Police Officers to Receive Awards From Harbor Exchange Club

The Newport Harbor Exchange Club will honor three Newport Beach Police Department employees Thursday for their efforts in 1984. Sgt. Al Fischer will be honored as supervisor of the year; Lavonne Campbell, officer of the year, and Nelson Ferguson, civilian employee of the year. Fischer has worked for the department for 15 years and has twice been selected as a recipient of the Chamber of Commerce/10-4 Club Award of Merit. Campbell is an investigator in the juvenile section of the detective division. Nelson serves as custodial officer and department photographer.

Charles Ardinger, a junior at Garden Grove High School, took first prize in the Orange County High School Spelling Contest, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Santa Ana. Ardinger competed with contestants from 32 public and private high schools. He will represent the county at the state competition in May.

Rod Murphy, a Fullerton police officer who has 14 years’ experience as a federal air traffic controller, has been named manager of the Fullerton Municipal Airport by City Manager William C. Winter. Murphy, 40, replaces Jay Jaso, who left the post in January to become chief administrator for municipal airports in Santa Clara County. Murphy, also a pilot, was an air traffic controller while serving in Vietnam and later worked for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Eric Remmen, 21, a student at Saddleback College North, was elected to the executive board of the California Student Assn. of Community Colleges. The board represents students in matters before the Legislature.

The newly formed Orange County branch of the Psychiatric Society has named Newport Beach psychiatrist Dr. Martin Brenner to be its first president.

Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk has been awarded a $70,000 Everett Hodges Neuropsychiatric Research Fellowship. Gottschalk is professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine and is director of the psychiatric consultation program at UCI Medical Center. The fellowship will be used to explore possible psychobiological sources of violence.