Ski Group Honors La Habra Resident

La Habra resident Chuck Morse, who has been involved in national and international skiing for more than 25 years as a race coach, ski patrol director and certified ski instructor, has been named Man of the Year by the Far West Ski Assn.

He was recognized for his volunteer and professional services in developing fund-raising events for the U.S. Ski Team, as well as his program on ski sense and safety, which is used and endorsed by 600 ski resorts in America and Canada.

The award by the association, which represents more than 20,000 skiers in California, was presented at the group’s annual convention in San Francisco.

William A. Heffernan, professor of English at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, has been awarded a Fulbright professorship at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, for 1989-90. He will leave next month to teach American and Afro-American literature.

Heffernan has taught at Saddleback College for the past 17 years and is the author of several college textbooks, including “The Harvard Reader” and “Art & Artifacts.”

Before teaching at Saddleback, he was a Fulbright professor in Liberia in West Africa.

Karen Walter, who will attend Stanford University, and Nhan Vu, who will attend Harvard University, both El Dorado High School graduates, and Brian Jones, a Brea-Olinda High graduate who will attend Princeton University, were named Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship winners. Each received a $1,000 scholarship that is provided by Republican Youth Associates of the Republican Party of Orange County.

The South Coast Literacy Council has graduated 14 Orange County residents to serve as tutors for those seeking to learn English. The new graduates are: Irvine residents Alice Andrews, Darin Belt, Kenneth Gardner, Deborah Globerson, Jennifer James, Barbara Looney; San Clemente residents Linda Blinn, Emmy Lou Bradt, and Betty Neely; Newport Beach residents Alyssa Batuck and Jean Saiya; Becky Berry of Mission Viejo; Tom Heron of El Toro, and Karen Looney of Costa Mesa.

They will be assigned to one of the 17 centers throughout southern Orange County to assist foreign-born residents in learning to read, write and speak English.

The following teachers have been named Teacher of the Year at their schools in the Fullerton Union High School District: Shirley Gatling of Buena Park High; Nancy Hunyadi of Fullerton High; Anita Larsen of La Habra High; Edlynn Zimmerman of Sunny Hills High; Tom Moore, Troy High; Kim Marsh, La Vista High; Christine Ann Zielinski, Sonora High, and Dolores Lunde, an ESL teacher for alternative and continuing education.

The teachers are nominees to become district Teacher of the Year, an award that will be announced this fall. Dan Jundanian, a science teacher at Troy High School, is the current holder of that title.

The city of Anaheim was awarded a Certificate of Achievement for excellence in financial reporting from the Government Finance Officers Assn. of the United States and Canada. It was the 13th consecutive year in which the city was honored for its governmental accounting and financial reporting. George Ferrone is finance director for the city.

Boy Scouts Chad M. Gorsuch, 17, of Orange, and Jay S. Eastman, 18, of Santa Ana, both of Canyon District Troop 543, were presented their Eagle Scout rank in a Court of Honor at Santiago Oaks Regional Park in Orange.

Eastman designed, built and erected two signs for the equestrian community of Orange Park Acres as his Eagle Scout project and Gorsuch planted drought-resistant California shrubs and wildflowers and established an Eagle Scout recognition plaque at Santiago Park.

Both raised a total of $800 for the projects and last summer both worked as John Wayne Outpost specialists at the Lake Arrowhead Scout camp operated by the Los Angeles Boy Scout Council.

Eric Marson, a sophomore at Fullerton College, won first place at the recent Journalism Assn. of Community Colleges’ annual state conference. Marson won for a human interest story on a fellow student’s heroic struggle with cerebral palsy.