Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Encina Update (homecoming/reunions/65/66/70/75/80/81/85/90/95/siblings/search/ron mcfarland/steven mikesell/wayne brown/jody whitney/yearbooks/internet/photography/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI Wow, I received three more RSVPS from Encina teachers Susan McGuire, Judy Wilson and Stephanie Woo. This is great! Bummer about the Sacramento Kings. After fighting back to tie the Lakers 2-2 in the series, they lost game 5 on Friday. And the San Jose Sharks lost to the Dallas Stars 4-1, ending their season. HOMECOMING 2000 Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 Location: 707 Commons Dr, Sacramento, CA 95825 (corner of Commons and Campus Commons) Time: 5pm to 2am (game from 7-10pm at El Camino HS) The building has a lobby area, outdoor terraces and lawns to get out of crowds, bathrooms and a small kitchen, plus conference rooms and offices where we could set up tables for the potluck. The building is located in a nice wooded area. It can accomodate around 100 people indoors, with lots of room to overflow outside onto the terrace and lawn. There's lots of parking, we can stay late, alcohol is okay, there's a lawn for kids to run around, it's about 10 minutes from El Camino HS where the game will be played, we can control the sound, it's private, FREE, did I mention it's FREE, and we can set up tables for the potluck for those who wish to participate. Thanks again to Kathleen O'Neill Cabe 79 for hosting the homecoming party. Her husband's law offices are located on the first floor. Many of you have volunteered to help in your RSVPs. I think most of the help we'll need will be in cleaning up afterwards. More details as the time draws near. HOMECOMING RSVPs I received an RSVP from Encina English teacher Susan McGuire, who's currently teaching at Woodcreek HS in Roseville. And from Encina PE teacher Judy Wilson, who taught at Encina for 37 years before retiring last year. And from Stephanie Woo, who has taught at Encina for many years and is STILL teaching there. I met Stephanie Woo for the first time last year at the Encina homecoming rally. Several of us were invited to judge the classes at the rally. Afterwards Steve Palmer 74 and I visited Stephanie's EBS class and took panoramic pictures of the campus with several of her students. You can see these pictures here: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming99/rally.htm As I mentioned last week, at least one of the alumni cars in the homecoming parade at halftime will be dedicated to Encina teachers and staff! I received lots of RSVPs this week. One would almost think folks are more interested in seeing their old teachers than in meeting other Encina alumni . Over 50 alumni and staff have signed up with five months to go. Many of the years are represented but the class of 73 is STILL in the lead, followed by the classes of 77, 61 and 79. I don't know what's happened to the classes of 72, 74, 75, 76 and 89, who had lots of folks at homecoming 99. So far Andrea Howard 83 wins the distance award. She's coming from Seattle, WA just for the homecoming party! Last year we had some folks from Southern California. RSVPs this week: Susan McGuire Judy Wilson Stephanie Woo Joan Seitz Barrett 61 David Haynes 61 Kerry Shearer 72 Cynthia Connell 73 (has 68 Mustang convertible) Heather Kendall 73 Nancy Patton 73 Jeff Frei 75 Kim Culver Taylor 76 Tami Kehoe Brodnik 77 Laura Vasquez 77 Chris Moser Taylor 78 Skip Campbell 80 Joe Lawand 82 Andrea Howard 83 (from Seattle,WA !!!) Emily Marchant 85 Yvette Garcia Dickson 88 Janice Barnes 89 Denyce Bellinger 90 Those of you who attended last year know that I made up special Homecoming nametags for those who RSVPed. No RSVP, No nametag! Please RSVP if you think you will be attending the homecoming alumni party this fall: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming_form.htm I'll keep the RSVP list on the Homecoming 2000 page up to date so you can check and see who's going: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2000.htm If you would like to see what happened at last year's Homecoming 99 party: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming99.htm REUNIONS 1965 REUNION Date: August 19, 2000 Place: Unitarian Church 2425 Sierra Blvd (between Howe and Fulton) Sacramento, CA Hi Classmates,Out of the 190 invites we have received 56 of them back. We NEED CURRENT ADDRESSES! --So if you have any updates please let me know. We also need more teachers addresses--Invites to a dozen went out this week. We need everybody's help in spreading the word to insure the best Reunion yet.THANKS ,George Hullin. 