Piner High School

Alumni Newsletter A joint publication of the Piner High School Foundation and Hall of Fame

Volume 5, Issue 2 January 2015

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V i c k y N g u y e n , a 35-year-old inves-t i g a t i v e r e p o r t e r w i t h NBC Bay Area, has won two E m m y a w a r d s for her work on news sto-ries from

San Jose to Petaluma. She is cur-rently reporting on how Sysco, one of the world’s largest food distribu-tors, was caught storing food in out-door unrefrigerated sheds around Northern California. Every week, her high-level research and story-telling draw in thousands of viewers around the Bay Area.

Yet few people know Nguyen’s sto-ry or her Santa Rosa roots. When Nguyen was 8 months old, her fam-ily left Vietnam and, after a few years in Eugene, Ore.; Reno, Nev.; and San Jose, moved to Santa Rosa.

“I went to Piner Olivet Elementary School, then Mark West Elemen-tary School, then Comstock Junior High School and finally Piner High School,” said Nguyen.

At Piner High School she developed many of the skills that she now uses as a professional TV journalist.

TV REPORTER VICKY NGUYEN RECALLS HER ROOTSFrom Santa Rosa Press Democrat March 21st, 2014

by Jessica Zimmer / Correspondent

“I never had any role models (in journalism). When I was in high school, I thought I was going to become either a vet or a physical therapist,” said Nguyen. “I was in C-TEC (Piner High School’s pro-gram for science, named after the school’s Center for Technology, Environment and Communica-tion). I didn’t like having to work in groups. C-TEC really put an empha-sis on group learning and project learning. That’s what the real world is about.

“It really prepared me well for the chal-lenges I would endure as an adult.”

Brigette Mansell, who now teaches 10th and 11th grade English and Speech and Debate at Ma-ria Carrillo High School, was Nguy-en’s sophomore and junior teacher.

“She was always motivated and real-ly gifted in terms of her skills as a writer and a thinker,” said Mansell. “She had an amazing com-mitment to making meaning.”

Mansell remembers that Nguyen excelled in speeches of all kinds, “informational speeches, persua-sive speeches, speeches on the spot, speeches to interpret the lan-guage of others.

“Every Friday we’d draw cards and have to come up with a speech. We did a lot of current events. She defi-nitely got experience,” she said.

Mansell recalls one presentation about a Dr. Seuss story called “Yer-tle the Turtle.”

“She presented that as a humor-ous interpretation. She pretended to have all these different voices. It was so funny. Yertle is the top turtle. He’s stacked on top of all these other turtles. You…realize there’s so many people below you (supporting you).

“It was just kind of suggestive for her. I think she always had a rec-ognition of (who) was underneath her. I think her parents really mean a lot to her,” said Mansell.

Nguyen agrees.

Vicky Nguyen (Photo provided by KNTV)

Nguyen’s work is edited by the TV crew (Photo provided by KNTV)

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Piner High School

Crab Feed Dinner & Dance Classic Rock by Blue Heat

Saturday, January 21st, 2012 Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall - Main Auditorium

Raffles – Auctions - Dessert Auction

Specially Prepared Desserts Waiting for your bid

Reserved seating with purchases of 10 or more tickets.

5:00 p.m. No Host Bar Beer/Wine & Silent Auction 7:00 p.m. Dinner - $45.00 Per Person

Pick up your tickets at G and G Supermarket or Mail in your order with payment

For information please call (707) 836-9735

Crab Feed and Silent Auction Dinner 2012 Menu Items: Salad - Pasta – Bread - Crab – Dessert - Coffee Name ________________________________________________ Please print name Mailing Address ________________________________________ Phone Number ________________________________________

Make all checks payable to:

Piner Hall of Fame PO Box 12339 Santa Rosa, CA 95406

Please reserve _____ tickets, Check enclosed I am unable to attend, but have enclosed a tax

deductible contribution in support of the Piner H.S.

