El Camino College Prof. Beatrice L. Brody...

El Camino College Prof. Beatrice L. Brody has been honored by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women for her work on campus and in the community to promote women’s equality and to direct their efforts toward improving the quality of life. Brody has been on El Camino College’s faculty since 1974 as a teacher and counselor. She currently is a counselor with the Adult Re-Entry Center, working with those who return to college after an absence of at least one year, and coordinates a child-care program targeted at economically disadvantaged women. Brody and her husband, Steve, are residents of Rolling Hills Estates.

Rancho Palos Verdes resident James C. Anderson, associate professor of civil engineering at USC, is a winner of the 1989 J. James R. Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Anderson is co-director of the university’s Center for Research in Earthquake and Construction Engineering. He received the national honor at the society’s recent convention in New Orleans.

Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghaffar of Rolling Hills, professor of structural engineering at USC, won the 1989 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Abdel-Ghaffar, co-director of the USC Center for Research in Earthquake and Construction Engineering, is a member of the steering committee that organized the first international conference on the 1985 Mexico earthquakes.

A delegation of 10 women from the Palos Verdes Peninsula attended the 26th biennial convention of the California Federation of Republican Women held recently in Fresno. They are: Mary Benz, Marge Flynn, Joy Hill, Jean Steiger, Scottie Walker, Barbara Glushenko, Suzann McCromick, Helen Falconer, Ruth Springer and Elna Garrison. Others attending were Jan Gruber of Rolling Hills Estates, and Lila Hummel, Barbara Busby, Lucille Springer and Lillian Worgul, of the South Bay area.

Stage and motion picture actor Ralph Bellamy was honored last week by Loyola Marymount University with the Hal Roach Entertainment Award. The award was established last year as a testimonial for Roach and will be conferred annually in a benefit for the LMU Department of Communications, which offers graduate and undergraduate courses in film and television production, screen writing, recording arts, communications study and media management, according to Dr. Arthur W. Bloom, dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts.

Redondo Beach resident Niki Deamos is the recipient of a $10,000 scholarship awarded by Marshalls retail stores. A graduate of South High School, Deamos is a second-year merchandise marketing major at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and plans to use her award to complete her education at the college.

Carl Zaptiff has been appointed postmaster of Lawndale, it has been announced by Clarence J. Warner, manager/postmaster of the Inglewood Management Sectional Center of the U.S. Postal Service. Zaptiff replaces Welton Irving, who is now postmaster of Palos Verdes. An 18-year postal service employee, Zaptiff is a native Californian and a graduate of Artesia High School.