Luncheon Will Honor 5 Women

Corona del Mar attorney Patricia Herzog and four other prominent women will be honored at Women For:’s 10th Annual Women of Achievement Awards luncheon Aug. 25 in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The honorees, including comedian Whoopi Goldberg, environmentalist Dorothy Green, political activist Mary Brent Wehrli and Asian Pacifica for Choice coordinator Patricia Kinaga, were chosen for their personal achievements to elevate the status of women.

Herzog, who said she was “born and raised a feminist,” has been involved in the American Civil Liberties Union, Legal Aid Society, Women’s Opportunity Center and the Women’s Network Alert.

Women For: is a Southern California volunteer organization supporting local, national and world issues of its choice through political action.

For the second time, Newport Beach septuagenarian Tat Shinno has been named among the top nature-oriented artists of the United States by the National Park Academy of the Arts. She has been a five-year watercolor exhibitor at Laguna’s Festival of Arts.

Certified professional legal secretary Judith Warren, of Laguna Hills, has been named legal Secretary of the Year by the National Assn. of Legal Secretaries (NALS) at its recent conference in Philadelphia.

Warren, office manager and secretary at the legal firm of Friedemann and Bronk in Irvine, was selected on the basis of her secretarial knowledge and skills and community activities.

She is a committee member for the NALS National Institute for Continuing Legal Education and has served three terms as president of the Newport-Santa Ana Chapter.

Laura L. Glad, a 1990 Cal State Fullerton graduate, was named the first recipient of the Rising Star Award from Women in Communications Inc. It recognizes her leadership activities and special contributions to school and community.

Now a free-lance writer, Glad is a member of the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of the communications group.

Herrick Hanson has been awarded the 1990 Ambassador Award by Literacy Services of the Newport Beach Public Library and the Literacy Volunteers of America-Newport Mesa. The Newport Beach resident and owner of the Little Inn on the Bay in Newport Beach has had an on-site tutoring program for his own staff for the past two years.

Steven Ray, a senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, was elected vice president of the Junior Classical League, a national organization of high school Latin and Greek students. He is the first Californian to be elected.

One of his major responsibilities will be to increase the national membership of the group, which has 52,000 students enrolled.

A student in Lynn Harding’s Latin 4 advanced placement class, he is also in his fourth year as a swimmer and water polo player.

Orange Coast College student Sara Beth Kraxney, 20, of Irvine, won the “Prettiest Eyes in Newport Beach Contest” sponsored by Cano’s Restaurant of Newport Beach and received a trip for two to Cabo San Lucas.

Scott Olsen of Placentia was named winner of the Sons of Norway scholarship for District 6. It is providing him a with stay at the International Summer School at the University of Norway in Oslo, where he is studying Norwegian history, culture and society. He is a senior at USC.

Newport Beach resident Nancy Haeseker received the Order of the Emerald from Kappa Delta Sorority for her service to the sorority and the community. She has been president of the Southern California Council of Kappa Delta and is vice president of the Newport Harbor Alumnae Assn.