3 Seek 2 Garden Grove Trustee Seats : Education: Two incumbents and a Santa Ana man running for the second time compete for school board positions.

Two incumbents and one challenger will vie for two seats on the Garden Grove school board in the Nov. 7 general election.

Maureen G. DiMarco, 41, of Cypress and Richard H. Hain, 68, of Garden Grove will be seeking their third terms. Watson Lewis Warren, 44, of Santa Ana is making a second run at a post on the governing board of Orange County’s second largest school district.

DiMarco, an educational consultant and a third-year law student, also is president-elect of the California School Boards Assn.

“I’m running because I feel I have a lot to offer the school district. It’s gone through all kinds of changes. The experienced leadership is there. I think I’ve got a lot of support,” she said.

Her goals for a third term would include “maintaining a high level of quality of education” in spite of “funding fluctuations.”

Hain, a resident of Garden Grove since 1954, is a retired educator who was formerly the director of personnel for the district. He’s seeking a third term because “I’m vitally interested in what happens in the Garden Grove Unified School District and to the young people who will graduate from it.”

He lists among the accomplishments of the current board “good utilization of special funds,” including lottery money for projects ranging from carpeting classrooms to putting rubberized mats beneath playground equipment.

Hain said the district has tightened graduation requirements, emphasized a global dimension in its social-studies programs and broadened the use of computers in all grade levels.

Warren, an operating engineer, finished last in a field of eight candidates in 1987, polling 1,387 votes. He also ran unsuccessfully in 1988 for a spot on the Rancho Santiago Community College District board.

“I think the English-only program is important,” Warren said. “I think it’s too tough on teachers to have to teach in two different languages. I’m also in favor of fundamental schools, which place a heavy emphasis on the basics.”

He concedes that “this election will be an easy one for them (the incumbents) to win.” Warren does not have a candidate’s statement in the voter-information pamphlet mailed to all registered voters, and says he is planning no canvassing, mailings or signs promoting his candidacy.