8 Win Voting Essay Contest

Huntington Beach City Clerk Connie Brockway announced that eight students have won prizes in a recent essay contest sponsored by her office.

The winners are: John Risse , Marina High School; Melanie Bysouth, Fountain Valley High; Kathy Wanderer, Wintersburg High; Davin Agustine, Huntington Beach High; Eric Carlson, Sowers Middle; Lynn Tran, Dwyer Middle; and Josie Haduong and Jonathan Lee, both of Marine View Elementary. The essay topic in the contest was “The Importance of Voting.” Brockway said she launched the competition to encourage high school and eighth-grade students to think about the importance of registering to vote when they become 18.

Each winner received a $200 U.S. savings bond and a souvenir Huntington Beach watch.

Larry P. Morata, a Cota de Caza resident and vice president-general manager of development for McDonnell Douglas space station division, was named Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

The honor, presented by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, pays tribute to his 29 years of accomplishments in the aerospace field.

Bill Ross of Huntington Beach has been named Inspector of the Year by the California Real Estate Inspection Assn., a region of the American Society of Home Inspectors. Ross, president of Goldenwest Home Inspectors Inc. of Huntington Beach, was selected over 300 other nominees.

John R. Clark, professor of mathematics and computer information systems, has been named Orange Coast College’s Faculty Member of the Year, the first time the honor has been given.

The Harvard University graduate and Costa Mesa resident was selected from a field of 11 professors. He has been a faculty member for 30 years.

Honor student Jeffrey J. Tull, 16, of Garden Grove will receive his Boy Scout Eagle Rank at a Court of Honor on Sunday at St. Polycarp Catholic Church in Stanton.

The Long Beach St. Anthony High School student planned and ran a drug awareness booth at the church’s recent fiesta as his community service project.

Cypress resident Angalisa Adkins has been selected to attend the Nov. 22-27 National Young Leaders Conference in Washington.

She will be among 350 high school students from across the nation who will meet and talk to key leaders and news makers from the three branches of government as well as the media and diplomatic corps.

Taiwan-born Esther Chen of El Toro, a third-year student at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, has been awarded the $2,000 Scott McCune Memorial Scholarship.

The grant is given in memory of McCune, a graduate of the law school and successful insurance attorney, who died in 1989 at age 40.

Some 130 well-wishers gathered at Goodwill Industries in Santa Ana to welcome longtime Santa Ana resident Ethel Coffman as she arrived in a limousine for her 95th birthday party.

Coffman, president of the Goodwill Auxiliary since 1963, is also involved in other community organizations, such as the Business and Professional Women’s Club and the First United Methodist Church of Santa Ana.

She is a Santa Ana High School graduate.

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