Pair Honored for Volunteer Work

The South Orange County Community Services Council presented Mickie Dempsey of San Juan Capistrano and Marilyn Ditty of El Toro its first Community Service Awards.

Dempsey was honored for her volunteer work teaching adults and preschoolers English as a second language in association with Episcopal Service Alliance and Anchor House.

Ditty was cited for her contributions to the quality of life of senior citizens, including affordable and shared housing, nutritional programs and establishment of the Adult Day Health Care Center.

Charles C. Eddy, an Irvine resident and mathematics department chairman at MacArthur Fundamental Intermediate School in Santa Ana, was named a 1990 fellow of the SDB Foundation by Johns Hopkins University. The foundation, in association with the university and the Center for Talented Youth, honors excellence in teaching.

Sandra Mehr of Villa Park, a student at Cal Poly Pomona, has been named a President’s Council Scholar, the highest merit scholarship available to students at the university. She received $1,000.

Mehr represents the College of Business Administration, and the finance, real estate and law major maintains a 3.94 grade point average. She is a Villa High School and Orange Coast College graduate.

Irvine resident Steve Zivolich, president of Irvine-based consulting firm of Integrated Resources Management, received the Governor’s 1990 Distinguished Service Award for his “extraordinary contributions to the employment of persons with disabilities.”

In association with Pizza Hut Inc., Zivolich has implemented the first national corporate initiative developed to ensure employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities.

The plan has resulted in the employment of 4,000 people.

Orange resident Thomas (Ed) Steele, president of the Ed Steele Advertising Agency in Orange, was selected as winner of the Faith and Freedom award by the St. Louis-based Religious Heritage of America for his work fighting anti-Semitic groups.

Sunset Beach resident Adele Faulkner-Quinn has been awarded the “Senior Spirit of Volunteerism Award” by the Volunteer Center of Greater Orange County.

A board member for Interval House Crisis Shelters, she also donates 100 hours a month to the centers. She is credited with founding the first Interval House auxiliary support group, which raises $15,000 annually for the shelters.

The Orange County Transit District has been awarded a Certificate of Achievement for excellence in financial reporting by the Government Finance Officers Assn. of the United States and Canada. The district has won the award nine consecutive years.

Jon Jackson, an Irvine resident and an Orange County Transit District bus operator, finished sixth at the American Public Transit Assn.’s International Bus Roadeo in Houston. He finished ahead of 65 other drivers.

Chapman College students Denise McNeil of Orange and Mariam A. Pace of Mira Loma were named two of five finalists in a nationwide writing contest that attracted 2,500 entrants.

McNeil, studying for her master’s degree in comparative literature, placed third. Pace, working on her third book, finished fifth.

The contest was sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women Inc., an organization that helps women further themselves in creative careers.

San Juan Capistrano resident Collene Campbell was honored by the California Youth Authority for helping develop a greater awareness of crime victims’ issues and her “dedication of assisting crime victims.” A plaque was presented to her at the recent Coalition on Victims’ Equal Rights conference in Sacramento.