Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Encina Update (football/alumni hats/homecoming/rollin coxe 64/classes/siblings/search/cecilia agurto 88/jeffrey boam 64/thanksgiving/frontpage/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, This update is sponsored by Rochelle Karrick Laun 92. I haven't been able to update the Encina website for a few days. This past weekend Connectcorp, who hosts the Encina website, moved the website to a different server. Last night was the first time I was able to access the website on the new server and everything appears to be back to normal. FOOTBALL From the November 10th Sacramento Bee, Encina finished the season with a BIG win over Union Mine HS. "Encina 54, Union Mine 6 at Union Mine -- B.J. Mitchell ran for 110 yards and three touchdowns for the Bulldogs." Congratulations to Coach Hibbard, his staff and the Encina football players on a wonderful, memorable season! Encina's final record was 7-1-1, their only lost being to Colfax. ALUMNI HATS You can still order your cool Encina alumni hat from Encina. Dave Dahlberg 77 bought one of my hats and wrote: "For those of you who missed homecoming, it was a blast! For those who questioned the wisdom of buying the alumni hat sight-unseen for $20, please reconsider. These are pretty cool hats: white with a red bill, embroidered Apache and Bulldog logos on the sides, and embroidered in gold on the front it has "Encina Alumni." The extra $10 of the price goes to the team" You can see pictures of the alumni hats here: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2000/rally.htm Here are the particulars should you wish to order: "Dear Alumni- We would like to inform you of our 2000 football fundraiser. I have made arrangements with a sporting goods vendor to order the necessary hats. They will be white with a cardinal bill and eyelet's, with Encina Alumni in gold block letters, surrounding a football. The hats will be adjustable, so one size will fit all. The price of the hats will be $20, with $10 paying for the hat and $10 going to the football program. Any additional donations would be highly appreciated, and if you do not desire a hat, any donation would be welcome. We have many costs during the season which include safety checks of all equipment, doctors at games, bus rides to away games, new equipment, ect. Unfortunately in many cases, the parents of our players and students are not in a financial position to donate funds. As in many years past, Coach Hibbard has generously spent countless dollars of his own money on many of the things our program has needed. I would like to stress how much the coaching staff at Encina would appreciate any hat orders or donations to our program. Thank You! Now for the facts- please mail your checks to Encina High School, c/o Varsity Football, 1400 Bell St., Sacramento, CA 95825. You may get the hats in two ways; 1) pick it up from Encina yourself, 2) send a self-addressed envelope with postage and we will mail it to you when the hats arrive If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to call 971-7557 and ask for Coach Durkee or Coach Hibbard. Once again, thank you for your support of the Encina Football Program. Coach Durkee" You can email Coach Durkee at TSDurkee@aol.com HOMECOMING PARTY Our official photographer Rollin Coxe 64 took three rolls of pictures. I sent his rolls to Mystic Color Lab, who I've been using for 10 years. I checked with them this week and they seem to have misplaced the film! They are doing a search and I'm hopeful that they will find the homecoming party pictures. This has happened twice before and they've always been able to locate the pictures. In addition, I took the precaution of putting an address label on each roll. The serious problem would be if the postal service lost the film. In which case I believe having address labels on each roll would help them return them to me. If you have any pictures of you and your friends you would like to share, scan and email them my way. 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 There were quite a few folks attending the party who are not in the alumni database. If you know how to contact any of the following folks, let me know: Joyce Shaw Allen 73 Tim Erickson 73 Pam Hanson Franke 75 Ron Jeremy 90 ROLLIN COXE 64 Homecoming photographer Rollin Coxe 64 sent me this note: "Harlan, Thank you for your untiring work in making the homecoming a lifetime memory for so many people. If I ever write an autobiography, this night will be highlighted as a night of lifetime significance, and I am sure this is true for many alumni and staff members who attended. I would like to share two experiences involving this night with two former teachers, Mr. Dutton and Mrs. Saladan. Mr. Dutton: Mr. Dutton