Piner High School Crab Feed Dinner

Saturday, January 24th, 2015 Friedman Event Center - 4676 Mayette Avenue

Raffles – Auctions - Dessert Auction

Join in on our dessert auction and finish the night with one or more of the many specially prepared treats

Reserved seating with purchases of 10 or more tickets.

5:00 p.m. No Host Bar Beer/Wine & Silent Auction 7:00 p.m. Dinner - $50.00 Per Person

Limited seating so order early Pick up your tickets at G and G Supermarket

or Mail in your order with payment For information please call (707) 620-0077

Crab Feed and Silent Auction Dinner 2014

Menu Items: Appetizers - Salad – Bread – Pasta - Crab – Dessert – Coffee/Tea Name ________________________________________________ Please print name Mailing Address ________________________________________ Phone Number ________________________________________

Make all checks payable to:

Piner Hall of Fame PO Box 12284 Santa Rosa, CA 95406

Please reserve _____ tickets, Check enclosed I am unable to attend, but have enclosed a tax

deductible contribution in support of the Piner H.S.

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Vicky Nguyen (cont. from pg. 1).

“To my parents’ credit, they’ve always been extra support-ive,” said Nguyen. “That’s not true for my Asian American peers. A lot of them have had to overcome some backlash from their families.”

It wasn’t easy to reach her current position, which is based in San Jose. She enrolled at the University of San Francisco on an academic scholarship, major-ing in biology. She didn’t start think-ing about journalism until her sopho-more year. Then one day she had a talk with her friend Toan Lam, who also has become a news reporter.

“Toan started talking about the in-ternships he was doing. That sparked my interest,” said Nguyen. “If (he) can do it and he’s having so much fun, I should give it a shot.”

Soon afterwards, she scored her first news internship at CNN’s San Fran-cisco bureau.

“I was a terrible intern. I was so green, I had no idea what I was doing. I sat at the phone and received news tips,” said Nguyen. She also struggled with trying to manage school-work and the internship.

“I was still taking organic chemistry at the time. I still had one foot in biology. I don’t think I showed very much promise.”

At her next position, she found her voice.

Vicky Nguyen reports on Sysco’s unrefrigerated food lock-ers (Photo provided by KNTV)

“I worked for KPIX (the CBS local affili-ate) with Manny Ramos and Roz Plater. Roz allowed me to go on shoots with them and watch them as they put their stories together,” said Nguyen.

After graduating, Nguyen won a Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship in health reporting.

“I worked with John Fowler, who was and still is the health and science edi-tor at KTVU. I got to learn about health reporting, consumer reporting and general news reporting.”

Then reality hit. Nguyen’s first job offer was from a TV sta-tion in Sioux City, Iowa, and paid $18,500 a year, less than minimum wage. Finally, she got a better offer from Central Florida News 13 in Orlando, Fla.

“It paid $26,000 with a $1,500 moving bonus. I thought I had made it,” she said.

Nguyen worked as a “one-man band” in Florida, writing, shooting and editing stories by herself.

“I remember one story I did about the homecoming of a young girl who had been in a terrible car accident. I went back to the newsroom and (realized) my video light (had gone) blue. I had not properly white-balanced the camera. We had to spend a lot of time correcting it. When I finally got my story…on the reel, it was two hours after everyone else had.”

Nguyen also worked at TV stations in Phoenix and Reno before returning to the Bay Area. When she started work at KNTV, she said, “my family was relieved (that) I came back.”

In 2011 and again in 2012, Nguyen garnered four Emmy nominations. In 2011, she won in the category of “Feature News Report – Serious,” and in 2012, she won in the category of “On-Camera Talent – Reporting.”

Nguyen still visits Sonoma County, partly because her husband’s family

lives in Santa Rosa. She also comes up to the area to cover stories.

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, she profiled a blind gentle-man who survived the terrorist attack by going down 79 flights of stairs at the World Trade Center with his guide dog.

