Literacy Council Trains 18 Volunteer Teachers

A 12-hour training course at El Toro Library qualified 18 volunteers to teach in the South Coast Literacy Council’s basic reading and writing program.

The graduates are Bryan Bennett, Corona del Mar; Florence Borders, Pamela Gorden, Margaret Mooers, Bonnie Morris and Charlotte Stradtman, all of Irvine; Margaret Craig, Linda Green and Iva Loomis, all of Laguna Hills; Karla DallaTorre and Louis Sergeant, El Toro; Tricia Joerger of Aliso Viejo; Janice Lindbloom, Diane MacEldon and Roger MacEldon, Mission Viejo; Warren Lortie and Jean Vincenzi, San Juan Capistrano; and Patricia Sjostrom of Costa Mesa.

Estelle Rosenthal of Laguna Niguel was the supervising trainer. Barbara Kaloci of Laguna Hills was the apprentice trainer.

The team of Laura Miller of Costa Mesa and Rosina Tarlo of Irvine won top honors at the recent Business Spelling Bee for Literacy sponsored by the Newport Beach Public Library’s adult literacy services program. The annual event raised $3,000 for the literacy program.

The Harbor Key of the Child Guidance Center of Orange County in Costa Mesa has named Costa Mesa caterer Eric Johnson 1991 “Angel of the Year” for his community service over the past year.

Johnson serves on the board of the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce, and is first vice chairman of the Child Guidance Center, which provides counseling for emotionally distressed children.

The Harbor Key is a women’s group of 70 that raises money for the center.

Huntington Beach resident Dennis Gallifent, a sales manager for Morton Salt in Anaheim, has been named the first recipient of the new Carolyn Fahnestock Award from the Huntington Beach-based Pacific Water Quality Assn.

The award recognizes his leadership in developing conventions and trade shows for the association. The award is named for Fahnestock, who served as the association’s executive assistant for the past 11 years.

In addition to his area activities, Gallifent is chairman of the March 13-17 National Water Quality Assn. convention in Long Beach.

Bill Culbertson of El Toro, an Irvine Exchange Club member, has been elected president of the Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Center of Orange County. The center trains volunteer parent-aides to work with families to break the abuse cycle.

Nelson Lai, 9, fourth-grader at O’Neil Elementary School in Mission Viejo, will represent Orange County in his age group in the state spelling competition May 11 in Santa Rosa. He outlasted 87 participants by correctly spelling “grouchiness.”

Irvine resident Mary Boyce Thornton, whose volunteer service at Golden West College has spanned nearly 25 years, has been presented the first GWC Foundation emeritus award. She is a founding member and the first president of the foundation.

Roger Belgen and Kay Hoag, two longtime school volunteers, received Fountain Valley School District’s Outstanding Community Service Awards for their services benefiting students throughout the district.

Belgen is a former school board trustee and volunteers as a coach of a girls basketball team.

Hoag is in her eighth year of volunteering and, as president of the Superintendent and Parents Council, helped initiate art programs and exhibits supported entirely by volunteers.

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