From: Harlan Lau Date: Fri Jan 25, 2002 6:07 pm Subject: Encina Update (lists/patitucci/alumni challenge/reunions/siblings/bios/internet/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, Darcy Frields '78 is the sponsor of this week's update! Today was a bit of a downer. A friend I worked with at Rambus retired two years ago to fly his plane and live the good life. I found out today that he committed suicide. The reason. Taxes. Alternative minimum taxes. When Rambus stock dropped last year, the AMT he owed was greater than the value of his stock. He had to sell his stock and was going to have to sell his prized aerobatics plane to pay his taxes. He had to come out of retirement and get a job to pay the government the taxes he owed. What a waste of a life... MAILING LISTS Some folks have written about not being able to post messages to their class mailing lists. Remember, you can only post messages to the class mailing list from the email address you are subscribed under. If you are like me and have multiple email accounts, make sure you reply or post messages to your class mailing list from the correct account or your message will be rejected. The reason for this restriction is to prevent spammers from bombing the mailing lists by restricting posts to only folks who have subscribed. JOE PATITUCCI Dawn James '73 wrote: A memorial service is scheduled for Joe Patitucci at 2 p.m. February 1st at St. Francis Roman Catholic Church, 1112 26th St., Sacramento. Remembrances may be sent to a charity of the donor's choice or the Kidney Foundation, 553 Pilgrim Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. I am sending you a copy of today's article in the Sacramento Bee (Tuesday, January 22, 2002) regarding Joe Patitucci. It's a very nice article and thought you might like to share it with the Encina Alumni. Also I know you asked to be updated regarding his service. I have included this information for you as well. Again if people would like to e-mail messages to the family about Joe I will forward them to the family. I know the family would appreciate your thoughts and memories. Since I delete unknown e-mail addresses it would help if they would make reference to Joe Patitucci as the subject. I can be e-mailed at fightsfat@aol.com. I will let you know as soon as I know more information about the reception for Joe following the service. Obituary: Joseph Patitucci, teacher, artist, community leader He loved growing fruit and vegetables on his six acres in Carmichael. By Bill Lindelof -- Bee Staff Writer Published 5:35 a.m. PST Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2002 Joseph Patitucci was many things: artist, professor, farmer and community leader. But he often described himself in humble terms. Twenty years ago, he stood in his magnificent vegetable garden in Carmichael and told a newspaper reporter collecting stories about urban gardeners that he was "just an Italian peasant." Mr. Patitucci, 70, died from kidney failure at his Carmichael home Jan. 13 -- surrounded by family that Monday remembered his talent and exuberant nature. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 1 at St. Francis Roman Catholic Church, 1112 26th St., Sacramento. For decades Mr. Patitucci farmed his six-acre property off Stanley Avenue, a spread that yielded a bounty of tomatoes, corn, nectarines, carrots and other crops. What the family didn't eat, he sold at a roadside stand. "About the only thing I don't have is a banana tree," he once joked, revealing his sunny disposition remembered by family and students. Mr. Patitucci tilled the soil between school breaks during a long career that included teaching at El Camino High School in 1959-60, Encina High School from about 1960-75 and American River College full time from 1975 until about four years ago. He contributed to the Sacramento creative community as an artist, a supporter of fellow artists and a mentor for aspiring artists. "He had this wonderful vitality," said his wife, Lucille. "Students said when they left his class, they were inspired. He made everybody feel so good." He was encouraging not only to students, but also with family, said his sister, George Ann Patitucci. "He was inspirational," she said. "He was always so positive, upbeat and happy." Mr. Patitucci, a community activist, was the founding president of the Carmichael Creek Association and closely followed the actions of the Carmichael Water District. He was a sounding board for Sacramento County supervisors because of his knowledge about the community. Another family venture led by Mr. Patitucci and his brother Jack was the family Christmas tree lot at Fulton Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard for more than a half-century. The native of South Bend, Ind., was a University of California Master Gardener, and Mr. Patitucci tried new varieties of plants and growing methods at his Carmichael property, sharing what he had learned with fellow gardeners. He married Lucille Arnold in 1954. The couple welcomed people to their home to discuss art, philosophy, gardening, cooking, winemaking, politics, religion and life. He is survived by his wife; brothers, Jack