Date: Thu Dec 20, 2001 5:31 pm Subject: Encina Update (huber/virus/hoax/77 reunion/new years/siblings/summer/bios/humor/internet/store/whats new) ENCINA ALUMNI, Leslie Cameron Silva '65 is the sponsor of this week's update! Many thanks to those of you who wrote, asking how you could help. I look forward to receiving your voluntary contributions . LOU HUBER I received this news about former math teacher Lou Huber today... SUBJECT: URGENT MESSAGE REGARDING LOU HUBER Lou is a former Math instructor at Encina and has attended Encina reunions, including the one October 2001. Lou had heart failure about 3 weeks ago, and has suffered a stroke this week. He's a resident of Anchorage, AK. You can send your good wishes to Lou at: PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL, 3200 PROVIDENCE DR, ANCHORAGE, AK 99508. Phone number is 907.562.2211. You may contact me if you wish. I'm the mother of Lou's former wife, Valerie Poetker '80, the grandmother of Lou's daughter Jamie, as well as a close friend of Lou's. Thank you, Florene Poetker Kunder Information Analyst/Librarian Sacramento Area Council of Governments fkunder@sacog.org LATEST VIRUS Don't fall for this Happy New Year worm... 'Happy New Year' worm hits Windows By Wendy McAuliffe and Graeme Wearden ZDNet (UK) December 19, 2001 10:34 AM PT A mass-mailing Internet worm that purports to offer New Year greetings was spreading rapidly Wednesday, and is rumored to be the big Christmas virus that antivirus companies have been gearing up for. The first copy of the virus was detected at 7:23am GMT by security firm MessageLabs and is said to have originated from South Africa. By using a number of aliases, the e-mail worm has spread virulently throughout the day. MessageLabs has detected 925 incidents of the worm at an Internet level to date, from a number of countries across the globe. "This won't be as big as Goner, but it is likely to be the biggest Christmas virus," said Alex Shipp, antivirus technology expert at MessageLabs. The worm, operating under the guises of Zacker, Reeezak, Maldal and Keyluc, arrives with the subject header "Happy New Year" and contains a file attachment entitled "christmas.exe." It uses familiar social engineering tactics to entice recipients to double click on the attachment, before mailing itself and the victim's contact list to everyone in the contact's address book. "Over the last week, we have seen thousands of executable files like this that have been sent as jokes or Christmas cards," said Shipp. "We have seen 4,000 copies of such viruses this week, and so from a social engineering point of view, it looks like this virus will continue." The worm arrives with the body text: "I can't describe my feelings But all i can say is Happy New Year :-) Bye." Once the Christmas.exe application is opened, the worm will modify the user's Internet Explorer (IE) home page so that the browser now points to a malicious Web site. This site will then exploit a vulnerability in IE and run a Visual Basic Script on the infected computer that will attempt to delete significant portions of the Windows operating system. Experts believe the worm spreads through shared network drives, and by taking advantage of Microsoft applications. Computer Associates has reported that the virus will email itself to everyone in an infected victim's Outlook address book. According to reports, Symantec believes the worm also spreads via Microsoft's Instant Messaging software, and will try to delete antivirus software from an infected PC. VIRUS HOAX I have received the following hoax from numerous alumni this past week... The following virus message asking you to search your disk for the sulfnbk.exe file is a hoax. Do not delete this file. I just went to urban legends website www.snope.com and typed in sulfnbk.exe. Sure enough, it's a hoax. Before you pass on warning like this, please check that it's not an urban legend/hoax... Here is advice from Symantec, who sell Norton Antivirus. © 1995-2001 Symantec Corporation. SULFNBK.EXE Warning Reported on: April 17, 2001 Last Updated on: December 13, 2001 at 04:37:44 PM PST Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. Type: Hoax Description: The following hoax email was first reported in Brazil. The original email is in Portuguese; it is followed by several other versions. CAUTIONS: This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows utility that is used to restore long file names, and like any .exe file, it can be infected by a virus that targets .exe files. The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an attachment named Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used by Windows is located in the C:\Windows\Command folder. If the file is located in any other folder, or arrives as an attachment to a email message, then it is possible that the file is infected. In this case, if a scan with the latest virus definitions and