Volunteer Honored for His Work With Inmates

Gregorio Martinez, 34, a Fullerton College student who visits inmates in the Orange County Jail and organizes retreats for Spanish-speaking youths at Juvenile Hall, has been named Volunteer of the Year by the Orange County Probation Department.

In other activities, Martinez works with a student service organization that searches under bridges, along river banks and by park benches for the homeless and brings them hot chocolate, bread, blankets and clothing.

Martinez also serves as a one-on-one friend to troubled youth through the Catholic Detention Ministry.

Adrian Alegre, Julie Dalton, Sandra Au and Seungtaek Choi, Latin students at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, all won gold medals in the recent National Latin Exam. Their Latin teacher is Lynn Harding.

Laura Tenney, a senior at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, and Brenda Rogers, a senior at Cal State Long Beach, have been named award winners by Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach.

Tenney was presented the club’s Youth Citizen Award in recognition of contributions made to home, school, community, country and the world.

Rogers won the Training Award Program honor, which is presented to a mature woman who enters or returns to the job market. She attends school, works and is raising a son.

Joy Champion, 14, of Fullerton and Wendy Wellman, 17, of Laguna Niguel appear in this month’s issue of TEEN Magazine as regional semifinalists in its Great Model Search.

The first-place winner will have her picture on the cover of the October issue. She will also receive $5,000 cash and modeling opportunities.

Navy Cmdr. Cecile R. Rogers, a graduate of UC Irvine, has graduated from the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

Rogers completed a 10-month course of graduate-level education in strategy, national security decision-making and joint military operations.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Rogers of San Juan Capistrano.

Huntington Beach resident Mary Lou Harris has received a Special Services Award from Pacific Water Quality Assn., California’s statewide trade association for home and commercial water systems.

Harris, a secretary, was honored for her “exceptional dedication to the association and to all assignments.”

Angela Dawn Robinson, 16, of Costa Mesa, has been named a finalist in the 19th Annual Miss California National Teen-Ager Pageant scheduled June 8-10 in Industry Hills.

Kenneth Martinez, a senior at El Toro High School, has been named one of 500 finalists in the 1990 Presidential Scholarship program. The 141 scholars selected will be announced this month. A total of 2.6 million graduating seniors participated.

Mailroom clerk Mary Ruelas of Capistrano Beach, administrative secretary Emiko Suzukawa of Laguna Beach, and career guidance and placement officer Laura U’Ren of San Clemente, have been named Saddleback Community College District’s Outstanding Employees of 1990 by the Board of Trustees.

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