1966 REUNION Ron McFarland sent me the group photo from the 30 year reunion. I've added it to the 66 homepage: http://www.encinahighschool.com/class66/index.html Ron also sent me the class mailing list, which I will merge with the alumni database. I will be adding just the names from the mailing list to the 66 class directory. None of the contact information will be published without the permission of the owner. But by adding the names, folks will know by looking at the directory who is contactable. 1970 REUNION Pam Deason Thomas: The committee has only met twice. However, we are looking at October 20 because it is the night after the homecoming game. This would allow out-of-town attendees the chance to attend both the homecoming game and the reunion. It's not firm but hopefully I should know before long. I will try to keep you posted. 1975 REUNION The reunion invitation was mailed April 29th. If you have a sibling or friend from the class of 75 who might not know about the reunion please forward this to them. Where: The Sutter Club (1220 9th Street, Sacramento) When: Saturday, July 15, 2000 Time: 630 - 1130 pm Contact: Jenny Bender Bittner (916-972-8530) Jay Michael (916-978-9611) 1980 REUNION Where: The Firehouse When: October 14, 2000 1981 REUNION The reunion committee met Tuesday, May 9th at Laura Storm's house. 1985 REUNION If you are still interested in having a 15 year reunion, please write the class mailing list at encina1985@egroups.com and get things going before it's too late. Now that you have the mailing list you can reach lots of your classmates in a mailing and get them on the mailing list and into the class directory. 1990 REUNION Denyce Bellinger wrote that the 10 year reunion will be on Saturday, October 21, 2000. This will allow any classmates who come from out of town to also attend the homecoming party the previous night. The location has not been finalized yet. Denyce RSVPed for the homecoming party and wrote that she will try and get her classmates to attend as part of their reunion! Denyce is also interested in working on the homecoming float. Sounds like a plan! 1995 REUNION Do we have anyone from the reunion committee on the mailing list? Please write encina1995@egroups.com if you're interesting in attending and/or helping to organize the 5 year reunion. SIBLINGS Tami Kehoe 77 is in contact with Pete Simon 77 Chris Buhler 91 wrote: Chris Buhler 91 Tammy Buhler 94 Peter Plessas 78 wrote: Christina Plessas 75 Peter Plessas 78 Peter Plessas 78 has a daughter Gina Sexton 2000 Kim Johnson 95 is in contact with: Catrina McDonald 95 Shakina Taylor 95 Jill Hood 84 is in contact with: Chris Bailey 84 Julie Horan 84 Diane Viebrock 84 Becky Fransham 84 Kasten Jordan 84 Peter Hood 84 is in contact with: Suzi Schott 84 Lisa Sullivan Mydland 84 Jamie Oldham 93 is in contact with Joel Johnson 93 Pam Deason 70 wrote: Mike Deason 68 Pam Deason 70 Wendy Onstine 87 wrote: Cindy Onstine 85 Wendy Onstine 87 Randy Onstine 89 Victor Onstine 93 Randy Shuker 90 is married to Samantha Brown 93 Rick Spence 65 is married to Patti Minnix 66 Robert Hulin 64 wrote: Robert Hulin 64 Lynda Hulin 70 Stephan Hulin ?? Barbara Cox 61 is in contact with: Marvin Ashton 65 Don Lewis 75 Jody Whitney 94 is in contact with: Somgnot Chandavong 94 Mike Franklin 94? Alberto Leyva 94? Hai Luc 94 Coach John Gallen Coach Curtis Heckle George Hullin 65 wrote: Janie Hullin 62 George Hullin 65 George Hullin 65 is in contact with Steve Abbeglan 62 ALUMNI SEARCH Please write if you know how to contact: Joan Stanley 86 Tim Clark 86 RON MCFARLAND 66 I asked Ron to elaborate a bit on his experience living through a hijacked jet which crashed in the ocean. Ron wrote: The hijacking was a real life changer. The hijacking was a real shocker. It was my last business trip of the year (1996). I had to go to Kenya to train the General Motors, Kenya dealers on a new truck which they had been waiting for for 12 odd years. It was a real must. The guy in charge of Ethiopia said he got a few truck sales there, and if I would drop by and just expand the whole product line to them he would appreciate it. As you know, Ethiopian is a very poor