with NAV set to scan all files does not detect the file as being infected, quarantine and submit the file to SARC for analysis by following the instructions in the document How to submit a file to SARC using Scan and Deliver. If you have deleted the Sulfnbk.exe file from the C:\Windows\Command folder and want to know how to restore the file, see the How to restore the Sulfnbk.exe file section at the end of this document. If you have already deleted this file, go to the Symantec website and there are instructions for restoring the file. CLASS OF 77 REUNION Attention All Encina Class of 1977 Graduates! Our 25th Class Reunion Has Been Scheduled for 2002. We Need You to Mark Your Calendars and Help Spread the Word!! That's right, we have already selected the date and location of our 25th Reunion! We all want our reunions to have a big turnout (it is why we go after all) so we are giving you nine months advance notice to not only help you plan your attendance but also so we can make sure that EVERYONE knows about the event. With a little help from all of you we can work towards having a huge turnout. At this stage the key is getting the word out to everyone who does NOT get these e-mails. So this Christmas when you send cards to old classmates, call them on Christmas Day, or run into them at the mall, make sure you let them know what is up. Even if you just remember to tell them the reunion is on and that they can get details from the Encina website (encinahighschool.com) you will have done your job. In addition, don't forget to tell older and younger brothers and sisters of classmates that you run across the news. They can pass the word on back to their siblings. Here are the basic details at this stage. DATE: Saturday night, August 17th, 2002 WHERE: The Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento (near Arden Fair and Cal Expo) WHAT: A Reunion with Dinner and Drinks Many details remain to be worked out including exact cost but of course we have nine months to work on them. Around March of 2002 we will send an e-mail out asking for volunteers to serve on a committee to arrange the details of the evening. We hope that many of you will be able to lend a hand. Many classes do not get started on their reunion until only a few months before the event and they wonder why their turnout is low. We are targeting the biggest turnout for a 25th Reunion of all the Encina classes, so put the date down and pick the phone up!! Hope To See You All There!! Sue Levy Joslin John Hyland NEW YEARS Spend New Year's Eve with Shelley Burns '70, Tom Phillips '65 and Georgia Griffiths '71. Join Shelley Burns and Avalon Swing! Tom Phillips, guitar, Erik Kleven, Bass, Daryl Van Druff, drums and Bill Dendle, trombone 7:30pm -12:30 am New Year's Eve celebrating the new year and Shelley's new jazz CD "Let Yourself Go" Recorded in LA with all-star musicians! Geogia Griffiths Kazimier-Barron's Chateau...by a shot of class 2627 Town & Country Village (behind Wm. Glen) $125.00 per person including tax and gratuity Please make reservations (916) 977-1877 Shelley, Tom and Georgia are all Encina graduates! SIBLINGS Barbara Bell 77 wrote: Ollie Bell 73 Barbara Bell 77 Rick Thomas 64 wrote: Rick Thomas 64 Linda Thomas 66 Rob Thomas 69 SUMMER ADVENTURES Memories courtesy of Greg Vitaich '62 on the class of 62 mailing list... I remember summers in Mr. Miles field next to Dyer-Kelly. There was a great creek filled with all manner of creatures. Once my older brother Roger and the Ketchum brothers, (Brian and Bruce northeast corner of Rainbow and Bell) borrowed a war surplus raft from Mr. Ingram (Bell St. kitty-corner from Jill Curtis) and we spent most of the morning blowing it up....by mouth!!!! It was summer and there wasn't much water in the creek but we had that damn raft blown up now and we weren't going to waste that. Off we went to launch near the footbridge into the D-K playground. We got the raft in and realized this wasn't going to be a float trip . It was going to be more of a wade through the muck in search of deeper water trip (yeah right). About the time we got down by John Heinrich and Barbara Ensberry's houses (Tulip Way) I saw a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE black water bug swim out from under the raft and touch me. Geez I and tore up the side of that filthy ditch, onto the playground and home to the garden hose to wash off the cooties from that god awful creature that almost got me in its jaws!!!! I don't mind tell'in you it was a mighty close call. Of course my brother and the Ketchums would still be laughing if my blood curdling scream hadn't scared the crap outta them too !!! Then there were the days of our early experiments in rocketry. I'm sure you all saw October Sky and all the History Channel stuff on Dr.Robert Goddard and Werner Von Braun. Well....those boys had noth'in on the rocket factory headquartered at 2305 Rainbow Ave. AKA