Encina Update (75/80/Ed Tis 61/siblings/search/wendy doggett 77/larry fahn 72/virus warning/store/internet/whats new) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:15:24 -0800 ENCINA ALUMNI, I missed last week's update due to our home remodelling project (which finished today) and being sick. I now have access to the PC containing the Encina website again. Lots of updates to make to the class directories. It may be a while before I catch up so be patient. CLASS OF 75 Reunion committee chairs Jenny Bender Bittner and Jay Michael wrote: Encina Class of 75's 25th Reunion at the Sutter Club. When: Saturday July 15th, 2000 Where: Sutter Club We've got the location and date booked. We'll start to work out the details after the holidays. MORE INFO TO FOLLOW! CLASS OF 80 The class of 80 has lots of volunteers on the reunion committee and continuous discussion about next year's reunion. The location appears to be the Firehouse in Old Sacramento with the date to be sometime in October. ED TIS '61 Joan Seitz Barrett 61 wrote: "I got the sad news that Ed Tis, '61 passed away on November 28, 1999 from cancer. He was one of the most charming and generous people I have ever known, and one of the funniest. He and his wife Linda had lived in Washington State for a number of years. Eddie (it drove Linda crazy when we called him that) packed more living in his brief time on earth than most of us have even thought of. I will miss him." SIBLINGS Cathy Samoville 64 is in contact with cousins: Michael Samoville 64 Clifford Samoville ? (anyone know what year Clifford was?) Craig Samoville 71 Tim Fountain 91 wrote: Gayle Fountain ? Gary Reynolds ? Gloria Reynolds ? Jeff Pearl 80 wrote: Sheri Pearl 75 Robin Pearl 77 Jeff Pearl 80 Jill Neubauer 78 wrote: Jill Neubauer 78 Janie Neubauer 80 Laura Wiest 79 wrote: Laura Wiest 79 Debbie Wiest 80 Greg Selk 80 wrote: Greg Selk 80 Darcy Selk 84 Greg is married to Tricia Moulton 84 and is in contact with: Greg Rogers 80 Mark Miller 81 Bob Stanton 80 Cary Yee 81 Ed Ellis 82 Michael Margeson 68's daughter Bree Margeson ?? also attended Encina. Annalisa Co 93 wrote: Annalisa Co 93 Doralynn Co 94 Ederlina Co 95 Laura Storm 81 wrote: Laura Storm 81 Eric Storm 83 Patrick Storm 87 ALUMNI SEARCH Do you know where the following alumni are? Sue McBee 64 Portia Burke 65 Jill Hoosier 65 Sara Issacson 76 Cindy Leonard 76 Bill McKenzie 76 Trace Deon Farley 83? Jay Bell 85 WENDY DOGGETT 77 Kathryn Keyes 77 sent me another article on Wendy Doggett 77 from the Sacramento Bee. On a personal note, Kathryn has been promoted to Director of Athletic Development at UC Davis! Wendy's way: Through sheer determination, Wendy Doggett overcame setbacks and crafted a life of freedom By Bob Sylva Bee Staff Writer (Published Nov. 30, 1999) It's nearing 3 p.m., closing time at the Capitol Cafe. Employees are quietly cleaning counters, mopping the floor, wiping off tables. The cafe, on the sixth floor of the state Capitol, is a handy commissary for busy staff and legislators. So busy, many of diners carry their trays back to their offices to eat at their desks. And, busy still, often forget to return them to the cafe. After a week, the trays remain uncollected. By now, in memorium, a monument of trays. That was Wendy Doggett's task. No, that was her identity, her crusade. Collecting trays -- and dishes, cups, glasses, utensils, all the settings and service that belonged to her boss, Carolyn Negrete, who operates the Capitol Cafe. But Negrete does more than that. She hires people with developmental disabilities. Wendy Doggett was the cafe star. Every day, she would set forth on her mission. She would push her cart along the corridors of power. Would boldly enter the private world of plush carpets, of whispers and calculation, of prominence and authority, in search of her quarry. From the basement to the top floor, into every office and alcove, she drove her cart, a vehicle that gave her status, access to lively ports of call. And Wendy Doggett, though pleasant, polite and blessed with a sunny disposition, well, she could be just as pushy as any caucus head. In the pursuit of her personal legislation, she didn't care if you were a first-termer from some hinterland district, or the governor of the Great State of California, if you had a tray-plate-cup, fork it over. Moreover, if you were a lobbyist and your sateened bearing was obstructing the passage of her cart in the aisle, she wouldn't hesitate to yell, "Move it!" In a building that is enthralled by the accumulation and exercise of raw power, Wendy Doggett, cafe whip, was much heeded and admired. Wendy Doggett was 40 years old. She had worked at the Capitol for a dozen years. Had collected several entire administrations of trays. On Oct. 