Garden Grove Education Assn. Honors Teacher

The Garden Grove Education Assn. has presented its “I Make a Difference” award to Judy Ishihara, a 20-year teacher at Rosita Elementary School in Westminster, for “dedicated service to her community and school.”

“All my community work has taught me to be a good listener, to understand children and meet my students’ needs better,” she said. “I take three or four of my second-graders out to lunch once a month. Sitting around munching hamburgers gives us all a better knowledge of each other.”

Ishihara initiated a schoolwide Roads to Reading program to encourage students to read, and at year’s end plans to take selected students in the program on field trips.

The Anaheim resident is also active in Girl Scouting and serves as director of the children’s ministry at Anaheim United Methodist Church.

John Collins, nominated by the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington Valley, has been named Citizen of the Year by the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce. Collins has been a resident of Fountain Valley since 1974.

Mary Ann Hutton, formerly employed by Paramount Television and the Huntington Beach Public Library, has been named senior administrative librarian at the Mission Viejo Library. She holds a degree in library science from USC.

Citing her leadership in the Tustin area, the Tustin branch of the American Assn. of University Women will honor Nancy Cast as its Woman of Distinction at a tea today.

She is a founder of the Tustin Public School Foundation and serves as its president. She formerly taught in the Orange Unified School District, where she was once named Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Anaheim resident Jeanine Hamill, a USC pharmacy student and member of the Orange County Pharmacists Assn., has received the Pharmacy Student of the Year award from the California Pharmacists Assn. for her participation in pharmacy activities within the school and community.

Irvine resident Joseph Harris, a senior psychology major at UC Irvine, has been named one of 20 members of the 1991 All-USA Academic Team, which comprises the nation’s best students.

The competition, sponsored by four higher education associations and USA Today, awards students for scholarship and leadership roles on and off their college campuses. Selected students received $2,500 during a recognition ceremony last month.

Vickie Himel and Georgette and Richard Roth of Garden Grove and Betty and Cecil Lynch of Balboa Island had their names added to a special plaque recognizing their efforts on behalf of the Orange County Lupus Support Group.

They all shared the annual Dr. Edmund Dubois Award, named after a pioneer in the research and treatment of lupus who died in 1985.

Rockwell International Corp. in Anaheim has named Yorba Linda resident Gary W. Macheel Engineer of the Year, the company’s highest honor for engineering achievement.

Macheel, 50, is a project team leader in the company’s Autonetics Marine and Aircraft Systems Division, a part of the defense electronics unit.

A Court of Honor will be conducted Sunday at Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana to recognize Scot Mollot, who will receive his Boy Scout Eagle Award. The Foothill High School senior painted and refurbished preschool play equipment and classrooms at the temple for his community service project.

This summer he will be a youth ambassador to the Soviet Union as part of the People to People/Initiative for Understanding program.

New tutors who graduated from the Costa Mesa Literacy Center and will teach English as a second language are Rebecca Belisle, Karen Campbell, Lisa Cards, Orlene Foss, Janet Rickard and Gregg Weiss, all of Newport Beach; Sherri Cook, Cheryl Hartley, Valerie Nay, Rita Richards and Vickie Covery-Solis, all of Costa Mesa; Sandy Peyton of Fullerton and Eve Litwin of Orange. The training was conducted by Margery Fuller and Ruth Wilson.

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