Patitucci of Placer County and Patrick Patitucci of Sacramento; sisters, Connie Patitucci of Seattle, Wash., and George Ann Patitucci of Sacramento; sons, Michael, Joe, Jack, Paul and Mark, all of Carmichael; daughter, Catherine of Carmichael; and four grandchildren. Remembrances may be sent to a charity of the donor's choice or the Kidney Foundation, 553 Pilgrim Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. ALUMNI CHALLENGE PLEDGES Steve Palmer 74 wrote: "Harlan, I see you're the first with a per point pledge. I'll match your $1 per point and add $10 for each point Bob Goosmann scores! GO Bob GO!!!!! Steve" ALUMNI CHALLENGE RSVPS Here are the first RSVSPs for the alumni challenge... Hello! We had such a good time last year, we will definitely be there this year! Thanks! Teresa Gunn Davis -78 Tammy Johnson Baker -78 Harlan, I totally enjoyed being a part of the alumni band at the "Alumni Challenge" last year! I will clear my calendar and volunteer to play drums again this year! Please forward my name to the person in charge or let me know who to contact! Thanks! Yon Gomez Class of '81 Next... ALUMNI CHALLENGE Encina Alumni Challenge 2002 Friday, April 12, 2002 4:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. 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 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 *** UPDDATE *** Sue Kehoe Jacobson '72 is the new chairperson for the class of 72 reunion committee. Congratulations Sue! 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 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 Kim Nichols 79 wrote: Tony Nichols 74 Kim Nichols 79 Araceli Martinez 99 wrote: Araceli Martinez 99 Dennise Lozano ? (sibling) Andres Lozano ? (sibling) Araceli Martinez 99 is in contact with: Olga Gutierres 98 Ramona Leal 98 Tab Haas 79 wrote: Sharene Haas 70 Kent Haas 74 Tab Haas 79 Bing Haas 80 Dorthea Hutchinson 82 wrote: Victor Hutchinson 80 Dorthea Hutchinson 82 BIOS NADINE LEWIS 61 Occupation: CPA, retired Bio: After Encina, I went to the U of A, got married, finally graduated from San Jose State. Worked for a CPA firm, then started my own firm in Fremont, CA. My husband took a transfer to Chicago in '86 (great move, getting the kids out of California) so, I sold my firm, took a year off then went to work for another firm. Tried a buyout with another partner which fell through so we started another firm and acquired a couple of other small firms. My Husband's company sold (he fixes distressed ins cos)and he retired so, I sold out my partnership. This was in '97. We shipped our belongings to Arizona but, before we could get there he took a job in Florida. We were in Sarasota 22 mos (didn't like Forida). He retired again, this time for 8 mos in Arizona (he needs a hobby) and he took a job in Dallas, where we have been for the last 2 years. We love the "Big D" but, we live too far away from the kids and grandkids. I have been married to this same wonderful man for 35 years. Trivia: What? You want interesting trivia from an accountant? Friends: Best friends in high school at Encina? Karen Larkin, Sharon Vranesh and Judy Richards. Lost contact with all of them many years ago but found Judy here in Texas about two hours away from me! I also spent a lot of time with kids from El Camino whom I grew up with and who lived near me. Hobbies: I golf, read, take classes at SMU and vounteer my time teaching reading to children for whom English is a second language. Also, co-host a group which teaches women about finances. Love to travel! Kids: Three wonderful daughters! Tara, the oldest, reinsurance co exec, currently at home with my sweet granddaughter, SaraGrace, 2 yrs old. Daughter Jennifer, a twin, Professor in biochemistry and does immunology research, has my beautiful granddaughter, Clare, 3 yrs old. Daughter Heather, the other twin, an NMD in practice with a medical group, has my wonderful grandson Austin, 6 yrs old. Grade_school: Arden and Winterstein were the grade schools I attended. Grade_school_friends: Grade school friends who went to Encina were Judy Richards, Christine and John Landgraf. Used to take ice skating lessons with Karen Schwartz. Everyone else went to El Camino, Barbara Hill and Kathy Farrell were the two I spent most of my time with. Junior_high: Starr King was my junior High and my first introduction to most of the kids I went to Encina with. Junior_high_friends: Friends from junior High? Still Barbara and Kathy. Kathy and I hung out at Arden Hills CC. Oh, Diane Tellman lived across the street from me. I remember Marcia Betow's great slumber parties with Joan Seitz, Ardenkaye, Judy Richards and others. Afraid I'm getting too senior to remember other names. Memorable_teachers: Most memorable teachers were Mrs. deGooyer who was very insightful and who gave me a sense of who I could become. Mr. Tracy whose teaching style was different but, I learned history. Oh, Can't remember his name but a great English teacher who was tall, balding and had a fabulous sense of wit and humor. Anyone recall his name? ARACELI MARTINEZ 99 Occupation: Certified Nurse's Assistant Bio: I got married right after graduation and continued