Piner High School

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

Volume 7, Issue 2 January 2016

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BILLIE SUE (WRENN) SION By Lee Torliatt

Sue Sion began traveling the world early in life. First, she did it with books and then she joined a world that, in many respects, was moving from one crisis to another.

She became an excellent educator, and if she was being graded for her effort, she would have quite a few A Pluses on her report card.

Although she moved around over the years, she still considers herself a proud member of the Piner High School community.

Sue was born in San Angelo, Texas, where, being black, she attended “separate but unequal” schools. From first grade through her graduation from Jack Yates High School, in Houston, she attended segregated schools. It was hardly a pleasant life, but right across the street from her home in San Angelo, there was a one-room library for African-Americans. Sue spent many hours reading in the library or taking books home.

She and other blacks were banned from numerous facilities and were allowed in parks only once a year, on the Juneteenth holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865, when the slaves in Texas learned of their freedom—two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Sue spent many hours working in the fields, “pulling” cotton to help offset family expenses. She received a scholarship and graduated from New Mexico

Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

After earning a teaching credential in Colorado, she and her husband, who was in the Army, went to Germany where she taught mainly in two Army Education Centers. She also had a chance to visit several countries in Europe.

When her husband was reassigned to the base at Two Rock in 1967, Sue joined the business department at Piner High School. Although generally welcomed, Sue said she and her husband ran into some difficulty finding a house. One woman told them she had “polled the neighborhood” and “they were not wanted.”

While teaching at Piner, she almost always received positive reinforcement from her colleagues in the educational world. Some of the names include her first department chairman, Bob Wycoff, District administrators Mitchell Soso and Jack Landis, Piner vice-principal Bob Zeni, Piner principal Jack Hayes, and teacher/administrator

Ron Washburn. Sue said Washburn strongly encouraged her to apply for open administrative posts that were becoming available as people retired. After taking numerous classes at Sonoma State College, the University of San Francisco, and St. Mary’s College in Moraga, she went into administration. Her first administrative job was at Santa Rosa Junior High in 1985. Junior highs are now called middle schools.

She noted that after retirement, she has been an interim administrator at every middle school, every high school, and one elementary school within the Santa Rosa City School District. It’s a path any scholar of geography would admire.

When Sue arrived in Santa Rosa, there was a good deal of turmoil in the world, especially in the areas of war in Vietnam and racial discrimination.

While most of her hours have been dedicated to education, Sue also has embarked on and enjoyed something of a “career” in the theater.

She participated for two years in the Lamplight Tours and one year in the Women’s History Tour at the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery.

In her first vignette, she said, “I played one of two wives of Ed Potter, who was a “white washer” (or painter) in Santa Rosa in 1876. Both of Potter’s wives were in

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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 SchoolCrab Feed Dinner

Saturday February 13th, 2016Friedman Event Center - 4676 Mayette Avenue

Music - Raffles - Auctions - Dessert Auctions 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) 571-7420Crab Feed and Silent Auction Dinner 2016

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

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heaven arguing over which wife he was going to spend his life with when he went to heaven.

“In the second vignette, I played the wife of Henry (Shiner) Davis, who was a ‘boot black’ in Santa Rosa in 1870. He often shared his critical opinions in the editorial section of the newspaper the Democrat. While (he and his family) were saying their prayers one night, two white boys threw rocks through the windows

because they didn’t want the Davis family living

near them.” Actress Sion said the performance encouraged one couple to buy a grave marker for ‘Shiner.’

The third vignette involved a black barber and former slave named John Richards. He opened several barber shops, got wealthy, and “purchased 130 acres in South Santa Rosa in the area now known as South Park. His home served as a refuge for a number of freed, homeless slaves after the Civil War.” His funeral was one of the largest in Sonoma County at that time.

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Sue is currently involved with many organizations, including the NAACP, the Rites of Passage educational program for youth, Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Assn. of School Administrators and enough others to fill the Yellow Pages of the Phone Book (remember those?)

Awards include: Professional Woman of the Decade by the National Assn. of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, and numerous educator awards. The walls of her house sag with evidence of her accomplishments.

Through all of her very busy life, she has maintained a fond relationship with her three children, Michael, Mark and Monique. She and Monique have taken numerous long-distance trips together, partly, she says with a smile, because Monique has some good connections with friends in the airline business. Their trip to Buenos Aires was one of her favorite trips.

