jacobson41@msn.com Event: Family Picnic Date: Sunday, July 14, 2002 The first reunion committee meeting will be at my home, Friday, February 8th at 7:30 p.m. My address is 6228 Kiernan Drive, Carmichael; it is off California Avenue between Palm Avenue and Stanley (not too far from Ancil Hoffman Park). If you would like to be part of the committee, please attend. Please respond if you will be attending. Sue Kehoe CLASS OF 1977 Date: August 17, 2002 Place: Doubletree Hotel (near Arden Fair and Cal Expo) Contact: John Hyland at johnthyland@hotmail.com Sue Levy Joslin at Jos964@attbi.com CLASS OF 1982 *** UPDATE *** Hi everyone, Just a little note to update you on our progress. We are in the process of reviewing invitations. Larry Mckibben is getting those prepared. Joe Lawand is getting a flyer ready which we plan on sending out in february just to get all of you excited about the reunion. Laura Meyer is checking on this book which her husband got from his reunion. This book has a picture and a little bit of information about each student. Let me tell you this thing is really nice. So pretty soon we will be looking for each and eveyone of you to find a picture of yourself or your family along with a little information so we can put this book together. We really think that you will like it. we are also going to need some Old sorry I didn't mean old like that I know how sensitive we can be this late in life lol anyway I mean pics from our school days for a slideshow. So please look through those old oopps sorry those boxes of pictures and put them aside. Kevin Anderson is working on the Hall and all of the goodies that goes along with that. The food and entertainment. May I just say that after our last meeting The food and the hall sounds excellent. We will send something out about the menu soon I think you real really like it. I can't say enough about Terri Mae Shaw. She has been putting so much time in checking names and addresses cross referencing making sure we don't have two of everyone. She and Marleen Edwards are keeping a database so that hopefully we can find all of you this time and next. Robin Fischer has been taking care of our media advertising. She is in the process of talking with the Bee and the Pennysaver about getting some advertising out about the reunion. So look for that soon also Bruce Kerr has been Really Really busy taking care of all of our legal needs. But he has graciously offered his house for our next meeting and will be busy putting together the snacks and drinks together for us.lol As for myself I have been doing absolutely nothing. no just kidding. I must say though that I have a great group of people that they are making this so easy. I am working on putting a website together for our class so that if you want to see updates or names of people that are coming you could just click on the website. This is not taking over Harlan's website but just something that you could click on to get some info or get excited about the reunion. So look for that hopefully in the near future. Well that is all for now. I do have one thing to ask. We are getting people who are contacting the Encina Website everyday but what I need is if you have contacted Harlan could you send me an email with your information. 1. home address 2. home phone number 3. email address this is for our records and because we are going to be mailing some stuff out actually in february will be the first and we need your home addresses. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DO NOT PROCRASTINATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Well That is all for now Soames Date: August 9, 2002 Place: Croatian Hall Contact: Soames Funakoshi at alexusfr@yahoo.com CLASS OF 1987 Kris Monday Dragoo 87 wrote this to the class of 87... "if they want to get together for a reunion this year I would love to put something together. Maybe something casual like a day at the park with our families or something like that." You can reach Kris at jkdragoo@winfirst.com Kris is looking for suggestions for suitable parks from alumni who have arranged past reunions. CLASS OF 1992 Date: TBD Place: TBD Contact Rochelle Karrick Laun at RochLaun@yahoo.com (note new email address) CLASS OF 1997 ??? SIBLINGS Tab Haas 79 wrote: Kit Haas 68? Sharene Haas 70 Kent Haas 74 Tab Haas 79 Bing Haas 80 Janice Parquer 82 wrote: Laurie Parquer 81 Janice Parquer 82 Gayle Parquer 83 MEMORIES OF JOE PATITUCCI Alice Stipak 68 wrote this touching note... We Called Him "Mr. Pat" It took just five minutes on the first day in Joe Patitucci's beginning art class at Encina High School thirty-five years ago for me to realize that he would be teaching me at least as much about life as about