“I was last in Santa Rosa in 2013 doing interviews with Ca-nine Companions for Independence. The story was about people who have pretended their pets are service animals,” said Nguyen.

She comes up to speak with Mansell’s students. “My career advice is, believe in yourself. I know that if you work really hard, there will be a place for you,” she said.

In journalism and in life, Nguyen said, she has worked hard to set herself apart.

“You are the only person who can be you. You have to believe that putting in the hard work will make the difference.”

Some of her best advice comes from one of her mentors, photographer and editor Sean Drummond. “He said that

when it comes to the people you interview, there’s no way you’re going to be able to remember all of them. But they’re going to remember you. It was basically his way of saying, ‘Be nice to people.’”

Nguyen said his words stay with her as she tries to expose wrongdoing and create change.

“I’ve always tried to be really compassionate, as a human being and a reporter,” she said. “You see people at some of the most difficult moments in their life. You have to remem-ber to be a human being first and a reporter second.”

Vicky Nguyen reports on Sysco’s unrefrigerated food lockers (Photo provided by KNTV)

Vicky Nguyen on-air (Photo provided by KNTV)

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CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. KURT KRUGER.

The Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce held a breakfast honoring Outstanding Teachers and Administrators at the beginning of this school year. Among those receiving top recognition at the 29th annual event was Piner High School’s Kurt Kruger, who was instrumental in the creation of the planetarium and science research center which opened last year. Kruger shared the top high school teacher award with Social Science Teacher Art Horner, from Santa Rosa High. Kruger is shown here with fellow Piner teacher Sharon Stevens.

Piner’s STEM Program (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) looks back at a productive year, being featured as a “KPIX Cool School” with its new Science Center and Observatory. It was also accepted into the “21st Century Learning Institute” by the Sonoma County Office of Education. To see a video of the new Science Center and Observatory, Google Cool School: Santa Rosa’s Piner High... - CBS San Francisco

Piner High now has its own 3D printer. Thanks to a grant Piner now has a 3D printer. The first item

p r o d u c e d /printer was a wrench. (See below

picturer.) It took about 20 minutes from warm up time to finish. PHS Student Justin Wedel set it all up and printed the first item. He got to take the wrench home.It’s believed that 10 years from now a large percentage of households will have their own 3D

Piner High Students seen at the Science Discovery Day this Fall. Shown are students in the Geospatial Technology Pathway (GTP). This is just one of several science pathways programs that Piner offers in their STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs.

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Piner High School Needs

StadiumLights!

How can you help:$261,000

$63,000

$100,000

HELP PINER GET STADIUM LIGHTS! Piner is the only high school in the Santa Rosa School District without lights for their Football/Soccer field. After nine years of trying to raise funds locally for this project we are going to try and seek corporate sponsorships. We are also looking into the “GoFundMe” program. That program will help us reach out to the larger internet community to expedite our efforts to get the lights for our athletes.

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ANYBODY RECOGNIZE THESE THREE AMIGOS?

Thank you to all those who have generously given additional donations beyond their annual Foundation Membership dues--they include Dale Solheim, Sylvia Guiliano Andreis, Wayne Rasmussen, Larry Schalich, Nancy Michaelson Celms, Betty Castino, Leslie Jenkins Conant, Rachel Daniel, Janet Barbaria, Kathy Trenchard, Carol Cake Sherwood, Marcia Thompson Richter, Jill Smith Thach, Craig Thompson and Margaret Hayne Nelson.

Thank you to Edna Gaddie and John Huntzinger for your separate donations in memory of retired Piner teacher and counselor Charles Juricich who passed away on October 31, 2014, of natural causes. Mr. Juricich was well respected for his dedication to his profession and liked for his great sense of humor. In addition to being a passionate teacher and fly fisherman, he loved opera and was a great story teller, said his wife Ursula Juricich.

He’s survived by his wife; his son, David; Daughter-in-law Lissa Juricich: and three grandchildren.

