Encina Update (lynsey paulo/robin reade/updates/reunions/forwarding/parents/73/87/88/89/ 92-96/siblings/fame/births/deaths/search/mary lau/booster club/columbine/firebombings/ internet/whats new/fourth) Date:Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:43:50 -0700 ENCINA ALUMNI, When you're at your Fourth of July family gathering this weekend, don't forget to tell your siblings and relatives and friends who attended Encina about the Encina website! LYNSEY PAULO 86 Lynsey Paulo 86 wrote last Friday: I am heading to Albania on Sunday for a one-week stay. My photographer and I (at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis where I work) are going with a team of Mayo Clinic doctors who will be giving medical aid to refugees and expertise to local docs there. Thought that might be an interesting tid-bit. Wish me luck and safety! For those who don't remember, Lynsey is a television reporter for KSTP in Minneapolis. Keep your fingers crossed for her... ROBIN READE 74 I came across this on the internet: "Environmental Protection Agency Denver Co.-For initiatives that created employment opportunities for locals at their neighborhood superfund site, improved recycling education, protected wildlife and water quality from oily waste, and effectively addressed perpetual indoor air problems at an elementary school and more-- the U.S. Environmental Protecton Agency will honor 13 Coloradans and individuals from the Ute Mountain and Southern Ute Tribes at its annual awards ceremony Monday, June 7 at the Marriott City Center Denver. (One of which is) Robin Reade, representing the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, whose support for EPA region 8's Problem Oil Pit (POP) program has resulted in tangible environmental benefits. The POP effort has ensured that hundreds of oil production and oily waste mangagement facilites now manage oil wastes in an environmentally sound manner. Through her work with the POP team, Reade has helped prevent migratory bird deaths while protecting wetlands, surface and ground waters, and other natural resources. The Coloradoans and Southern Ute and Ute Mountain individuals were among five groups and 59 individuals from CO,WY,UT,ND,SD, and MT to receive awards this year." Way to go Robin! I've known Robin since grade school and we were neighbors on Gannon Drive. UPDATES For those of you who enjoy the weekly updates and are new to the Encina website, the past updates are archived in the Updates section: http://www.encinahighschool.com/archives.htm REUNIONS If you use Swentowsky for your reunion photographers, you may want to reconsider ordering color photos from him. Our class of 73 memory book was done in color and they produced the books on a color xerox machine. The results are not nearly as good as our black and white books have been in the past. The color was kind of blotchy and besides, at our age, black and white hides a multiple of sins. The classes which plan to have reunions this year are: 1964 1969 Alan Dankman (adankman@worldnet.att.net) 1973 Mini-reunion: Rett Smart (irsmart@ix.netcom.com) 1974 Bob Goosmann (Magusbob@hotmail.com) 1979 Laura Graff Allred (pacwest@foothill.net) Great Reunions: info@greatreunions.com 1984 1989 Janice Barnes (jabarnes@dttus.com) 1994 Candy Mleczko (candym229@hotmail.com) EMAIL FORWARDING Thank you to those of you who wrote and gave me permission to list your email addresses in the class directories. If you are receiving the Encina Update but your email address is not listed in the class directory, I would appreciate it if you would write and give me permission to list your email address in the online directory. I'm finding it increasingly time consuming to continue to forward mail to those of you with "care of webmaster" for your email address. Most of those who I've forwarded mail to have allowed me to list their email addresses but many of you have ignored my request. The following alumni from the 1970-1999 class directories have "care of webmaster" instead of their email address listed in the class directory: 1970 Sue Bauman Tom Henley 1971 Rick Brereton Joan Grzena Mark Kwoka 1972 Susan Allan Larry Bogavich Scott Brownlie Wayne Christie Cindy Erickson Peggy Flint Leah Freidlander Cathryn Gebhart Bruce Harrison Robert Helling Patricia Henley Kathleen Hill Karia Krear Joe Lambert Tammy Lee Cox Victoria Liviakis Tim Montgomery Rod Moore Joetta Nevis Kim Nichols D'Anne Ousley Shane Poplawski Steve Potter Thomas Puthuff Michael Robertson Van Rogers Nancy Salerno Jennie Scott Debbie Skalisky Gary Slater David Teng Douglas Wood 1973 Philip Barnes Fred Borowski Swift Dickison Mike Fenton David Glasscock Lori Kern Sarah Levin Patty Obregon Sally Reid Glenda Smaage Janice Sooter Karen Yoder 1974 Lori Bee Kathy Dooling John Nunez Kathleen Vroubel 1975 Byred Billerbeck