Goodwill Industries to Honor Companies, Volunteers and Its Employees

Goodwill Industries of Orange County will hold its annual awards dinner next Thursday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Newport Beach to recognize companies, volunteers and employees, including Nancy Quarles of Fountain Valley who will receive the Centennial Outstanding Service Award, a special recognition presented only during Orange County’s Centennial observance. Quarles, a certified vocational evaluator, is director of rehabilitation for Goodwill Industries. The award is in recognition of her community service in improving the lives of people in Orange County.

Ken Rosso of Brea, an intern in the maintenance department, will receive Goodwill’s Achiever of the Year award, and Delores M. Fredette of Santa Ana will receive the Graduate of the Year award.

Allison Garbutt and Jeremy Stonebarger, both seniors at Mission Viejo High School, were named Outstanding Students of the Year by the Mission Viejo Elks Lodge. Each received $250.

Newport Beach resident and University of Southern California professor Richard F. Thompson has won the 1989 Howard Crosby Warren Medal for “distinguished contribution to experimental psychology.”

Thompson holds the William M. Keck Chair in Psychology and Biological Sciences at USC’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and his research findings have been detailed in more than 200 papers published in Science, the Journal of Neurophysiology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology and others.

The Howard Crosby Warren Medal is named after a former Princeton professor, one of the founders of experimental psychology in the United States.

Laguna Beach resident David Peck, a professor of English and director of the American studies program at Cal State Long Beach, has been selected by the college as a recipient of its Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. He has taught at the university for 22 years.

Grayce Roessler, coordinator of continuing education for health care personnel at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, has received the Transcultural Nursing Leininger Award at a conference of the transcultural Nursing Society in Edmonton, Canada.

Roessler, a registered nurse who retired from full-time teaching in 1977, is a consultant in international nursing and health. She was praised for her leadership in promoting transcultural nursing, which deals with the health and cultural feelings of people.

She received a plaque and a $250 award that she has donated to the society.

Ken Prillaman, a part-time student at Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley and father of four children, has been elected student representative to the Coast Community College Board of Trustees.

He works full time as an underwriter supervisor for an insurance company but doesn’t believe that he will have a problem handling his new duties, which begin June 1.

“I wanted to give back something and I could do it most effectively as a student trustee,” the 29-year-old Garden Grove man explained. He said he later plans to transfer to a 4-year college and major in business

administration with an emphasis on risk management.

Fullerton Police Detective Scott Camery was awarded the Medal of Valor and Fullerton Police Detective Tom Basham was presented the Medal of Citizenship by the American Legion’s Orange County district in competition against police officers from throughout the county.

Roy Runaf, 12, member of Garden Grove Chess for Juniors, was declared co-champion with Joshua Waitzkin, 11, of New York City in the national chess championship for elementary school students held recently in Tempe, Ariz.

“Roy is a wonderful player who started only 3 years ago,” said Robert Snyder of Garden Grove, a national chess master who operates Chess for Juniors. “Roy plays tournaments on a regular basis and works very hard at his chess game.”

Serafines de Orange County, a nonprofit organization associated with the California Angels, presented its Hispanic Men of the Year Awards to Santa Ana Unified School District Supt. Rudy Castruita andBell-Cudahy Police Chief Manuel Ortega, a formercaptain with the Orange Police Department.The organization’s main goal is to provide scholarships to Latino youths.

Dawn Metz, 21, was selected from 15 contestants and crowned 1989 Miss Fountain Valley at a pageant sponsored by the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce. She is a Huntington Beach resident but was sponsored by D.J. Brothers Entertainment Co., a Fountain Valley business.