Date: Fri Jul 27, 2001 5:39 pm Subject: Encina Update (homecoming/61/reunions/siblings/bios/internet/obituaries/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, There is no sponsor for this week's update. HOMECOMING 2001 Date: Friday, October 5, 2001 Time: 5pm to 1130pm Place: El Camino HS cafeteria Paul Stewart 76 has agreed to head the alumni float committee again, for which Lisa Lowe Rodland 79 will once again provide the flatbed trailer (courtesy of her father). Rollin Coxe 64 has offered to take photos again this year. If you are interested in helping to plan and organize this year's homecoming party on October 5th, please write and let me know so I can add you to the homecoming committee mailing list. If you have any suggestions or comments about last year's party, please write. We have received OFFICIAL permission to hold the Homecoming 2001 party at El Camino HS again this year. The pregame party will start at 5pm same as last year and the postgame party will end at 1130pm. If you are interested in helping on the homecoming committee let me know. Last year we had a great group of volunteers! Coming...Homecoming 2001 on Friday, October 5, 2001: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2001.htm For those of you who wonder what the heck a homecoming party is... For information about the homecoming party, including pictures: http://www.encinahighschool.com/homecoming/homecoming2000.htm If you missed the description of the homecoming party see: http://www.encinahighschool.com/archives/email/001027.txt CLASS OF 61 I finally got around to incorporating the alumni in the class of 1961 mailing list into the 61 class directory. Now you can see which classmates we are in contact with: http://www.encinahighschool.com/directory/directory61.htm Check it out... REUNION HINT Linda Goff 67 wrote: "Did you know that (in the 60's at least) Encina published a small directory of student names and phone numbers? I still have mine and we used it to cross check whether parents were still in the area. Also, we got an original print-out from Encina of our class members, with birthdates. You might want to share this with those who are in the "find missing classmates" stage of their reunions. - Linda Goff, Class of 1967 (Chaired 30th Reunion)" REUNIONS The class of 76's reunion is this weekend. Hope you 76ers have a great time. If you have siblings or friends from these classes, please let them know their class is having a reunion so they don't miss it. This especially applies to those who aren't online. CLASS OF 61 Date: August 11, 2001 Location: River Cruise on the Mathew McKinley in Old Sacramento Time: Boarding 6.30 Sailing: 7.00pm-10.00pm Contact: John Russell at john_carolrussell@yahoo.com CLASS OF 66 Saturday, September 15, 2001, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Clubhouse at Swallow's Nest, off Garden Highway in Sacramento Cost: $25 Contact: Kathy Cooper at Encina66@aol.com CLASS OF 71 Date: Saturday, August 4, 2001 Location: Doubletree (original Red Lion Inn) Time: 6:30PM Contact: Mike Billings at Showzrd@aol.com Laura Simons - 916-972-7077 CLASS OF 76 *** This weekend *** Date: July 28, 2001 Place: Arden Hills Contact: Matt Shelton at sheltonmk@aol.com CLASS OF 81 Date: August 11, 2001 Place: Arden Hills Country Club Contact: Melissa Tovar at melissatovar@aol.com CLASS OF 82 Date: August 9, 2002 Place: Croation Hall Contact: Soames Funakoshi CLASS OF 86 *** UPDATE *** Hello everyone ~ Just a small note to let you know I will have the name, place and time by Monday Night. I need to talk to the owners one more time. I will have a dj already who does karrayoke. It is a really fun place with an outdoor area etc. Warning: it is not the Taj Mahal. I want something extremely casual for the 15 year. I think I may be able to have the owners let us have the outdoor area with no intruders, even though they will not close their doors for the public. Another issue I have is food. Is it really necessary for us to stuff our faces? Its a waste of time, effort and money. This is 15, not the big 20. I personally do not have to time to make sure that the food is this, that etc. and frankly, I do not want to hear anyone whine why the food is crap, I do not have the time right now to deal with that kind of baloney. I have been to too many company parties, family reunions fr **On a personal note, my name change is permanent after August 15th. I will no longer be married, nor will I go by my original maiden name of Dimmitt - so if you see a Kelly Garland. It is I. *** Thanks a million ----- Date: September 15th Place: TBD Time: approx 630-700pm Dress: semi casual (no gowns or tuxes) Contact: Kelly Dimmitt at CaliKel@hotmail.com CLASS OF 91 CLASS OF 1991 REUNION DATE: August 18th, 2001 LOCATION: Grapes Restaurant upstairs Banquet Hall TIME: 5:30 P.M. Saturday Evening PRICE PER PERSON: (To be determined) Contact: Gina Baker Smith at ginabsmith@hotmail.com My phone number is (916) 635-7958 If you are calling out of the area, you can call my 800 number at 1-800-496-2935 PIN# 17 Scott Bennett's e-mail is cjbennett@jps.net Scott's phone number is (916) 480-0732 SIBLINGS Suzann Palermo 