taught at Encina for thirty-two years. I was one of only a handful of his students who was in his class for three years. He also had three students for four years. Mr. Dutton was my favorite math teacher both through high school and a college degree in math. I used to imitate his mannerisms. He was very young then. His voice could be heard over the entire B wing. He disciplined with a smile. I got a BA degree in Math because of Mr. Dutton but it has been shelved for thirty years while I have been putting baby pictures and family group portraits on the walls of more than 100,000 homes all over California and the western states. After my recent adoption of a boy of grade school age, it became necessary to change my career to something with less travel, so I pursued getting a teaching credential to teach math. The application asked for a letter of recommendation from a former instructor. None of my college teachers could be located. However, through the Encina web site I was able to contact Mr. Dutton by way of his daughter. Mr. Dutton called me and we had a wonderful conversation. I reminded him that I was not a very good student. He replied that he was also a C student. He said that he believed that those who had to work a little harder in school make the best teachers because they can better relate with the students. He wrote a very nice letter of recommendation. What a meaningful experience it was to meet Mr. Dutton at the homecoming and to have my picture taken with him. It had to be special for Mr. Dutton as well to meet a student who through his influence thirty years later pursues that same road. Mrs. Saladen: I was scared stiff when I had to go into Mrs. Saladen’s class in 1960. With a transfer slip in hand I stood by her at the blackboard hoping she would acknowledge me. She ignored me. "Hay Uh . . . " (Will you please notice me?) "My name is Mrs. Saladen, (oh good she’s friendly) and not hay." (She’s not friendly). How she taunted me about my psychotic fear of talking before a group. She stopped me during my autobiography speech to ask me if I have voice trouble. She put her hand on my throat and made me say "Ah." All this in front of the class. This was the ultimate in humiliation for a freshman in high school. She was also the drama teacher and I became her project. For forty years I hoped I would sometime see Mrs. Saladen again and see if she remembered. I wanted to tell her I overcame this. I do a lot of public speaking, I have presided over meetings, done theater, singing, acting, and even some dance. There in the cafeteria was a lady who I thought I recognized. I read her name tag. I was not going to let her get away. "Mrs. Saladen! ... do you remember, 1960 . . . " She gave me a you’ve got to be kidding kind of a look. When I heard that voice there was no doubt. It was like going back in time. As our conversation unfolded she began to remember. She said she had other students who were like I was but that she learned from me that she should back off a little. She also said, to my surprise, that she had the same problem when she was young, and that she went into drama to overcome it. I did somewhat the same thing. In one night I had my picture taken with my two most influential teachers in high school nearly forty years ago. What a wonderful night to remember." CLASSES If any of the classes which had reunions would like to send me some pictures, I'll add them to the class homepage. I'm sure your classmates who couldn't attend would enjoy seeing pictures of what transpired... 1965 REUNION Gretchen Kern 66 put together a CD filled with pictures from the class of 65's 35th reunion this summer. The pictures were contributed by Carol Brox 65, Sue Hermann 65, Jeanne Kern 65, Leslie Cameron 65, Joyce Rogers 65 and Marvin Ashton 65. Gretchen added captions to the pictures themselves. So rather than having captions next to the pictures, you need to click on the thumbnails to see a full size image which includes the caption. I've added most of the pictures on the CD to the 65 homepage, which has links to the 35th reunion pictures: http://www.encinahighschool.com/class65/index.html I'm sure these will be of interest to those classmates who could not attend, in addition to alumni from surrounding years. SIBLINGS Crystal Graham 87 wrote: Crystal Graham 87 Michael Graham 90 Josh Martin 88 is the son of Jackie Downs Martin 65 (deceased) Bill Burr 87 is married to Kathy Godfrey 87 Bill Burr 87 is in contact with: Kim Larson 87 Staci Grimm 87 John Kilgour 86 Joe Donell 85 Nina Donell 84 Nicole Gagne 88 Dina May 88 Rick King 88 Linda Souza 76 wrote: Bill Souza 71 Mark Souza 73 Linda Souza 76 Kevin Taylor 88 wrote: Kevin Taylor 88 Adrienne Taylor 91 Kimberley Dellinger 78/79 wrote: David Dellinger 72 