[Editor’s note: Lee Torliatt is a retired Piner High School Teacher who has written several books, and has been the long time editor of the Sonoma County Historical Society’s quarterly newsletter. He has written all of the Piner High Athletic Hall of Fame inductee’s bios for the last 10 years, and kindly accepts requests to periodically write articles for the Alumni Newsletter.]

After winning their league championship the Piner Cross Country Varsity Boys team and Cynthia Rosales participated in the 2015 Cross Country NCS (North Coast Sectional) and State Championships. At NCS Piner Varsity Boys placed 3rd and Cynthia Rosales placed 5th in Division 3 (bottom two photos). The Varsity Boys were Eduardo Calderon, Aidan Carpenter, Jacob Hayes, Nathan Hayes, Brian Luong, Harris Nguyen and Jonny Vargas. At the State Meet, 5 of 7 Var-sity Boys and Cynthia Rosales each had personal records in their races. GREAT job to everyone on the Piner XC team!

Congratulations to the Piner Cross Country Teams for their great showings at the SCL Championship. The Varsity Boys won their 6th consecutive pennant! Cynthia Rosales was 1st in the Varsity Girls race and is now one of only 4 Piner XC Girls who hold the title of Girls SCL Champion! Congratula-tions to Kassia Chagnon who placed 4th and ran the 3rd fasted time for a Piner girl on the Spring Lake Course. JV Boys also had a great season. Piner JV Boys were undefeat-ed in league and won the JV Boys race at SCL Finals. Seana Smith placed 5th in the JV Girls race.

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HAVE YOU JOINED THE PINER HIGH

FOUNDATION YET? If you haven’t joined or renewed your Foundation membership for this school year it’s not too late. Your membership and donations helps provide our teachers with classroom equipment and supplies that enhances the learning experiences for our students, along with defray-ing the cost of printing and mailing the newsletter. A cost that is also shared with the Piner Hall of Fame. To renew or join the Foundation go to page 7.

Thank you to those who have already renewed their membership or recently joined the Foundation for this school year. An extra thank you to those who made an additional donation over their membership dues: they include Les-lie Jenkins Conant; Jill Smith Thach, Margaret Hayne Nelson, Denise Rehe, Marcia Thompson Richter, and new Foundation member Jackie Stevens Callaghan. We want to extend a warm welcome to our other new Foundation members Pete and Jill McCormick and Ursula Juricich.

Thank you also to Jason Stevenson (via United Way), and Tony Walls (via P.G. & E’s giving program) for your near month-ly donations to the Foundation. And thank you Edna Gaddie for your dona-tion in memory of Mr. Jim MacDonald, who was one of the original members of the Piner Boosters Club, and also the father of slain police officer and Piner graduate-- Jimmy MacDonald.

We apologize if we inadvertently left any-one’s name off the membership and do-nation list.

YES, WE ARE HAVING OUR

ANNUAL CRAB/PASTA FEED THIS YEAR.

As our Crab Feed Flier states (refer to page 2), we will be having our 10th annual Crab Feed on February 13, 2016, at the Friedman’s Event Cen-ter. This fundraiser benefits the Piner Foundation, Piner Hall of Fame and Piner Boosters. This fun event comes close to selling out every year so get your tickets early. They are available at G&G Supermarket’s Customer Ser-vice or at the Booster’s concessions during games. We are hoping the lo-cal crab season will be in full swing for our local fisherman by then, but if not, we will be getting our crab from states further north of us. As usual we

will have an abundance of silent auction and raffle items. Come get some great deals, along with a very filling meal. And don’t miss out on our fabulous dessert auction, with items by culinary art students, our parents and some commercial items.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO?

Randy Nunes and Cathy Slack, classes of ’71 & ’78, went on KSRO’s Alaskan Cruise together in September of this year, which was the first cruise for ei-ther of them. It was a 7 day trip that started with their flight out of Santa Rosa up to Seattle. From there they boarded Holland America’s Wester-dam Cruise Ship stopping in Juneau, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Ketchican, and Vancover Island, before disembark-ing back in Seattle. They both agreed it was an incredible trip with excel-lent service, delicious food, and sev-eral fun cooking demonstrations by celebrity chef John Ash. One of the personal demonstrations by Ash to the 35 people from the Santa Rosa are was a five wine and food tasting event. The wine was donated by Hook and Ladder Winery owner’s Cecil and Christine DeLoach, former owners of DeLoach Winery. Their son, Mike De-loach (Class of ’78) and his wife, Lori, oversee the Hook and Ladder Winery.