country and to order new trucks is a big deal. They are strictly a used vehicle market and extremely poor. I've always loved taking on these projects, because no one else in the business community seems to care. Training these people have always been rewarding beyond words. I really want to do more training, and if I stay at Isuzu, I'm going to push for it. Anyway, I enjoyed the Ethiopian people, and was heading for Kenya. I got on the plane and right when we hit cruising altitude, three guys ran from the back of the airplane and started arguing with the crew. I was in business class and could see the cockpit area. There were announcements the flight was being diverted, and we would be all right. Well, the hijackers would not believe we didn't have enough fuel to go to Australia (their destination), so we ran out of fuel and crashed in the sea. On that flight I was going from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya. The hijackers wanted to go to Australia, so we had to go out to sea. The plane crashed right in front of a beach hotel on the island of Grand Comoro, in the Comoros Islands. The plane broke into pieces. Most of the people either drowned or were killed on impact. Some people on the beach saw the plane going down, one person took out a video camera and taped the crashing. That footage is now quite famous. Because of that footage, I have been on three US television programs and one Japanese. I am extremely close to the lady who sat next to me. She is Indian (from India), and was on her way to return to her husband in Lagos, Nigeria. I email her whole family now. They are all over (the Canary Islands, Canada, two places in Indian and Lagos). I sustained a leg separation at the hip and was in the hospital on the island of Reunion for a month before returning to Japan. I was out of work for about six months. The physical injury is basically healed. I asked Ron to send me a copy of the video of the crash. I'll digitize it and add it to the Encina website for those who are interested. STEVEN MIKESELL 86 Here's Steven Mikesell's bio. Steven is currently teaching at Encina! Occupation: Teacher and other things Bio: Graduation brought many changes for me and finally an opportunity to find myself. As a result of many new experiences, including some wins and some losses, I have come full circle and am currently teaching 10th grade world history at guess where, ENCINA!!! The school has changed a lot and for many reasons. Its mission has changed a lot since many of us were there. It now deals with lower income and culturally diverse kids. The academic performance is low in general and the school has stopped drawing the middle to middle-upper class students from the American River area. It has lost its economic diversity but there is still much progress that can be made!!! I've heard a few other 86ers have entered the teaching field!! These people have come to realize that it is much different to teach a class than learn in one!!!! My best to all the '86 educators out there!!! Trivia: I suppose everyone's heard about Tim Benzo in his bio; an interesting career choice! Friends: My best friends at Encina were Young Chung, Tim Benzo, and Gerald Bennett. Anyone heard form Young? I know he's become a doctor, but I haven't talked with him in years. I've talked with Gerry a bit and have had only intermittent contact with Tim. I wish them all well. Hobbies: I developed a few hobbies over the years, but my favorite would have to be ballroom dancing. I danced competitively with the Sac State Club team for a couple semesters. The best parts of ballroom are the swing and Latin-style dances. Memorable_teachers: Big surprise, my favorite teacher from Encina is Mrs. Kojima. She was a great teacher and a disciplinarian and my memories of her have contributed my teaching philosophy. Thanks Senora Kojima!! Story: By the way, I would like to thank Harlan for all that he has done in bringing the alumni of Encina together. He no doubt spends many hours a week maintaing this site and deserves to be thanked repeatedly for his efforts!! WAYNE BROWN 75 I received a contact form from Wayne Brown this week. He's the president of a company called Apogee Instruments (http://www.apogee-ccd.com/) which make high performance CCD imaging systems. These systems are used in astronomy, microscopy, etc. They are building this cool robotic observatory which will be accessible