Thank you to Tony Walls, who has continued to make contributions to the Foundation, through P.G.&Es Corporate Foundation’s employee “Your Cause” program, to be used for the English Department.

All contributions large or small help to support the learning process for our Piner High students. We apologize in advance if we inadvertently left your name off the Foundation membership or donation list.

You early Piner graduates may not recognize the guy in the middle, Dr. Rick Mordecai who graduated from Santa Rosa High in 1971, but who wouldn’t recognize two of Piner’s most prestigious teachers and coaches, Mr. Izzy Derkos on the left and Mr. Jim Underhill on the right. Mr. Derkos taught & coached at Piner the first several years it was open, but was then recruited to coach and teach at Santa Rosa Junior College. He just recently retirement from there two years ago. Rumor has it this picture was taken last summer when these guys were celebrating Jim Underhill’s 80th birthday. We should all be as lucky to look and be as healthy as these two. Their secret is eating right and exercising regularly, along with having positive attitudes and supportive spouses. They are both still actively training young people part time in Sonoma County. And they will tell you it’s never too late to make changes in your health. Thank you Mr. Derkos and Mr. Underhill for your outstanding contributions to the youth in Sonoma County for so many years; not only through your professional careers, but also your many years in your off time volunteering to help us become better athletes and people.

BIG THANK YOU’S

Sierra Sanchez is only the 3rd lady golfer in Piner’s history to qualify for the North Coast Section Playoffs, when she qualified this Fall.

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Piner High School Hall of Fame Cordially invites you to the

Tenth Annual Hall of Fame Dinner

Saturday, April 11, 2015 Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club

333 Country Club Drive, Santa Rosa, California 5:00 p.m. No Host Bar / 6:30 p.m. Dinner

Ken Rossi Athlete 80's

1999 Boy's Basketball Team 90's

Dennis McCarty Coach

Jessica Mullan Athlete 90's

Linda (Kyun) Blackburn Athlete 90's

Larry Olenberger Athlete 60's

Gary Taylor Athlete 60's

Jim Lanz Special Recognition

$60.00 Per Person (Reservation accepted on a first come, first served basis)

Please confirm your reservation by returning the attached response card no later than Tuesday, March 10, 2015

For information please call (707) 620-0077 Make checks payable to:

Piner High School Hall of Fame P.O. Box 12284

Santa Rosa, CA 95406

(Cut Here) Hall of Fame Dinner 2015

Guest Reservation Card Name ________________________________________________ Please print name as it will appear on name tag Menu Choice: Prime Rib Salmon Vegetarian Name ________________________________________________ Please print name as it will appear on nametag Menu Choice: Prime Rib Salmon Vegetarian Mailing Address _________________________________________ Phone Number _________________________________________ If possible seat with _____________________________________ Please reserve _____ tickets Check enclosed (Payable to Piner High School Hall of Fame) I am unable to attend, but have enclosed a tax deductible

contribution in support of the Piner High School Hall of Fame

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FOUNDATION MEMBERSHIP LIST

Those names in bold print have renewed their membership for this school year.

PINER HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION MEMBERSHIP FORM Date:__________ Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Name: Last ____________________ First ____________________ MI _ Maiden/Former Name ____________________ Home Address_______________________________________________________ State ______ Zip__________ Mailing Address ______________________________________________________ State ______ Zip__________ Phone: Home _____________ Work ____________ Cell __________________e-mail______________________ I am joining the PHS Foundation for 1 school year at $20. I am a Piner High School Graduate. Class of _______ I am associated with PHS as a _____________________ I am enclosing an additional TAX DEDUCTIBLE contribution of $______________ Please make checks payable to PHSF and send to: Piner High School Foundation, 1700 Fulton Road, Santa Rosa, Ca. 95403 Our Federal Tax I.D. is #68-0312001 The Piner High School Foundation is currently in need of Board Members, which meets once a month. If you are unable to give of your time, please consider becoming a Foundation Member or renewing your membership. Please consider purchasing scrip as another means of supporting the Foundation. Go to the following website to see the list of businesses that will donated a small percentage of your purchases back to the PHS Foundation. Please sign up today at www.escrip.com Simply fill in the name Piner High School Foundation or our e-scrip ID # 151792470.