23, a Saturday, at 2:15 p.m., Wendy Doggett was struck and killed by a light-rail train. By early Monday, news of her death had resounded throughout the Capitol. All factions, allies in grief, for a person who pushed a cart on the fringe of recognition. Though the state Capitol can be an insulated place, the response to Wendy Doggett's death, largely unnoticed by the general public, was pervasive, heartfelt. The tragedy's epicenter was the Capitol Cafe, where Wendy's co-workers were left puzzled and angry. Wendy was the acknowledged "personality" of the cafe, its unofficial emissary, who went out into building's greater world each day, asserted her authority, wielded her competence, and returned with the goods -- and stories to tell. Now, at closing time, Roberto Negrete sits at a table. Negrete is a cafe employee. He is 39 years old. Though normally shy, he is eager to talk. To be the cafe spokesperson. To speak of Wendy. So, doing his best, in his deep voice, he begins, "We were good friends. She always had a smiling face. She was always joking." Wendy and Roberto did things together. Wendy may have wheeled the tray cart inside the Capitol, but when it came to the big highway outside the Capitol, it was Roberto who commanded the freedom to drive a car -- an old Toyota Camry, forever breaking down, to his utter chagrin. So, the two went to movies together. And concerts. Innocent dates. Afterward, they stopped off at La Bou or Starbucks. "We talked about different things we did," he says. "Things I liked to do. Things she liked to do. She told me about her cats, Sunnie and Rosemary." In many amazing, wondrous ways, Wendy Doggett, who suffered physical and developmental impairments as a baby, who was lucky to survive, who went on to challenge a life of hurdles and constraints, was better than normal. She was exceptional, often confoundingly so. She had a phenomenal memory for dates and names. She penned personal notes, in an arduous hand, dotting every "i" with a heart. She enjoyed being the center of attention, the queen of trays at the Capitol Cafe. Though her family is accomplished (her father is a noted physician; a younger brother and sister are both successful), it was Wendy who possessed advanced street smarts. She could connect with people, from legislators to restaurant staff. Wendy Doggett led a satisfying double life. One world was that of the responsible daughter, keeping her parents apprised of her whereabouts, her medication (to control seizures), her finances, her weekend plans and state of mind. That was dutiful Wendy. Then there was windswept Wendy. Dashing, impulsive, almost a sophisticate. A woman who liked to order dinner at Lyon's. Who liked to chat up the bartenders at the downtown Hyatt, while she sipped a tall, cool banana daiquiri. A woman who hailed cabs and went places. She gloated in her independence. The multiple worlds of Wendy converged at her funeral, held at the Capital Christian Center, exactly a week after her death. The bereaved family had no idea whom to expect. What size of room to reserve, how much food to order for the reception. Nearly 300 people showed up. Gov. Gray Davis sent two letters of condolence, saying in one: "Wendy will be especially missed by all the Capitol staff members whose days were brightened by her warm smile and quiet charm. My staff and I truly appreciated Wendy's dedicated service and will miss her generosity and kindness." This, not for an influential constituent, but for a determined woman who collected trays. "She was completely undaunted by any hierarchy at the Capitol," says Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl, who knew Wendy personally and was pained by her death. "We saw her every day. She was extraordinarily cheerful. We were like her work-force family." Ron Holliman is a lifelong friend. He and Wendy went to school together. The two stayed in contact. Looking back nearly 30 years, Holliman can see Wendy in class at Arcade Junior High School -- striving, grappling, often stung by playground cruelties. Holliman lives in Beverly Hills today and remains warmed by Wendy's thoughtfulness and optimism, forever undimmed. "She was a complicated woman, with mature thoughts and feelings, and a challenging personality," Holliman says. "But she managed to sustain an innocent acceptance of life for 40 years." No one knows what Wendy was doing at Butterfield light-rail station that Saturday afternoon. Even for Wendy, the edge of Sacramento was a reach. The family speculates she may have been visiting Capital Christian Center, on the other side of Highway 50, in walking distance along Mayhew Drive. In any event, Wendy was there. And she suddenly emerged from the station and was seen flagging an arriving bus, which