Date:Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:59:48 -0700 Subject:[encinaupdate] Encina Update (reunions/bios/groups/73/siblings/encina1978/mascot/amazon.com/store/whats new/books) ENCINA ALUMNI, Last week I asked if anyone would like to share how the Encina website had affected their life. When I created the Encina class groups, I thought they might foster more communication between classmates. This is what Cecily Knepprath 72 had to say about the class groups... Cecily Knepprath 72 wrote: "Since Harlan sent the first update to all of us as a group, I have been thinking about and discussing with family and friends the sociological implications of this communication. Reunions are held infrequently, they are for short periods of time, the number of people who attend is limited, etc. Email can reach out to us in a personal way that no other form of communication can. I've been wondering how this affects us as individuals and as a society. I would never have thought to talk about the moon landing, where we were when JFK was shot nor how we got started with computers, at a reunion. I've learned about school chums' kids, what's happening at Encina these days and who can and can not spell--with out spell check that is. I am going to guess that at our next reunion, more people will want to attend after feeling more close as a result of all this contact. (I, at least, will want to see who can't leave home without their laptops.) And I believe that closer relations in this age of distance can only make for a better society. I know that sounds a bit corny, but I think it's true. I encourage any one who hasn't joined a group to do it. It's great!" Send me mail if you wish to join your class group... REUNIONS The first two reunions are only ONE week 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: August 21, 1999 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) BIOS For those of you having reunions this year, time is running out. Please submit the bio form and share what you've been up to with your classmates prior to your reunion. GROUPS For those of you having trouble grasping the concept of groups, think of them as mailing lists. Or a sort of email party line. Mail sent to encina1972@egroups.com is distributed to all the alumni who have subscribed to the encina1972 group or mailing list. Of course, a mailing list is no good unless you make use of it like the class of 72 does. Some of the class groups are quite large now. As an example of the type of things people write, here are a couple messages from the encina1972 group: This is the message which got things started: OK..... let's get this thing a-going..... Who's out there? Who wants to use this as a place for corresponding between members of the best class Encina ever had?!?!? What is everyone doing these days?Hello??? Anyone out there?!?!?!? Michael S. Babayco +++ Since the 30th anniversary of the moon landing is coming up, Tuesday, why not share where we were & what our memories of that day are? I was sitting in a world history class ( summer school at El Camino ) and we got to watch it on tv. We also got to write in the textbook! Renee Welch Wojnowski +++ OK, Renee. I was also enrolled in summer school at El Camino taking World History -- 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of films a day as I recall. I'm sure, however, that I was at home watching the moon walk. I even took a picture of the TV screen as Neil took those first steps -- I have a great photo and momento of a very blank TV screen. Cameras have come a long way since then. Mike, I checked out your web site and found the e-mail pen pal option for classrooms to be intriguing. Merri Sue +++ Michael Greene here,Hi everyone, Currently on vacation in beautiful Colorado (actually staying with friends in the Littleton area then going on to our former hometown of Colorado Springs). Visited my twin sister Patty in Park City a couple of days ago. I don't thinks she is on-line. I'll see her in another week and see if she can get in this chat circle somehow. Re - subject of the day, I remember very little of the moon landing, however, I do remember taking world history at El Camino during summer school (I'm just not sure if it was that summer). Currently living in Davis, work as a CPA with a limited private practice, still married (first time), two boys 16 and 11. All things considered LIFE IS GOOD.Will write more upon return to California. +++ Renee, I guess I am the only one who was not enrolled in World History at El Camino that summer! I watched the landing at my cousin's, and have a twin blank photo to Merri Sue's. Hello all in the newsgroup! Mike, I hope you have forgiven me for missing all those blocks ;-) I am a grant writer and GED services coordinator for the East Valley School District in Spokane, Washington. I live in Otis Orchards, a little burg right on the Idaho border between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. Still hunting and fishing and enjoying the outdoors. If any of you head this way for vacations, let me know. It would be great to see you again. Chuck Dunning +++ > Hello all in the newsgroup! Mike, I hope you have > forgiven me for missing all those blocks ;-) Hey! I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose.... not like Cal Louden who told me at the 20th year reunion that he would intentionally let his guy through whenever he was mad at me! OUCH! that's OK.... the brain concussions have made me forget all about it......... Now, what was I saying?!?!? :<)- Michael Babayco +++ Anyway, you get the idea... If you would like to sign up for your class mailing list, drop me a line. If you already belong to one, try sending a mail to your class mailing list and see if you can get a conversation going. Just send mail to encina@egroups.com e.g. encina1972@egroups.com and replace 1972 with your year Note that you must join a group before you can send a message to