the residence of the long suffering but ever so patient Mr & Mrs. George Warner parents of Warner Bros.....Paul (61) and Phil(62). The long hot days of August 1957, 60 days before the Russians launched Sputnik, were filled with secret planning sessions usually held at our secret field planning compound AKA the "Green Pool" (northwest corner Yellowstone and Wright Street's so named for its surrounding green fence which we thought was pretty secret). Oh,,,, remind me to tell you the story of my brother and the Ketchums playing in the excavation for that pool. Our principle problem at that time was propellant burn rate. Burn rate is quite important in the design of rockets and bombs. Slow burn...its a rocket, Fast burn....its a bomb. Our problem at this time was try'in to figure if our propellant was going to burn slow and give us a neat rocket or fast and turn one of Paul's neat look'in rockets into a bomb. You can see our dilemma as we approached our next goal of "manned" space flight. Like whose gonna ride our beautiful rocket ...if it might be a bomb. Paul was pretty much in charge of propellant design and acquisition which at this point had been restricted to patiently shaving all the burny stuff off the heads of "strike anywhere" wood matches using an Xac-to knife. Time consuming stuff relative to the flight/burn/explosion time. And getting more problematic as learned that we were gonna need one helluva a big rocket to launch our first astronaught, A gopher Phil had captured and was training for weightlessness during secret night training sessions at the Green Pool. Oh..you guys didn't know about that ? And you thought all those little hairs in the pool like just blew in on the wind or something??? Our biggest rocket to date had been made from Hobby Shop (Fulton at Marconi) brass tubing about 1/4 inch diameter and about 12 inches tall. Not exactly you're Saturn 5... But we were not deterred. After all we knew Goddard had built four or five liquid propellant (the dern fool) rockets before he got one to even lift off the launch pad!!! Heck we figured we were way ahead of him. He was still using captured German V-2's and we fabricating brand new shiny rockets at the rate of about two a week. If we could only get past "rocketorbomb" problem!!!! We learned that the tighter you packed the propellant the more likely you had just built a fine bomb. Some large up-rooted plants near our secret launch site had shown us that. However, at the late August "Green Pool Propellant Symposium", Paul theorized that a VERY tightly packed propellant with a burn rate slowed by introducing a measure of sulfur would produce a fine burn rate and lots of thrust. What's thrust I thought. Most of us didn't know what he was talking about but since he was doing all that maddening match head shaving we said yeah sure lets do it. But where are we going to get sulfur??? We were aware the Dr. Denman Laughlin AKA Denny Laughlin of Carlsbad Drive had been following the ancient Chinese practice of using charcoal to slow the burn rate. But we also knew he had damn near shattered all the windows in Chris Reams (neighbor to the west) house with his latest attempt. Oh BTW how many of you remember Mrs. Reams who tried valiantly and with some success to train our pre-pubescent voices ??? But I digress. It was Phil Warner, thoughtful Phil who always got caught up in the stuff his brother and I started that solved the sulfur acquisition problem. "Go to Anderson Bros. Pharmacy in Town and Country and buy some you dummies" Cool...we're way ahead of that German guy in Florida now!!!! After all didn't we just see him on TV try to launch a real expensive rocket that turned into a bomb!! So for $1.83 we bought the coolest little jar of real sulfur. Whoa...real chemicals in a special container with special writing purchased from a place that always smelled real funny. WE WERE ON OUR WAY!!!! We were still beset with the problem of shaving all those damn match heads and Paul was starting to look around for a solution..........Enter the 12 gauge shotgun shell with its large volume of clean highly refined gun powder. In one thought Paul had hauled us passed the German in Florida, Goddard in New Mexico and crazy Denny Laughlin who had taken to fortification construction in the swamp behind his house by inverting his rocket launch stand and digging either real skinny little trench kinda things or some pretty good size bunkers depending on the old rocketorbomb thing. Whoa...clean sulfur, clean gunpowder. Now we could build bigger faster higher flying rockets. The world was ours in the dusty August heat of summer 1957.... in Mr. Miles field. PS Wonder if those kids playing baseball on our "launch Range" ever wondered about the cool stuff that flew by every now and then ????? BIOS JACK TURNER 66 Occupation: Managing Director for Bank One Capital Markets in Chicago Bio: Served in Vietnam in 