63 wrote: Suzann Palermo 63 Chris Palermo 65 Linda Francis 69 wrote: Linda Francis 69 Sherrie Francis 72 Larry Nee 71 wrote: Paul Nee 68 Larry Nee 71 Ray Nee 73 James Jackson 95 wrote: James Jackson 95 John Jackson 95 Nichole Lewis 88 wrote: Tracy Lewis 85 Nichole Lewis 88 Vanessa Favero 73/74 is in contact with Michael Johnson 73 Melanie Johnson BIOS PARTO VOSSOUGHZADEH 84 Occupation: Program Manager Bio: I went to UC.Irvine, graduated in Computer Science. Lived in Orange County for 12 years. Moved to Palo Alto and worked at Cisco Systems since 1994. I was married last year to a French guy, Nicolas, whom I met here in the Valley and we now live in San Ramon. Trivia: I was the crazy French girl who didn't speak English well! Friends: Chris Baker, Jennifer Steed, Eric Johnson, Hobbies: Swimming, Skiing, Traveling, Writing Poetry Kids: No Kids yet. Junior_high_friends: Julie Horan, Kasten Jordan, Chris Baker, Kelly Lemmond, Stephanie Optiz, Jennifer Steed, Cara Schmitt, Kris Bacigalupi, Diane Viebrock, Val Smith,Lisa Wasgner, Memorable_teachers: Pete Halfman was so cute! Cheryl Chambers really liked me because I was from France and I wondered why she never asked me why I was taking a French class. Gail Pierce was so hard on me and helped me really grasp English! Virginia Smith was so helpfull! Favorite_memory: I really want to get in touch with all of you and show you how my English has improved! Any reunion coming up? Comments: Please notify me of any reunion for 1983 and 1984 graduates. Thank you! REUNIONS AND THE INTERNET From the New York Times, an article I found of particular interest... July 26, 2001 A Reunion? Relax. You're Invisible. By DEBRA A. KLEIN A FEW months ago I was overcome with nostalgia and self- pity. A former classmate e- mailed me a link to my past. "Click here," he invited. I did and was instantly transported back two and a half decades, and light-years in self-esteem. Smiling up at me was my unflattering 1976 graduation picture — my sixth grade graduation picture — posted on the World Wide (news/quote) Web. How did my yearbook photo find its way out from under the Snoopy bank in my parents' attic and into the public domain? What would I find next? My Dynamite magazine, Op Sail T-shirt, stockpile of Shrinky Dink art? My mind raced. Looking for answers, I clicked on Back and stumbled into a time warp: more bucktoothed preteenagers with "One Day at a Time" hairdos. Faces I hadn't thought of in more than 20 years grinned out from atop giant striped collars. Scribbled ink mustaches obscured one or two. My curiosity morphed to paranoia. My mental Mood Ring turned from green to black. An anonymous e-mail message popped into my In box. "Any chance you can make it?" teased a stranger, offering an Internet address. I took the bait. An elementary school classmate I could not recall and who I swear must have added himself digitally to our class pictures had created a Web page to organize a reunion of our entire sixth grade. Sometime last year that classmate, Sergio Caplan, now a software entrepreneur, had reconnected in cyberspace with boys I recall mostly as terrors of blacktop dodge ball. One had suggested a get- together in the flesh. Sergio had turned to the Web to disseminate details about the gathering quickly, but in doing so changed the nature of the event. Had I been invited personally to a private party whose hosts (in my mind) still thought girls had "cooties," I would have declined politely. This cyber- invitation was socially neutral, like a school-sponsored event. In less than two months the Davis Reunion Web site (www.wertv.com /davis.html) grew from a simple text page into an interactive portal leading to the pale green tiled halls of our youth. One alumna heard about it and scanned in the yearbook photos. Sergio used these as lures. It was ingenious marketing. Phone calls would have gone unreturned and print invitations unread. But a mysterious e-mail message leading to a customized slice of your own childhood — that was impossible to ignore. Like Magic Rocks, his initial tiny database of three or four e-mail addresses grew tenfold, seemingly overnight. Like the enthusiasts in that old Fabergé shampoo ad, everyone, it seemed, had told two friends. By the time I logged on to the site two weeks before the party, it was chugging with clickable sections for chatting, leaving messages and seeing who, among the 100 or so alumni, was planning to attend. Noting the large number of people who had already been told of the reunion, I tried not to take it personally that as in the old days of kickball, I seemed to have been notified close to last. The chat room hummed with exchanges between unlikely gossips; only in cyberspace, I thought, would shy students vent over soap opera plots. The real drama for me, though, came in a private online connection. Using newly acquired e-mail addresses, I was at last able to express condolences to my best friends from kindergarten on the tragic death of their little brother last summer. Although 10 years had passed since we had last spoken, the Internet helped us gracefully sew a gap of a decade and hundreds of miles. As the