FOUNDATION MEMBERSHIP LIST Rachelle Merian Albini - 1979 Dave Albritton - 1976 Dale Anderson - 1978 Marion Anderson - Parent of Alumni Jim Andrade - 1972 Steve Athens - 1971 Anna Babson - Parent of Alumni Judy Bagley - Retired Staff Judith Barcelon - Faculty Pat Berry - 1968 Gayle LaForce Berry - 1971 Sam Weston Bertacco - 1970 John Barone Marylou Kniffin Beltrami - 1970 Cheryl Pedroncelli Bennett - 1971 Sally Bimrose - Principal Mitch Bonar - 1969 Michele Patterson Brittain - 1988 Charlie Buff - Retired Faculty Alicia Bunce Bill Campbell - 1976 Paulette Gianoli Carroll - 1969 Steve Casperson - Retired

Faculty/Coach Ron Casselli - Retired Faculty Betty Clarke - 1971 Nancy Michaelson Clems - 1968 Leslie Jenkins Conant - 1970 Jerry Corbett - 1968 Laurie Cameron Cornelssen - 1972 Karen Coster - Faculty Mike Daniels Chris DeMello Judy Dillon--Retired Faculty Matt Dillon - 1995 John and Thea Dolan Ann Dubay - 1978

Tom Dubay--Retired Staff Judith Pedroni Engelstad - 1971 Francine Boschetti Espiniera - 1971 Jake Fitzpatrick - Faculty Joan Fleck - 1971 Ken Foote - Retired Faculty Jane Frost Edna Gaddie - Wife of Retired Coach Cindy Gaddie – Mike’s Daughter Chris Garcia - 1970 Scott Garcia - 1974 Claire Morey Gilbert - 1970 Karen Gunderson & Family MaryBeth Halsey - Ex-Principal Sherman Harris - 1970 Jack Hayes - Retired Principal David Hayne - 1972 Nicki Obritsch Hinch - 1968 David Hover--1980 John Hurt - 1970, Magdalena Almarez Hurt - 1971 Tiffany Jahnke - Faculty Leslie Jenkins Conant - 1970 Donna Jeye – School Board Vince Klein - 1970 Mark Koski - 1971 Doug Krikac - 1969 Ron Kristof, Retired Faculty Jani Logsdon Krambs - 1977 Sandy Lacey - Faculty Jim Lanz - 1976 Cathy Austin Lanz - 1978 Richard Latimer - Retired Faculty Frank Lawler - 1968 Gene McKamey - Retired Coach Bob Maccario - 1972

Nicholas Mancillas – Faculty David Marshall - 1970 Lindsay Schalich Malik - 1972 Mark McCarthy Dennis McCarty – Retired Faculty Martha Bastoni Messana - 1970 Tom Michaelson - 1971 Patty Michiels - Faculty Linda Burke Miller - 1969 Steve Mizera - Asst. Principal Margaret Hayne Nelson - 1971 April Wycoff Nichols - 1977 Paul Nikol - Coach Tom Nix - 1968 Randy Nunes - 1971 Cyndi Ogle - 1970 Larry Olenberger - 1968 Gary Palmer - 1970 Randy Palmer - 1971 Erin Parr - 1997 Rich Pedroncelli - 1973 Karen Mejia Pennrich - 1971 Kathleen Perez-Penrose - Retired Faculty Julie Buchanan Poirier - 1979 Wayne Rasmussen - 1968 Kathy Denner Reese - 1969 Denise Rehe - 1979 Marilyn Graff Reiss - 1969 Marcia Thompson Richter - 1968 Bianca Rosario – Faculty Merle and Ann Rossman Randi Rossman – 1977 Ruth Richmond – Retired Staff Michelle Scarboro - Faculty Bill Schalich - 1979 Cindy Misner Schalich – 1983