If you would like to tell us what you have been up to, send your story to Piner High Foundation, 1700 Fulton Rd., San-ta Rosa, CA 95403.

Santa Claus and his elves (Piner ASB) making their annual visit to Monroe Elementary school.

Preparation of last year’s crab feed - over $12,000 netted that went right back to the students at Piner High School.

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STEM (Science, Technology, Engi-neering and Math) Update: : Nicole Gregorio was selected from a compet-itive field of students from around the county for the Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP) at Sonoma State this past summer. Here is what she has to say about it, “Last summer I was lucky to be picked as one of SSU’s high school interns. I was accepted to a biochemistry project where I was paired with another student and an SSU professor to conduct research. Our project involved research on a protein called BAFF-R, which is of

high interest in targeted therapies for lymphoma. In lab we used E. coli to pro-duce this protein and analyzed samples for their content of BAFF-R. Not only was I able to learn skills like pouring and running SDS-PAGE, which is used to separate proteins by size, but I also learned how to troubleshoot failed experiments, which are frequent in research. Though research can be frustrating because results are often hard to come by, it is a very rewarding experience which has allowed me to grow as a student and a person. This internship prepared me for a career in science research, which I could not have received in a high school class alone.” Although Nicole has already obtained her STEM certificate level 3 award for her rocket design last year... she plans to continue her commitment to the certificate by obtaining all levels possible for the STEM prospect award.

2015 Piner Homecoming Floats. Congratulations to the Latino Club for being this year’s Homecoming Float Winner! Thank you to the Classes, the French Club and the Yearbook Club for your participation and helping to make Piner’s Homecom-ing halftime show fabulous!

PINER FOUNDATION IS GETTING A WEB-

SITEThe Piner High Foundation is having a website built, which should be com-pleted by the end of January 2016. This should make it easier to join the Foundation, renew your membership, and make donations in memory of someone, to honor a teacher, to cel-ebrate a graduation, etc. You will also be able to read the Alumni Newslet-ters on-line. Look for the website in January under www.pinerhighfoun-dation.org.

LET’S GET THOSE FIELD LIGHTS FOR

PINER! The Santa Rosa School Board has sent out a new request proposal to get es-timates for the cost of installing Field Lights at our Jim Underhill Stadium. We have already paid for our EIR re-port, but must now pay for our lights, new sound system, and tree barriers around the field. The Piner Hall of Fame Committee was recently joined by the Piner Boosters in efforts to get night games for our Piner students. See our GoFundMe project at www.gofundme.com. Then type in Piner High School or Piner-Field-Lights and see who has donated. Please pass the word. Donations are tax deductible. For further information you can call 571-7420.

Statistics verify that students in-volved in sports have very good school attendance.

Piner’s Nicole Gregorio in center of photo.

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ASB Conference: High school students from all of over Sonoma County participated in a Leadership Conference hosted by our very own Piner High ASB class, led by new advisor, Ms. Hollman. Schools that attended the conference included: Analy, Casa Grande, Cardinal Newman, Elsie Allen, Montgomery, Rancho Cotate, Roseland, Santa Rosa, Technology, Ukiah, and Windsor. This 350+ people event brought students together to show their spirit and demonstrate their leadership skills. The conference featured games, a motivational message about change by Johan Khalilian, spontaneous dancing, and a powerful amount of noise and spirit. Piner’s ASB class would like to thank all of the schools that attended for being so dedicated and spirited at the event. Also, we want to give special thanks to Jostens for helping to coordinate the event.

Piner’s Tiffany Le played with Lang Lang, a Chinese con-cert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China, at the Green Music Center on October 4th. Only a select few students were chosen to play piano with Lang Lang.