it. This is to avoid spammers from sending junkmail to the encina groups. If you receive an email from your class group, just reply to send a response to everyone on your class mailing list. If you would like a list of who belongs to your class group use this URL but replace 1972 with your class year: http://www.egroups.com/GroupMembersPage?listName=encina1972 CLASS OF 1973 Here's some information about the mini-reunion: Date: Saturday, August 21, 1999 Time: 4pm Place: Scott's Seafood Bar and Grill at Loehman's Plaza Monroe between Fulton and Fair Oaks Scott's has a nice private patio area. They have a full bar and will be sending out cocktail servers to the patio. Contact Rett Smart for details (irsmart@ix.netcom.com) Rett, time to start drumming up interest on encina1973@egroups.com SIBLINGS Kathleen Vroubel 74 wrote: Kathleen Vroubel 74 Donna Vroubel 76 Kristine Monday 87 wrote: Kristine Monday 87 Scott Monday 90 Jody Monday 62 (aunt) ENCINA1978 I think each week I'll pick out any noteable postings to the class groups to share with the general Encina audience. Steve Picanco 78 has energized the class of 78 by asking his classmates to share their most memorable experiences at Encina. Steve started things off with this funny story: "Hello fellow classmates of '78!! Let's have a little fun here ....why don't we share our most memorable experience(s) while at Encina?? Hey, I'll even start.... My good friend Mike Merkel gets a brand new customized trans-am. (I'm sure you all remember seeing that shiny black with gold car out in the parking lot). Well, Mike's "baby" doesn't even have plates yet when he decides to let another good friend, Ernie Nelson (a.k.a. Posehn) drive it around the parking lot. Ernie gets behind the wheel and just goes CRAZY doing doughnut after doughnut after doughnut!! Mike's SCREAMING at him the whole time to STOP!! After about 10 minutes of continuous screeching tires, Ernie stops. Mike's in tears, and those of us watching are all wondering, WHAT THE HELL WAS MIKE THINKING LETTING ERNIE DRIVE IT???" Dan Mayes 78 had this contribution: "One of the most memorable, and certainly the most improbable, was the time Coach Miller was besmirched by a seagull. It was late in double sessions during junior year, I think, and after the end of a long, hot practice we all gathered in a circle and Coach Miller started into one of his familiar exhortatory practice summaries. There were at least 50 players there, and several assistants. One would think it impossible that a seagull could pick out Coach Miller's balding head from that huge group of targets. It did, though. Amazingly, there was no visible or audible reaction from anyone. Coach Miller, being Coach Miller, had a handkerchief in his pocket. He pulled it out, wiped off his head, and continued. What else could he do, I suppose...I know this sounds like a shaggy dog story, and in fact many of us were struck at the time by the implausibility of it. Some suggested that we had witnessed a divine intervention, although the divine purpose was not clear. Those that suggested that this miracle portended favorably for the upcoming season were disappointed, however. Though the season started off well, we eventually lost a demoralizing game to Mira Loma, in which Mr. Greg Sammis almost single-handedly led a comeback rally that won the game for them in the last seconds. After the game, Paul Fowler pounded his fist into a locker in the El Camino gym for about ten minutes, pulverizing it (his fist, and the locker). The coaches let him do it, I suspect, because they were afraid to interrupt him. It was downhill from there. I remember another day Mrs. McKenzie had asked us to describe our mood that day in a single word. Answers were kind of bland. She suggested we could perhaps be more vivid. Dan Will obliged her with this: "orgasmic." She just sort of stood there for a few seconds, frozen. The only time I ever remember Bebe at a loss for words. I think that ended the exercise. The episode of the psychodelic nuts was memorable in its own way. Somehow a rumor was started that a particular melon-like fruit found growing on the vines that grew up some dead cottonwood trees down by the river were mildly hallucinogenic. Many who were not otherwise botanically inclined investigated. Rumors of the psychoactive properties of these melon-like fruits were, as it turned out, unfounded. The gastrointestinal effects, however, were...um...profound. Absenteeism soared. Finally, the failed ice cream heist. Several of us decided at some late spring school function senior year that it would be a good idea to liberate one of the giant ice cream tubs and retire to a more private gathering at the river (A really lame idea, I can't recall exactly which idiot suggested this =)). Our plan was hastily concieved and poorly executed, however, and we were soon apprehended by the alert Mr. Sando. He could have come down on us pretty hard, charged us with something or other (unlawful appropriation of dairy products?), but in fact he was very civil. He had a stern word with us, requested return of the ice cream, and that was it. We obliged, and headed down to the river, chastened, and without ice cream. Very nice man. This bit of leniency did no harm, as far as I can see. While I have lost track of some of the co-conspirators, I think our lives have since been, if not blameless, at least not criminal." The idea of writing about your most memorable experiences at Encina seems like a good idea. Come on your guys, let's see some activity on the class mailing lists. MASCOT Kevin Durham 90 wrote: I was briefly glancing through the history section of the web site, and I decided to throw in my two cents about the change in the name from the Apaches to the Bulldogs. The vote definitely occurred in 1990, not 1991 as Scott Bennett suggested. 