art. I watched, spellbound, as this vibrant, intense man in his mid-thirties with black curly hair and a pencil stuck jauntily in back of his ear launched into not so much a lecture as an interactive Socratic questioning. "What is art? What is light? What is color? What is perspective? What are the senses?" he demanded. As we sat there waiting for him to give us the answers, tell us what to think, he just grinned, his dark eyes flashing mischievously. "No, I'm not going to tell you," he boomed, shaking his head dramatically. "You tell me!" Stunned, we just froze and looked at each other. "This teacher is different!" I thought. He then proceeded to masterfully draw us out one by one, slowly, at first, and then hands were flying up like at an auction for some rare treasure. He made a point of asking the name of each speaker and immediately committed it to memory. I never saw him forget a student's name; to him, we were too important. Before I knew what was happening, I found myself looking at art, light, life, being a student, being an individual, in short at absolutely everything, in a new and revolutionary way. From that day on "Mr. Pat," as he let us affectionately call him, always included us as equal partners in the teaching process. He learned with us, and we shared every discovery and achievement. Mr. Patitucci welcomed and weighed each student's input thoughtfully, with an open mind and frank feedback. Suddenly, we weren't just dumb high school kids anymore. Looking at ourselves through the twinkling mirror of Joseph Patitucci's eyes, we had become young people with thoughts that were valuable, opinions that were interesting, and potential that was endless. He lost no time letting each of us know that he would make it impossible to be in his class without growing. He won over the smart alecs, charmed the "ladies," and infected us all with his dynamic love of art and learning. Somehow, Mr. Pat infused every topic with excitement. Everything became important, and fresh, and fun. When he taught us, Mr. Patitucci was everywhere at once, now perched on an empty desk listening attentively with eyebrows raised and hands on hips, now standing at the other end of the room clasping and unclasping his hands. He punctuated his words with lively gesturing, and often told us personal stories, like about his allergy to fish. He accepted us, he enjoyed us, he made it clear there was nowhere he would rather be at that moment, noone he would rather be with than us. We knew it, and we loved him for it. Through those weeks and months, Mr. Patitucci's art class was much more than just another subject listed on a report card. It was a lush, fascinating forest to explore, teeming with myriad shapes, colors, sounds, sensations, smells, and concepts. Today we'll try pointilism with pastels, tomorrow clay sculpture, next week commercial art. The time we spent with Mr. Pat was a deeply personal adventure that took us through our awakening eyes and all of our senses, out into the world, back into our imaginations, then out once again in an infinite and wondrous loop. Creativity wasn't just a word anymore, it was right here, right now, finding the world inside of us, and us inside the world, and constantly mixing it all together in a fresh new way. I looked forward to Mr. Pat's class every day, eager to experience new ways of seeing and expressing art objects, defined as everything we find in our world. While we struggled to skillfully sketch a bowl of fruit or a posing fellow student, Mr. Pat moved around the room like an agile tennis player, deftly fielding questions and lobbing encouragement and thoughtful suggestions back at us. He pushed us to excellence every day, and we were surprised and delighted to find we sometimes had it in us to give. With a wink and a smile, he challenged us at each turn of the paintbrush, at each word out of our mouths. After I graduated in 1968, I always imagined I would someday casually pop in his art class and visit Mr. Pat. But I lived out of California for many years, and when I finally made it back to Encina the security fences and gates made such an approach impossible, and when I checked at the front office, his name was no longer on the list of teachers. Although I haven't seen Mr. Pat since high school, I carry his teaching and his enthusiasm inside me to this day. Becoming a visual artist was not my calling, although out of my love for art I had a picture framing business for years before settling down to my career in Japanese translation. What Mr. Pat gave me I knew I could apply to any medium of work. His teaching is so much a part of me that it would be impossible to separate it from the rest of who I am. My dad used