Dance Teacher in Tustin Is Honored

Volunteer dance teacher Marilyn Foreman of Tustin was presented an Outstanding Contributions to Education award by the Orange County Department of Education.

Foreman teaches ballet and other dance forms to severely handicapped students at Jeane Thorman Elementary School and A. G. Currie Middle School in Tustin.

The Tustin businesswoman also instructs and choreographs the Special Olympics drill team at both schools and for the past 10 years has prepared students for the Very Special Arts Festival in Tustin.

The city of Fullerton has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation for meeting four standards that include having a tree department, a tree ordinance, a community forestry program and an annual Arbor Day observance. It is the 10th consecutive year that the city has won the honor.

Villa Park High School senior Tricia Roby, 17, a song leader who carries a full schedule of honors classes, was named Miss California Teen USA during a three-day pageant in San Luis Obispo.

Roby received $3,000 in cash and an assortment of gifts and expense-paid trips. She will compete with 50 others for the national title in July in a televised pageant.

The Orange resident, a cast member of the musical “Bye-Bye Birdie” at her high school, plans to attend UC San Diego and major in psychology.

Alan C. Barasch, John P. Cleary and Jeffrey D. Steele, all 18 and Orange residents, were awarded their Boy Scout Eagle ranks at a Court of Honor.

For their projects, Barasch conducted a clothing drive; Cleary canvassed 2,000 homes in Villa Park to collect necessities for the abused and abandoned children at Casita House of Santa Ana; and Steele designed and installed 40 plant identification signs at Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary in Modjeska Canyon.

Cleary and Steele are Villa Park High School students, while Barasch, a graduate of the school, attends UC Santa Barbara.

Garden Grove resident Henry Stein was named Elk of the Year by Garden Grove Elks Lodge No. 1952. Besides his Elks membership, Stein is active with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

John P. Kenney, president of August Vollmer University in Santa Ana, has been named a recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Criminal Justice Award from the American Society for Public Administration’s criminal justice section. The 3-year-old school teaches criminal justice to professional law enforcement personnel.

Laguna Beach resident Sage Humphries, 11, a linebacker for the Saddleback Valley Pop Warner Pee Wee Blue Bears, was named a Pop Warner Football National Scholar-Athlete.

Sage, who lead his team in solo tackles and assists, was one of 175 boys selected from 6,000 applicants to receive the national honor.

A sixth-grader at Thurston Middle School in Laguna Beach, Sage will be honored with others at a banquet in La Mirada on April 20. There, he will receive awards for being named to the national team and the All-American Orange Empire Conference Little Scholar Team.

Susan M. Cohen, who will graduate in May with honors in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, has been awarded a fellowship for graduate study in neuropharmacology at Duke University.

Cohen, daughter of Stan and Pat Cohen of Huntington Beach, is the principal flutist for the Claremont Chamber Orchestra and played varsity soccer.