Radio station KLON, the National Public Radio...

Radio station KLON, the National Public Radio affiliate at Cal State Long Beach, has named a new general manager. He is Rick Lewis, 38, currently Minnesota Public Radio vice president for news and information programming and station manager for KSJN-AM in St. Paul. Lewis will take over KLON sometime in November. He replaces David Creagh, who resigned in July to manage a public radio station at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University.

Brian Y. Harrison, president and chief executive officer of Metropolitan Stevedore Co. in Long Beach, has been selected by area shipping and transportation associations to receive the Los Angeles County Boy Scouts’ “Good Scout of the Year” Award. Harrison, a director of several national shipping associations and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Propeller Club, will be honored at a dinner Oct. 30 aboard the Queen Mary. Proceeds from the $250-a-plate dinner will go to support the 200,000 youngsters in Los Angeles area scouting.

Mayor Pro Tem Alex H. Beanum of Cerritos has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Southern California Joint Powers Insurance Authority. He has been on the authority’s executive committee since shortly after his election to the Cerritos City Council in 1978. The authority provides a variety of insurance plans to its 45 member cities and governmental agencies.

Cerritos High School French teacher Carol Stein-Armstrong was selected to serve on a 50-member statewide team of foreign language educators. Team members, trained and sponsored by the state Department of Education, attended an institute in August at the University of the Pacific and will act as teacher trainers at the county or district levels, helping other teachers implement the new state model curriculum.

Bellflower Councilman Ray O’Neal has been appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to serve on the county Fire Commission. O’Neal is one of two elected officials on the seven-member panel which advises the supervisors, county forester and fire warden on the organization and operation of fire protection services throughout the county.

Paul Bouchard, an artist who works in Long Beach, has donated an original painting from his series of works on the symbolism of flags to the permanent collection of the art museum at Cal State Long Beach.

Eight people have been honored for donating 1,000 or more hours of volunteer service to public libraries in the Southeast Region of the county library system. Honorees are Martha Mandel, Frank Davey, Arthur C. Smith, Edward B. Sharer, Shirley H. Scanlan, Marion A. Abbott, Jane T. Bristol and Lucille M. Walker. Volunteer certificates were presented during a ceremony at the Norwalk regional library.

Frances Spaulding has been honored for 25 years of service as founding volunteer librarian at Long Beach First Church of the Nazarene. Spaulding, 81, earned a master’s degree in library science from USC and retired after 15 years in the Long Beach Public Library system to organize the church library.

William H. Drake of Long Beach has won the President’s Award for program management, one of the highest honors presented to employees at the Aerospace Corp. During a special company-wide ceremony, he received a $2,500 cash award and a pewter plate. Drake is principal manager of the inertial upper stage directorate in the programs group at the private, nonprofit company based in El Segundo. He and two other employees, who shared in the honor, were chosen for making technical contributions to the successful redesign of an Air Force upper-stage rocket motor. Drake joined Aerospace in 1962. He hold an associate of arts degree from Long Beach City College and pursued undergraduate engineering work at the University of Colorado.