To: encinaupdate@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:42 PM Subject: [Encina Update] Encina Update (website, 67, alumni challenge video, pledges, reunions, siblings, bios, humor, whats new, homecoming) ENCINA ALUMNI, The first class reunions of the summer will be the class of 1972 and 1987 on the weekend of July 12th. Only three weeks to go! Have a fun and safe Fourth tomorrow! WEBSITE The consultant has configured the Encina server so that the class webmasters can update their class homepages once more. Class of 67 webmaster Kathie Kloss Marynik is the first class webmaster to update her class' homepage. The consulting bill was $540, which blew my entire budget for the Encina website for this year and more! On top of that, the backup tapes ended up costing $400. At least this is a one-time expense. Time to go back to the Booster Club with hat in hand 8^( Once again, if we have any knowledgeable alumni who are IT experts familiar with administering a Windows IIS 5.0 server and Frontpage 2002, please write. It would be very useful to have some FREE (or less expensive) alumni help administering the Encina server in the future. We have remote access via both pcAnywhere and Terminal Services Client. Thanks! CLASS OF 67 We have a new webmaster online. Kathie Kloss Marynik 67 has taken over the class of 67 homepages. Check it out: http://www.encinahighschool.com/class67/index.html If you have any reunion pictures or other 67 memorabilia to add to the 67 homepage, write Kathie at kkmarynik@hotmail.com Bios are welcome! ALUMNI CHALLENGE VIDEO I received my alumni challenge video and watched it last weekend. I think those of you who received it will agree that Steve Palmer '74 did an awesome job editting the video and it was well worth waiting for. Steve made a 3 minute highlight clip of the game and added some additional footage which was not on the earlier version of the tape he sent me to review. I'll capture some of the video and add it to the website for those of you who did not receive the video. Great job Steve! Thanks to the Booster Club for buying the VCRS, tapes and funding the alumni challenge videotape project! ALUMNI CHALLENGE PLEDGES The Encina High School Booster Club is a nonprofit organization and pledges to the Booster Club are TAX DEDUCTIBLE. The Booster Club will include their tax ID number in their letter acknowledging your pledge or donation. I've calculated the total pledge for each donor on the pledge/rsvp page: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/challenge02/rsvps.htm Please check this page to see how much you owe. Make your checks payable to the Encina High School Booster Club and send them to: Encina High School Attention: Heddy Crowder 1400 Bell Street Sacramento,CA 95825 Thank you for supporting Encina! UNCOLLECTED PLEDGES Thanks to all of you who sent your checks in! Here is a list of the pledges we have not received. 1964 Micheal Carsey ($0.50/alumni pt, $$48.50) 1965 Walter Lubiejewski ($1/alumni pt, $2/alumni pt if they win,$194) 1970 Cathy Buchanan Ball ($1/alumni pt,$97) Paul Whatley ($250) 1973 Steve Daniel ($5/alumni pt,$485) Bruce Hunt ($2/alumni pt,$194) 1976 Carlos X Montoya ($1.50/alumni pt,$145.50) 1977 Rocky Niederberger ($50) 1978 Aaron Valencia ($1/alumni pt,$97) 1980 Scott Schnackel ($1/alumni pt, $97) 1982 Bo Stephenson ($50 + $3/pt by Guzman or Enriquez,$143) 1985 Roy Colburn ($0.50/alumni pt, $48.50) 1989 Geoff Shumway ($3/pt by Ryan Norris, $90) 1993 Brian Crall ($50) Dennis Mulder ($1/alumni pt,$97) REUNIONS CLASS OF 1962 Event: Bicycle ride Date: Friday morning, September 27, 2002 Where: American River Bike trail Contact Randi Muller Kemper at randikemper@earthlink.net or Barbara Rea Fuller at BarbieJo44@aol.com 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 All teachers from 1968-1972 are invited to the class of 72 reunion! If they have any questions please have them email or call me (783-0166). We would love to see everyone. Thanks, Debbie Sprague Mitchell/Darrell Mitchell Debbie Sprague Mitchell '72 at galsmail@c-zone.net Darrel Mitchell '72 at lynk0007@c-zone.net Up to the minute information and maps to all venues can be found on the Class of '72 web site at: http://www.encinahighschool.com/class72/index.html Event: Alumni Preparty Date: Friday, July 12, 2002 Event: Reunion Dinner & Dance Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002 Place: Granite Bay Golf Club Event: Family Picnic Date: Sunday, July 14, 2002 Contact: Sue Kehoe Jacobson '72 at jacobson41@msn.com Debbie Sprague Mitchell '72 at galsmail@c-zone.net Darrel Mitchell '72 at lynk0007@c-zone.net CLASS OF 1977 Class of 1977 Reunion Update Date: August 17th, 2002 Time: 6:00 p.m. - ?? What: Dinner and a chance to catch up Place: The Doubletree Hotel Sacramento 2001 Point West Way (at Arden Way) Cost: $45 per person/$85 per couple Contact: John Hyland at johnthyland@hotmail.com Sue Levy Joslin at Jos964@attbi.com To RSVP send check, made payable to Herbert Niederberger, for appropriate amount to: Encina 1977 Reunion c/o H. Niederberger 5339 Par Place Rocklin, CA 95677 Please remember to list name(s) of those attending. CLASS OF 1982 *** UPDATE *** Hi Class of 82 I just wanted to give you an update as to how things are going. Are last meeting was at the Croation Hall. I Cannot begin to tell you how nice this hall is I think you all will be very pleased. THe outside grounds are very nice to and will give everyone the chance to get away from the music to talk if you want. We chose the menu and I wanted to let you know what it was; Hors D'oeurves; Brushetta Pin wheels Stuffed Mushrooms Prawns w/cocktail sauce Main Courses; Seafood Pasta (Shrimp & Salmon Pasta) Chicken Cordon Blue Grilled Tri tip Side Dishes; Baked Red Potatoes Penne Pasta Plain and Wild Rice Steamed Vegetables Dessert It will be 1,2 or all not sure yet Fruit basket cake cheescake and/or chocolate mousse I have a D.J. and we will be deciding on our park next week. Depending on our attendance I hope to get a Jumping balloon for the kids and Kevin is working on getting a guy that will (unfortanately) sell snow cones. It will be hot. Also please plan on bringing a blanket and chairs for the picnic. If anyone has some teenagers that might want to volunteer to be our cooks at the picnic can you let us know. I hoping on 18 or 19 year olds. The committee wants to enjoy the picnic to so let me know if you can help. If we have money left over maybe we can bribe somebody to help. I would like to remind you to send in family pics to Maria Macias. She is putting together our slideshow. Vince Thompson can you get a hold of me and let me know how things are going with the senior film. In The month of June I received only a small handful of confirmations. We really need everyone to send in money. without the money there might not be a reunion and for sure a picnic. We have 1 MONTH AND 9 DAYS LEFT. That is all for now Thanks Soames Date: August 9, 2002 Place: Croatian Hall Contact: Soames Funakoshi at alexusfr@yahoo.com CLASS OF 1987 *** UPDATE *** Hello Classmates, This is just a reminder to everyone who hasn't called me about the reunion. We only have 2 weeks left before the big day. We have had a really good response from everyone and everyone that has called me is pretty much coming, just a couple of declines. Just off the top of my head I believe we have at least 50 people that are coming. If you haven't called and you are just going to show, please don't forget to bring your main food for yourselves and then bring side salad or dish for the potluck part. I hope to see you all there. I am looking forward to seeing all your families. Talk to you soon. If you didn't receive one of my fliers, sorry, I mailed them to the addresses that I had and I got about 30 of them back. So call me if you didn't so I can correct your address and we can go from there. Hope you are all having a great summer so far and you are staying cool. Thanks Kristine Dragoo Date: July 13th Place: Rusch Park Time: 12 noon to 9 pm Contact: Kris Monday Dragoo at jkdragoo@winfirst.com CLASS OF 1992 Date: Saturday, October 19, 2002 Place: Grapes Dining & Spirits, 815 11th St Contact Rochelle Karrick Laun at RochLaun@yahoo.com or Jannell Penney at penneytax@msn.com SIBLINGS Vicki Griffiths 62 wrote: Vicki Griffiths 62 Georgia Griffiths 71 Margaret Shelton 62 wrote: Margaret Shelton 62 Kathy Shelton 64 Fred Shelton 66 Nina Shelton 73 Matt Shelton 76 BIOS ANNABEL OVERSBY 72 Occupation: ELEMENTARY TEACHER AND LIBRARIAN Bio: I moved to Seattle junior year. I had moved to Sacramento from Seattle in the 5th grade so I was going back to a familiar place. I attended Lincoln High School and joined the gymnastic team there.I used many of the skills I had learned in coach Goldbar's summer intensive gymnastic camps I had attended at Encina. I graduated in 1977 from Lincoln and went on to the university of Wa. and Western Washington University at Bellingham. I majored in special education and English Lit. There were few jobs in education in 1977 so I went for an interview with Northwest Arctic School District located 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It was March 4,1977, a day that changed my life for ever.At the end of the interview...after I had said yes I can live in isolation in 100 below zero temperatures...They