via the internet to allow prospective customers FULL control of all observatory and camera control functions. This is so cool. Check out his website. JODY WHITNEY 94 Occupation: Sushi Chef Bio: Since graduating in '94 I worked many odd jobs. I finally found my calling in sushi. Everyone loves sushi and you meet a lot of women working there. Where else can you work and get drunk with the customers at the same time. I love this job, but it is only temporary. I am in school studying to be a computer science major. Yes I am a computer geek. I hope to get my BA in 2002. I'm what you call a seven year graduate student. Hey, as long as I'm still in school right. I'm young. Trivia: Nothing really interesting about me. For all of those who do know me, I can't live in one house for more than two years and my home phone number changes like 3 times a year. Most of you guys travel around the world, I travel around Sacramento. Friends: My best friends in high school and still are to this day are Somgnot Chandavong, Mike Franklin, Alberto Leyva (the four amigos), and Hai Luc. I still see Somgnot and Hai on a daily basis and got Hai to go golfing more. I lost contact with Mike when he join the Army and was transfer to the East coast. But everytime he is down in Sacramento we hook up. I still see John Johnson, Linh Vong, Nick Wong, Chad Henry, and Troy Henry once in awhile. Who can forget about Randy Wasserman. He must be fat from all the free cookies I gave him. j/k. What's up Randy, haven't talk to you in a while. Hobbies: I am an amature bass fisherman. I fish about 4-5 tournaments a year. The best place I got was second (twice). I didn't get any money, unless I want to give up my amature status and turn pro, but I did get alot of fishing tackle. Do you know how much that stuff cost? Does anyone remember Gary Sabola? He works with me at Sumo Sushi. We try to golf about once a week. He's a better golfer than me but I can still kick his ass in boxing. And I just picked up snowboarding. Went for the first time this year and it was hella fun. I went off the jumps my first time going and caught major air. Almost broke my shoulder. Kids: I don't have any kids at the moment. I don't plan on getting married until I am about 30-35. Until then, I plan on living life to the fullest. Memorable_teachers: My most memorable coaches are Coach John Gallen and Coach Curtis Heckle. They coached me for four year at Encina. They led us to two league championship my junior and senior year. Recently I got a chance to coach with them at Kennedy High School in 1999. Gallen is still a sprint coach and (Big Knees) Heckle is still a hurdle coach. I was the jumping coach. It was a lot of fun. So fun in fact that I enrolled at SCC (spring 2000) this year to run track. I ran with a couple of my athletes who were seniors last year. I still keep in contact with Gallen and Heckel. They are cool despite what most people say about them. My personal best jump is 24'4.5". It's not great but I think it is pretty good. I still train today and compete in open invitational. My goal is to one day jump over 26 feet. I know I can do it. Favorite_memory: Winning two league championship in track & field. Story: It's funny how me and Somgnot met. It's a small world. Two families who never met; one from Laos and one from Vietnam moved to the United States. They both ended up in a small town call Amarillo, which is in Texas. Not only that, they lived in the same neighborhood and me and Somgnot went to the same elementary school. I didn't know who Somgnot was at the time. I don't remember when Somgnot moved to Sacramento, but I think he said when he was about 7. I moved to Sacramento when I was 13. I wanted to go to El Camino, but living too far from the school I settled for Encina. I didn't meet Somgnot until the end of freshman year when track season started. He overheard me talking to someone about where I was from. He interrupted and said he was also from Amarillo. I didn't believe him until he started describing the old neighborhood and the school we went to. He started naming people that I knew in Amarillo. I showed him a picture of a girl that I use to talk to in Amarillo and he knew her first and last name. Want to know who she was? It was Somgnot cousin. Scary, huh? It's pretty amazing that we lived less than a mile apart in Amarillo and less than a mile apart here in Sacramento. YEARBOOKS Ron