McDonnell Douglas Employees Donate $10,000 for Videos on Drugs
McDonnell Douglas employees have donated $10,000 to the Huntington Beach Library Patrons Foundation to buy videos about drug and alcohol abuse.
“Of the 1,800 videotapes owned by the library, there are only five pertaining to drug and alcohol abuse,” said library director Ron Hayden. He said the money will allow the library to provide information “concerning this epidemic plague on our society.”
This is the second $10,000 donation to the library from the McDonnell Douglas employees’ community services program.
Liss Engineering Inc. of Tustin was presented an award of excellence for its lighting design of a Holiday Spa Health Club in Hollywood by the Orange County Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
The award noted the company’s use of neon and high-efficiency lighting which created an Art Deco ambiance in the $8-million health club.
Maria C. Sheehan of El Toro, a vice chancellor for the Saddleback Community College District, has been named Outstanding Hispanic Educator by the League of United Latin American Citizens.
The Developmental Disabilities Center in Orange has named Carl Karcher, founder and chairman of Carl Karcher Enterprises Inc., which operates Carl’s Jr. restaurants, as Employer of the Year.
He was cited for providing unequaled access to employment for the disabled.
The center is a nonprofit agency that provides social services for 6,400 Orange County adults and children with developmental disabilities.
Proceeds from an awards dinner on April 6 to recognize Karcher will help purchase computerized speech-assistance devices for disabled county residents.
Ellen Lewis, senior associate director of hospital and clinics and director of nursing at UCI Medical Center in Orange, was named president-elect of the 1,100-member California Society for Nursing Service Administration. She will become president in February.
The group works to promote nurse managers as equal partners on hospital management teams, develop policies affecting nurses, improve nursing practices and shape future strategies.
“I believe the 27 years I’ve spent in nursing, more than half of which were in management, provides me with the expertise to address those challenges,” Lewis said.
Eighth-grader Marcia Vojtech of Bell Intermediate School won the first spelling bee for seventh- and eighth-graders in the Garden Grove Unified School District. She correctly spelled septuagenarian to outlast six others after correctly spelling veniremen, cataclysmically and galimatias.
The three baton teams sponsored by the Fountain Valley Community Services Division recorded eight first-place honors in the recent California Twirling Competition of the Drum Majorettes of America contest. All the teams were coached by Debi Barr of Fountain Valley.
Carol Kelsey, who started 19 years ago as a clerical worker and who is now senior supervisor for the Orangewood Childrens Home in Orange, was named 1988 Business Associate of the Year by the Orange Coast Charter Chapter of the American Business Women’s Assn.
The Orange County Law Library in the Santa Ana Civic Center was presented a Certificate of Merit for its federal depository section after being inspected by members of the superintendent of documents office in Washington.
Since 1975, the law library has enjoyed the status of a “selective” U.S. government depository to house, receive and make available to the public the official documents of the federal government.
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