had pulled up in the transfer zone parallel to the tracks. According to the driver of that bus and a passenger aboard, Wendy continued in her labored jog across the pedestrian outlet and, either not hearing or heeding the incoming train's warning horn, was struck and killed. "The irony of all this," says her father, Dr. ScotteDoggett, "is that the wonderfulness of Wendy was her independence. And she was absolutely dependent upon RT." "Wendy couldn't have been Wendy without the bus system," says Catherine Doggett, Wendy's stepmother and receptive confidante. On a golden afternoon, the Doggetts are sitting in the dining room of their home off American River Drive. A glass vase atop the table is filled with cards of condolence. Dr. Doggett is wearing a blue blazer and a dapper bow tie. Educated at Stanford, trained at Harvard and Cornell, he is a longtime physician-partner with Radiological Associates of Sacramento. At one time, he was chairman of the radiology department at the UC Davis Medical Center. Catherine, too, worked for Radiological Associate as office manager and chief therapist. Both are in semiretirement today. Neither Scotte nor Catherine Doggett are naturally disposed toward publicity. But they consent to talk about Wendy, her life, her trials, triumphs, because, as her father chuckles sadly, "Wendy would have loved this." Wendy was born on Nov. 30, 1958, at Travis Air Force Base, where Dr. Doggett and his then-wife Louise were stationed. From there, the Doggetts and their baby daughter moved to New York City, where Doggett started a residency at Cornell Medical Center. Some time after their move east, baby Wendy displayed flu-like symptoms that persisted. She was taken to Cornell for an exam. Her initial diagnosis was a viral infection. Then she suddenly had a seizure. More tests. And the diagnosis was changed to a brain tumor. Her condition worsened. Dr. Doggett shakes his head at this litany. At the time, he was just a frantic, weary-eyed resident. Who was he to second-guess? With a bitter laugh, he laments today, "We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Cornell was just too good of a hospital." Meaning, if Wendy Doggett had been admitted to a lesser hospital, her malady wouldn't have been such a mystery. And she probably would have been given a routine chest X-ray. Which would have shown -- which it did when one was finally done at Cornell -- that Wendy had contracted nothing rarer than tuberculosis. But by the time the Cornell X-ray was taken, it was too late. Wendy's pulmonary tuberculosis had spread to her central nervous system. Though breathing on her own, she lapsed, comatose. Yet she rallied and pulled through, though for a time she was left blind, paralyzed, and clearly had incurred some degree of brain damage. How badly were her faculties impaired? To what degree would she function normally? To the end of her life, these were always the agonizing enigmas surrounding Wendy, so full of potential. She took a perverse delight in thwarting limits, in exceeding boundaries by sheer force of her resolve. A defiant teenager-adult at times, she conducted her life as though she were perfectly self-reliant, even invulnerable. "She always wanted to be respected and treated like an adult," Dr. Doggett says. "She never thought of herself as being disabled. That's not the way she wanted her world to be defined." And it wasn't. Wendy was autonomous. She had her own apartment. She prepared her own meals. She went shopping, attended concerts, voted in elections, went to church. Though appreciative of her family's continual bed check into her welfare, Wendy seemed to delight in slipping out the back door at times. But she knew pain and heartache, too. "She had every adult woman feeling imaginable," says Catherine, who was often sought out by Wendy as a soul mate to discuss intimate subjects. Like love. Marriage. Her frequent crushes that left her hollow, hurt. "She would say, 'No one is ever going to fall in love with me.' But then she would always take a negative and turn it into a positive. She'd say, 'Well, I really don't want to get married. Then I'd just have to take care of someone!' " Wendy would have turned 41 today.She had all sorts of plans for the future. She was in the midst of a remodel of her apartment. She was thinking of new jobs, of a challenge beyond the Capitol Cafe. Roberto Negrete has a new job already. A good job, he says. He is working for the Senate Rules Committee. His job is to neatly install the flurry of passed Senate Resolutions into frames and make the glass sparkle. Roberto has framed several resolutions already. One was authored by Sen. Jackie Speier, in memory of Wendy Doggett. "I miss her," says Roberto. LARRY FAHN 72 Larry