Robes From Ladies at Lodge

The Elks Ladies of the Mission Viejo/Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge donated 31 multicolored lap robes to the Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center for distribution to patients.

Vivian Litterest, lap robe chairman, said it took 600 hours to crochet the robes.

Elks Ladies Litterest, Linda Keffer, Mary Beal, Dot Kott, Irene Arbell and Pat Larson delivered the robes along with Dennis Keffer, the lodge servicemen’s committee chairman.

Michael J. Grinfeld, 40, of Fullerton, an insurance company executive, and Gary A. Pulford, 32, of Costa Mesa, an investment firm portfolio manager, have been named to the Friends of the Santa Ana Zoo board of directors.

Anaheim attorney Arthur Gray will be honored as Anaheim’s Citizen of the Year and former Buena Park City Councilman Ken Jones will be recognized as Buena Park’s Citizen of the Year Feb. 23 at an Americanism Awards fund-raising dinner that raises scholarship funds for needy students attending Cypress College.

The event will be in the Disneyland Hotel and is open to the public.

Gray, 63, who said he was surprised to be nominated, was selected both for his commitment to his profession and service to Anaheim and Orange County despite working an average of three days a week in Sacramento.

The 35-year resident of Anaheim is the father of three sons and has three grandchildren.

Jones, 71, Buena Park’s first paid firefighter in 1949, later became a police officer and made the city’s first arrest, a disorderly drunk charge.

Jones, born in Buena Park, served 11 years as a councilman.

Michael Mahan, 17, of Newport Beach and a Mater Dei High School student, was presented his Boy Scout Eagle rank at a recent Court of Honor. He completed landscaping and beautification at a retirement home for his community service project.

Irvine-based Glenn M. Gelman & Associates was named one of the 50 most distingued small- to medium-sized CPA firms in the nation by CPA Digest. The recognition was based on growth, profitability and community service among others.

UC Irvine Clinical Cancer Center Director Frank L. Meyskens Jr., an Irvine resident, has been named to the 1991 Scientific Advisory Board of the International Council for Coordinating Cancer Research based in New York City.

The center began in 1988 to coordinate cancer to promote research and collaboration between international cancer research scientists to expedite cancer control procedures and to avoid duplication.

Meyskens is also chief of the division of hematology/oncology at the UC Irvine Medical Center.

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