Karen Dellinger 76 Kimberley Dellinger 78/79 Deleane Dellinger 84 Vicki Garrison 96 wrote: Ricky Garrison 96 Vicki Garrison 96 Vicki Garrison 96 is in contact with Tiffany Lee 96 Clark Swanson 65 wrote: Gary Swanson 62 Clark Swanson 65 ALUMNI SEARCH Anyone know the whereabouts of? Lauren Goskirk 87 Slater Mason 93 John Faust 93 Carrie Perrault 93 CECILIA AGURTO 88 Occupation: Asset Management for Home Eq/ The Money Store Bio: Too many things. Out of High school I went to college and was a Supervisor for that big red bullseye-yep you guessed it Target. Yikes! I created all the signing and displays for our advertisements. Big job huh? After being stalked by a psycho I never met (It's true- this is not my sense of humor talking) I decided to get some law enforcement under my belt. I Became educated in Criminal Justice and took Business Management on the side. I managed an employment agency, a rental company, and El Portal luggage (Arden Fair Mall) and mastered the trade of selling overly expensive luggage, handbags, and briefcases to people with too much $. In 1991 I latched on to Bank of America and worked in special projects. ATM fraud, Airplane crashes- lost bonds, and miscellaneous charge off situations for the company. After 4+ years, I ventured into The Money Store and have been here for almost 5 years. I've dabbled in Custom Solutions for American Express, created asset management teams within customer servicing departments, and have now settled into The Risk Management team for a mortgage company. I am thinking about starting my own business after I sell my home next year. Trivia: Trivia? Hmmm, People seem to misperceive my personality against my looks. Beats me? Let's see what else: everything must arrive in threes. I have had 3 little girls named after me, I have been proposed to three times, and it may sound lame, but I have been stalked 3 times since I have graduated. Twice by males, and once by a female. I promise I do not go around town sprinkling crazy dust on people. I have developed a sense of humor about it, and figure I better get married soon huh? Anybody? :-o Friends: In school my best friends were Damian De La Cuesta (May he rest in Peace), Caroline Balderas, Carolyn Jefferson, Vaughn Clements,Lee Jackson, Kevin White. Hobbies: My hobbies are too many to list. Remodeling my home. I also collect shoes ( I have over 100 pairs), I still write poetry, I attend the Pageant of the Maters-Festival of Arts every year in Laguna Beach, I volunteer for Special olympics, and have an awesome 6 year old nephew that I take to Karate 3 times a week. Kids: Still being single I have not yet been blessed with children. My nephew Christian is the love of my life! When I do get married, it will be only once and I hope the children I plan to have will be the result of that. Grade_school: I attended Grade School at Creekside- Grade_school_friends: Grade School, are you serious? I am still trying to forget the torture I received in Jr. high! My hair was very long, past by waist and the guys that sat behind me used to tie it around my chair. When I got up to leave when class was over- I had the biggest headache- Ugh- I hacked it off after that! Junior_high: I attended Jonas Salk . Junior_high_friends: At the time they were Michelle Martinez and Shelly Purdue. We took music together and we used to play soccer in the mud when it rained, it was a blast. We were filthy but we had great skin. Memorable_teachers: Grade School- Mrs. Scheidigger- she used a ruler for everything and scared the $#!* out of me! High School- Mr. Stout and his squashed boat. He tried to hide it but after class I peeked in on him and he cried when he found that his precious replica of a ship was broken by a student. It really made me pay attention after that and realize how passionate he really was about his teaching. Favorite_memory: Wow, I have so many. Well I think it would have to be during freshman year when my mom came cruising into the parking lot in her porsche to pick me up from school. Here she is with the top down, hair flying everywhere, and all the senior guys thought she was my older sister. I was dying! They looked right over me and asked is she was single. I could have crawled under a rock- Now I look back and am reminded of what I have to look forward to when I get older. Story: Stories- eek I have some serious blackmail material locked away for safe keeping. However, I do accept bribes. :-) Sibling_info: Sister- Cyndi Agurto Alumni_in_contact: Carolyn Jefferson Heard_about_website_from: Carolyn Jefferson JEFFREY BOAM 64 Courtesy of Kathie Kloss Marynik 67, this obituary from Variety... Variety, Feb. 7, 2000 JEFFREY BOAM Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam, whose films grossed more than $1 billion, died