Trio Will Be Honored by the YMCA

L.C. (Bob) Albertson Jr. of Santa Ana, Lynne Bloomberg of Newport Beach and Valerie Hoff of Costa Mesa will be honored Oct. 12 by the YMCA at its ninth annual Reach Out Recognition Awards ceremony and charity auction that will benefit the Newport-Costa Mesa YMCA Center for Family Counseling.

The trio will be recognized for their “significant contributions to the betterment of the community” during the program, to be held at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club. Albertson is instrumental in providing shelter for the transitionally homeless in Orange County; Bloomberg is director of the YMCA Center for Family Counseling’s student assistance program; and Hoff, a senior at Estancia High School, earned her award for extensive involvement in a variety of YMCA youth programs.

Pacifica High School senior Linda Sexson (cq) has been selected as a non-voting student member of the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education. The 17-year-old Spanish Club president will serve for one year.

Barbara A. Henderson, Fullerton’s finance director and city treasurer, has been elected to a two-year term as a director of the Municipal Treasurers Assn. of the United States and Canada.

Garden Grove Elks Lodge No. 1952 was named an All-American Lodge at the annual Grand Lodge Convention held recently in Las Vegas. It is the third time in four years that the lodge has received the honor.

A $750,000 grant to establish a professorship in law at USC in the name of Corona del Mar residents Virginia and Fred Bice, both USC graduates, has been pledged by the Terry H. Webb Charitable Trust.

The Bices, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in July, have been longtime supporters of the university as members of the USC Associates. They are also avid Trojan football fans.

Their son, Scott, is dean of the USC Law Center. Their daughter, Kathleen, is an assistant professor of physical therapy at the university.

Emily Forster of Corona del Mar and Ashley Johnson of Newport Beach, both eighth-graders at Harbor Day School in Corona del Mar, won the Grand Sweepstakes Prize in the recent Orange County Fair’s author-illustrator combination competition for their story “Fergy Sneaks Out.”

Senior Tim Hall and junior Matt Lear, both students at Huntington Beach High School, have been selected as Congressional Scholars to the National Young Leaders Conference Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 in Washington.

Laguna Hills resident Albert Wong, president of the Irvine computer firm AMKLY Systems Inc., received a Distinguished Community College Alumni Award from the California Assn. of Community Colleges.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wong came to the United States in 1969 and attended Orange Coast College. After graduating, he attended Cal State Fullerton and received a degree in electrical engineering.

Wong was inducted into the OCC Hall of Fame three years ago and was named the college’s Citizen of the Year in May.

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