Fahn 72 serves on the board of directors of the Sierra Club and is a credentialed World Trade Organization delegate as Executive Director of AS YOU SOW. Larry attended the WTO meeting in Seattle two weeks ago and he sent me a "REPORT FROM SEATTLE: Notes and Comments from the streets and conference halls at the WTO". Below is the introductory part of Larry's report. Please contact Larry at lfahn@aol.com if you would like to see the full report. "The extraordinary events which took place in Seattle this past week were of truly historic importance. The largest grassroots citizens coalition in history came together, took to the streets, and succeeded in getting its message to the world by halting the efforts of the World Trade Organization to launch a "Millennium Round" of trade negotiations, which would have primarily benefited multinational corporations. As part of the Sierra Club’s activist mobilization efforts, I attended and took part in the five biggest marches and rallies, observed some of the violence and confrontations with police, got blasted by tear gas, and confronted a few of the cowardly masked anarchists who were about to toss a newspaper rack through the front window of the FAO Schwartz toy store in Seattle’s downtown shopping district. As a credentialed delegate to the WTO Ministerial sessions, representing the AS YOU SOW Foundation, with photo id passes to cross into curfew zones, past police barricades and into the bowels of the media circus and plenary sessions of the WTO Conference, I got an inside look at the workings of the WTO, met trade representatives, corporate types and press delegates from all over the world. The proceedings of the WTO Ministerial paled in comparison to what was happening outside, in the streets, halls and churches all around Seattle during the week. The incredible feeling of energy and empowerment generated by the remarkable coming together of like-minded citizens from organized labor, the environmental community, human rights, animal rights, and consumer rights activists, farmers, teachers and regular folks from all around the globe was truly amazing. There were teach-ins on health and the environment, workshops on biotechnology and trade, a labor and human rights forum, a debate between Ralph Nader and the Undersecretary of Commerce and a Proctor & Gamble lobbyist, peoples free concerts, panels on corporate accountability, and dozens of briefings by various NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) who were taking part in the international civil society coalition actions. Late Friday night I was at dinner with dozens of environmental leaders hosted by Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund. Everyone was exhilarated by the week’s remarkable events, but there was a sense of fatigue and frustration that the negotiators were about to release a new "Seattle Round" agreement, which would seriously undermine the efforts of our coalition to protect the environment and working people around the world. When word came that the negotiations had collapsed, the room erupted in whoops and cheers and high-fives. We had, collectively, changed the world. The message from the people in the streets had gotten through. Dan Seligman (the Sierra Club’s Special Representative on Trade and the Environment) and I grabbed a cab and rushed back up to the WTO Conference Center to take part in a last round of press conferences with leaders of Public Citizen, the AFL-CIO, the Third World Network, Friends of the Earth, the National Wildlife Federation and other coalition partners. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s front page story called it "an ugly conclusion to an ugly week." To the contrary, for millions of people across the globe, for the world’s forests and species, its indigenous peoples, and small farmers, it was an unexpected triumph. For those of us who had come to Seattle to help spread the message about the many threats of increased corporate globalization, it was a hard fought victory after a truly exceptional week. Our chant throughout the week "NO NEW ROUND" had been achieved against vast odds. The political and financial might of the multinational corporations, whose bidding was being done by faceless bureaucrats from first world governments, had been brought to its knees. The victorious grassroots coalition that came together in Seattle now faces a daunting challenge: To stay united and work to create a global trading system that is democratically accountable, makes environmental protection a priority, and meets the diverse needs of the people, not simply the world’s largest corporations." Please contact Larry Fahn 72 at lfahn@aol.com if you would like to see the full report. VIRUS WARNING I receive