Jan. 26 of heart failure due to a rare lung disease in Los Angeles. He was 53. With his script "Straight Time," written in 1978, Boam began a track record as one of Hollywood's top scenarists. His credits include the high-profile hits "Lethal Weapon 2," "Lethal Weapon 3," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "Innerspace," and "The Lost Boys." He also wrote the upcoming release "Meg" for Disney. Wanting more control over the final image rather than the scripted words on which they were based, he began a shift in 1989 from writing to directing, helming an episode of "Tales from the Crypt" for HBO. He later served as co-producer of the TV series "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." Most recently, he co-produced and wrote the 1996 feature "The Phantom." His frustration with the written word, especially for action films, was expressed in a 1989 interview with the New York Times: "You imagine angles that can't be done, or it's not how the director sees it. Unlike theater, film is not a writer's medium. It begins with the word, but ends with the image." But he was not apologetic about his craft, nor about the film spectacles he devised. "Plot tries to engage intellectually, but that's not how the audience responds," he said. "Critics have said that "Lethal Weapon" is brainless, but that's not the point. I try to bypass the brain and go right to the senses. I want emotional reaction, not intellectual engagement. An audience wants to be wound up because it enjoys the pop at the end when it's liberated." Boam is survived by his wife, Paula, and their three children. THANKSGIVING There will be no Encina Update next week. I wish all of you and your families a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday! Here's a little Thanksgiving humor... "A Change in Plans By: Barbara A. Tyler (as Printed in Today's Woman, November 2000) Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. I'm telling you in advance, so don't act surprised. Since Ms. Stewart won't be coming, I've made a few small changes: Our sidewalk will not be lined with homemade, paper bag luminaries. After a trial run, it was decided that no matter how cleverly done, rows off flaming lunch sacks do not have the desired welcoming effect. Once inside, our guests will note that the entry hall is not decorated with the swags of Indian corn and fall foliage I had planned to make. Instead, I've gotten the kids involved in the decorating by having them track in colorful autumn leaves from the front yard. The mud was their idea. The dining table will not be covered with expensive linens, fancy china, or crystal goblets. If possible, we will use dishes that match and everyone will get a fork. Since this IS Thanksgiving, we will refrain from using the plastic Peter Rabbit plate and the Santa napkins from last Christmas. Our centerpiece will not be the tower of fresh fruit and flowers that I promised. Instead we will be displaying a hedgehog-like decoration hand-crafted from the finest construction paper. The artist assures me it is a turkey. We will be dining fashionably late. The children will entertain you while you wait. I'm sure they will be happy to share every choice comment I have made regarding Thanksgiving, pilgrims and the turkey hotline. Please remember that most of these comments were made at 5:00 a.m. upon discovering that the turkey was still hard enough to cut diamonds. As accompaniment to the children's recital, I will play a recording of tribal drumming. If the children should mention that I don't own a recording of tribal drumming, or that tribal drumming sounds suspiciously like a frozen turkey in a clothes dryer, ignore them. They are lying. We toyed with the idea of ringing a dainty silver bell to announce the start of our feast. In the end, we chose to keep our traditional method. We've also decided against a formal seating arrangement. When the smoke alarm sounds, please gather around the table and sit where you like. In the spirit of harmony, we will ask the children to sit at a separate table. In a separate room. Next door... Now, I know you have all seen pictures of one person carving a turkey in front of a crowd of appreciative onlookers. This will not be happening at our dinner. For safety reasons, the turkey will be carved in a private ceremony. I stress "private" meaning: Do not, under any circumstances, enter the kitchen to laugh at me. Do not send small, unsuspecting children to check on my progress. I have an electric knife. The turkey is unarmed. It stands to reason that I will eventually win. When I do, we will eat. I would like to take this opportunity to remind my young diners that "passing the rolls" is not a football play. Nor is it a request to bean your sister in the head