Patti Hereford Marty Holzschuh Debra Negas 1976 Carol Cooper Keenen Kroll Steve La Mothe Bill Murphy Beth Smaage Lynn Talbott 1977 Suzzette Davison Melanie Evans Ken Hanson Rich Kendall 1978 Mark Churches Cindy Dimitras Bill Dunn Douglas Gillott Mary Mims Cindy Vantress 1979 Roger Bailey Sharon Ching Tim Heintz Mal Montoya Sherry Norris Chris Pasley Charles Stubbs 1980 Rebecca McClernon Leslie Sullivan 1981 Timothy Crowley Linda Hobson Debbie Kirchner 1982 Deanna Luna Carmela Martinez Vince Thompson Cruz Tovar Moya Watson 1983 Jenna Bacigalupi Melora Horsley Chris Maylone Linda Nevin Greg Smith 1984 Kristen Bacigalupi Diane Jones Kelli O'Hara Stephanie Opitz 1985 Dawn Meckfessel 1986 Lynne Lamanna 1987 Keisha Dunlevey Staci Grimm 1988 Shaun Archer Paul Hedglin Manode Kodsuntie Simone Kroeger Janice Meyer Dixie Mitchell Michael Pedeupe Jessica Romero Roger Sherman 1989 Kim Capizzano Charlie Dodds Michelle Dubonnet Elizabeth Glaholt Wade Heiman Bryan Larson Laurie Pryde Brandi Warren 1990 Robert Daleiden Tanya Monier 1991 Dan Wilson 1997 Julie Wolfe 1998 Damon Purdy Albert Zamudio If your name is on this list, I would really appreciate it if you would list your email address in the directory so that friends can contact you directly. I prefer not to forward email unless you have a good reason for concealing your email address. If you don't want to give out your primary email address, please sign up for a free yahoo or hotmail address and list that address in the directory. PARENT DIRECTORY Faris Kasline, mother of Linda Kasline 77 and Ann Kasline 78, asked under what category I would add her email address. I've created a parent directory to address this need. http://www.encinahighschool.com/parents.htm If you are a parent, please fill out a contact information form and where it says class, put parent instead. Fill out the form as if you were an alumni and list your children who attended Encina. Faris and Fred Kasline are the first entry in the Parent directory! If you are an alumni and think your parents would like to be listed in the parent directory, please tell them about the parent directory. CLASS OF 1973 The photographer mailed out the memory books directly to those who had their pictures taken at the reunion. Diane Schoenborn Kelly 73 will be mailing the memory books which were ordered post reunion when she receives them. As of June 29th Diane had not received her memory book or the ordered books. Diane says to warn those who ordered and paid for memory books and bio books, that they will be receiving them at a later date. Also, Diane has only received checks from about half the people who ordered them. Diane's been holding the checks until she receives the memory books. So please send in your check if you haven't done so. CLASS OF 1987 David Lawand 87 submitted his bio and almost single-handedly doubled the number of listings in the 87 class directory when he listed the classmates he is still in contact with: Stacey Anderson 87 Jeff Brooks 87 Greg Davis 87 Mike Fuller 87 James Jones 87 Chris Krell 87 Mark Puthuff 87 Contact David Lawand 87 at DELawand@aol.com if you are interesting in getting in touch with these folks. CLASS OF 1988 Kelly Horine 88 says your reunion pictures are here. Please contact Kelly at 916-988-4463 or lstingagnt@aol.com and make arrangements to pick them up. CLASS OF 1989 Janice Barnes 89 sent me the names of the classmates for whom she has contact information. I've added these folks to the 89 class directory, doubling the number of listings: Chantel Ables Michelle Amyott Danny Amyott Joseph Bannan Charlie Baumert Shawn Blackman Denisha Booth David Callahan Tim Carol Eric Cinnamon Joseph Cutler Damon Cutty Sophia Desantis Hyrum Fedje Magnus Forsberg Abe Fuentes Joanne Herrera Lee Kemp Gary Kirrene Tawachai Kodsuntie Steven Lawurence Andrei Nagy James Parks Carol Rice Marlo Rice Sherry Rogers Julie Rojo Derrick Tanihara Nathan Taylor Robert Tice Lisa Vogelsang Chris Young CLASS OF 1992-1996 Candy Mleczko 94 is trying to organize a reunion for the class of 94, but would also be interested in seeing friends from the classes before and after. This will be a small get together at her mom's house, just like in the old days. If you are interested please contact Candy Mleczko 94 at candym229@hotmail.com SIBLINGS Thanks to those of you who wrote in and filled in the missing class years for the Hardre siblings: Jacqueline Hardre 69 Annette Hardre 70 Denise Hardre 71 Michelle Hardre 72 Rene Hardre 74 Paul Hardre 75 Diane Baxter 69 wrote: Jerry Baxter 67 Diane Baxter 69 Darell Baxter 71 Richard Francis 85 wrote: Shelley Francis 82 Richard Francis 85 Amy Francis 88 Richard wrote that he has four daughters so far, hence his email address noboysyet@netbridge.net Matthew Kirk 83 wrote: Matthew Kirk 83 Kristin Kirk ? Tessie Velasco 