humor from many folks in the form of attachments which are executable files. My normal practice is to delete such mail. I rarely open attachments and I NEVER execute executable files (files with *.exe) suffix. You are taking your computer's life into your hands, along with that of any precious data on your PC, when you execute executable files, and to a lesser extent, when you open attachments. You may not even notice any immediate problems when you do so, as some of the insidious viruses lurk in your computer until a particular event (like Dec 25) triggers them. If you insist on executing executable files, do not execute them directly. Save them first and run an antivirus program on the executable file before you execute it to make sure it's safe. Below is an excerpt from Fred Langa's Langalist newsletter. He's a respected computer columnist and I find his newletters very useful. Be forwarned! Some of the new viruses are particularly destructive... 3) Plague Alert! Nasty New Viruses Are Circulating!(The W32.Mypics.Worm) A few issues ago, I wrote "I expect all of next year to be a kind of 'Plague Year' online: The growth of high-speed, highly interconnected networks is creating fertile ground for hackers and a new breed of fast- spreading, virulent, Internet-based viruses. " Even at that, I may have understated things: I was writing about Prilissa (see http://www.langa.com/newsletters/nov-29-99.htm#pril ) but in the short time since then, three new viruses have cropped up and two of them are *extremely* hostile. The nastiest is called the "W32.Mypics.Worm." It arrives as an email with the subject line "Here's some pictures for you!" and with an attachment called "pics4you.exe." When you run it, nothing seems to happen, but what goes on behind the scenes is (1) the worm infects your system with a deadly bug that will cause major trouble on January 1, 2000; and (2) it sends itself to 50 people on your Outlook address list. The New Year's "payload" is ugly: Even if your system is Y2K compliant, the worm will simulate a BIOS problem and cause your system to halt with a "CMOS Checksum Invalid" message. That's not too bad in itself--- you can easily fix that by re-entering the BIOS values using the built-in BIOS setup program on your PC. But when you reboot, the real nastiness starts: The worm reformats your hard drive. No doubt about it: This is a bad one; a worm created by a genuinely ill person. Click to email this item to a friend http://www.langa.com/sendit2.htm 4) Plague Alert #2: the Worm.ExploreZip(pack) Only slightly less malevolent, the Worm.ExploreZip(pack) worm also is self- propagating. It arrives as an email with the message: I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP. Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs. The "attached zipped docs" are a file called "zipped_files.exe." When Worm.ExploreZip(pack) runs it searches all hard drives on your machine, and any it can reach via a network, and deletes all files containing any of the following extensions: .h, .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .xls, .ppt. This worm is a compressed variant of the original Explore.Zip work that arrived a while ago; because this version has been compressed, it may slip past your antivirus scans if your virus definitions aren't fully up to date. Click to email this item to a friend http://www.langa.com/sendit2.htm 5) Plague Alert #3: the W97M.Melissa.AA Then there's W97M.Melissa.AA, yet another variant of the now-classic Melissa virus/worm. It arrives as an email with the subject line "Duhalde Presidente " and with the message "Programa de gobierno 1999 - 2004." It doesn't delete anything, but can clog your mail server by sending out 100 copies of itself, each of which will try to send out 100 more copies, on and on and on. Click to email this item to a friend http://www.langa.com/sendit2.htm 6) Protecting yourself Against these New Viruses/Worms Indeed, it looks like the "plague year" is arriving early. But here's what you can do: First, you should never, ever run any executable file emailed to you unless you know absolutely, positively for sure what's in it; if you don't know what it is, simply delete the file or at least run an antivirus scan on the attachment using the very latest antivirus updates from your AV vendor. And if, by chance, you don't yet have a fully up to date antivirus software app, give yourself an early holiday present and go get one now! I personally use Norton/Symantec, but there are many other excellent AV apps available as well. By the way, I'd like to thank frequent writer Lanny Marcus who is always among the first to sound the alarm about for-real virus threats. Lanny always checks with a reputable antivirus site to ensure the