Two Laguna Beach Women Win Rotary Scholarships for Study Abroad

Kathrin Boehmer and Kathryn Golden, both of Laguna Beach, are the winners of Rotary International Foundation scholarships for a year of study abroad. Both were sponsored by the Laguna Beach Rotary Club.

Boehmer is studying English and German

languages at UC Berkeley. She will serve as an Ambassador of Good Will in Munich while pursuing her studies.

Golden is studying business economics and French literature at UC Santa Barbara. She will be an Ambassador of Good Will in Lausanne, Switzerland, and study international business.

Twenty-seven students applied for the four scholarships in Rotary District 532, which covers most of Orange County.

Several students from Orange County studying at the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo were winners of competitions and scholarships. The winners were chosen on the basis of design ability, pro-

fessional aptitude, scholastic achievement and

financial need.

The Orange County students are are Chrys Kim of Newport Beach, $800 award; Richard Battaglia of Santa Ana, $500 grant; Laura Strong of Costa Mesa, $330 grant; Jodi Stehmeyer of Fountain Valley, $100 alumni award. Mary Annala of Mission Viejo won a Faculty Graduate Recognition Award; Bruce Bolander of Anaheim, a certificate of academic achievement, and Michael Carter of Yorba Linda, was honored for his service to the department.

The Westminster-Fountain Valley branch of the American Assn. of University Women donated $1,500 to the national group in the names of members Jeri Goldsbrough of Garden Grove; Yvonne Towner of Westminster and Carol Compton of Irvine.

The women were recognized for their work in the organization. The money will be distributed through the association’s Educational Foundation to further higher education for women.

Linda and Jeff Schulein of Newport Beach will receive the American Jewish Committee, Orange County chapter, Samuel Gendel Award.

The award, named for a committee founding member, is presented to people who have made significant contributions to the betterment of the community.

Jeff Schulein is in his third term as president of the Jewish Federation of Orange County; Linda Schulein is vice president of the Orange Coast Interfaith Shelter and president of Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation, and she serves on the boards of directors of a number of organizations, among them the Jewish Federation of Orange County.

The award will be presented Saturday at a celebration at the Hyatt Newporter in Newport Beach.

Andrea Cooper, 15, of Placentia, was named first runner-up in the Junior Model of the Year category at the recent International Modeling and Talent Assn. competition in New York City. It is estimated that about 1,500 teen-agers from the United States, Canada and South America participated in the contest.

John Lesovsky, 15, will receive an Eagle Scout award at a Court of Honor Aug. 27 at Orange Coast College.

John is an honors student at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, where he will enter the 10th grade in the fall.

For his Eagle Scout project, John organized a blood drive at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa. He has been in Scouting since the second grade and is now a member of Costa Mesa Boy Scout Troop 339.

John is also a member of Los Alamitos Police Explorer Post 658 which attended the

national Law Enforcement Explorer Conference last year in Boston.

UC Santa Barbara senior Sonia K. Skindrud, 21, of Huntington Beach will be one of 19 University of California students to study for a semester at Leningrad State University

under the Education Abroad Program. She will leave Aug. 26.

The students will live in a dormitory with Soviet students and will be studying in Russian.

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