County 4-H Leaders Attend 69th Session

Kathleen Lynch, Lizabeth Fry and Jillian Turner, all from Fountain Valley and all members of the Orange County 4-H, represented California at the recent 69th National 4-H Congress in Chicago.

The three were selected for their projects, excellence in record-keeping and for community service.

Lynch, a Cal State Long Beach student, is involved in fashion design. Fry, a Cal Lutheran student, was named the outstanding Orange County 4-H member for 1990, and Turner, a junior at Los Amigos High School, was named “Youth of the Year” by the California State Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Assn.

All three have served as Teen Leader Award winners who organize and develop the Becoming Leaders of Tomorrow Conference for junior high school-aged youth for the Orange County 4-H program.

Seal Beach resident Dr. Richard T. Rada, a forensic psychiatrist and board president of College Hospital in Costa Mesa, has been elected president of the Baltimore-based American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

Sixth-graders Allison Garner and Ryan Scoville, both of Linda Vista School in Orange, shared first-place honors in the annual Sixth Grade Essay Contest sponsored by Orange Elks Lodge No. 1475.

Each received $100 savings bonds for their essays on the topic, “Why We Should Honor Our Flag.”

Second-place winners were Rita Apodaca of Holy Family School and Micha Stork of Linda Vista; Katie Holly of St. Paul’s Lutheran School and Zachary Amos of Linda Vista were third-place winners. Second place won $75 bonds and third place received $50 bonds.

Fountain Valley residents Brenda Jackson and Pamela Hengsteler, both members of the Orange County chapter of the Ninety-Nines, have won separate awards at meetings of the Ninety-Nines Inc.

Jackson was presented the Marion Barnick Memorial Scholarship from the Santa Clara chapter to pursue her commercial flying license. It was presented at an awards dinner in Sunnyvale.

Hengsteler was named Pilot of the Year at the Southwest Section meeting on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Pilots from 57 chapters in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Hawaii competed for the award.

Lauded with such accolades as “the backbone of our program” and “a vital presence on campus,” Barbara Newbern was named Orange Coast College’s “Classified Staff Member of the Year.”

The Costa Mesa mother of two daughters, Lisa and Shawna, both OCC students, works as a staff assistant in the dean of students office.

More than 500 students, faculty and staff members attended the awards ceremony honoring her selection. Seven people were nominated for the award.

Katie Watts, 18, of Tustin was one of five finalists in the “Sassiest Girl in America” contest that drew 53,530 entries, according to Sassy magazine, which sponsored the event.

The winner, Hannah Lord, 14, of Greenfield. Md., the only girl and team captain on a boys ice hockey team in her hometown, received the most votes from readers. She also received $5,000.

Pamela Hunter has been elected president of the Orange County/Long Beach chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. A Long Beach resident, she is a partner in the Long Beach firm of McDowell, Dillon and Hunter.

North Tustin resident Laura Dardashti, 19, a 1989 graduate of Foothill High School and now a sophomore at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, was presented the school’s Elias Compton Freshman Award recognizing academic excellence during her first year at the school.

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