Kasey Schalich --2010 Joe Schalich - 1971 Larry Schalich - 1974 Nancy Schell--Retired Faulty Joe Sewell - Retired Principal Doloros Seymour - Retired Staff Carol Cake Sherwood - 1971 Sue Sion-Retired Vice-Principal Dale Solheim - 1971 Pam Sorenson - Faculty Diana Valentino Spritzer - 1971 Stan Stawasz Jennifer Stenger - 1988 Pattie Mosier Taan - 1971 Ed Taan - 1971 Jill Smith Thach -1973 Steve Templeman - 1968 Craig Thompson - Retired Faculty Mary Gowan Thomsen - 1970 Lisa Tiedeman Kathy Trenchard - Retired Faculty Marilyn Turner - Retired Faculty Jim & Carol Underhill – Retired Faculty/Coach Judy Vesper - 1968 Pam Jenkins Wallace - 1968 Mary Buran-Weiss Donna Starr White - 1968 Jeanette Babson Wilson - 1986 Cliff Woodruff - 1975 Bob Wycoff and family - Retired faculty Craig Wycoff - 1978 Bob & Dolores Zeni - Retired Vice Principal

Rachelle Merian Albini - 1979Dave Albritton - 1976Dale Anderson - 1978 Jim Andrade - 1972 Sylvia Guiliano Andreis - 1971Steve Athens - 1971 Jeff Avery - 1971Cathy Austin - 1978Anna Babson - Parent of Alumni Judy Bagley - Retired Staff Janet Barbaria - 1979 Judith Barcelon - Faculty John BaroneLynn Beniot - 1974 Pat Berry - 1968 Gayle LaForce Berry - 1971Sam Weston Bertacco - 1970Marylou Kniffin Beltrami - 1970Cheryl Pedroncelli Bennett - 1971Sally Bimrose - Vice-PrincipalMitch Bonar - 1969Valerie Lane Burgoyne - 1971Michelle Patterson Brittain - 1988Charlie Buff - Retired FacultyAlicia Bunce - Parent of AlumniBill Campbell - 1976Paulette Gianoli Carroll - 1969Steve Casperson- Retired - Retired CoachBetty Castino - Retired FacultyRon Casselli - Retired FacultyNancy Michaelson Celms - 1968Betty Furia Clarke - 1971Leslie Jenkins Conant - 1970Jerry Corbet - 1968Laurie Cameron Cornelssen - 1972Karen Coster - FacultyMike Daniels - Friend of PinerRachel Daniel - 1989Chris DeMelloJudy Dillon - Retired FacultyMatt Dillon - 1995John & Thea Dolan - Retired Faculty

Ann DuBay - 1978Tom DuBay - Retired StaffJim Eliot - Retired FacultyJudith Pedroni Engelstad - 1971Francine Boschetti Espiniera - 1971Jake Fitzpatrick - Retired FacultyJoan Fleck - 1971Ken Foote - Retired FacultyJane FrostEdna Gaddie - Wife of Retired CoachCindy Gaddie - Mike’s DaughterChris Garcia - 1970Scott Garcia - 1973Claire Morey Gilbert - 1970Karen Gunderson & FamilyMaryBeth Halsey - Retired PrincipalMarnie M. HansonTanya Harlin - Parent of AlumniSherman Harris - 1970Jack Hayes - Retired PrincipalDavid Hayne - 1972Keith HintonJohn Huntzinger - Retired FacultyNicki Obritsch Hinch - 1968Dave Hover -1976John Hurt - 1970 Magdalena Almarez Hurt - 1971Marilyn Jackson - Retired StaffTiffany Jahnke - FacultyDonna Jeye - School BoardCharles Juricich – Retired FacultySteve Kramer - 1991Vince Klein - 1970Mark Koski - 1971Doug Krikac - 1969Jani Logsdon Krambs - 1977Ron Kristof - Retired FacultySandy Lacey - Retired FacultyJim Lanz - 1976Dick & Maureen Latimer - Retired FacultyFrank Lawler - 1968Gene McKamey - Retired Coach

