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Pageantry Corps Wins Again

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For the third time this year, the 21-member Dana Hills Pageantry Corps in Dana Point has won the sweepstakes trophy in the Orange County Tall Flags competition.

Besides its recent win at the Antelope Valley Band and Auxiliary Corps competition, the group scored victories at the Valley Field Show Tournament in Mission Viejo and the Savanna Field Show Tournament in Anaheim.

Pageantry Corps leaders are Dawn Warnock, Jennifer Dunn, Jennifer Dyer and Karen Stuart.

Gary Smith of Katella High and Wilhemina Van Hunnick of John F. Kennedy High were named Teachers of the Year in the Anaheim Union High School District.

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A $20,000 donation has been presented to the Laguna Art Museum by the Baldwin Co., a Newport Beach land developer, to help sponsor the Ilene Segalove exhibition scheduled to premiere at the museum in April.

The exhibition, a broad survey of the work of Los Angeles media artists, includes photographs, videotapes and audio works. It later will travel nationally.

The donation matches a federal grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Placentia resident Don A. Schweitzer, dean of the Cal State Fullerton School of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named to chair the California Council for the Humanities.

Schweitzer, an appointee of Gov. George Deukmejian, is the first gubernatorial appointee to head the council in its 15-year history. Only a fourth of the council’s 26 members are appointed by the governor.

The council selects, funds and oversees projects that bring programs based on the humanities discipline to California residents. Each year the council distributes about $500,000 to support films, radio programs, museum displays, special programs and lectures.

The work of the council is funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Fullerton Councilwoman Molly McClanahan, longtime advocate of cultural activities in Fullerton, has been named honorary chairwoman of the 26th annual “A Night in Fullerton.”

The celebration of the arts, with free music, art, drama and dance programs at numerous locations throughout the city, will be April 27, according to Ann Patrick, planning committee chairwoman.

Saddleback College performing arts director Geofrey English was elected to the 11-member board of directors of the Western Alliance of Arts Administrators. He is the only board member from a community college. Other members represent such universities as UCLA and Stanford.

Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder has been named Woman of the Year by Interval House, the Seal Beach-based crisis shelter for battered women and children. She was cited for her support “from the very beginning, long before it became a popular thing to do,” said Carol Ann Williams, spokeswoman for the house.

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