to say that he wanted school to teach my brother and I how to think, not what to think. That's what Mr. Patitucci did. He gave me the skills and the confidence to think for myself. My dad knew and liked Mr. Pat, because he used to buy a Christmas tree from him every year on his lot on Arden Way, I think it was. My father would say each Christmas, "I bought the tree from your old art teacher again, Patitucci - He's a helluva nice guy. Yes, he remembers you and said to tell you hi." Looking back after so many years, I feel grateful that Joe Patitucci's magic became part of my life when I was a teenager, so that I could spend the rest of my life benefiting from the inspiration of his warm, dynamic teaching. Thanks, Mr. Pat! Love, Alice LANCE BALLANCE 85 KBIG Loses Its Ballance (January 30, 2002) KBIG middayer Lance Ballance is moving on after his show this Friday. “I'm outta here!!!” emailed Lance. “I have a new opportunity that I can't divulge yet, but I should be able to say where I'm going by the beginning of next week. In the meantime, I am also opening a voice-imaging business, specializing in small-to-medium sized markets. I will launch a new Web site for that shortly as well.” “I have a lot of great friends here at KBIG/KOST, whom I will miss terribly. I owe a lot to Jhani Kaye, for believing in me for so many years. Charlie Tuna [I STILL can't believe that I got to work with this guy every day!] David Jay, Tony Coles, Leigh Ann Adam, Mark & Kim, Mike Sakellarides, Bryan Simmons, Karen Sharp, Carolyn Gracie, and Ted Ziegenbusch. Although some of those names have moved on, and I'm sure that I'm forgetting a lot of others, but they've all have meant so much to me during my 12 1/2 year LA voyage! Born in Venice, Florida, Lance considers Sacramento his "hometown" since he grew up and graduated high school there. He did much of his early radio work in Northern California. Lance started in Marysville at KRFD and went on to KYBB-Stockton. Lance commutes from Rancho Cucamonga to KBIG, and recalled the scariest part of his L.A. radio tour was "being on the air during the riots when everything was burning around the station." He joined KOST in 1989 and moved over to KBIG in 1998. "My greatest thrill was when my wife, Brenda and I welcomed our daughter, Daryn Elisabeth, into the world. I also really enjoy it when people ask if I'm Bill Ballance's kid. Yes, that is my real last name, and no I'm not." BIOS JENNIFER CHAPMAN 73 Occupation: Lab Tech Bio: Well for the first 18 years raised our two children.I have been married to the same man for 27years and he is a equipment operator at a open pit gold mine here in Elko Nevada. Friends: Vanessa Favero is my best friend still but always wondered what happened to Heather Kendall and Colleen Hagen? Hobbies: Traveling Kids: We have two kids, Dallas who is 23 and attends college for wildlife biology and our daughter April who is 25 and just got out of the Navy as a 1st class petty officer and now enjoys her husband and two year old little boy in San Diego where her husband is a Deputy Sheriff. Grade_school: Greer, and Jonas Salk Grade_school_friends: I think they know who they are. Junior_high: Vanessa, and I would sure like to know what happened to Winney Roland? Memorable_teachers: Jack Bassett because the poor man had to put up with the Chapman Klan. Favorite_memory: Lunchroom Sibling_info: My brothers, Paul, Baron, Scott, Bill Heard_about_website_from: from Vanessa ERIC BRISCO 91 Occupation: Sales/ Marketing Manager Bio: On September 15,2001,I married my beautiful wife Sarah. I spend most of my time enjoying life with my family & friends. Trivia: Arrested for being a real dumb ass one year after graduation. Spent 2 1/2 yrs in jail. I was mistakingly arrested again in 2001, it seems someone is/was using my drivers license number on stolen checks. It has cost me $60,000 in court fee's, 45 days in court, and over a year and a half to get my identity back. When in essence a simple phone call to my employer would have told the justice system they had the wrong person. Just proof, that descisions/mistakes made, will affect you for the rest of your life. Anybody reading this please watch out for ID theft, it seems to be getting very common in our world. And it can be a mess... Friends: Everyone. Hobbies: Snow Boarding, Paintball, Karate(with my son), and classic cars. Kids: Nicholas Gage Brisco 6 yrs old, a first grader, and one of the best gift's i've ever recieved. Grade_school: Athena B. Smythe Grade_school_friends: None. Junior_high: Rio Tierra Junior_high_friends: None. Favorite_memory: Graduating on time. CANDIE GRAHAM 91 Occupation: JIT Coordinator Bio: After I graduated I recieved my certificate in medical