90 wrote: Nelson Velasco 88 Tessie Velasco 90 Elissa Dow 89 wrote: Elissa Dow 89 Christian Dow 94 Virginia Hill 79 wrote: Laura Hill 75 Mary Lou Hill 76 Virginia Hill 79 Laura Meyer 82 wrote: Mary Gawlik 61 (mother) Diane Gawlik 63 (aunt) HALL OF FAME Laura Meyer 82 wrote that both her parents Mary Gawlik 61 and James Meyer 61, both graduated from Encina, along with her aunt, Diane Gawlik 63. I believe Laura is the first alumni whose parents were both Encina alumni! BIRTHS Dewanna Johnson 75 has a new daughter Danielle Lynn Putman, born April 20, 1999. DEATHS 1981 Kim Beatty (in 1988) ALUMNI SEARCH Thanks to Lori Fanning 81, we found Laura Meyer 82, who is also Darcy Frields 78's stepsister. The new people on the list this week are: 1969 Dawn Johnson Diane Petroda Trish Reed 1974 Cathy Kriege 1975 Janet Kraljic MARY LAU Pamela Sparks 85 wrote: I didn't realize your Mom was Mrs. Lau! Wow, please tell her I said hello. I guess she didn't remember me. I was in her class as well. I was buddies with Mark Shumway if that helps her. I had Long light brown hair down to my bottom with a New York accent. I only was there last quarter. I remember her very much. I hope all is well with her. ENCINA BOOSTER CLUB Deborah Young, Secretary of the Booster Club at Encina, wrote that the first Booster Club meeting for the 1999-2000 school year will be held on September 14th, 1999, in the school library at 7:00pm. The Booster Club is in the planning stages of a "Build the Field" campaign to build a decent football field and bleaches at Encina. They are looking for volunteers with architectural, engineering, marketing, ground maintenance skills to help in the planning. Please contact Deborah Young at dyoung@mp.usbr.gov if you are interested in helping. The Booster Club is re-engineering the Bingo fundraising effort to make it more profitable and more fun. Deborah Young is also one of the Bingo managers. This Sunday, July 4th they are giving away free Bingo Dobbers with every buy in. The Football group is staffing the bingo this Sunday so come meet the coaches. Contact Deborah for details. COLUMBINE Michelle Kirkman 84 wrote: Responding to the Massacre in Littleton, I recently read that the House of Representatives have passed legislation allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools as well as allowing religious symbols to be used in memorials erected in the aftermath of such tragedies on government properties. I personally feel that it is about time. Our children need to know that God, manners, and propriety, does not stop at the door of these establishments just because there is "separation between state and church." I have felt for quite sometime that there is much hypocrisy in not being able to pray at schools, and our children not being able to mention God in graduation speeches, and being unable to say prayers for slain friends, teachers being fired for talking about eternal life with God when a child asks the question of what happens when we die, etc., when at the Presidential Inauguration prayers are spoken. It is quite shameful when Christians are made to feel guilty for loving Jesus Christ, and whisper His name in conversation, rather than shout their joy in loving Him. TEMPLE FIREBOMBINGS Jolie Ostrow Baron 73 sent me this article about the Jewish synagogues which were firebombed in Sacramento. The L.A. Jewish Journal contains an article written by Al Canton, a temple member. He has written an honest and sensitive piece. We can all be proud of his efforts. The article is as follows: Personal Voice Why Us? By Alan N. Canton I'm sure that most of you have heard about how three synagogues in my hometown of Sacramento were firebombed early Friday morning. And perhaps you have heard about the pain that so many Jews around the country are feeling. And, of course, these feelings run even deeper among those of us who are members of one of the temples. I have belonged to Congregation B'nai Israel, one of the torched synagogues, for the past 17 years. Celebrating our 150th anniversary, we are the oldest congregation west of the Mississippi River. All weekend, members of our temple (900 families strong) phoned each other, seeking news about how bad it really was, etc., since we were not allowed anywhere near the site. We talked about how this could happen in America? What have we done? Why do they (still) hate us so much? Aren't we good members of the community? We volunteer for local services and donate funds to good civic causes. All we ask is to be allowed to worship the way we wish and to be allowed to keep our culture alive in our own homes and temples. We don't seek converts. It is not a "we're better than you are," or "God loves us more than you." All we ask is that we be allowed to live in peace, brotherhood and safety within the dominant Christian