Subject:Encina (website/history/heintz/booster club/cramer/scanning/store/whats new)
Date:Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:19:27 -0800

Encina alumni,

Just a short one today. Shortness being a relative term 8^).

WEBSITE

Thanks to all of you FrontPage users who wrote offering advice and suggestions 
regarding the website problems I experienced.

HISTORY

Connie Hall '73 writes:
"If memory serves me correctly, we were only allowed to wear pants sometime during 
our Freshman year. When we started the school year...the girls were still required 
to wear dresses. Boy, how things have changed! I drove by the school some years ago 
during the school day and saw girls wearing cutoffs and bikini bathing suit tops....
a big difference from our school attire!"

TIM HEINTZ '79

Sue Jones '79 writes:
"I have an addition to the Encina Website's Hall of Fame. Tim Heintz (Class of 79) 
is an excellent contemporary jazz artist, keyboardist, and song writer. He has 6 CD's 
out and his discography is a mile long of fame. Check out his sight, sample his music 
online, he is really good!! He has toured with Boz Scaggs and Don Henley and many 
other great artists. He writes for a whole list of big names, and his music is heard 
on many commercials, Disney films, and television shows! He is a STAR edition to your 
Hall of Fame page."

Tim Heintz Website is at http://www.timheintz.com   . You can contact Tim via his 
website.

BOOSTER CLUB

Regarding athletic support for Neil Young, Jack Dieterle '75 (jackd@sdd.hp.com ) 
writes:
"My wife and I sent $40 to the Booster Club this morning. I would like to throw 
down the gauntlet to the rest of the alumni to help this kid out. Face it, the 
last famous alumni was from the 60's! I'd like to see this changed! 8^). You have 
my permission to send this to everyone. And please feel free to flame me and not 
Harlan."

I also sent a check to the Encina Booster Club this week. And I encourage all 
Encina alumni to support the Booster Club and the Encina athletic program while 
there is still an athletic program to support. Please send your contribution, 
big or small to:

Encina Booster Club
1400 Bell Street
Sacramento,CA 95825
916-971-5801

Tom Sertich '65 wrote that he is an experienced fund raiser and is looking into 
some ways that we might be able to raise money for the Encina Booster Club. 
More on this later...

JAMES CRAMER

I thought I'd pass on this interesting comment from James Cramer, financial 
columnist for TheStreet.com, on the pervasiveness of email today:

"Why is tech getting stronger? It is not the consumer; Sears and GM, both with 
lackluster sales, tell you that. It is the same secular trend that we see at 
TheStreet.com every day: People want the Web. They want email, they want power, 
they want speed. They want to feel connected.  
Let me give you a personal anecdote: I went to my 25th high-school reunion on 
Saturday. I have been to others. We would get together and then not connect 
for another five years. Already I have been emailing a bunch of people regularly 
from the gathering. Everybody, it seems, that I met was online. And, if you aren’t, 
forget about it. It’s not just that 40-year-old cohort, though. My relatives, 
old and young, at Thanksgiving dinner, all conversed via email after this turkey day.   
That’s never happened before. 

Finally, in choosing some professional service people earlier this week, I 
regarded it as nonnegotiable that I have only people who work through email. 
Two years ago when I tried to do that, people laughed. Last year, only the geeks 
bought in. Now, everybody assured me that, of course, email at home or work was 
just fine. 

If you were at my reunion, my Thanksgiving or at my meeting with these prospective 
attorneys and you weren’t on email or on the Web, you were probably a little 
embarrassed or ashamed. That’s something that never happened until this year either."

As an email junkie I've dragged my whole family online so I can identify with 
Cramer's remarks.

SCAN OFFER

"Hi...this is Bob (Ray) King Encina class of 66. I would be happy to scan pix 
from the yearbooks of 64,65 & 66 on an individual basis for anyone that requests it. 
Feel free to pass on my Email address of R.King@prodigy.com   to all interested in 
photos from the yearbooks."

I've already asked Bob to scan the senior grad pictures from his yearbooks for 
me for publication on their respective homepages.

STORE

eToys has raised the commission to 25% on purchases linked to the Encina website!

I protested their classification of the Encina site as a personal rather than a 
commercial site and eToys agreed, DOUBLING the commission rate. Please take 
advantage of this generous commission. Just $140 in purchases from eToys would 
pay the $35 domain registration fee for the Encina website. Please check out the 
eToys website from the Encina Store. They have children's toys, videos, music, 
software and videogames and their prices are very competitive. I don't know how 
they can afford to pay 25% commissions. There must be a lot of profit in the toy 
business!

For those of you who have never purchased anything on the internet before, 
it's really simple and in spite on the concerns about security, I don't know 
anyone who's experienced a problem with their personal data being stolen. 
I buy almost all my books and computer supplies on the internet. Most internet 
stores do not charge sales tax unless they are located in the same state and the 
shipping costs are usually less than the sales tax, at least in California. 
In fact, this week I ordered a Dell laptop from the Dell website, my most 
expensive purchase on the internet so far. I predict a booming business for 
delivery services like UPS and Fedex as internet shopping catches on.

WHAT'S NEW

12/3/98: John Hagus 70, George Deasy 66 update, Andrea Heston 78 bio
Hall of Fame: Richard Montoya 77, Tom Phillips 65, George Hullin 65, Ron Flogel 65, 
Timothy B Schmit 65

Take care.

Harlan
Encina webmaster