1969-70. Served in the 25th Infantry Division. Was a squad leader in a LRRP unit. Graduated from CSUS in 1975. Have lived in Oregon, Chicago, New York area. Currently living in Chicago and have another home in the wilds of Montana. Married and have two sons. Trivia: Served in a special ranger unit in Vietnam. Was able to retire at 46 from the investment business. After 6 years of "the good life" re-entered the work force.Recently remarried this year. Friends: Best friend is Greg Herrera. Hobbies: Flyfishing, golf Kids: Two sons....ages are 20 and 13 Grade_school_friends: Too many to list CAROL WEISSERT 80 Occupation: Manager Bio: Got Married Twice, got Divorced twice. Not one regret !! I have two wonderful girls, Kim ( who was named after my best friend, Kim Beatty ) who is now 17 and Jamie 14, they are from the first marriage. For the Past 5 years manageing a local Pet store.. Petco, where the pets goooooooooooo.. lol. Keeping very busy just living life to the fullest. Friends: My best friend was Kim Beatty, who Died in 1988. (She was class of 1981, for those who knew her, you are lucky, she was the Best Person on this earth !! Ron Carlson who I still talk to and see. Theresa and Melissa Hughie. I don't talk to Theresa or Melissa to much anymore. Hobbies: Riding Motorcycles, Biking, bowling, and Hanging with just good friends !!! Kids: Kim is a carbon copy of me... If you know me,, watch out world. She is 17 totally into Rock !! Jamie is 14 and more my modest girl. Very dressy and a smile to love... Grade_school: Thomas Edison Grade_school_friends: Danette Davis, Brian Rhodes, and my brother Pat... Junior_high: Jonas Salk Junior_high_friends: Danette Davis, Brian Rhodes, Memorable_teachers: Mr. Lamonte !! He was an excellent Crafts teacher. He was always there to lend an helping hand. Favorite_memory: Other than meeting Kim, Ron, Theresa, Melissa. Last day of school !! I went to get into my PINTO ( loved that car.) and it would not start. Opening up the hood, looking around and noticeing the coil wire gone, along with the sounds of giggles !!! there were my friends Kim and Ron saying I can't leave. They were in the grade under me, so they still had another year. But they were dertermined to keep me there until they graduated... Well lucky I knew cars, and got my car rolling and said goodbye to Encina forever !!!! well I went back of course the folling year to see Kim and Ron and Theresa of course..... Story: Well That for some reason, Myself and All my friends are still single, again...... Ron, Theresa, Melissa. and Myself. Makes you wonder how 21 years later, we are back where we started.... Single, Friends, and just living life. NICK BOHN 91 Occupation: musician/filmmaker Bio: Well after graduation I had wasted about 4 years of completely draining myself any sort of happiness. Spent time going to school in San Francisco as a film major....Never completed. Once again failed and turned to almost any distraction I could from facing where I was at with myself. I am here in New York City now. I have been here for about 6 years. Friends: My best friends were Gina Baker, Kim Smith, Nathan Cutler, Valerie Phealan, Julie Fandrich, Bill Owens (who I lost contact with), Larry Perrigo Hobbies: Currently I am in a band called Creme Blush. Very 80's sythn, with classical and progressive elements. We have been playing all over the east coast since this past year. We have completed one cd and getting ready to record our second one. May to June we will be going on tour all throughout Poland & Germany. Other than that my time mostly consists of my art. I've been involved with the downtown east village art/film scene for some time now and had a opening of my work in a Soho gallery......K I should shut up, I am even boring myself. Kids: Kids??? ahahahahahahah Junior_high: Jonas Salk Favorite_memory: Most horrid memory..... since there were very few favorible memories....is when I got duck taped to the tree on the Senior lawn.... Alumni_in_contact: Gina Baker, Nathan Cutler, Julie Fandrich, Larry Perrigo SUSAN HEGGESTAD 92 Occupation: graduate student, university of buffalo, ny Bio: went to college for two years at uc santa cruz, then transferred to the university of south dakota (in my hometown of vermillion), and received my bfa with an emphasis in printmaking. currently i am finishing my mfa at the university of buffalo. Trivia: i'm currently a single mother of two little boys, kenyon and kaleb blue, who are 5 and 4, respectively. Friends: my closest friends were marsha desouza, ann opp, stacie lawrence, lisa lunn, and shannon blackman. i have been in close contact with all of them except for shannon. Hobbies: i am a practicing artist, but as a graduate student and single mom, i don't have much time for hobbies. i love to cook, and sometimes joke that i'm going to drop out of grad school to become a chef...... Kids: Kenyon, 5 and Kaleb, 4 are both in Montessori