Industry Firm Gets Xerox Excellence Award
The Industry-based Orange County Container Corp., a producer of corrogated shipping boxes, has won the Xerox Corp.’s Multinational Supplier Award for Excellence.
Company President Michael Feterik accepted the award Sept. 19. The award is given annually to a U.S. vendor whose product quality, pricing and service are considered by Xerox to be excellent, said Ed Portune, a Xerox executive.
Feterik started the company in Cerritos in 1981 with four employees and $105,000.
On Jan. 2, the company moved to its 110,000-square-foot Industry headquarters. The company has annual sales of almost $22 million and employs 240 people, 190 of them at the Industry plant, Feterik said.
Edward J. Nygren, chief curator of the Smith College Art Collections, has been named curator of the art collections at Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.
Nygren, who will assume the post March 1, succeeds Robert R. Wark, who retired. Nygren was curator of collections at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington from 1976 to 1988 before going to Smith College.
The Huntington has a comprehensive collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British and French art, American paintings from the 1730s to the 1930s, and a collection of Renaissance paintings.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Organization of Chinese American Women will honor Dr. Serena Young as Outstanding Chinese American Woman at an awards dinner at the New Otani Hotel at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Young, who had polio as a child, is a general orthopedic surgeon.
Dolores Wong will receive the Individual Community Service Award for her role in establishing the Chinatown Library.
Eleven South Pasadena residents have been appointed to a committee to plan for possible municipal budget shortfalls.
The panel was formed on the recommendation of the municipal service audit by Hughes, Heiss & Associates. Its report suggested that adverse conditions in the real estate market could reduce South Pasadena’s revenue base and lead to significant cuts in city services.
Those appointed by the City Council: Larry Rice, Ed Ristow, Chris Sherman, Robert Cook, Eileen Garcia, Rick James, John Bryson, Andy Krinock, Sam Knowles, Elliot Sainer and Vic Robinette.
Ten people were appointed Tuesday to Pasadena’s new Senior Citizens Center Facility Task Force.
Task force members are Senior Center board members George Bond, Jean Hansen and Pat Knudsen; Senior Citizens Commission members David Priver, Phyllis Jenkins and Alvin Larsuel; Parks and Recreation Commission members Alice Frost Thomas and Kathleen Shilkret, and City Directors John Crowley and Chris Holden.
The task force will examine whether the senior center should be kept in Memorial Park, which soon will undergo major rehabilitation.
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