McFarland 66 has offered to lend me his 1963-66 yearbooks if we can figure out a good safe way to transport them from Kawasaki, Japan! INTERNET Those marketing types, what will they think of next? How about turning your automobile into a moving billboard? Autowraps.com will pay you $300-$400 per month to wrap your vehicle with an advertisement while GPS technology will make certain your car is out and about. Auto Wraps http://www.autowraps.com And here's another good deal for those of you in need of auto parts. www.carparts.com is offering $50 off on orders of $150 or more for first time customers. Go to www.carparts.com/gift and enter coupon code 1686006. Valid through 6/30/00. PHOTOGRAPHY Those of you who print pictures at home might find this article about a universal inkjet paper interesting. I ordered some from their website. I'll let you know how it turns out. Feature: A 'Universal' Inkjet Paper? By Dave Etchells (Excerpted from the full review posted at http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/IJPAPER/IJPAPER1.HTM on the Web site.) Over the years, I've owned a succession of inkjet printers. In that time, I've tried literally a dozen or more different third-party papers for my printers. Some worked reasonably well with one manufacturer's printers, but horribly with another's. Some didn't seem to work well with any printer. Some worked OK, but not as well as that from the printer manufacturer. As diligent as I was in trying different papers (an expensive and time-consuming process), the plain fact was that none of them seemed to be as good as the manufacturer's own product, so I've until now been a staunch believer in keeping printer, ink, and paper all with one company. At Spring PMA 2000 though, I saw some black and white prints that absolutely amazed me with their depth of tone, razor-sharp detail, and beautiful finish. They were printed on an Epson Stylus 750 printer, but not on Epson's paper. Not only that, but the exhibitor claimed that the same paper would work equally well with any inkjet printer/ink combination out there. This was so contrary to all my prior experience that I decided to investigate more closely. I was surprised (and pleased) by what I found. INKJET PAPER: WHAT CAN GO WRONG... Before getting into the wonders of the new paper, it might be useful to look at the sorts of problems I've had with non-manufacturer papers in the past. Here's a brief list. *Ink Clumping* I'm sure there's an official industry-approved term for this, but "clumping" describes the effect pretty well. In areas of heavy ink coverage, the ink doesn't lie smoothly on the some papers, but rather clumps up in globs, leaving white areas in between. The result is almost an orange-peel or "crackle" finish effect. Definitely not the desired effect for your precious memories! This problem was probably one of the most persistent and objectionable I encountered with third-party papers. The cause is a poor chemical bond between the paper and ink: The ink doesn't wet well to the paper and clumps up due to surface tension. *Muddy Colors* Ink clumping is caused by the ink not soaking into the paper well enough. The opposite effect often happens too: The paper absorbs the ink too well, with the result that the dots of ink wick along the fibers of the paper and spread out into each other. When the colors of ink spread into each other this way, the resulting color is muddy and unattractive. Colors are less intense, and the overall image just isn't as bright and "clean" looking. *Poor Surface Texture* Manufacturers have tried a lot of different things to control how their papers absorb ink. Some papers have a grainy coating on the surface that helps the paper hold the ink without clumping. The result feels a little like sandpaper though. *Waterfastness* Normally, I wouldn't even include this in a list of paper properties. I mean, everyone knows inkjet prints will run at the least hint of moisture, right? Well, some manufacturers are starting to improve this with different ink/paper formulations that chemically bond the ink to the paper. This depends on special inks though, matched with equally special papers. But the paper I'm writing about today actually conveys a pretty significant degree of water resistance to *any* inkjet printer. It does this with a multi-layer structure that traps the ink in a layer under the surface film. When water splashes