attending school for some time. Later I took a break from school and decided to train to be a CNA and I got my licence a few months ago and I'm working at a convalecent hospital and I love it. I realy enjoy taking care of people, i find it to be very satisfying. Friends: I have lost contact with most of them, specially the guys although not completely. The only ones that I really talk to ang hang out with are Olga Gutierres and Ramona Leal, they graduated one year before me but we're really good friends. I also talk to Anna Andrade once in a while, but more than the rest of the group. Hobbies: I really like to do crafts, it may sound kind a corny, but i like it, specially bead bracelets. I like to draw and some sports not all. Kids: I have no kids at the moment and I don't want any right now, maybe when I'm 26 or something, but i just turned 21 last December and i don't plan on getting pregnant any time soon. Grade_school: I went to 3 the 2 main ones were=Dyer Kelly and Howe Avenue Grade_school_friends: Anna Andrade, Christina Ultreras, Adriana Lopez and more Junior_high: Jonas Salk Junior_high_friends: They all know who they are, most of them are the same ones from grade school Memorable_teachers: All of them because they teach us the students to be better, not only did they do it for us but also continue doing it for the next group of rougrats. The most memorable one is Mr. Herrera, he always tried to incourage us and tell us that we can do it. If we had a problem we all could go talk to him like a friend and he would listen to all we had to say and them give us advice-smart advice-. He also complemented us on our good qualities and corrected us properly on our mistakes. I learned a lot from him, not only educational stuff, but things about life. We will miss him dearly and may he rest in peace. Favorite_memory: All 4 years, i remember sad times and happy times. The memmories wether they were bad or good will always stay in our minds no matter what. Story: They are all crazy, even if they tried to be all proper and smart and very sophisticated, they all had a little of crazyness in them including the teachers...as a matter of fact, the teachers were even more crazy. Sibling_info: Dennise Lozano and Andres Lozano INTERNET The Price of Free E-Mail Rises Will you pay to hang on to your Web e-mail address? Hotmail, Yahoo, and others apparently aim to find out. Tom Spring, PCWorld.com Thursday, January 24, 2002 An Internet Age update to the truism "there is no such thing as a free lunch" might be that there is no (longer) such a thing as a free e-mail account. The cost of a free e-mail account is on the rise. Two of the Internet's largest free Web e-mail providers, Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail, have quietly added fee services to their e-mail offerings. At the same time, both companies have also cut back the number of free Web e-mail perks. They are not alone. Mail.com, recently bought by Net2Phone, is pushing a number of "premium services" to its 3 million users. For example, you can get POP3 access to your e-mail from a software client such as Outlook for $3.95 monthly, and e-mail forwarding for $2.95 per month. Net2Phone won't say whether its free services are losing money. Last August, free Web mail provider USA.net simply gave its 7 million free e-mail customers an ultimatum: Pay $50 a year or kiss your account goodbye. Free Web e-mail isn't likely to disappear entirely, but increasingly services are charging for popular features such as e-mail forwarding and extra storage. The problem, says David Ferris, president of Ferris Research, is that "these services simply aren't paying for themselves." The challenge for Hotmail, Yahoo, and many others is to wean customers off free services and turn them into paying customers, Ferris says. Potentially affected are Internet users who depend on some 150 million free Web-based e-mail accounts, as estimated by market researchers at IDC. Online Survivor It's another example of the new Net economy, as dot coms seek new sources of revenue. Online advertising and targeted junk e-mail don't cover the monthly server and administrative costs. Each free Web e-mail account costs about $1 per month, says a representative of one service provider, who asked not to be identified. "The trick is to make your e-mail product barely functional enough to use and then pile on a bunch of low-cost premium services to get [the user] to upgrade," Ferris says. Microsoft appears to be the most aggressive marketer of premium services. If you're a Hotmail user who hasn't checked your Hotmail e-mail in the past month, you've likely lost your account. If more than 2MB of e-mail is languishing in your in-box, your account is "temporarily disabled" until you delete some messages. And until you clean house, Hotmail bounces messages sent to your address with the reply: "Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation." Of course, Microsoft offers an option: Pay $19.95 a year for MSN Extra Storage, which includes 10MB of storage for e-mail and 27MB of Web space on MSN Communities sites, and your Hotmail address and account won't expire after 30 