threat is real before he fires off his warning emails; in this way, he avoids spreading any of the common virus hoaxes--- you know the kind that say something like "IBM and AOL today confirmed the existence of a terrible new virus---send this email to everyone you know!" Those kinds of emails are almost always false. Lanny uses the Symantec Antivirus site to validate virus threats (all the major AV vendors have similar sites). It only takes a minute to check out a report of the threat. Taking the time to verify a virus report means you can either (1) take steps to protect yourself if the threat is real; or (2) stop the transmission of a time-wasting virus hoax. For example, for more info on the three worms/viruses mentioned above, see http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mypics.worm.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explorezip.pack.html and http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w97m.melissa.aa.html . For information on virus hoaxes (there are many...) see http://www-sf- 1.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html . STORE etoys: $10 toward any eToys purchase. Enter code FUTJHZMTRRR87 in the Gift Certificates and Coupons area when you reach Checkout. Expires today, Wednesday, 12/15/99. wine.com: free shipping on orders of $45 or more. Disclaimer: I once worked with Robert Olson, co-founder of wine.com, formerly known as virtualvineyards.com. barnesandnoble.com: $10 off orders of $40 or more. Type in Coupon Code CZSYL67 on the order form. Also FREE SHIPPING on purchase of $40 or more through Dec 20th. Fatbrain.com: $10 off any order totalling $25 or more through Dec 31. Just enter "gifts" in the discount code field when placing your order. gateway.com: $30 off purchase over $149. Just go to www.gateway.com - Click on "$30 Off Software & Accessories" Pick out the products you want to buy and proceed to Check Out. When you get there, follow these 3 easy steps: 1) Click on "Choose a Discount Program" 2) Select "Instant Rebate Coupon" 3) In the "Validation Number" field, enter this code: HY718 $149 minimum purchase required. Offer expires December 20, 1999. INTERNET December 8, 1999 Survey Finds Electronics Are Cheaper Online By REUTERS OS ANGELES -- Sluggish Web sites and poor customer service may be giving online shoppers headaches, but a survey released Tuesday show the hassles may pay off, at least for big-ticket electronics items. The survey, released by technology and product data Web site CNET Inc., compared prices of 24 items such as DVD players, portable televisions and digital cameras between online retailers such as Amazon.com and MySimon.com, and real-world stores like Circuit City and Sears. Of the two dozen products, only three were cheaper in a brick-and-mortar store than online, the data showed. The biggest price difference was for a Compaq Presario notebook computer, which sold for a low of $1,500 in a physical outlet but which could be found for $1,000 in a virtual store, the survey found. Other Internet bargains included a Sony DVD player for up to $60 less, more than $92 off for a Palm V handheld organizer, and a Diamond Rio 300 MP3 music player with a $60 discount, it found. "Shoppers looking for the lowest prices on the most popular computer and consumer electronics products this holiday season will fare better by shopping online," CNET said. "Even when shipping and handling costs were factored in, online shopping still netted consumers significant savings over brick and mortar stores," it said. The survey, conducted from November 11-17, checked prices at Best Buy, Circuit City, Comp USA , Office Depot and Sears in 10 major U.S. cities. Online retailers included Amazon.com, CNET.com, Microsoft's MSN eShop, MySimon.com, Yahoo! Shopping and ZdNet.com. WHAT'S NEW Michael Samoville 64 Michael Margeson 68 Allan Flohr 70 Perry Kesterson 70 Richard "Dick" Parr 70 John Wallin 70 Craig Samoville 71 Donna McManus 74 Sheri Pearl 75 Doris Wilson 75 Paul Espinosa 76 Pamela Maples 77 Robin Pearl 77 Jill Neubauer 78 Laura Wiest 79 Jeff Pearl 80 Debbie Wiest 80 Dan Johnson 80 Greg Selk 80 Laura Storm 81 Cary Yee 81 Janine Choi 82 Darcy Selk 82 Shiella Barrows 83 Jill Haney 83 Doug McIntosh 85 Laney Andrade 86 Kelly Mortenson 86 Rob Hayes 87 Robert Perez 87 Patrick Storm 87 Eric Dobrinski 88 Brenda Horsley 90 Tim Fountain 91 Annalisa Co 93 Doralyn Co 94 Ederlina Co 95 Larry Averitt 95 William Clethen 97 Victoria Stafford 98 Remember, as you do your Christmas shopping on the internet, please link to the Encina store: http://www.encinahighschool.com/store.htm You'll be supporting the Encina website at no cost to yourself! Have a good weekend! Harlan Lau 73 Encina webmaster www.encinahighschool.com harlan@rambus.com