Gerald D. Weinstein Is Appointed Acting Dean of UCI College of Medicine
Dr. Gerald D. Weinstein, chairman of the UC Irvine Department of Dermatology since 1979, has been named acting dean of the UCI College of Medicine, effective July 1. Weinstein, an Irvine resident, will assume the post held by founding medical college Dean Stanley van den Noort. Weinstein received his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to UCI, he was a faculty member in the dermatology department at the University of Miami School of Medicine from 1965 to 1979.
Five Latino educators will be honored at the second annual Orange County Hispanic Educator of the Year awards banquet, May 11 at the Saddleback Inn in Santa Ana. To be honored are Ronald P. Raya, assistant superintendent of instructional services for Placentia Unified School District; Jose Sandoval, faculty member at UC Irvine College of Medicine; Cordelia Gutierrez, Spanish teacher at Costa Mesa High School; Samuel M. Mendoza, acting assistant director for Cal State Fullerton’s Career Development Center; and Gualberto Valadez teacher for Placentia Unified School District. The awards identify outstanding role models within the education profession.
Chris and Kay Larsen of Costa Mesa recently traveled to Montreal to play in the semifinal of the world’s largest and longest bridge tournament of 1985, the Grand National Open Pairs-VII. It took the Larsens a total of six months of playing other tournaments before winning the Grand National Playoffs held in San Bernardino, qualifying them for the Canadian tournament. Even though they didn’t place in the granddaddy of all bridge tournaments, they didn’t let that stop them from having a fine trip. “We had a marvelous time, it was really cold,” Kay said. “My husband is Norwegian and I’m from Ohio and we both really love the cold. When we arrived in Canada, there was a blizzard going on and the temperature was minus 10 degrees, but it warmed up to a balmy 25 degrees.”
Glenn Southard will become assistant city manager of San Juan Capistrano on April 29, City Manager Stephen Julian announced. Southard currently is assistant to the city manager for West Covina and previously worked in Riverside and El Cajon. Southard holds a master of public administration degree from Cal State Fullerton and was named an Outstanding Young Man in America in 1983. He is president of the Municipal Management Assistants of Southern California.
Edward R. Roberts has been named Outstanding Vocational Education Administrator for the State of California for 1985 by the Assn. of California School Administrators. Roberts is superintendent of the Central County Regional Occupational Program, which serves the Orange, Santa Ana and Garden Grove school districts. Roberts has managed the program since it began in 1973 with just 300 students. A total of 10,000 students graduate from the program annually. He will be retiring in June, completing a career in education that spanned more than 35 years, 30 of them as a vocational administrator.