on the print, it mostly stays on the surface, and you can blot it away without disturbing the picture underneath. CERAMIC PAPER? Mystery revealed: The winner is ... Pictorico, er, Picto ... who? I hadn't heard of these folks before seeing them in the Olympus booth at PMA in February. Pictorico is actually a brand name of AGA Chemicals, who among other things are expert with unusual ceramic formulations. The reason I was so interested in their paper was not only because they claimed that their paper was universal (lots of companies claim that), but because they also claimed to have a unique technology for making inkjet paper. The key to the Pictorico paper appears to be that it's coated with a special microscopic ceramic powder, held in place beneath an overlay coating. The ceramic particles absorb the ink quickly, holding it in place and preventing the dots from spreading out. Their shape and orientation tend to confine the ink into vertical channels in the paper, avoiding the wicking along paper fibers that plagues conventional paper, leading to fuzzy dots. What's more, either because the particles do so well absorbing and holding the ink, or because the ink-holding particles are one layer below the surface, the resulting prints are very resistant to water damage: You can actually splash water all over the print and just wipe it away, without any ill effects. I wanted to get more details on how this all works (being the inveterate techno-tweak that I am), but AGA Chemicals is understandably a little reticent with some of the finer details. Of course, the bottom line is how it looks. PAPER TYPES Pictorico comes in Gloss Film and Pictorico Watercolor Card Stock paper. I've seen "watercolor" papers for inkjet printers before, but usually they've absorbed the ink so heavily that the resulting color was rather dull and unattractive. With the Pictorico "magic ceramics" though, the resulting print is clear, sharp and vivid. The only noticeable effect is that the warm ivory color of the watercolor paper warms the colors of the photo, but that's to be expected, and in fact is probably desirable for achieving a warmer "mood" to the photo. The watercolor stock also produces a slightly softer look to the image. We did most of our testing with the Pictorico "Gloss Film" material, which has a plastic base. Brilliant white, very tough, tremendous contrast and tonal range, but also relatively pricey. Pictorico also makes several other types of media, including a more conventional (and conventionally priced) gloss material with a paper backing, transparency film, even an adhesive-backed substrate. Finally, Pictorico even has a fabric "paper" that you can run directly through your inkjet printer. Called "PolySilk," this is actual sheets of cloth, the fibers of which are coated with the special ceramic particles. The cloth is stuck onto a paper carrier sheet, to hold it flat while it's fed through your printer. Once the print is made, you peel away the backing paper to reveal a piece of cloth with your photo on it. The resulting print has a somewhat diaphanous look (the cloth is translucent), and I doubt it would stand up to washing, but it's still pretty unique. (Photo lampshades? Photo napkins?) HOW UNIVERSAL? OK, so at the outset, I said that Pictorico claims their papers are pretty much universal, capable of being used with many different printers and ink sets. Is that claim true? Never one to take such things at face value, I imposed on Pictorico for a goodly quantity of paper (mostly their gloss film, but I did run quite a few pieces of watercolor paper through the printers as well, plus a few samples of their PolySilk) to use for testing. Just in case things had improved from the bad old days, I also visited the local CompUSA, and bought a pile of inkjet paper by a variety of manufacturers. From there, we did two things: We ran samples of all the paper through our own printers, an Epson 750, Epson 850, and HP Photosmart printer, making multiple prints on each. We also made up kits of paper with one sheet of each type in them, and visited a local Best Buy store that had an unusually well-maintained printer department. (That is, all the printers were plugged in, were charged with ink, and had "press for a sample print" gadgets attached to them.) There, we ran the paper samples through a wide variety of printers, from Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark. The