Palos Verdes Estates resident Jose A. Collazo...

Palos Verdes Estates resident Jose A. Collazo has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Pepperdine University’s School of Business and Management in Malibu. Collazo is chairman and president of INFONET, a company providing communication and computer services and direct support to those services throughout the world. “The award recognizes Collazo’s professional achievements in making INFONET a corporation that has successfully crossed economic and political boundaries in today’s rapidly evolving business environment,” said James R. Wilburn, dean of Pepperdine’s School of Business and Management. A member of the Pepperdine Executive Associates support group, Collazo has also served on the Dean’s Advisory Board since 1988, has promoted special programs emphasizing global business leadership and has spoken on the subject at Pepperdine campus forums. He earned an MBA from Pepperdine Unviersity in 1977.

Kirk K. Calhoun of Palos Verdes Estates was recently installed as presiding co-chairman, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Southern California Region. Calhoun, director of audit for Ernst & Young and former managing partner of Arthur Young & Co., succeeds Edward Sanders, who remains a co-chairman. Sanders is an attorney with Sanders, Jacobson, Goldman & Mosk. The National Conference of Christians and Jews is a national nonsectarian human relations organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and interracial conflict. The Southern California Region has served the Los Angeles area for more than 41 years.

Rancho Palos Verdes Councilwoman Jacki Bacharach has been elected president of the South Bay Cities Assn. Other board members are Gardena Councilman James Cragin, first vice president, and Palos Verdes Estates Mayor Pro Tem Ray Mattingly, second vice president. The South Bay Cities Assn. is a voluntary organization of South Bay cities, providing the opportunity for information sharing and cooperative efforts. Meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of each month at Ante’s Restaurant in San Pedro.

Barr is the newly elected president of the South Bay Division, California Retired Teachers Assn. Barr is a former teacher at Torrance High School. Other board members are Vice Presidents George McCoy and Marian Littlefair, Secretaries Rose Yani and Patricia Pifer, Treasurer Milton Makowski and past President E. Ross Harrington.

Rolling Hills Estates resident Dorothea Robinson has been elected president for 1990 of Las Amigas, a fund-raising arm of the Health Care Foundation of Torrance Memorial Medical Center. Other officers are Vice Presidents Marlene Dunn and Kathy Burks, both of Torrance, and Secretaries Dorothea Hodgkinson of Palos Verdes, Marianne Sfreddo of Redondo Beach and Jo Bennett and Virginia Burrescia of Torrance.

The Palos Verdes Art Center has announced winners of its Annual High School Juried Art Show. First- and second-place winners in various categories were announced by Andrew Seymour, principal of Miraleste High School, and Michael Escalante, principal of Rolling Hills High School. First and second place winners in each category are:

Drawing: Carol Sung and Moises Guerro of Palos Verdes High School.

Painting: Anne Henry, Palos Verdes High and Nori Tsai, Rolling Hills High.

Photography: Cameron Early and John Sheldon, Chadwick School.

Mixed Media: Phil La Londe and Baron Silverton, Chadwick School.

Printmaking: Alex Moratta and Mike Leabman, Palos Verdes High.

Sculpture: Domenique Marnoni, Rolling Hills High, and Phil Clark, Chadwick School.

Ceramics: Domenique Marnoni and Yasuko Kameyana, Rolling Hills High School.

Artworks by students from five peninsula high schools are on display at the art center, 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, through June 16. All galleries are open from 1-4 p.m. daily, except Sunday.

Torrance resident Donald Banker, president of Lions Clubs International, recently visited Washington, where he accepted the 1990 President’s Volunteer Action Award on behalf of Lions Clubs. Lions Club International is one of 19 individuals, organizations, corporations and labor unions receiving awards from President Bush last month in observance of National Volunteer Week. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., Lions Club International is the world’s largest service organization and involves 1.4 million members in volunteer activities through its clubs in 39,000 communities in 166 countries and geographic regions.

A Rolling Hills High School student has won the Cal Poly Math Contest’s individual prize with the first perfect score in the competition’s 38-year history. Royce Peng’s 60 out of 60 on a Math Contest exam led his three-member team from Rolling Hills Estates to first place in the team standings as well. Joining Peng on the Rolling Hills team that won the written exam were Larry Fan, who was fourth in the individual standings, and Edward Shie, who tied for eighth. Last year a Rolling Hills team tied for third place. This year’s second-place school was Palos Verdes High School, with team members Elijah Liao and Nitin Bhatia, who tied for fifth in individual rankings, and Yu-Kai Ng. Chi-Ming Chien of Palos Verdes High School, tied for second place in the three-part Trimathlon with Alan Harder of Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto.