Tom B. Hawkins, president of the Centinela...

Tom B. Hawkins, president of the Centinela Valley YMCA, has announced that Gordon Ewig, president of Inglewood Park Cemetery, will be chairman of the Centinela Valley YMCA Membership Campaign, to be held from Jan. 26 to Feb. 23. The goal of the YMCA drive is to raise $185,000 for the support of youth programs throughout the Centinela/South Bay area.

Dick Gass of General Telephone has been elected president of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Pacific Area Booster Assn. Other new officers are Roger Haft of Coastal Pacific Development, vice president, and Mary Schnack of Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital, treasurer. The boosters assist in youth and crime prevention programs and serve as liaison between the community and the department.

Two men and three women have been nominated for the 1987 Lomita Citizen of the Year award given annually by the Lomita Chamber of Commerce. Those nominated are Peter Rossick, Robert Hargrave, Linda Croyts, Viola Johansen and Joeann Valle.

Rossick was nominated by the Lomita Sister City Assn. and the Lomita-Harbor City Kiwanis Club for his 27 years of civic involvement with the Boy Scouts, Little League, as a parks commissioner and as a member of the Lomita Planning Commission, and with the Lomita sister-city program.

Hargrave was nominated by the women’s division of the Lomita Chamber of Commerce for his work for the Lomita schools, as city councilman and mayor of Lomita and in numerous other community and church service groups.

Croyts was nominated by the executive board of the Friends of the Lomita Library for her contributions to the Lomita library and schools, youth groups and Chamber of Commerce.

Johansen was nominated by the Lomita Senior Council and the Lomita Goodtimers for her work on behalf of senior citizens.

Valle was nominated by the Fleming Junior High School PTSA for her 17 years of service to schools and to youth.

The Citizen of the Year will be announced Jan. 16 at the installation dinner of the Lomita Chamber of Commerce and women’s division at Del Conte’s Restaurant. For information or reservations: (213) 326-6378.

Timothy A. Reed has been named hospital administrator at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Harbor City. He replaces James C. Heidenreich, who served as administrator for seven years.

Rabbi Steven Silver was recently installed as spiritual leader of Temple Menorah. The installing officer was Rabbi Leonard Thal, regional director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregation, the national organization for reformed Judaism. Silver, 34, is the youngest rabbi to serve as Temple Menorah’s spiritual leader. He and his wife, Cheri Ellowitz Silver, live in Torrance with their three children. Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach is celebrating its 40th anniversary, is a reform Jewish congregation and was the pioneer Jewish congregation in the South Bay.

Gillian Olechno, president of Centinela Business and Professional Women, has been selected to appear in the 17th edition of Who’s Who in California, published by the Who’s Who Historical Society. Olechno is library director for Daniel Freeman hospitals. She received a certificate from the society for having demonstrated “outstanding professional achievement, superior leadership and exceptional service.”