1990 was my senior year and I was in student council. It was a hotly contested issue. One the district demanded and the students did not want. There were quite a few protests, but to no avail. I remember being in student council, we were told to voice all the positives of changing the name. Of course, the reason was because some found the old name offensive. Same reason your alma mater changed their name from the Indians to the Cardinal some years prior. Sometime in the school year, all the students nominated their top choices for a new mascot. Of those, the top 5 or 6 were put to a vote. I remember Trojans and Mustangs and Hayley mentioned Wolverines, and of course the Bulldogs. I don't remember any others. Members of the student council were to make a pitch for each name when it was time for the vote. I was the one who made a pitch for the Mustangs. I recall that Bulldogs won by a fairly large margin, with Trojans coming in second. Kevin Durham Class of '90 "Mighty in 90!" Back in March, Mark Melnicoe 70, national/foreign news editor for the Sacramento Bee, was good enough to look up and send me this article about the Encina mascot controversy. I thought I'd run it again for those who missed it the first time. Sacramento Bee November 3, 1991 Encina had to change; other nicknames remain Encina High School has something in common with Stanford and the Atlanta Braves. At one time or another, all have been targeted for their Indian- related nicknames. Like Stanford, which switched from the Indians to the Cardinal in 1972, Encina dropped its Apaches nickname two years ago after a complaint to the San Juan School district. And during the World Series, demonstrators protested that the Braves' "tomahawk chop" and war chants were racist and derogatory. But Sacramento-area schools besides Encina have remained untouched by the controversy so far -- which surprises Encina Booster Club president Mick Chamberlain. "The think we didn't understand was when our name was changed, we were looking around at other schools who were Indians and Warriors," Chamberlain said. "But they told us at the time that references to Indians were being eliminated from all schools." There are still the Warriors at Hiram Johnson and at Galt, but you have to go outside the immediate area to find other examples. Marysville is the Indians, and in the SupCal Athletic League, where Encina plays, there are the Justin-Siena Braves and the John Swett Indians. But Swett did change its logo two years ago after a complaint over "Charlie" -- a "crazy-looking guy with three feathers and a hatchet on the warpath," according to football coach Ron Spini. "Now there's no problem," Spini said. "It wasn't that big a deal." The Monticello Empire League has the Vallejo Apaches and the Napa and Armijo Indians, but none has gotten any backlash after the well-publicized Braves protests. "Our community is kind of stuck up here out of the way," Napa football coach Bob Herlocker said. "But the fans have picked up on the Braves thing -- they were out here Friday night doing the chop and war chants. And four of our kids were in the newspaper here in Indian costumes and war paint." Napa has a long tradition -- the school was founded in the 1890s, and the Indian nickname is treasured by the community, Herlocker said. "We're real proud of our heritage", he said. "It's nothing derogatory. There are a lot of Indians from this area." Johnson would like to get back even more to the Indian roots of its name, according to athletic director and football coach Don Dillon. "Here at Hiram Johnson, where there's such a diverse ethnic student body, it's kind of neat to see each group display aspects of their culture," Dillon said. "I like to see this as paying homage to the Indian culture. Some say that the headdress is sacred, but it's seen here as a source of pride and a rallying point." The Johnson mascot is "Willy Wampum", and there is a stately portrait of an Indian chief painted on the gym floor. "One of the reason people choose nicknames like Braves and Warriors is because it represents a proud people with a proud sense of being," Dillon said. "It's fine if it's done with a sense of dignity." The student body at Encina voted on "Bulldogs" to replace "Apaches", but many people are still unhappy about losing the original nickname, according to Chamberlain. "There was a real feeling of dismay when it happened", he said. "It was an arbitrary decision made by forces unknown over a purported complaint to the board. It happened really before we knew what was going on. "We couldn't fathom why they picked on Encina, because there was no negativisim associated with the mascot or the logo. We'll live with it, but it won't be easy." AMAZON.COM Many thanks to those of you supporting the Encina store. 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By linking to the Encina store, you can support the Encina website at no cost to yourself. STORE Cameraworld.com is offering a special 10% off discount on one of your future purchases: "Enter the word MURPHY into the promotional key and take 10 percent off any one web order of your choice between Thursday, Aug. 12 and Friday, Dec. 31, 1999." If you were thinking about buying a camera, camcorder, tv or vcr, this is a really good opportunity. WHAT'S NEW 8/11/99: Richard Scoville 81, Kristine Monday 87, Scott Monday 90, Jody Monday 62, Amanda Naylor 89 8/8/99: Linda Piper 71, Sergius Garcia 91 8/6/99: Shannon Engle 86 update, Kathleen Vroubel 74, Donna Vroubel 76, Rob Shane 83 8/5/99: Charmaine Crans 93, Karen Forsyth 64 BOOKS This week I read "Hannibal" by by Thomas Harris, the sequel to "Silence of the Lambs": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038529929X/encinahighschool Very good for a sequel. Pretty gruesome in some places. Please send me email if you would like to join your class group. And for those of you who are members, let's hear about some of your memorable experiences at Encina! Harlan Lau 73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com