Subject:Encina Update (reunions/79/siblings/directory/fame/small world/groups/firebombings/friendship/education source/whats new) Date:Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:01:58 -0700 ENCINA ALUMNI, Hope you all had an enjoyable holiday weekend. We visited relatives in Incline Village for a few days. What a great place to retire! I had a chance to golf for the first time in 5-6 years. Why does it look so easy on tv... REUNIONS The first reunion is only a month and a half away! If you have siblings or friends who might not know about their class reunions, please pass along this information. The classes which plan to have reunions this year are: 1964 1969 Saturday, August 21, 1999 at Ancil Hoffman Park Alan Dankman (adankman@worldnet.att.net) 1973 Mini-reunion: Rett Smart (irsmart@ix.netcom.com) 1974 Saturday, Sept 25, 1999 at Sacramento Red Lion Inn Bob Goosmann (Magusbob@hotmail.com) 1979 Saturday, Sept 25, 1999 at Hilton off Arden Way Laura Graff Allred (pacwest@foothill.net) Great Reunions: info@greatreunions.com 1984 1989 Saturday, August 28, 1999 at Howe Park Center Janice Barnes (jabarnes@dttus.com) 1994 Candy Mleczko (candym229@hotmail.com) CLASS OF 1979 Hello 1979 Encina Classmates, Greatreunions Inc. has asked for a list of desired SONGS and ARTISTS for the DJ to play at our reunion. If you have any song that you would like played please reply back to me so that I can place them on the list. Thank You, Laura Graff Allred Committee for reunion SIBLINGS James Albright 81 wrote: James Albright 81 Matt Albright 83 Laura Albright 85 Nancy Downs 72/73 wrote: Jackie Downs 65 Gerry Downs 67 (deceased) Nancy Downs 72/73 Henry Downs 75 Frank Bravo 92 (son) Rhett Thompson 95 wrote: Rhett Thompson 95 Kim Thompson 97 DIRECTORY James Albright 81 wrote that he is also in contact with the following alumni: Jeff Albright 81 (no relation) Robin Durham 83 George Hackman 83 Matt Kirk 84 Matt Moon 84 HALL OF FAME Frank Bravo 92, is son of Encina alumni Nancy Downs 72/73. Will Gunter 02, is son of Encina alumni Will Gunter 72. SMALL WORLD Mark Johnson 81 wrote: "Since I have been on vacation for awhile, I was catching up on your last emails. All this talk about the Jubilee and Shelley Burns brought back some old memories. I grew up playing at the festival (starting at about 15 years old) and got really into the Jazz Society. When I was about 19, I was elected on the board of directors and played several Dixieland festivals in California. I left California about 14 years ago to live in Munich, Germany. Since I have been gone so long, I have lost contact to many people. I remember Shelley ("Hello Shelley") from the "On Broadway days." Later, during a short stay in California about 8 years ago, Shelley and I played together at a festival in Southern California as well as at various Sacramento sites. I didn't know she also came out of Encina till I read your emails. P.s. I just missed your mother at Greer School. When I began attendance there, I was already in the 4th grade." Lorna Cline 72/73 emailed me some pictures of Shelley Burns 70, who played at Tracey Harper 78's wedding about 2.5 years ago. In one of the pictures was an unidentified guitar player, who turned out to be Tom Phillips 65. Lorna wrote: "As I was talking to Tracey Harper 78 when she gave me the pictures to scan, she pulled up the website and the pictures of the "Hyland" 40th birthday party. She told me to look at the female twin, I did, I had recognized the last name, and had looked at the pictures previously, but shrugged it off due to them being a few years behind us. Tracey asked me if I didn't realize that she sat around the corner from Tracey. Then it donned on me that I knew her as Theresa Bober! Theresa then had a fit when she realized that Tracey and I were both on the update list! I "talked" with Steve Giguere 73 via our daughters (they are friends) and he said he might come to the 73 mini-reunion. I had previously talked with Marla Tjoelker 73 at Target when my youngest daughter walked up and asked why I was talking to her friend's mom! I guess our kids growing up with the kids of our classmates just kind of figures for those of us that didn't move very far away!" GROUPS I've created groups on www.egroups.com for each Encina class year. egroups.com gives groups a FREE place on the Net with tools that make it easier to share ideas and coordinate events. In it's basic form, egroups provides a mailing list. For example, email sent to encina1973@egroups.com will be automatically distributed to all the members of the group encina1973. This makes it easy for members of each class to send messages to classmates. egroups also allows real-time messaging (chats) between two or more members of an eGroup, notification of events, sharing documents and taking polls! Membership in each group is voluntary. You can join and group or leave a group at any time. Since I created the groups, I am the manager and control the policies. As manager of all the Encina groups, I set up the groups with the following policies: 1. Anyone may join a group (as