Bob Maccario - 1972Nicholas Mancillas - FacultyDavid Marshall - 1970Lindsay Schalich Malik - 1972Mark McCarthyDennis McCarty - Retired FacultyDeena McConnell - 1979Randy Merian - 1977Martha Bastoni Messana - 1970Tom Michaelson - 1971Patty Michiels - FacultyLinda Burke Miller - 1969Steve Mizera - Vice-PrincipalTina Murray - 1974Margaret Hayne Nelson - 1971April Wykoff Nichols - 1974Paul Nikol - Retired CoachTom Nix - 1968Randy Nunes - 1971Cyndi Ogle - 1970Larry Olenberger - 1968Gary Palmer - 1970Randy Palmer - 1971Erin Parr - 1997Rich Pedroncelli - 1973Karen Mejia Pennrich - 1971Kathy Perez-Penrose - Retired FacultyGail Laughlin Pippi - 1969Virginia Pitts - Alumni ParentJulie Buchanan Poirier - 1979Wayne Rasmussen - 1968Kathy Denner Reese - 1969Denise Rehe - 1979Marilyn Graff Reiss - 1969Lee Ann Cameron Reuter - 1979Ruth Richmond - Retired StaffMarcia Thompson Richter - 1968Doug Robbins - 1969Bianca Rosario - FacultyMerle & Ann Rossman - Alumni ParentsRandi Rossman - 1977Pat Sampson - Retired Faculty

Michelle Scarboro - FacultyLisa Wittke Schaffner - 1987Bill Schalich - 1979Cindy Misner Schalich - 1983Kasey Schalich - 2010Larry Schalich - 1974Joe Schalich - 1971Nancy Schell - Retired Faculty Joe Sewell - Retired PrincipalDolores Seymour - Retired StaffCarol Cake Sherwood - 1971Sue Sion - Retired Vice-PrincipalCathy Slack - 1978 Don & Patty Soekland ’72 & ‘74Dale Solheim - 1971Pamela Rippin Sorensen - FacultyJennifer Stenger - 1988Karen Scott Suiter - 1979Ed Taan - 1971Steve Templeman - 1968 Jill Smith Thach - 1973Craig Thompson - Retired FacultyMary Gowan Thomsen - 1970 Lisa Tiedeman - 1976Lee Torliatt - Retired FacultyIlene Traverso - Retired FacultyKathy Trenchard - Retired FacultyMarilyn Turner - Retired teacherJim & Carol Underhill - Retired CoachJudy Vesper -1968Pam Jenkins Wallace - 1968Tony WallsDonna Starr White - 1968Pauline Scinto Whitchurch - 1971Jeanette Babson Wilson - 1986Cliff Woodruff - 1975Craig Wykoff - 1978Chris Zeek - SRHS Class of 1968Bob & Dolores Zeni - Retired Vice-Principal

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This will be our 9th annual Crab Feed…but our 3rd year at the Friedman’s Event Center. Because people enjoy the food, the fun atmosphere, and incredible dessert auction, they generally return year after year. It is again expected to sell out so get your tickets early. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased at G&G Market’s Customer Service Window, or mail you check to the Piner Hall of Fame (see page 2).

Dinner includes appetizers, salad, fresh bread, pasta and crab; topped off with dessert, coffee or tea. Melted butter is also provided. Our dessert auction offers delicious home-made or pro¬fessional desserts. This fundraiser helps support three non-profits; the Piner Booster’s, the Piner Foundation, and the Piner Hall of Fame. Don’t wait, set the date-- with friends, relatives, or co-workers for an enjoyable evening out, while helping the students at Piner High.

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