community. We don't want to bother or threaten the dominant community. Just allow us "to be." Is that so hard? We heard via our phone tree, as well as the local media, that our weekly Friday Shabbat service would be held in the 2,000-seat Community Theatre. Since I'm not religious and don't often go to Friday-night services, I thought simply to pass. But then I thought that someone should be there to "stand up" to the terrorists. I figured that I would lend my presence to the 150 or 250 people who might show up; if nothing else, we would fill a few rows in the huge theater, which has two balconies. Then I arrived. Eighteen hundred people from all over our community -- Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, Hare Krishna's, and members from every sect of the Protestant community -- were there. There were members from black churches, gay churches, Asian churches, as well as atheists, agnostics and some of the followers of New Age spiritual leaders. There were ministers, bishops, city council members, the police chief, the FBI, ATF, and representatives from the state legislature and governor's office. Never have I seen such an outpouring of grief and concern from the community ...for Jews. Our Friday-night service is a "Celebration of the Sabbath," when workday thoughts are put aside and the hearts of the parents turn toward the children, and the hearts of the children turn to the parents. We sing, clap hands, say prayers, listen to the rabbi and cantor banter with each other, and, of course, hear a sermon, often filled with humor. It is a happy service...and usually short. But who could be happy? Our house of worship had been torched. Our entire library of 5,000 books was gone. Yet our rabbi told us that we must persevere and that to not celebrate the Sabbath would be exactly what the terrorists would hope to achieve. And so we went on with our service. There were a number of speakers from our congregation and the community. All were inspirational and devoid of the kind of sorrow, sadness, grief or anger that you might expect. Our previous rabbi, now retired, who served us for 22 years, flew in from Phoenix and reminded us that "we are the Jewish people and that we have always survived and we will survive this as well." And we were putting on a brave front. We laughed, we sang, we applauded, we said the ancient prayers. We held up the best we could. Then something I will never forget happened. Seated on the stage (our stand-in bimah) were a number of our temple's officers, as well as some of the "dignitaries" from the city. There was also an attractive blonde woman whom no one seemed to recognize. I heard the "buzz" around me: "Who is that woman, and why is she there?" Then our rabbi stepped forward and said he wanted to introduce us to the Rev. Faith Whitmore. The blonde rose and went to the podium. I'm not sure if she is the local or regional head of the United Methodist Church, but she spoke briefly at first about how appalled she and her brethren were over the arson bombings. She then reached into her suit coat and took out a piece of paper. "I want you to know that this afternoon we took a special offering of our members to help you rebuild your temple, and we want you to have this check for $6,000," she told us. For two seconds, there was absolute dead quiet. We were astounded. Slowly, then building, the hall shook with applause. I've never heard applause like that before. It went on for two minutes. And then people broke into tears. Me, included.As the Rev. Whitmore gave the check to the rabbi and hugged him, it was one of the most emotional moments I've ever been witness to. Our congregation, some 1,100 of us, stood with tears in our eyes. The evening closed with a final hymn, and we all went home feeling a bit better. The other reality did not hit me until the following afternoon, when I saw the charred remains of the library wing. The place was swarming with ATF, FBI and other agents, who were collecting materials for the investigations. One ATF agent said that this is being classified as an "act of domestic terrorism" and has been given the highest priority. When you see the destruction of something that was "yours," something you helped build, and something you were proud of, it hits you. The depression is overwhelming. Why here? Why us? Why me? I'm sure there are answers, but I don't have them at the moment. The only answer I do have is that we must pick ourselves up as a congregation and community and move on. They can't beat us. We are the Jewish people. We were here 5,000 years ago, and we will be here 5,000 years from today. I'm going to end by doing something that may upset some of you. I'm going to call in whatever markers I might have. We lost our entire 5,000-volume library. I saw it. It was soot. Not even a