opposed to my having to approve members) 2. Only members can post to the group (as opposed to non-members) 3. Messages are distributed directly to the group (as opposed to being approved first by manager) 4. Messages can be read on the web by anyone (as opposed to just members) 5. The group has a member directory that its members can see (as opposed to hiding the directory) 6. Replies to messages are sent to the entire group (as opposed to just the sender) Although I am the manager of all the Encina groups, since I am not approving members or messages, the Encina groups are "unmoderated" mailing lists where any member can send a message to all the members of the group. If it becomes necessary to restrict membership or moderate postings, I can easily change the group policies if members are abusing the groups. I encourage you to visit www.egroups.com and sign up for your class year's group. Especially if you belong to a class which is having a reunion this year. In the future, I may distribute the Encina Update via egroups rather than direct mailing to the Encina mailing list, which is approaching 1000 people! egroups archives past messages or postings on their website, so you can view messages posted before you joined a group. This will be a good way to archive the Encina Updates automatically. I will be adding forms to each class homepage and class directory which allow you to easily subscribe to your class group. In the meantime, you can add yourself to your class group by: 1. Visit www.egroups.com and search for "encina". Then find your class year and add yourself as a member. 2. You can also subscribe by sending an email to: encina-subscribe@egroups.com For example, to subscribe to the class of 1973 group, send email to encina1973-subscribe@egroups.com More about eGroups in future updates. FIREBOMBINGS Sacramento Unites Against Racism by Kerry Shearer, Class of '72 kshearer@pacbell.net For those of you who have been following the story of the synagogue arson fires here in Sacramento, it has been incredible to see how your hometown residents have responded. Here's just one example: Last Sunday (6/27/99), the church I attend (Bayside Church in Granite Bay) took a special offering for the Jewish Unity Fund. The fund is in place to help repair the arson damage. A brief, low-key announcement that this offering would be taken was made at the previous week's service. During the week, a woman named Karin Chilcott, who lives in the Santa Cruz area, heard that the offering was to be taken. Overcome with emotion at the thought that a large protestant church would take such an offering, she called Bayside and asked if she could be there on Sunday and see it for herself. Karin, it turns out, is the daughter of Jewish artist Dina Gottliebova, who at age 21 in 1944 was commanded by the notorius Dr. Joseph Mengele of the Nazi concentration camp Aushwitz-Birkenau to paint portraits of his gypsy captives prior to their inevitable extermination. Dina is still alive, and is trying to get the remaining 7 paintings which exist back from the Polish government, which will not release them. (Her story was featured on NBC's "Today" show last Wednesday 6/23.) Well, Karin attended all three services at Bayside Sunday, and gave a moving prayer before the special offering at each service. (KCRA-TV 3 reporter Christie Smith was present at one of the services to interview Karin as well as Pastor Ray Johnston. It was the lead story at 6:00 Sunday night.) When the offering was counted on Monday, it totaled...an incredible $22,500 !! Even more remarkable was the fact that the offering didn't represent huge corporate donations: it was all personal contributions from some of the 3,200 individuals who attend Bayside, came after the regular Sunday offering, and was hardly promoted at all in advance. I was privileged to accompany a Bayside pastor Tuesday (6/29) when the check was delivered to the executive director of the Jewish Federation on Wyda Way (the site of my old elementary school, incidentally!). They were blown away by it! And Bayside is not alone: many churches, community organizations and individuals have collected monetary gifts for the Unity Fund. I'm proud to be a part of a community in which people of different faiths are willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in unity against racism and hate. FRIENDSHIP Michael Growney 85 sent this in: His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life." "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of." And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. It's National Friendship Week Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. EDUCATION SOURCE The Education Source published this list of the top 100 educational websites of 1999. I thought this might be of interest to Encina parents. THE EDUCATION SOURCE http://www.edusource.com/ Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 1999 July/August, 1999 Dear Readers, In this issue, The Education Source, in association with Looksmart.com, announces the "Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 