school right now. they are both very bright, articulate, mischievous and incredibly stubborn. they are also both rather tall for their age......go figure. when they gang up on me, kenyon is the brains, and kaleb is the braun. Grade_school: too many to recount Junior_high: howe avenue/ jonas salk Junior_high_friends: marsha, ann, stacie, lisa, shannon---pretty much the same. Memorable_teachers: mrs. grossnick and mrs. pierce, and mrs. pitilla were all strong women that i admired very much. and of course, eric had a lot of faith in me, which is part of the reason i am an artist today. Favorite_memory: most are too personal to share. Alumni_in_contact: ann opp, stacie lawrence, marsha desouza, lisa lunn17 Heard_about_website_from: stacie lawrence HUMOR Courtesy of Bruce Parker '62: My forgetter's getting better But my rememberer is broke To you that may seem funny But, to me, that is no joke For when I'm "here" I'm wondering If I really should be "there" And, when I try to think it through, I haven't got a prayer! Oft times I walk into a room, Say, "what am I here for?" I wrack my brain, but all in vain A zero, is my score. At times I put something away Where it is safe, but, Gee! The person it is safest from Is, generally, me! When shopping I may see someone, Say "Hi" and have a chat, Then, when the person walks away I ask myself "Who was that?" Yes, my forgetter's getting better While my rememberer is broke, And it's driving me plumb crazy And that isn't any joke. EXITE@HOME HUMOR From dotcomscoop.com, this ditty about the exite@home mess which many of you can appreciate... 'Twas a bad year for anyone involved with Excite@Home. One former employee expressed his or her "passion" for the company in verse. A satirical take on the "Night Before Christmas." An Excite@Home Christmas Posted Dec. 20, 2001 Twas the night before payday, And all through the land Not one employee stirred, they knew something was at hand The pink slips were hung in Patti's office with care In the hopes that the Execs would not have to share The workers were hunkered in their cubic-sheds While rumors of "lay-offs!" danced in their heads And Patti in her Benz and ATT in it's tower Schemed to get millions in Excite's final hours Suddenly on Broadway there arose such a clatter I sprang from my cube to see what was the matter Away to the meeting we flew like a flash Only to be told that Excite was out of cash The employees, faces gone pale and drawn, Realized then that they had only been pawns Then suddenly what to my watery eyes appeared AT&T bounced in with gloating eyes and cheered With Patti and AT&T's corporate plants, so lively and quick I knew in a moment that we were licked More rapid than vultures they flew through the books And whistled and sang as the books they cooked. Then faster, now slower, then better, now worse Excite @ Home was dead and cursed To the top of the rubbish heap, the top of the dung Excite @ Home's fate had surely been flung Executives sneered "let's avoid having to pay at all ! So off to the court they ran along with Patti et al "We have no money" they said "the investors are out of luck" And the employees? "Well they are REALLY fucked ! " As leaves in the wind, the people where let go And given their last paychecks, shown the door But Old Patti made sure she would get her bonus Too bad the paychecks turned out to be bogus With no money for rent, no food to eat In a twinkling of an eye many were left on the street Employees cried "be fair and pay our wages" But all they got was "Talk to the judge see ya later" And so the Execs and Patti stuffed millions in their purse Cheering "we deserve it, so what if employees are cursed" And as workers suffered, no food, no homes, no presents in sight The Execs smiled and said "Merry Christmas to us! Oh, and have a nice life" INTERNET Who gets your email when you die??? LEGIT: Contemplating death in cyberspace SIMON MINAHAN Monday, March 12, 2001 Q This is kind of a morbid question, but when someone dies, are there any laws or accepted practices for handling their email account, remote files, Web pages, etc? Are their files turned over to nearest relatives or deleted? One assumes that in a forpay situation, the accounts (mail, Web, files) go away once the bills remain unpaid long enough. But what of accounts on a friend or acquaintance's system? And who is allowed to access these emails, etc. Does a person have post mortem privacy rights? A As with much of life on the Internet, death on the Internet is regulated by the same rules and law as in meatspace. The answers to most of your questions will firstly depend on whether the Dear Departed has a will or not. I am not going to embark on a fullscale legal treatise on the law of wills or intestacy (dying without a will), but the following is a thumbnail sketch. By one's will, a person appoints an executor to manage their affairs after death. Where the will fails