reunion date approached, rapid-fire e-mail messages multiplied like Wacky Packages on a denim loose-leaf binder as we all busily recounted 25 years in short bursts. News came in of classmates whom I last remember seeing in parrot skirts and crepe-soled buffalo sandals at graduation. Sergio, who was not exactly a social butterfly (from what everyone else remembers), was suddenly the Steve Rubell of our exclusive cyber- Studio 54. He let in nerds and popular kids to mingle electronically, flouting the social laws of the jungle gym. In cyberspace, we quickly learned, no one could catch you being uncool. Despite the huge gap of time, we seemed to be drawn to one another like long-lost siblings because of our intimate shared pasts. And as with siblings, the formalities governing most adult exchanges melted quickly. Our e-mail content spiraled from polite queries to the sort of mischievous missives we passed in class. For those like me who had moved far from New York and missed the actual night of reunion carousing, the Web page offered intoxicating fun. A classmate posted pictures (with much-needed labels) of unlikely pairings at an East Side bar. The photos of smiling classmates, beer bottles in hand, revealed a sobering truth. It is easier to exchange light and friendly e-mail banter than it is to converse toe to toe (or in the case of many photos, hip to hip). Attending a reunion virtually has distinct advantages. There is no need for special hair and makeup, rapid weight loss or figure-flattering jeans. In fact, clothing is optional. As is answering back. You can be buttonholed at a reunion, but in cyberspace you can let unwanted e-mail simply wither online. There are no sticky name tags, or sticky social situations. No moments of panic when you realize you just can't place that face. You can be as verbose as your thesaurus allows, yet never fumble and say the wrong thing. After the party there is no one nearby to eavesdrop on unkind comments (although there is that worry that in cyberspace deleted correspondence can always be retrieved). But there is also no laughter, or clink of glasses or handshakes or hugs, no matter how insincere. Many of us have since used the Internet to maintain renewed friendships, plan mini-reunions and make business connections online. One sixth-grade friend and I now send each other e-mail incessantly, without teachers to interrupt the free flow of ideas. Still, there is one classmate with whom I almost never exchange e- mail, and post-reunion that will not change. The one who first sent me the link to our past has been my friend since we sat cross-legged watching "Sesame Street." When we need to connect we turn to a different era's cutting-edge technology: we pick up the phone for the warmth that eludes us in cyberspace. OBITUARIES MICHAEL DAVIES 66 Sacramento Bee, July 25, 2001 DAVIES, MICHAEL WM Born March 25, 1948 on his father's birthday. Died peacefully in his sleep, July 18th, with his father Adam Wm Davies at his side. Also survived by his mother Margene Marcussen Davies, sisters Susan (Richard) Salton and Marie Ahola, and brother Daniel Davies. Beloved uncle of Richard (Jill) Salton, Amy (Stephen) Davito, Kelly Ahola, and Rachel Ahola. Beloved great uncle and playmate to Kailey and Adam Salton and Bradley Davito. Mike also leaves behind his special, loving and devoted friend Annika Karisson Davies. Mike loved to travel and lived in Sweden for over 5 years. He had a passion for higher education receiving both his BS and Master of Arts degrees from Mankato State University, MN. Recently he befriended a number of students at UC Davis and enjoyed many discussions that broadened his affinity for international cultures. Mike's other passions were pro baseball, creative writing, crossword puzzles, Betty Grable movies, and lively discussions about politics, i.e., very much an advocate for the underdog. In addition to his family, Mike adored his dogs Gretchen, Kilty, and Annie. Our family would like to thank the staffs at Rosewood Terrance and UC Davis Med Center Hospice who comforted him during his courageous battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held Thursday, July 26th at 1:00 - Sierra View Funeral Home, 6201 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael, CA. The family requests in lieu of flowers donations be made to the UC Davis Med Center Hospice, UC Regents, 3630 Business Drive, Sacramento, CA 95820. WHAT'S NEW 7/26/01: Parto Vossoughzadeh 84/bio 7/24/01: Donna Ting 94 update, Lynne Irish 62, Jane McKee 76 update, Suzann Palermo 63, Chris Palermo 65, Nimisha Ambaram 97, Marla Ellsworth 87 7/21/01: Sue Davies 64, David Swander 88, Margaretta Drury 64 Class of 61: updated from class mailing list, lots of new listings classmates.com: Gene Whitsett 67, Jil Moore 70, Raymond Estrada 73, Lorren Bradhoff 74, Jackie Anderson 87, John Thavy 88, David Kwon 94, Francisco Daguerressar 94, Juan Ortiz 96 Don't forget to submit your contact information or bio: contact: www.encinahighschool.com/directory/submit_contact.htm bio: www.encinahighschool.com/submit_bio.htm Harlan Lau '73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com