Literacy Volunteer Honored as Teacher of Year

Michael Harrison, a U.S. history teacher and baseball and football coach at John Muir High School in Pasadena, has been named Teacher of the Year by the Foothill Private Industry Council, a West San Gabriel Valley job placement organization.

Harrison runs the literacy portion of the organization’s Summer Youth Employment and Training Program. He was honored Friday at the 1990 Outstanding Employer Awards Luncheon for helping to improve retention rates among at-risk youths. Harrison also was honored in 1989, when the school district named him teacher of the year.

Anne D. Kennedy of San Marino has been appointed executive director of the Wellness Community Foothills in Pasadena, a center for recovering cancer patients. Kennedy was previously co-director of the Transfusion Safety Study at USC School of Medicine.

James Brownrigg was voted Glendora Police Officer of the Year in celebration of National Police Week last week.

Colleagues in the 51-person department selected Brownrigg, 52, for his dedication to service. Known to friends as “Brownie,” he joined the department in 1971 and since has served as field training officer, investigator and juvenile officer.

Now a station officer with the rank of agent, the Glendora resident plans to retire next month and move to Arizona.

Robert M. Jones of Alhambra has received an award of appreciation from the Interreligious Council of Southern California in honor of his 25 years as executive director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in Los Angeles.

The NCCJ is a nonsectarian, nonprofit human relations organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and interracial or interreligious conflict, improving police-community relations, and advancing social justice.

Alicia Clark, a social sciences student at Pasadena City College, was named outstanding graduate of the council’s Summer Youth Employment and Training Program by the Foothill Private Industry Council.

Clark is a youth adviser for the Pasadena Police Department and plans to become a probation officer. Under the program, she worked as a recreation leader at Jackie Robinson Center in Pasadena.

Also Friday, the organization gave employer recognition awards to Arcadia Radiology Medical Group Inc., Cal Oaks Pharmacy in Pasadena and DMC Services in Pasadena. Placement Service for Older Workers was named training program of the year and Boys’ Club of Pasadena, youth employer of the year.