Anaheim Junior High Students Nickel and Dime Their Way to Big Donation

After five days of such things as lunchtime athletic events, a dawn hop, bids to “buy a buddy,” sponge tosses and basketball throws, Anaheim’s Ball Junior High School raised a record $4,327.65 for its annual United Way fund drive.

Activities director Alden E. Esping, known to students as Mr. E, said most of the money was raised in 25-cent increments, the cost for the seventh- and eighth-graders to take part in some events, including such spirited activities as three-legged and wheelbarrow races.

Other events included a tug of war and Volkswagen push.

Foothill High School senior Shirley Wu was presented the Ed Doyle Music Award, which is given yearly to the outstanding music student in the Tustin Unified School District. She plays the piano and sings.

Jerry Poole and Kristofer Gleason, both of Boy Scout Troop 670 in Cypress, were named Eagle Scouts at a court of honor. Eagle Scout is Scouting’s highest award.

Sara McLaughlin of Huntington Beach won the girls’ division and Ryan Byrne of Santa Ana the boys’ division of the Orange Coast Optimist Club oratorical contest at Orange Coast College. Contestants from grades 6 through 10 presented speeches based on the theme “Destiny--Choice, Not Chance.”

Lawyers Georgia Garrett-Norris and Marjorie Rushforth, county legal activists, were named recipients of the 1988 Center Award by the Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County.

Soroptimist International of Orange has named real estate broker Bob Smith of Orange as its Man of the Year. He is an Orange Optimist Club member.

Placentia resident Donald D. Harenberg, 48, was honored as an Engineer of the Year by Rockwell International Corp., the company’s highest honor for technical achievement.

He and 17 others named from the various Rockwell divisions were selected from among 19,000 engineers and scientists. He works at the Newport Beach Rockwell division.

Harenberg was cited for his contributions to the conceptual design, architecture and logic implementation of an integrated digital signal processor.

Library director Colleen McGregor, Buena Park events coordinator Lois Keblaitis, anti-drug program organizer Sandra Barry and criminologist Margaret Kuo were named Women of Achievement by the Buena Park Mall.

The awards to the four Buena Park residents were given as part of the mall’s annual Women in History celebration. Newswoman Kelly Lange was a special guest honoree of the mall.

Winners of the Elks Mission Viejo Lodge 2444’s Most Valued Student Scholarships are Rachelle N. Mudrinich, Ronald A. Enge and Jason L. Spafford, all of Mission Viejo High; Maureen A. McFadden and Sabina Malik of Laguna Hills High, and William J. Leslie of Capistrano Valley High.

Calling him “an inspiration and a friend to each and every person he meets,” the Fullerton Firefighters Assn. named Fire Capt. Ray Easley, 46, its “Firefighter of the Year.”

Easley, who started working for the city 17 years ago as a tree trimmer and six years later was hired by the Fire Department, was one of the department’s first paramedics.

Easley has been president of the association for three years and is credited with streamlining and modernizing the organization.

He has three children and will celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary with wife, Paulette, in June.

Elks Lodge No. 1952 of Garden Grove has named former Garden Grove Mayor Jonathan H. Cannon as its Citizen of the Year.

Cannon, the city’s first directly elected mayor, was elected to the City Council in 1978. He was first elected mayor in 1980 and subsequently was reelected twice.

He resigned his position last August when he was appointed by Gov. George Deukmejian to be a Municipal Court judge.

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