Former Rep. James Roosevelt Named to 2nd Term on OCTC

James Roosevelt of Newport Beach, head of the Chapman Institute, a former congressman and the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been appointed to a second term as the public member of the Orange County Transportation Commission. His latest term will run through Dec. 21, 1988. Unlike his father, however, Roosevelt will not seek a third term.

Pamela R. Johnson, the former director of public education and development for the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, has been named director of alumni relations at UC Irvine. Johnson previously was director of the alumni association of the UCLA Graduate School of Management.

Two Orange County areas have received new postmasters to start the year, and another is looking for a replacement. The new officials are Arthur O. Martinez, former postmaster in San Clemente who now heads the 300-member staff at the Orange post office, and Gus B. Henggeler, who was appointed to head the 170 postal employees in the San Juan Capistrano-Mission Viejo office. Martinez has been with the U.S. Postal Service for 16 years; Henggeler, 11 years. A replacement for Martinez in San Clemente will not be named for six months, but Ben Torres of Santa Ana has been named the officer in charge of the office.

Joe Perez of the Orange County Probation Department and Joe Avalos of the Santa Ana Police Department have been cited by the Latino Peace Officers Assn., a statewide group, for their contributions to the community in 1984.

You can’t say the new president of the Cypress school board doesn’t know the territory. Edward Southfield, a trustee since 1981, attended Cypress schools, has a daughter in the fifth grade there and serves on the Cypress County Water District board. In La Palma, Gloria Scanlon, a resident since 1970, has been elected president of the Centralia School District board of trustees.