Convention Board Installs New Members

Jim Hancock of Knott’s Berry Farm and Bob Jordan of Holiday Inn of Anaheim have been elected to three-year terms on the Anaheim Area Visitor & Convention Bureau board of directors.

The bureau announced at the annual installation dinner that 1,062,347 people attended conventions in 1989, breaking the previous year’s record of 1,026,728. Reelected members are Hideo Amemiya, Disneyland Hotel; Robert Berkeley, ARA Leisure Services; Don Cooke, Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge; Vince Durocher, Delta Airlines; Werner Escher, South Coast Plaza & Village; Kevin Forth, Straub Distributing Co.; Glenn Hale, Anaheim Hilton and Towers; Ted Holmquist; Anaheim Plaza Resort Hotel and Don Karcher, Carl Karcher Enterprises.

Others are Herb Leo, Herb Leo & Associates; Jerry Lewin; Hyatt Regency Alicante; Jack Lindquist, Disneyland; Ron Marshall, Mr. Stox Restaurant; William O’Connell, Stovall Properties; Mike Port, California Angels; Nort Rittmaster, Greyhound Expo; Larry Slagle, Yellow Cab Co. of Orange County, and Barbara Sloate, Whirl-A-Round Tours.

Others are Ned Snavely, Anaheim Marriott Hotel; Bill Stafford, Doubletree Hotel; William Torresala, Pan Pacific Hotel, and Robert Zenitch, Inn at the Park.

Wendy Bargiel, 17, of El Toro has been selected as a regional semifinalist in TEEN Magazine’s Great Model Search.

She was one of 240 selected from a list of an estimated 24,000 entries. Her photo is appearing in the January issue of the magazine. The winner’s picture will appear on the cover of the October issue.

The winner will also receive a $5,000 cash award, a trip for two to a resort and a wardrobe of formal gowns.

John Haesler, owner of Temp Associates in Irvine, has been elected president of the California Assn. of Temporary Services, a statewide trade association which Haesler said employed 6.5 million temporary workers nationwide in 1989.

Anaheim Director of Public Works Gary Johnson has been elected president of the League of California Cities Public Works Officers Department at the group’s recent annual conference in San Francisco.

The annual league meeting attracted nearly 3,000 local government leaders who met to discuss the issues cities will face in the next 10 years and how to address those problems.

Johnson, also Anaheim’s city engineer and a former city engineer for Seal Beach, served as president of the City Engineers Assn. of Orange County in 1981.

Newport Beach resident Robert M. McIntyre, known for addressing the concerns of ethnic minorities in Southern California, has been named a Regents Lecturer in the UC Irvine Graduate School of Management for the winter quarter.

The former chairman and chief executive officer of the Southern California Gas Co. will team-teach a course called “Managing Cultural Diversity” with faculty member Judy Rosener.

The course is designed to help students understand the problems and opportunities of a culturally diverse work force and their implications for management.

The Art Alliance of Cal State Fullerton, a support group that provides grants to the college art department, has named students Victoria Martin, Julia Schlosser, Rolf Wald and Theodore Litsios as winners of its annual Tribute Fund Award.

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