page remained. Nothing.It was a wonderful library of Jewish-oriented books and films. It was a treasure of our congregation, and it was used by hundreds of our members, especially the young people. In our community, mothers took their children to the temple library as much as they took their children to the public library. It was part of "what we do." Our books and videos were one of the ways we "socialized" our young people into our culture. And it works. We expect a lot from them, and we make sure that they have the tools and opportunities not to disappoint us. If you could find it in your heart to send a check for a dollar or two ($5, $10, or whatever is in your heart) for our library fund, it would be a mitzvah. I told our rabbi that I would ask every publisher in America for a small contribution. If this is something you could do, please make out a check to Congregation B'nai Israel and send it to Alan N. Canton at Adams-Blake Publishing, 8041 Sierra St., Fair Oaks, CA 95628. I will see that it gets to the right people. INTERNET In the June 24th MONEY DAILY MarketRap column, Pablo Galarza wrote: After my mention of the book on the history of financial speculation called "Devil Take the Hindmost," I received a letter from a reader who was offended over my drawing parallels between today's Internet craze and other speculative manias well documented in the book. Jeff Jones wrote: "Did you not join the Internet craze since November, so you feel you should generalize the Internet and say it is a craze? The internet is here to stay unlike the tulip craze, treasure finding companies, etc. that were TRULY based on speculation." I never said the Internet itself was a craze, just the absurd valuations afforded to a handful of companies built on nothing more than gold-dust. Unquestionably, the Internet is the most revolutionary addition to our daily existence since Personal Computers, Mobile phones, microwaves, Color TV etc. But as I read "Devil", particularly the chapter on railroads, I was struck by similarity in the language used at the time to describe its significance. And I quote from the book: "Throughout the country, journals and pamphlets proclaimed the railways as a revolutionary advance unparalleled in the history of the world. They not only focused on the economic benefits of railway transport, but concerned themselves with its more widespread effects on human civilization. `Railway time,' it was said, would change forever the pace of human existence: `Our very language begins to be affected by it. Men talk of `getting up the steam,' of `railway speed.' One paper jubilantly declared that `the length of our lives, so far as regards the power of acquiring information and disseminating power, will be doubled." And from an investment point of view, railway shares would remain "safe in midst of panic."' The economic environment of the time, the book notes, was benign: interest rates were at their lowest point in almost a century (like today), and after a series of excellent harvests, corn was cheap and plentiful (like many commodities today). But then everyone and their brother started up railways. As the poet Wordsworth wrote, "the country is an asylum of railway lunatics." By late summer of 1845, certain railway paper had shown a 500 percent profit. But then fraud and corruption caught up with the mania and economic conditions deteriorated. And that railway paper couldn't be given away. So Mr. Jones, do not take offense at my reference to today's Internet craze, because it is indeed a craze. And yes, somewhere down the line there will be winners, but they seldom are the obvious ones. But bon chance to you anyhow. I leave you with a couple of words of wisdom (reputedly said by the great stock picker Sir John Templeton). "The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it will be different." The Wall Street Journal ran this article June 24th. ISPs Offer Free Access For Advertising Viewers By ANDREA PETERSEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL There may be no such thing as a free lunch. But there is free Internet access. Scrappy new Internet-service providers that offer free online access are making a big push to lure thrifty customers from the country's major Internet services such as America Online Inc. NetZero Inc., West Village, Calif., recently signed its one-millionth customer, putting it on par with MindSpring Enterprises Inc. and EarthLink Network Inc. And in Europe, Britain's Freeserve, Dixons Group PLC's free Internet service, is slated to go public next month in a hotly anticipated offering. Earlier this week, Dell Computer Corp., which already offers free Internet access in the United Kingdom, launched a similar service in Germany. And free-service upstart Freei Networks last week expanded from its home in