said,"so how soon can you come?" I stayed two years in the land of the midnight sun, living with the Inupiat people and teaching special ed.and kindergarten and first grade. On the weekends I was a radio announcer for NPR...THE QUALIFICATION... I could read. It had been a dream of mine to live a year in Europe. I took my Alaskan dollars and lived in Italy for a year and studied Montessori Education....I was able to travel and see many of the sights as well. Montessori brought me to Milwaukee. I was recruited to work in Milwaukee Public Schools Montessori Speciality Program. My principal picked me up at the airport and I remember her saying to me "this is a great place to marry and have a family" ...I remember thinking me? It seemed like a remote idea...but here I am twenty years later...married with a child...and still in Milwaukee...She must of been right. Trivia: I took flying lessons and have 35 hours of flight time. Friends: Diane Tyrell and Leslie Claiborne Hobbies: I x-country ski, study yoga and I'm learning to play the piano Kids: I have one son,Luc. He loves to travel and plays soccer. Grade_school: Greer Elementary Grade_school_friends: Cindy Sheets, Susan Smith, Jack Lachanski Junior_high: Jonas Salk Junior_high_friends: Dianne Tyrell and Cecily Knepprath Memorable_teachers: MR.FIGENSHU....FROG DISSECTION Favorite_memory: WATCHING THE GUIENA HENS RUN BACK IN FORTH IN THE NATURE AREA DURING FRENCH LAB KATE STEINKOENIG 72/73 Occupation: Financial Analyst, Semaphore Partners, Inc., San Francisco, CA Bio: Got my Bachelor's in German from CSUS (thank you, MIss Volz and Mrs. Kojima!)and spent my Junior year at the University of Heidelberg. Had a VAGUE notion of working in Europe -- Ha! How I ended up in accounting, I'll never understand. I moved to the Bay Area in 1979. Thought for a time that I would try to have a career in opera, but decided that I preferred a steady paycheck. I still perform in community theater (though there was almost a 10 year hiatus in the '90s when I was totally stressed out and overworked), in fact, I'll be appearing Pirates of Penzance with Lamplighters this coming August (2002) at Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in SF. I still have my day job, which morphed from Banking to Payroll and now is going in even MORE of an Accounting direction. I'm currently the President of the local chapter of the American Payroll Association. The last year has been a complete delight for me, since at the ripe old age of 46 I finally found the love of my life, Patrick. I had no idea! Trivia: 1989 was a very interesting year for me -- I won a bunch of money in a radio contest, quit my job and went to Europe for several months. Came back and interviewed for my current job the day before the Loma Prieta earthquake, and less than a month after starting my job, a crane fell off the top of a building at Kearny and California Streets and missed me by THIS much (I was injured, but it could have been worse). Eerily enough, I worked for about 8 years in the building the crane fell off of. Friends: I've lost touch with everyone from Encina but Charlene Devere (Greenly) -- we grew up together -- although the last time I saw her was at my father's memorial service. I hope to see her at a reunion. I remember "The Trilogy" fondly and was very sad to learn of Lynne Vasquez' passing. Since first writing this, I've been in contact with Renee Welch (can't wait to see her at the Class of '72 reunion) and Jeff Rizzo (I owe him email -- I got sidetracked). Hobbies: Music, reading, travel, cooking Kids: None yet, though I have 3 gorgeous nephews. Grade_school: St. Ignatius Junior_high: St. Ignatius Memorable_teachers: Mrs. Kojima and Miss Volz, for giving me a lifelong love of languages. Mr. Lawrence -- the coolest English teacher that ever was. Favorite_memory: "Oklahoma" was a lot of fun. Oh -- and there was this German Club dinner at Mrs. Kojima's house... ANN OPP 92 Occupation: homemaker/elementary school teacher Bio: I got my Bachelors in English Language Literature from UC Santa Cruz (also attended SCC), spent a semester in England, a summer semester in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Worked as a receptionist and then as a sales person in the sheet metal industry for a couple of years (go figure). After three years of office work I decided I liked working with kids better. So I went back and just got my multiple subject teaching credential. I got married in 2000 to a wonderful man and we just had our first child in February of 2002. Calvin is a little angel! So now the career is on hold while I figure out why our folks called parenting so much work. Friends: Susan