with warm tasty bread. Oh, and one reminder for the adults: For the duration of the meal, and especially while in the presence of young diners, we will refer to the giblet gravy by its lesser-known name: Cheese Sauce. If a young diner questions you regarding the origins or type of Cheese Sauce, plead ignorance. Cheese Sauce stains. Before I forget, there is one last change. Instead of offering a choice between 12 different scrumptious desserts, we will be serving the traditional pumpkin pie, garnished with whipped cream and small fingerprints. You will still have a choice; take it or leave it. Martha Stewart will not be dining with us this Thanksgiving. She probably won't come next year either. I am thankful." FRONTPAGE ADVICE I need some Frontpage 98 advice from you web developers out there. 1. How do you move a Frontpage web from one PC to another when you upgrade PCs? My PCs are on a network. I know that Frontpage can copy webs. The problem is that the new web on the new PC loses all the timestamps so that the new PC thinks you need to upload the entire website from scratch. The Frontpage copy function only seems to work on small webs. I tried to be tricky and copy the raw website outside of Frontpage. But when I started Frontpage, it couldn't see the new web. 2. Frontpage appears to have an a problem with large websites. When the Encina website got above a certain size, I found that I could not upload more than about 4mb of updates at a time. If I try and upload more than 4mb of pictures or whatever, Frontpage hangs. If I reduce the size of the update enough, Frontpage starts working again. If anyone has a workaround or solution to this problem I would be in your debt. I believe this is a well known problem which I've seen described in the press. Frontpage compares the local Frontpage web to the actual Encina website and uses timestamps to determine which are the new or modified pages which need to be updated. 3. Is it possible to for a Frontpage web to reside on a network drive and access the web which can be accessed from any PC on the network? If so, how do you do this? WHAT'S NEW I finally merged the 65 mailing list with the alumni database and discovered lots of 65 alumni have email which I didn't know about. 11/15/00: Geoffrey Shumway 89 update, Tom Greene 65, Cheryl Freeman 65, Robert Wade 65, Kathy Williams 65, David Harshbarger 65, Hank Wilson 65, Jim Fossi 65, Steve Gehres 65, Debbie Gerth 65, Steve Mattos 65, Mike Hagen 65, Suzi Hansen 65, Ted Voudouris 65, Ed Hart 65, Randy Hastie 65, Judi Kemp 65, Jim Farmer 65, Kris Kentroti 65, James Mohamed 65, Candy Koropp 65, Carl Lyon 65, Kathy McGinn 65, Patiricia McLanahan 65, Dave Porter 65, Tim Riley 65, Bruce Robinson 65, Clark Swanson 65, Gary Swanson 62, Jack Szlak 65, Lisa De Leon 90 update, Kelly Pulis 86 update, Chuck Stream 79, Vicki Garrison 96 bio, Tiffany Lee 96, Ricky Garrison 96, Karen Loscutoff 66, Ray Remmick 70, Adrienne Taylor 91 11/10/00: Bridget Nietzke 84/bio, David Otero 89/bio, Roxanne Watkins 83/bio, Rebecca Watkins 82, Catherine Martin 80, Heather Heath 93 bio, Karen Dillinger 76, Valerie Smith 97, Michael Barragan 72, Cherish Cooley 87/bio, Bill Burr 87/bio, John Kilgour 86, Joe Donnel 86, Nicole Gagne 88, Dina May 88, Rick King 88, Carolyn Jefferson 89, Mark Souza 73, Bill Souza 71, Kimberley Dellinger 78/79, David Dellinger 72, Karen Dellinger 76, Deleane Dellinger 84 11/7/00: Gail Miller 73 update, Dan Christianson 90, Crystal Graham 87/bio, Denise Sousa 87, Paula Pertile 76 update, Connie Kraushar 70, Ron Kraushar 72, Tanya Monier 90 update, Beth Smaage 76, Tessie Velasco 90 update, Lisa Poulsen 81, Cherish Cooley 87, Brian Cyr 87, Sherrie Pyle-Parker 86, Chuck Savoca 70, Michael Thompson 89, Nadine Cabrera 90, Cindy Barksdale 73, Lola Dumont 73, Tom Allen 74, Andy Dimitriadis 76, Edward Soong 78, Robert Heckes 83, Tim Smith 83, Wendel Wanker 83, Sean Anderson 85, Jeff Luc 85, Jessica Okendo 85, Mike Epps 87, Chris Montyoa 87, Randall Kingsmore 88, Fariborz Mehrshahi 88, Joel Lefohn 90, Christina Leiser 91, Hugo Frenandez 92, Tabitha Baker 96 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 For those of you doing your Christmas shopping on the net, please link your purchase to the Encina store, which is an affiliate of most of the popular internet stores like amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, buy.com, cdnow.com, dell.com, etc. http://www.encinahighschool.com/store.htm It won't cost you anything but a little inconvenience and it will help defer the costs of maintaining the Encina website. Thanks for your support! Have a Happy Thanksgiving! When you see your family next weekend, spread the word about the Encina website! Harlan Lau '73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com