result? The manufacturers' own papers seemed to work well in their own printers. (No surprise there.) They also worked with varying degrees of success in the other manufacturers' printers. The third-party papers were very much a mixed bag. Some did poorly in most of the printers we tried them on, while most were hit-or-miss, working fairly well in one printer but not another. The clear "winner" was Pictorico, which performed brilliantly in every printer we tried! We did note that a couple of printers had a slight yellowish cast on the Pictorico film. Since the paper itself is a very bright white, we attribute this to the fact that the lower dot gain (spreading) of the ink resulted in more of the yellow ink being visible than as if the darker colors had spread over it. A minor tweak on the printer's driver software, dropping the yellow intensity seemed to correct for this. Overall color was excellent though, and the prints had a great tonal range, with blacks reproducing as the jet black that so caught our eye at PMA. Now, this really can't be taken as any sort of absolutely conclusive test of the Pictorico paper, since we only tried it in about a dozen different printers. Still, there seems little reason to doubt the claim that it truly is a "universal" inkjet paper, given how well it did in all the printers we did try. Not only that, but in many cases, the gloss film actually outperformed the printer manufacturer's own paper, in terms of color and tonal range. WHERE TO GET IT Needless to say, we were pretty impressed by the Pictorico paper: As far as we could tell, it really does work well in any inkjet printer. It's pretty new on the US market though, so it might take a little while to find it in your local retail outlet or mail order catalog. As of this writing, AGA Chemicals had struck a deal with Olympus to distribute the paper in the US, so any dealer who carries Olympus products should at least be able to order it for you. There's also an online store at www.pictorico.com worth a visit. WHAT'S NEW 5/10/00: Lynn Gier 65, Patti Minnix 66, Terry Robles 63, Barbara Cox 61, Erik Hutton 83, Mike Patterson 72, Kristi Kauffman 93 5/9/00: Mike Deason 68, Wendy Onstine 87, Cindy Onstine 85, Randy Onstine 89, Victor Onstine 93, Randy Shuker 90, Samantha Brown 93, Michael Murphy 64 Class of 66: added group picture from 30 year reunion 5/8/00: Steven Settles 71/bio, Kim Johnson 95/bio, Catrina McDonald 95, Shakina Taylor 95, Jamie Cook 93/bio, Joel Johnson 93, Chris Bailey 84, Julie Horan 84, Suzi Schott 84, Lisa Sullivan 84, Diane Viebrock 84, Becky Fransham 84, Kasten Jordan 84 5/7/00: Jonathan Hargis 98, Sheri Dederian 65 5/6/00: Noelle Kruger 86, Wayne Brown 75/bio, David Lawand 87 update, Carolyn Gibson 87, Steven Mikesell 86 bio, Julie Schell 80, Jade Splawn 76, Cruz Tovar 82 update, Bill Glaholt 88 update, Barbara McKee 65 update, Janice Barnes 89, Tim Benzo 86 update, Scott Cook 76, Deana Johnson 94 bio, Chris Buhler 91 bio, Tammy Buhler 94 5/4/00: Cathy Sprenger 65, Peter Plessas 78, Tami Kehoe 77 bio, Peter Simon 77, Evelyn Dimitriadis 72, Joe Cutler 89, Jenny Palmer 91 update, Ron McFarland 66 bio I continually get contacts from folks who have "discovered" the Encina website, and who are surprised when I tell them I'm already in contact with their siblings. I just don't understand why some of you haven't told your siblings about the Encina website. I'm in close contact with my siblings and we email each other all the time. I LOVE THE INTERNET. In a few cases, I've even run across folks who did not know their siblings had email and I was able to provide them with their siblings' email address. Your siblings may be missing out on reunions or the homecoming party or the opportunity to contact old classmates. And if you are in contact with other alumni, please let me know their names so I can add them to their respective class directories and refer any inquiries to you. You never know who might be looking for them... Please spread the word! Don't forget to RSVP for the homecoming party: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming_form.htm and submit your contact information or bio: contact: http://www.encinahighschool.com/directory/submit_contact.htm bio: http://www.encinahighschool.com/submit_bio.htm Don't forget Mother's Day is this Sunday! Harlan Lau '73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com