1999." The Education Source has named Looksmart our official search portal for the 1999 Web Awards. Looksmart is a search portal designed for families who are looking for safe and quality content on the Internet. Our Web Awards issue is very popular, and many of our readers may wish to reprint the award list for their own publications, BBS and Chat groups. Please feel free to reprint the list, giving credit to The Education Source and Looksmart and including our "how to subscribe information." Here they are! Our choices for the best educational web sites of 1999! Rebecca Kochenderfer, Editor ------------------------------------------------------------ THE TOP 100 EDUCATIONAL WEB SITES OF 1999 Presented by The Education Source and Looksmart.com When reviewing Internet sites we based our selection on the following criteria: * Is the site educational? * Is the site well organized? * Does the site make good use of modern Internet technology? Or is it text only? * Is the site interesting and informative? After much consideration, and after reviewing thousands of sites, we have selected the following 100 Internet sites as our top picks for 1999 and believe that these sites contain the best educational content on the Internet today. Note: To find the best educational sites, The Education Source used Looksmart, a special search portal with 750,000 unique URLs--the largest collection of editorially reviewed and categorized sites on the Web. ART The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston LouvreW3 A. Pintura, Art Detective The @rt-room Exploring Leonardo Inside Art Children's Music Web K-12 Resources for Music Educators GARDENING KinderGarden The Telegarden FUN Kids Space VIRTUAL TOURS Auto Factory Tour READING Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site The Children's Literature Web Guide WRITING WWWebster Dictionary On-line English Grammar Cyberkids Ink Spot MidLink Magazine Researchpaper.com Writing Den CNN Interactive Crayon Internet Public Library KidsConnect MATH Archimedes and the Crown Ask Dr. Math Gallery Of Interactive Geometry Lessons by Susan Boone Mega-Math Great Economists and Their Times On-Line National Budget Simulation SCIENCE Explore Science: Interactive Science Education The MAD Scientist Network Science Learning Network Museum of Science, Boston Mars Team Online Imagine the Universe! NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory StarChild Virtual Galapagos NASA U.S. Space Camp Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy Microscopy Primer Missouri Botanical Gardens: MBGnet Home CNPS Kids Seeds of Change The Yuckiest Site on the Internet Renewable Energy Project Human Genome Project Information Guided Tour: Visible Human Project InnerBody Neuroscience for Kids Ocean Planet Home Page Yale Center for Cell Imaging The Electronic Zoo Chem4Kids U.S. Geological Survey Virtual Cave Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience Learn Physics Today! The Franklin Institute St.Louis Science Center Exploratorium Miami Museum of Science Backyard Birding GEOGRAPHY National Geographic Society Jason Project Galapagosquest Discover America Through Postcards HISTORY American Memory America's Homepage: Plymouth, MA Montcalm and Wolfe Colonial Williamsburg Spanish Missions of California Lewis and Clark Index of Native American Resources on the Internet NativeAmerican Indian Resources The Oregon Trail WestWeb The American Civil War Homepage The Civil War Homepage Civil War Page Civil War World Wide Web Edison National Historic Site Home Page African American History The White House for Kids Justice for Kids and Youth The World of Viking The European Middle Ages European Rennaissance K-12 Africa Guide Canada museum The First Ladies of the United States of America FOREIGN LANGUAGE Digital Librarian: Languages Foreign Language For Travelers MISC Project-Ask an Expert Page Homeschool.com To find additional educational sites, visit http://www.looksmart.com/ Looksmart specializes in quality web content for families. To subscribe to "The Education Source" newsletter, for free, send your email address to: editor@edusource.com. Coming up next in "The Education Source": The Top Ten Awards for Educational Products. This year we've been testing for the best Science, Math, Reading, Games and Audio/Video products. WHAT'S NEW 7/7/99: Diane Gawlik 63 update 7/6/99: Melanie Evans 77, Nikki Champlin 66, Roger Canales 86, Rhett Thompson 95, Nancy Downs 72/73 bio, Jackie Downs 65, Gerry Downs 67, Henry Downs 75, Frank Bravo 92, Raul Margroff 71, Rick Lewis 87 update, Fred Borowski 73 7/2/99: Ken Blas 70, Allan Blas 75, Claudia Nollner 67 update 7/1/99: Steve Wagaman 70, Nicole Smith 91/bio, Ernst Nelson 78, Toni Blas 74, Jeff Albright 81, Matt Albright 83, Laura Albright 85, Robin Durham 83, Matt Kirk 83, GEorge Hackman 83, Matt Moon 84 Parents: Chuck & Sharon Reade 6/30/99: Ken Barber 70, Lance Ballance 85/bio, James Harding 85, Amy Braio 86 update, Patrick Walsh 79 Have a good weekend! Harlan Lau 73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com