days of inactivity. Give and Take Yahoo recently rolled back its e-mail storage limit from 6MB down to 4MB. Then it began offering upgrades to its e-mail service starting at $9.99 per month for 10MB of storage. Last fall, Yahoo introduced a business e-mail service, with extras like storage and multiple accounts for a $9.95 monthly fee and a $25 start-up charge. It has also launched a $4.95-per-month service called Yahoo by Phone, which lets you access your e-mail over the phone. When introduced in late 2000, Yahoo by Phone was free; the charge kicked in last summer. Yahoo still offers a host of free features, including virus checking, e-mail forwarding, and spam filters. To use services like forwarding, you must allow Yahoo to e-mail you advertisements at least once a week. But you'd better check your mail at least once every three months; after three months of inactivity, you'll have to reenter your registration information to reactivate your account. Fees are still the exception, not the rule, among Web e-mail proprietors. Free Web e-mail accounts are far from scarce. But vendors and analysts see continuing trends of more consolidation among services, and imposition of fees for customers using anything more than a bare-bones e-mail account. "A lot of companies are watching us closely," says Danette Lopez, a USA.net spokesperson. She won't say how many of USA.net's former free Web mail customers now pay $50 yearly. But she claims 200 people sign up each month for its for-pay e-mail service. Many Internet companies instituted Web e-mail as a loss leader, to draw customers to the site. Companies offered free e-mail as a way to grow a base of loyal customers, and planned to make money by selling banner ads and sending customers targeted e-mail messages. But meaningful revenues from banner ads and spam have yet to materialize. Companies are being forced to cut freebies and start charging. Fee for Consistency For cheapskates, paying for e-mail may never be an acceptable option. The good news is that free basic e-mail services are still available at no charge from the likes of AOL subsidiary Netscape and IWon's Excite.com. Excite.com even offers free features like e-mail auto-reply and forwarding (for which Mail.com charges). The downside is that you may have little recourse if something goes wrong with the forwarding, or if your provider goes out of business. For example, Excite.com's free e-mail service still seems to be suffering problems related to the ownership transition from Excite@Home to IWon's network. Some users complain that they cannot access their Excite.com e-mail. Worse, a test e-mail we sent to a theoretically valid Excite.com e-mail account was returned "user unknown." Paying a small fee for a reliable e-mail service might be worthwhile if you're tired of sending your friends and colleagues a change of e-mail addresses every time you switch jobs or your ISP changes. Consider the number of recent ISP flameouts and mergers. Millions of Excite@Home users faced an e-mail address change after their provider faltered and then was acquired by AT&T. Qwest's broadband customers in the Pacific Northwest, some of which switched earlier from a uswest.com address, are now being switched to MSN service through a deal between the companies. And in this climate of layoffs and dot-com bombs, your work e-mail may not be longstanding, either. Consider the piles of personal e-mail that Enron employees are no longer receiving at their workplace. "No one ever wants to switch their e-mail address," says Tim Dolan, spokesperson for ReturnPath, a service that helps streamline change of e-mail addresses for businesses and consumers. But every year 32 percent of e-mail users change their e-mail address, according to a NFO Research Group study commissioned by ReturnPath. The top three reasons? A change of ISP, a new job, or a desperate attempt to reduce spam. On that note, the good news is that e-mail spam filters at Yahoo and Hotmail are still free--for now. WHAT'S NEW 1/23/02: Scott Deason 72 update, Laurie Lau 77 update, Cherish Cooley 87, Brian Cyr 87, Kristine Monday 87 update, Jerry Dragoo 87 update, Roger Canales 86 update, Leslie Cameron 65 update, Deana Herrlin 88 update, Stephanie Smith 82 update, Barbara Beckley 61 update, Jannell Penney 92 1/22/02: Jack Floegel 62 update, Telly Tasakos 82 update, Joe Patitucci obit, Sonny Marquez 00/bio, Nadine Lewis 61 bio, Kim Nichols 79, Joy Adams 74 update, Jon Wroten 74 update, Patricia Henley 72 bio, Jennifer Keogh 91, Jason Talanian 90 update, Michael Fuller 87 1/18/02: Edwin Chavez 93, Cheryle Lees 70 update, Michele Huber 77 classmates.com: Joseph Mironack 64, Richard Dildine 65, Wallace Chan 66, Dennis Downing 66, John Fraser 66, Theresa Munich 78, Jeff Moore 78, Kamyar Vaghefi 80, Douglas Juarez 80, Don Brown 82, Teri Boggess 82, John Johnson 83, James Tribble 83, Paul Parker 84, Lori Venkus 84, John Saca 85, Monica Hayse 86, Jessica Hotchkiss 86, Tracy Martin 93, Jessica Jordan 93, Tamara Bertacchi 95, Georgia Vail 96 1/17/02: Kami Peterson 82 update, Kim Thackery 81 update, Jeralynn Cupps 66/67 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