Students to Receive $51,000 in Mexican-American Bar Assn. Scholarships
The $51,000 that was raised through a celebrity golf tournament in June sponsored by the Mexican-American Bar Assn. Scholarship Foundation will be awarded in grants to Orange County Latino high school graduates.
Charlotte Serna and Oscar Castro will receive $3,000 each as the winners of the the Efren Herrera Foundation Scholarship Award. (Herrera was the tournament chairman.)
Other students receiving awards ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 are Marela Martinez, Robert Hernandez, Bernard Gaffney, Armando Ramirez, Tammie Jo Solorio-Fleener, Ana Maria Zavala, Patricia Guzman, Rosalinda Espinoza, Margarita Perez, Dominique Rumps, Griselda Ybarra, Elizabeth Medina, Delia Sanchez, Abel Sanchez, Juan Ramirez, Maricruz Rodriguez and Yamileth Avendano, Silvia Macias, Francine Ortega, Sandra Nieto, Rachel Vasquez, Maria Elena Enriquez, Jose Trevino, Maria Gomez, Rosalia Martinez and Richard Rodriguez.
In addition, Michael Sanchez was named winner of the $1,000 Efren Herrera/Mexican-American Bar Assn.’s ITT Canon Corp. Engineering Award.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Manuel A. Ramirez is chairman of the Bar Assn. scholarship committee.
Anaheim resident Beverly King has been named Volunteer of the Year by the Costa Mesa-based AIDS Service Foundation, which is entering its fourth year. King has been with the foundation since its inception.
Melinda Morgan of Tustin was named Volunteer of the Year by the American Lung Assn. of Orange County.
She was selected by the board of directors for the organization for her efforts in spearheading the Celebrity Waiters’ Night fund-raiser at Crystal Court in Costa Mesa. The event raised $29,000 for the association.
“Melinda’s endless enthusiasm and creativity directly contributed to the outstanding success of this year’s event,” said Dr. Ray Casciari, board president.
Jill Lloyd & Associates of Santa Ana was named a winner in the annual Clarion Awards competition held in conjunction with Women in Communications Inc. Lloyd’s agency, which specializes in promotion and marketing of fairs and special events, was recognized for a radio spot produced for the National Orange Show in San Bernardino last September.
Clarions are the highest honor the organization gives. The national competition attracted about 700 entries this year. The award will be presented to Lloyd later this year at the organization’s national conference in San Antonio.
John McLuckey, president of Rockwell International Corp.’s Autonetics Electronics Systems in Anaheim, is the winner of the Orange County Purchasing Council 1989 Corporate Leadership Award in Economic Development.
The council presents the award each year to an Orange County company chief executive who has shown extraordinary personal commitment and leadership in minority economic development.
“Providing equal opportunity, helping small and disadvantaged businesses understand bid specifications, instructing them on how to submit appropriate bids--all of this translates into a healthier economy for all of us,” said McLuckey, who lives in Anaheim.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., has awarded Rensselaer Medals to high school students Ray Chu of Newport Beach, Donald Sutorius of Dana Point, Philip Kong of Garden Grove and Carl Sujo of Anaheim. The institute presents about 1,700 of the medals each year for outstanding achievements in mathematics and science during the junior year.
Bentley’s Restaurant in Huntington Beach has received an Outstanding Corporate Contribution Award from the California affiliate of the American Diabetes Assn. for its donation of facilities, food and staff members for a recent fund-raiser.
UC Irvine history professor Jaime Rodriguez has received a Fulbright Scholar Grant and a UC President’s Research Fellowship. Rodriguez is director of of the UC Irvine Mexico/Chicano Program. He will use his Fulbright grant to conduct research at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico from January through July next year as part of the American Republics Research Program.
He is one of 26 UC faculty members to receive the President’s Fellowship in the Humanities, an award established by UC President David Gardner. It carries a stipend of $25,000 and up to a year of paid leave. Rodriguez’s research topic is “The Creation of the Mexican Republic.”
Jeffrey M. Schall of Placentia, a Marine Corps veteran, was graduated after 21 weeks of training at the California Highway Patrol Academy and was assigned to the Santa Ana area. He is an alumnus of El Modena High School in Orange, and he earned a bachelor’s degree from Graceland College in Iowa.