Heggestad was definitely my best friend in highschool (she was the only one patient enough to put up with me) but during those four years at one time or another I considered these people to be friends and all were influences on my life: Shannon Blackman, Eva Mulder, Stacie Lawrence, Marsha DeSouza, Hayley Fojut, Denise, Melanie Barrett, Marcy, Jason Alexander, and some I'm sure I'm forgetting. Susan is the only one with whom I've kept in contact. Hobbies: I like to sleep. (And all of you who have had children know that that becomes a priviledge instead of a right.) I write, draw, and mostly spend time with my family. Kids: Calvin is my sweet little boy and at almost five months he weighs 20lbs (future linebacker?). Grade_school: Howe Avenue Elementary Grade_school_friends: I have very early picture of a cute little ringlet haired Stacie Lawrence. John Burton/Narramore,Tami Rhea,and Tiffany Romney were friends in grade school. Junior_high: Jonas Salk Junior_high_friends: Susan, Stacie, & Shannon. Memorable_teachers: All of my english teachers were wonderful (I can't remember my freshman english teachers name but she was so up beat!). Mrs. Grossenbacher helped me love to write. Miss Mesquita was definitly my favorite and the most tolerant teacher ever. I really enjoyed art with Eric and drama with Mr. McElroy. Favorite_memory: Playing soccer - and yelling "Wrong Way Renee!" SAMIA SHOMAN 93 Occupation: High School Teacher: World History, Spanish, Government, Economics Soccer Coach Bio: Finished my teaching credential and Masters at San Francisco State. I have been teaching for four years. I will be starting my Doctorate in Education this fall (2002). Friends: I am still best friends with my high school best friend, Charmaine Crans. Hobbies: Playing soccer, reading, political involvement in Palestinian cause. Grade_school: Sierra Oaks Elementary Junior_high: Jonas Salk Memorable_teachers: Mr. McElroy - He was the best!! Mrs. Begg- She was dedicated and worked hard. Favorite_memory: Being rally commissioner and being crowned Homecoming queen HUMOR Courtesy of Diane Schoenborn Kelly 73... Here's one of Carl Winter's Food Safety Songs, a really good song parody. Cue the BeeGees' "Stayin' Alive" Well you can tell by the way I choose my food I'm a worried guy, in a cautious mood Food safety scares, they're everywhere And they're telling me I should beware There's pesticides, Mad Cow Disease Sure don't put my mind at ease Biotech, and MSG Messin' with my sanity Don't want hepatitis or that gastroenteritis I'm just stayin' alive, stayin' alive Scrubbin' off my veggies and I'm heatin' all my burgers Up to one-eighty-five, one-eighty-five Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive ********** Some of these songs are a riot! http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html And from the Wall Street Journal... Snail-Mail Money Scammers Take an Old Refrain Online By JEREMY WAGSTAFF I wish people would stop being so cynical. Why do they assume that every spam e-mail they receive is a scam? Just because the pitch "Hi, friend! You've already won a trip to the moon! Need toner? We've got toner coming out of our ears! Find the dirt on anyone, including your mother!" isn't reassuring, it doesn't mean these people aren't just trying to make an honest living. At least, that was what was going through my mind when I decided to respond to one of a new wave of so-called 419ers. These missives, named after a clause in Nigeria's penal code, used to arrive as mail. In the old days postal companies would intercept them -- easy to spot with their fake stamps -- and use them, literally, as landfill. These days free e-mail accounts allow any aspiring fraudster with access to an Internet cafe to try their hand. Where they used to be from purported Nigerian officials with access to siphoned or missing funds, now you're just as likely to get e-mails about unclaimed millions found by special forces in Afghan caves. All you, dear reader, have to do is give a bank account number and, er, the money is yours. But, I reasoned, such e-mails couldn't all be scams, surely? Okay, I've read of people being fleeced for thousands of dollars. Sure, the U.S. Secret Service receives 100 phone calls a day from potential victims and estimates some $750 million is lost globally each year. Sure, Nigerian money-related fraud is the fastest growing on-line scam, according to the National Consumers League. But, what the hell? I reasoned, I'll give this one a shot. Besides, the addressee was none other than Dr. Maryam Abacha, the widow of Gen. Sani Abacha, Nigeria's ruler from 1993-98. "Dr. Abacha," I learned from the Internet, is a