Federal Way, Wash., to offer service in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. "We can offer the same service that other Internet service providers can offer, but we can save the subscriber $250 a year," said Valerie Warren, a Freei spokeswoman. While free Internet providers have grabbed market share and caught the attention of AOL in Europe, Wall Street analysts are skeptical that many will survive on this side of the Atlantic. Most free ISPs make their money by selling onscreen advertising, but it is uncertain whether advertisers will spend enough on the free services to make them profitable. "There are only so many ad dollars and so many e-commerce relationships you can form," said Bruce Casrel, a senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "It makes this model challenging." This isn't the case in England and other parts of Europe, where Internet users pay the telephone company for each minute they spend online. The phone company then pays the ISP a portion of its revenue from those calls. So in England, an ISP can give its service away to users and still make money. In the U.S., most free ISPs work like this: In return for the free access, the service requires users to submit to a constant barrage of advertising, usually in the form of a permanent advertising banner. Most companies also have limited customer service and technical support. Users have to pay long-distance rates to call the technical-support line at Freewwweb, a division of Smart World Technologies LLC, New York. There isn't much privacy with most free Internet services. They require users to reveal personal information such as name, address, interests and buying habits. The services then use the information to target advertisements for products that a consumer will be most likely to buy. Companies such as NetZero closely track users to see which sites they visit. "No privacy in exchange for Internet access will appeal to a niche market, but it won't appeal to a majority of online users," says Joe Laszlo, an analyst at Jupiter Communications, a New York research firm. So while AOL is contemplating offering a free service in England to compete with Freeserve, the online giant isn't worried that free ISPs will steal its customers. "Ultimately our members are attracted to the tremendous strength of our brand for a full-service product," says Ann Brackbill, an AOL spokeswoman. Erika Jolly, MindSpring's vice president of consumer products, says her company has actually won customers fleeing the free services. "They got fed up with being bombarded with advertising," she says. WHAT'S NEW 6/29/99: Don Koupal 79, Virginia Hill 79/bio, Jeanne Kern 65, Connie Fullmer 68, Naomi Tuthill 83, Laura Meyer 82, Mary Gawlik 61, James Meyer 61, Diane Gawlik 63, Laura Hill 75, Mary Lou Hill 76 6/28/99: Elissa Dow 89, Christian Dow 94, Suzanne McGee 74, Gordon Bramwell 74, Laura Meyer 82, Joan Cole 68 update 6/27/99: John Melnicoe 74/bio, Tessie Velasco 90, Bob Pasley 85, Danny Collins 74, Karen Scarrone 74, Matthew Kirk 83, David Lawand 87, Jeff Brooks 87, Mark Puthuff 87, James Jones 87, Stacey Anderson 87, Mike Fuller 87, Chris Krell 87, Greg Davis 87, Tessie Velasco 90, Nelson Velasco 88, Dennis Mulder 93 update, Chuck Long 65 update 6/26/99: Chantel Ables 89, Michelle Amyott 89, Danny Amyott 89, Joseph Bannan 89, Charlie Baumert 89, Shawn Blackman 89, Denisha Booth 89, David Callahan 89, Tim Carol 89, Eric Cinnamon 89, Joseph Cutler 89, Damon Cutty 89, Sophia Desantis 89, Hyrum Fedje 89, Magnus Forsberg 89, Abe Fuentes 89, Joanne Herrera 89, Lee Kemp 89, Gary Kirrene 89, Tawachai Kodsuntie 89, Steven Lawurence 89, Andrei Nagy 89, James Parks 89, Carol Rice 89, Marlo Rice 89, Sherry Rogers 89, Julie Rojo 89, Derrick Tanihara 89, Nathan Taylor 89, Robert Tice 89, Lisa Vogelsang 89, Chris Young 89 6/25/99: Tracey Harper 78, Ron Clevenger 79, Don Weissert 73, Pat Weissert 80, Greg Reinhart 79, Mike Churchill 67 update, Keith Paulsen 81 6/24/99: James Albright 81, Shelley Francis 82, Richard Francis 85, Amy Francis 88, Dewanna Johnson 75, Russell Hauf 87 update, Jacqueline Hardre 69, Annette Hardre 70, Denise Hardre 71, Michelle Hardre 72, Rene Hardre 74, Paul Hardre 75, Carol Weissert 80, Jerry Baxter 67, Diane Baxter 69, Darell Baxter 71, Heather Heath 93 update, Glennis Wege 74/bio, Linda Goff 67 update, Nina Paladino 67 update Parents: added Parents directory FOURTH OF JULY Dan Tuning 79 sent me this piece about Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence: "Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government! Some of us take these liberties so much for granted...We shouldn't. So, take a couple of minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid...." Happy Fourth of July! Harlan Lau 73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com