or there isn't one at all, the next of kin generally apply to be and are appointed as administrator under the Administration and Probate Act (Vic) (or equivalent acts in other states). The executor or administrator has the duty of getting in the assets of the deceased's estate, settling its accounts and then distributing those assets in accordance with the will (assuming it to be all above board and enforceable) or the statutory order of succession, which starts with spouse and children and works through relatives from there. In order for this to be done the executor or administrator becomes the legal owner of all the property that was owned by the deceased. This would extend to taking the contractual and ownership rights the deceased had over email accounts and the like. In certain respects, email is analogous to letters and with letters the situation generally is that any physical copy in the deceased's hands is the property of the estate. The original letter is the property of the addressee (assuming it was sent). Similarly, any electronic copy on a hard drive, CDRom or floppy of the deceased or in an account of his, is in the estate. However, apart from the ownership of the physical copies of a letter (or email), the copyright in the letter, no matter who owns a physical copy of it, remains with the author. In Australia copyright continues for 50 years after the author's death and ownership of the copyright would therefore be in the estate until distributed to the ultimate beneficiary under the will or the law. As for privacy in death, at present there are no operative laws of privacy concerning such matters for the living in Australia, never mind the dead. However, the ownership of copyright will enable the executor or administrator to act to stop publication of letters and the like, and, as the legal owner until distribution, they could also refuse to make it available to next of kin until it is distributed. By the same token, they could also give access, if they wanted to, and there was no restriction on such access in the will. In the end, the administration of the estate will be completed and the assets distributed and the emails and rights will wind up in someone's hands. That final owner will have the say over how they are used thereafter and who gets to see them. Until he or she dies, of course, and then the whole thing goes round again. The author is a Melbourne barrister who practices in intellectual property and commercial law. The information in this column is of a general nature. Readers should obtain legal advice for specific problems. The author may be contacted at sminahan@lawyer.com ENCINA STORE As you surf the net making christmas purchases, remember that you can support the Encina website at no cost to yourself, by accessing your favorite internet stores via the Encina store page: http://www.encinahighschool.com/store.htm The Encina alumni website is an affiliate of popular etailers like: amazon.com barnesandnoble.com buy.com cameraworld.com dell.com etc If you access these websites from the Encina store page, the website will receive a small commission from your purchase, at no cost to you! WHAT'S NEW 12/19/01: Yon Gomez 81 update, Steve Sanford 72, Susan Heggestad 92/bio, Lisa Lunn 92, Ann Opp 92, Dianna Dunham 69, Todd Andrews 72 update, Clare Gaines 72 update, Janice Barnes 89 bio, Dirk Crews 87 12/17/01: Tessie Velasco 90 update, Jim Hillman 74 12/16/01: Eric Brown 78, David Shaffer 68, Sheila Bennett 68, Craig Shaffer 91, Kevin Shaffer 93, Michelle Poirier 77, Randy Bailey 77, Bobby Ray Sawyer 61, Wesley Sawyer 62, John Sawyer 66, Sue Levy 77 update, Carol Weissert 80 bio, Theresa Hughie 81, Melissa Hughie 81, Nick Bohn 91 bio 12/15/01: Monique Lopez 98, Jeff Araya 83, Nancy Valencia 80, Bob Hillman 73, Jim Hillman 74, Glenn Fait 61, Marcia Friedman 66 update, Sam Huskey 93 classmates.com: Eileen Jensen 66, Nancy Jonas 67, Mike Mansker 68, Shelley Robison 72, Rob Mearns 75, Scot Jarchow 84, Scott Padgett 87, Jennifer Tanner 92, Joel Portnoy 93 12/13/01: Ruth Cook 62 update, Debbie Lopes 73 update, Linda Valencia 78 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 A modern-day, politically-correct holiday greeting: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all; and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2002, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishees. By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. Oh, what the heck: Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year! We're shut down for the holidays so the next update will probably be in 2002. As you see family and friends over the holidays, spread the word about the Encina website. As the year draws to a close, we've located almost 10,000 alumni and faculty! Of which almost 2100 are on the update mailing list. Harlan Lau '73 Encina HS alumni webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com