Manhattan Beach resident Matthew S. (Sandy) Rae...

Manhattan Beach resident Matthew S. (Sandy) Rae Jr. has been selected by the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. to receive its 1990 Shattuck-Price Memorial Award, in recognition of his many years of service to the community and to the legal profession. Rae is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Darling, Hall and Rae. He is a former trustee of the bar association and has been national justice of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. The award will be made during the 1990 Shattuck-Price Memorial Award Luncheon on May 24, in the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Former Torrance resident Dennis Lawrence De Leon has been appointed chairman of the Human Rights Commission for New York City’s Department of General Services. De Leon, 41, is a graduate of North High School in Torrance and Pepperdine University. He did graduate work in experimental social psychology at UC Santa Barbara and received his law degree from Stanford University. He served as regional counsel for the California Rural Legal Assistance Corp. and in other California and federal legal positions, as well as in New York. De Leon is the son of Louise and Jess De Leon of Torrance.

Seventeen-year-old Dana Maye will represent Inglewood at the Miss California finals in San Diego in June. Maye, an Inglewood resident and a senior at Westchester High School, is the daughter of Walter and Shirley Maye. She was selected as the winner of the Miss Inglewood Scholarship Pageant held recently at the Mayflower Ballroom in Inglewood. As Miss Inglewood, she is the official hostess for that city. The competition is endorsed by the Inglewood mayor and City Council and the Inglewood-Airport Area Chamber of Commerce.

In an awards ceremony at Hawthorne School District offices, LaShaunda Williams, 10, and Angela Washburn, 13, were named the two first-place winners in the Black History Month essay contest sponsored by Hawthorne Plaza. They received word-processing typewriters and $100 bookstore gift certificates. MacIntosh computers and sets of World Book Encyclopedia were awarded to their schools. LaShaunda is a fifth-grade student at Ramona Elementary School and the daughter of Patricia Williams of Hawthorne. Angela, a seventh-grade student at Hawthorne Intermediate School, is the daughter of David and Hwa Sung Washburn of Hawthorne.

Torrance resident Martha L. Hanley has been elected state regent of the California State Society of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for the 1990-92 term. A member of the El Redondo chapter since 1967, Hanley served as state vice regent from 1988 to 1990. She is the wife of John David Hanley.

Patricia M. Hein of Redondo Beach has been appointed to a two-year term as senior state president of the California Society of the National Society Children of the American Revolution. She was installed at the home of George Washington in Mt. Vernon, Va., during the organization’s national convention. The organization is open to all boys and girls, up to their 22nd birthday, whose ancestors fought in or supported the American Revolution.

Don Rohrer of Manhattan Beach has been named chief lifeguard for the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors. Rohrer began his career as a beach lifeguard in 1953, while still a student at El Segundo High School. In 1952, he worked as a summer pool guard for the city of Los Angeles. A graduate of Cal State Los Angeles, he became a permanent city lifeguard in 1958, and was a captain when Los Angeles County absorbed the city’s lifeguards in 1972.

Dr. Takeshi Hayashida has been appointed chief of staff at Community Hospital of Gardena for 1990. A certified specialist of the American Board of Surgery, he received his medical degree from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1953 and served his residencies in surgery at the West Side and Hines Veterans Administration Hospitals in Chicago. Other members of the Medical Executive Committee include Dr. George Thompson, chief of staff elect, and Dr. Yasumitsu Tatsuno, secretary-treasurer.