Irvine Youth Awarded a $10,000 Scholarship

Clark Moore, a senior at Irvine’s University High School, has been named winner of the $10,000 Shell Century Three Leaders national scholarship award after the group’s recent national conference in Williamsburg, Va.

Moore, one of 102 students at the gathering, was selected on the basis of his performance in activities throughout the conference where critical issues facing the United States were debated.

The students were divided into groups and assigned specific issues for which they would find solutions. Those recommendations were later presented by Moore to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander.

The Shell Century Three Leaders scholarship program is funded by the Shell Oil Co. Foundation.

The Rose Award was presented to the Orange County Unit of the American Cancer Society for its promotion of the 1990 Great American Smoke-Out, which included a media blitz and a survival station at the Thomas F. Riley Terminal at John Wayne Airport. The Rose Award is presented by the California division headquarters of the Cancer Society in Oakland.

Jeannine Kowach of the Santa Ana-based public relations firm of GSPR, which donated her services, created and implemented the media and public relations campaign for the Smoke-Out along with Tom McPherson, marketing director for the local Cancer Society chapter.

Cypress resident Maureen Di Marco, whose career in education spans nearly two decades and who now serves as the governor’s chief adviser on education policy and children’s welfare issues, has been named Woman of the Year from the 33rd Senate District by State Sen. Cecil N. Green (D-Norwalk).

Hilda Rodd, a resident of Buena Park and life member of the Orange County section of the National Council of Jewish Women, was presented the group’s Hannah G. Solomon Award. The honor is presented to a woman who has demonstrated leadership in council concerns and helped to improve the quality of life for other people.

Rino Valentino Canoy, 17, a junior at Tustin High School, has been named a regional winner in a national poster contest to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights.

His poster was one of nearly 10,000 entered in the Spirit of Liberty: 1791 to 1991 contest sponsored by Philip Morris Cos. Inc. Canoy’s poster depicts the four faces on Mt. Rushmore, rendered in a modern motif with glasses adorning each of the historical images.

Canoy, the son of Romulo Canoy and Maria Teresa Viloria of Santa Ana, will be honored, along with other regional winners and their parents, at an awards luncheon April 22 at the National Archives in Washington.

Chauncey A. Alexander of Huntington Beach was presented a $1,000 honorarium after he was selected to receive the 1991 California Medical Assn.’s Award of Distinguished Service for his leadership role in identifying health care problems in Orange County.

Alexander, 74, organized and led the United Way health care task force in defining reasons for health care problems experienced by county residents.

“Because of Chauncey Alexander, the community now has a greater awareness of those vulnerable individuals . . . who generally fall into the category of the poor,” said Dr. Charles W. Plows, association president.

Angel Liu, a violinist at UC Irvine, has been awarded the $3,000 David Lee Shanbrom Memorial Music Scholarship through the Orange County Philharmonic Society. The award was established by the parents of Shanbrom, who was killed in a car-truck accident.

Jessica Akers of Ralston Intermediate School in Garden Grove spelled beguiling correctly to win the recent seventh- and eighth-grade spelling bee in the Garden Grove Unified School District.

Tustin businessman Bruce Forge, a Santa Ana resident, is the new president of the Orange County Assn. of Mortgage Brokers.

Forge, who owns Mortgage Brokers Inc., said the county group was formed last year to promote professionalism and continuing education to enhance the public image of mortgage brokers.

He is also a director of the California Assn. of Mortgage Brokers.

Jim Carnett, director of marketing and community relations for Orange Coast College, has been named to a second one-year term as secretary of the 1,500-member National Council for Marketing and Public Relations, a professional organization of communications specialists at two-year colleges.

Carnett, a graduate of OCC, was named the group’s National Communicator of the Year in 1987.

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