terminology. Then I got pregnant. Had my first child, Alexis. Since then I really haven't done much but work and raise my daughter. I also got married to a great guy named Charles. We then had another child, Charlie (Charles) He has been a major handful. (Damn boys) I am a soccer mom. i now wish that I would have never quit playing sports. My daughter plays both indoor and outdoor soccer, so we are always on the go. Trivia: I really don't have any interesing trivia.. Where is the old gang at??? We need to have a reunion.... Friends: Oh geez.. There was Angela Ketcherside, Tracy Taylor, Jennifer Reetz, Christine and Tracy Westwood, Felicia Rios, Shayla Juarez, Jimmy & Joey Moore, Jeff Lillman, Charles Porter.. And so many more. Sorry to those I can't think of right now.. Hobbies: I read alot, crafts, soccer, and mother. That's about it. Kids: My daughter is 8 and my son is 17 months. They are total handfuls.. Grade_school: Edison Grade_school_friends: Tim Fountain, Erik Williams ( may he rest in peace) geez that's the only one I can think of right now. Junior_high: Jonas Salk Junior_high_friends: Felicia Rios, Shayla Juarez, Ofelda,Erik Williams (R.I.P.) and many more. Memorable_teachers: Mrs.Lord, she was such an interesting teacher. She made the classws fun. Mr. Drawbert he was my basketball and volleyball coach, he always believed in me. Favorite_memory: Playing music on the quad. That was fun pissing off people when they didn't get to hear there music. ( Should've turned in the tapes a day ahead of time huh??? lol) HUMOR A friend sent me this... I never have quite figured out why the sexual urges of men & women differ so much. I never have figured out the whole Mars & Venus thing. And I never have figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. Also, I never have figured out how sexual desire gets thrown into a state of turmoil when it hears the words, "I do." One evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she then says, "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me." I said, "WHAT?!" So she says the words that I and every other husband on the planet dreads. She explains that I must not be in tune with her emotional needs as a Woman. I'm thinking, "What was her first clue?" I finally realized that nothing is going to happen that night, so I went to sleep. The very next day we went shopping at a big, department store... I walked around while she tried on three very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her to take all three of them. She then tells me that she wants matching shoes worth $200 each to which I say, "OK." And then we go to the Jewelry Dept. where she gets a set of diamond earrings. Let me tell you ...she was so excited! She must have thought that I was one wave short of a shipwreck, but I don't think she cared. I think she was testing me when she asked for a tennis bracelet because she doesn't even play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I told her that it was OK. She was almost sexually excited from all of this and you should have seen her face when she said, "I'm ready to go, let's go to the cash register." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No, honey. I don't feel like buying all this stuff now." You should have seen her face ... it went completely blank. I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while." Just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "You must not be in tune with my financial needs as a Man." I figure that I might be having sex again sometime during the Spring thaw of 2003. Courtesy of Shaun Sullivan '62... How (not) to Write English Properly 1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. 4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat) 6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. 7. Be more or less specific. 8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)unnecessary. 9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies. 10. No sentence fragments. 11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used. 12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. 13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous. 14. One should NEVER generalize. 15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches. 16. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. 17. One-word sentences? Eliminate. 18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. 19. The passive voice is to be ignored. 20. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas. 21. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice. 22. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them. 23. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas. 24. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." 25. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly. 26. Puns are for children, not groan readers. 27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. 28. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. 29. Who needs rhetorical questions? 30. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. And the last one... 31. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. INTERNET Google now gives an overview of today's headlines: http://www.google.com/news/ And watch out for this email virus. It made it through our firewall at work even with the latest virus definitions... 'My Party' E-Mail Virus Hides as URL Antivirus vendors urge update to protect against sneaky virus, which could open PCs to intruders. Ellen Messmer, Network World Fusion Monday, January 28, 2002 Antivirus software vendors are raising the alarm about a mass-mailer computer virus dubbed My Party that tricks victims by masquerading as the URL www.myparty.yahoo.com. It looks like a harmless URL, but the victim clicking on it will infect his or her machine with the My Party virus, which then mails itself out to the list of addresses in the victim's Microsoft Outlook database. That could potentially cause congestion in corporate e-mail servers, though antivirus vendors say the virus outbreak seems mild so far. The My Party virus doesn't appear to carry any other dangerous payload, such as one that deletes files, though antivirus tool vendors TruSecure and Symantec have determined that there is a Trojan horse in the virus. The Trojan horse sends e-mail about the spread of the My Party virus to a particular e-mail address, napster@gala.net. "We also think it allows the virus writer to have access to the machine," said Sharon Ruckman, senior director for Symantec security response. New Method "We've known before that you can get infected by a URL link," said Vinnie Gullotto, vice president of AVERT Labs at Network Associates. A virus called Coolside spotted about six months ago also looked like a URL but in fact was a Microsoft executable file attachment. The My Party mass-mailer worm is "not amazingly innovative," said TruSecure's virus researcher Roger Thompson. "It just looks like a URL." Antivirus software vendors said that their customers would have to upload the latest virus signature update to protect their computers against My Party. Ian Hameroff, business manager for security solutions at Computer Associates, notes that some customers managed to stop the My Party virus early on by content filtering of file attachments at the gateway level. What to Watch For The virus arrives with the subject line "New photos from my party!" The body of the message says "Hello! My party...It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos! Thanks!" However, clicking on the URL does not open a Yahoo photo Web page but simply activates the My Party virus, which seeks to mail itself out via the victim's Outlook directory list of addresses. "This mass-mailer worm will impact the credibility of all URLs, particulary those for photo archives such as Yahoo and Shutterfly," notes Chris Wraight, technical director of Sophos in Boston. The My Party virus is likely to force e-mail users to continually question the authenticity of the URLs they receive, particularly for online photo archives. WHAT'S NEW 1/31/02: Carolyn Saia 72, Amanda Bonne 82, Susan Daniel 75, Mary Ivory 70 update, Hiep Quach 93, Shaun McCurry 82, Shannon Winter-Benson 88, Janice Parquer 82, Laurie Parquer 81, Gayle Parquer 83 1/30/02: Teresa Boli 72 update, Teddi Funk 69 update 1/29/02: Joyce Green 70 update, Paul Jorjorian 64 update, Elaine Proserpi 62, Lea Breakey 85, Dennis Keer 63 update, Paulo Martinez 74 1/27/02: Roan Marquez 01, Melinda Ray 79, Valerie Smith 97 bio, Jennifer Chapman 73/bio, Eric Brisco 91/bio, Andrea Hurn 87, Terry Mick 65 classmates.com: Constance Ruhmann 67, Eden Slegr 69, Barbara Ross 70, Lance Treiber 70, Andrew Dimitriadis 76, Tanja Kaapro 80, Amanda Bonne 82, Paula Trisler-Betts 83, Renee Englund 85, Debora Yates 86, VAnessa McGhee 90, Lee Xiong 01, Alondra Robinson 01 1/26/02: Monique Mahone 82, Sandra Neumann 66, Tamara Bertacchi 95/bio, Amy Ryan 95, Sheree Pinkham 95, Heidi Allgaier 84 update, Chuck White 81, Maria Macias 82, Steve Gray 75 update, Michele Horton 88 update, Kim Nichols 79, Tony Nichols 74, Tab Haas 79, Darcie Rohrbaugh 82/bio, Araceli Martinez 99/bio, Olga Gutierres 98, Ramona Leal 98, Karen Breaux 64, Melissa Ross 94, Dorthea Hutchinson 82, Vickie Hutchinson 76, Victor Hutchinson 80, Joseph Mondzak 76, Janet Moyer 88 update 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 HS alumni webmaster www.encinahighschool.com