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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 - Retired PrincipalMitch Bonar - 1969Valerie Lane Burgoyne - 1971Michelle Patterson Brittain - 1988Charlie Buff - Retired FacultyAlicia Bunce - Parent of AlumniJackie Stevens Callaghan - 1973Bill Campbell - 1976Steve Casperson - Retired CoachBetty Castino - Retired FacultyRon Casselli - Retired FacultyNancy Michaelson Celms - 1968Betty Furia Clarke - 1971Leslie Jenkins Conant - 1970Jerry Corbet - 1968Laurie Cameron Cornelssen - 1972Rhonda Comalli - Friend of PinerKaren Coster - FacultyMike Daniels - Friend of PinerRachel Daniel - 1989Allison Arreola Delaney - 1995Chris DeMelloJudy Dillon - Retired Faculty

Matt Dillon - 1995John & Thea Dolan - Retired FacultyAnn 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 BoardUrsula Juricich - Wife of CharlesSteve Kramer - 1991Vince Klein - 1970Mark Koski - 1971Doug Krikac - 1969Jani Logsdon Krambs - 1977Ron Kristof - Retired FacultySandy Lacey - Retired FacultyJim Lanz - 1976Dick & Maureen Latimer - Retired Faculty

Frank Lawler - 1968Bob Maccario - 1972Nicholas Mancillas - FacultyDavid Marshall - 1970Lindsay Schalich Malik - 1972Mark McCarthyDennis McCarty - Retired CoachDeena McConnell - 1979Jill McCormick - 1989Pete McCormick - ParentRandy Merian - 1977Martha Bastoni Messana - 1970Tom Michaelson - 1971Patty Michiels - FacultyLinda Burke Miller - 1969Steve Mizera - District OfficeTina Murray - 1974Margaret Hayne Nelson - 1971April Wycoff 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 - Faculty

Merle & Ann Rossman - Alumni ParentsRandi Rossman - 1977Pat Sampson - Retired FacultyMichelle Scarboro - FacultyLisa Wittke Schaffner - 1987Bill Schalich - 1979Cindy Misner Schalich - 1983Kasey Schalich - 2010Larry Schalich - 1974Joe Schalich - 1971Nancy Schell - Retired Faculty Dolores Seymour - Retired StaffCarol Cake Sherwood - 1971Sue Sion - Retired Vice-PrincipalCathy Slack - 1978 Don & Patty Soekland - ’72 & ‘74Dale Solheim - 1971Pamela Rippin Sorensen - FacultyJennifer Stenger - 1988Jason Stephenson - 1989Karen 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 Wycoff - 1978Chris Zeek - SRHS Class of 1968Bob & Dolores Zeni - Retired Vice-Principal

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Piner High School Hall of Fame Cordially invites you to the

Tenth Annual Hall of Fame Dinner

Saturday, April 9, 2016 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

$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 16, 2016

For information please call (707) 571-7420 Make checks payable to:

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

Santa Rosa, CA 95406

(Cut Here) Hall of Fame Dinner 2016

Guest Reservation Card Name ________________________________________________

Please print name as it will appear on name tag Menu Choice: Prime Rib Salmon Vegetarian Name ________________________________________________

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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

Stan Brooks. . . . Athlete 60’s

Tony Barton. . . . Athlete 70’s

Mike Biando. . . . Athlete 70’s

Dede Fritsch Crayne. . . . Athlete 70’s

Karin Cartier. . . . Athlete 80’s

Pat Moran. . . . Athlete 80’s

Cordially invites you to the

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Congratulations to Patty Michiels! Fellow teacher Judy Barcelon stated, “Patty Michiels was honored as the Piner High Teacher of the Year nominee for the California League of High Schools. Patty has dedicated 31 years of her life to sharing her passion for Spanish culture and language to our students be it Spanish for Spanish speakers or AP[Advanced

Placement] Spanish. She excels at any level. Principal Tim Zalunardo introduced Patty acknowledging her dedication to the profes-sion and how she serves as a cornerstone to the Piner High family. He captured perfectly her zest for classroom engagement, that when one opens the door to her classroom you can see her radiance that illuminates the minds of her students as well as hear their exuberance in the delightful singing that emanates. Ms. Michaels boldly gave her acceptance speech in Spanish at first. Demonstrating her passion for the subject and as her face lit up with such exuberance I found myself as enchanted as her students must feel. Besides all that fanfare, Patty is an icon and role model to the teachers at Piner. She has created such opportunities as cross cultural teaching with her students

and elementary schools for over 15 years. She has kept up on technology, curriculum integration and being willing to try and learn new strategies. A lifelong learner, teacher ad-vocate and perpetual Prospector, Patty well deserves this recognition and shall continue to reign at Piner High.

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