Musicians’ Assn. Picks Scholarship Winners

The Orange County Musicians’ Assn. has selected Inaki Zubizarreta, 24, of San Juan Capistrano, Robert Fournier, 18, of Fountain Valley and Mark Woo-Sam, 19, of Buena Park as winners of its second annual Musicians Scholarship Awards.

Zubizarreta, a pianist studying at Saddleback College, won the first place award of $750. Woo-Sam, a cellist, who will attend Cal State Fullerton, and Fournier, a trombonist who plans to attend Indiana University, shared second-place awards of $400 each.

The winners were selected on the basis of live auditions. The scholarship money is raised by the Musicians’ Assn. at its annual music festival known as the “Bash.” It will be held Nov. 13 at the Red Lion Inn in Costa Mesa.

Laura Longwill of La Habra was honored as the top award winner with 10,000 hours of volunteer service to Brea Community Hospital. Others singled out for their contributions at the volunteer luncheon held at the Disneyland Hotel were Marjorie Gilliland of Yorba Linda for 8,600 hours of service; Myrt Reno of Fullerton, 7,200 hours; Bernice Davies of Fullerton, 5,800 hours, and Brenda Winstanley of Brea, 5,400 hours.

Harry Saehlenou, 60, owner of Anaheim-Fullerton Towing Co., was inducted into the Florida-based Friends of Towing Hall of Fame, recognizing his years of service and effort to advance professionalism in the towing industry.

The Anaheim resident was joined by towing company operators in England, Sweden, Holland

and Mexico to receive the honor at the recent Towing Recovery Assn. of America convention in Anaheim.

Fullerton High School graduates Brian Fletcher and David Kim, representing Southern California, reached the finals in the National Speech Tournament in Nashville before losing to Minnesota. Earlier, they competed against teams from Texas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin and South Carolina. Kim will attend UC San Diego and Fletcher will study at UCLA.

Ruth Govorchin of Yorba Linda, mother of three daughters and a special education teacher with the Fullerton School District, has been named a member of President Reagan’s Committee on Mental Retardation for a three-year term.

California Youth Soccer Assn. South has named nine Orange County players to attend the weeklong Olympic Development Program Regional IV Camps starting July 15 in Colorado Springs and Washington state.

The players selected are Shawn Viloria of Orange; Suelene Chen of Huntington Beach; Devon Fitzpatrick of Cypress; Julie Foudy of Mission Viejo; Rae Hubocan of Mission Viejo; Heather McIntyre of Laguna Hills; Daniel Barber of Garden Grove; Joe Max Moore of Irvine, and Ron Murrietta of Orange.

Lisa Engineering Inc. of Tustin was presented a national merit award for its work on the Holiday Spa Health Club in Hollywood from the Illuminated Engineering Society of North America.

Tustin resident Howard Rosenberg was appointed national commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League and Jack Adelman of San Juan Capistrano was named associate national commissioner at the group’s 75th anniversary national meeting in New York City.

The commission serves as the group’s policy-making body.

In another appointment, Elliot Gordon of Irvine was named to the ADL’s National Civil Rights Commission.

Financial scholarships totaling $4,500 were presented to six women by the Fullerton Horizons Unlimited chapter of the American Business Women’s Assn. to encourage them to begin career preparation or resume studies. They are Kimberly Dean, Heidi Nickisher and Margaret Ferron, all of Fullerton; Carol Jorgenson of Seal Beach; Vickie Natale of Fountain Valley, and Janice Perpignani of Placentia.

Nancy G. Leveson, a computer science professor at UC Irvine, was awarded a $123,174 National Science Foundation Scholarship under its 1988 Visiting Professorships for Women program. She will study computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year.

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