light-complexioned beauty of Shuwa Arab stock. She also popularized the Aso-Oke by wearing it to official functions, but I'm not quite sure what an Aso-Oke is. More relevantly, the Nigerian government in April said it had reached a deal where the Abacha family would hand over $1 billion, and keep $100 million, in return for an end to criminal proceedings into the embezzlement of government funds. Given this, I was delighted to be approached by such a fine person and was only slightly intimidated by Mrs. Abacha's insistence on WRITING HER E-MAILS IN CAPITALS. All I had to do was help her smuggle $85 million into my bank account, and I would get 15% of the proceeds. That should make my bank manager happy, I thought. I immediately dashed off an offer of help, but to be on the safe side, used a pseudonym: "Thanks for your e-mail and I'm very excited to be able to help you and get absurdly rich as well," I wrote. "Could you send a picture, so I know what you're like? I'm single, too, so maybe we could hang out. Yours, Egbert Dimple." My new penmate wasted no time, sending me a picture of Abacha in swaying gowns -- it might have been the Aso-Oke -- answering the phone. I was hooked. "I like the outfit. It must be hard to stay looking nice with all this trouble going on. I know this may sound odd, but do you think it would be possible for us to start dating at some point, with your husband no longer on this Earth?" This seemed to cause some surprise. "I really don't know you so much to start talking about dating. And I can't say for now if that could work or not," she wrote. Sensing an opening, I sent back a picture -- not of myself, for modesty's sake, but a random photo culled from a Google search of the keyword "hunk." Mrs. Abacha, if it was she, was impressed. "You are a good-looking young man. But don't you think that we are drifting away from our original objective? Can you come to Nigeria? I will really like to see you but that will be after we have completed this project so we can have enough money to spend." And so I'm confident that by the time you read this I will be flush with cash and living on a desert island, surrounded by bodyguards and people wearing the Aso-Oke. Of course, I'm aware that the risk is high: Many of those persuaded to visit Nigeria by such folk end up fleeced, murdered or missing. But I'm sure that won't happen to me. WHAT'S NEW 7/2/02: Christine Rapp 62, Richard Chandler 72, Steve Picanco 78 update, Alisa Lopez 93, Samia Shoman 93 bio 6/30/02: Howard Teng 69 update, Tom Carter 74/75, Jane Egar 66, Linda Egar 64, Nichole Lewis 88 update, Kim Elliott 00, Ann Opp 92/bio classmates.com: Aneata Cossairt 61, Michael Campos 69, Sally Lucas 71, Melissa Grant 72, Neil Homer 75, Lisa Kuhl 83, Tracy Bernardo 84, Geoff Brandon 87, Christa Finn 88, Jeffery Ebner 89, Michael Juri 90, Byron Keefe 94, Anthony Forrest 94, Tarazeeshe Denney 97, Shima Som 98, Tisha Thompson 99, Aaron Doub 99, Christopher Jones 01, Viktoria Lili 01 6/27/02: Jenny Chapman 73 update, Martha Enriquez 97, Aaron Petersen 97, William Dipinto 83 update, Lori Hamilton 85, Steve Goff 75, Tamme Scroggin 88, Kate Steinkoenig 72/73 bio, Debbie Petkovich 73 update, Denece Champayne 84 classmates.com: Charlene Andre 66, Edward Clark 69, Sandra Thompson 72, Claudia Carlisle 74, Gail Bruno 78, Ramon Aragon 85, Mark Jones 88, John McCarthy 89, Stephen Thompson 92, Rodolfo Reyes 98 HOMECOMING PARTY Candie Graham Haffner 91 will attend this year: Even though Encina is some dang Bulldog... APACHES will never die... The APACHES will always be there to back up there school..There was never a doubt in my mind about being there. This year we need some spirit... When I went last time Encina had no spirit except for when it came to the Alumni.. Congratulations to Candy Mleczko 94, who is the FIRST alumni to rsvp for this year's homecoming party! Candy wrote: I've got spirit, yes I do! I've got spirit! How 'bout you?? I can help set-up for rally/party/whatever! Let me know if any help is needed!! I miss those days!! Decorations/whatever!! The current date is Friday, November 1, 2002 versus San Juan. Please make a note of the date of the Homecoming 2002 party! 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 If your class is having a reunion this summer, I suggest you submit or update your bio. This will give everyone something to talk about initially when they see each other at the reunion . If you've already submitted your bio, go to your class homepage and read the submitted bios so you are up to date with what your classmates have been up to... Harlan Lau '73 Encina HS alumni webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com