Costa Mesa’s Harborlites Chorus Wins
Harborlites Chorus of Costa Mesa was named Region 21 champion at the recent Sweet Adelines Choruses in Golden West competition held in San Diego. The event drew 1,200 singers.
The chorus of Orange County residents, featuring 80 voices of women from the professional field, homemakers, educators and entrepreneurs, will move on to next year’s international level in Baltimore.
They will vie with winning choruses from 25 other regions, according to Bonnie Sherburn, the group’s director.
Gerald J. Hime, director of special education for the Tustin Unified School District, was named governor-at-large, U.S., by the Council for Exceptional Children at its recent convention in Atlanta.
Hime will serve on the 11-member executive committee of the council, a professional organization of 54,000 members in the United States and Canada representing all areas of special education.
Katie Conradson of Santa Ana, Alex Kabiri of Orange and Zhabiz Kazeminezhad of Yorba Linda, who serve as junior volunteers for St. Joseph Hospital, were awarded $1,000 scholarships by the hospital’s foundation for medical health-care studies in college.
Conradson of Lutheran High, Kabiri of El Modena High and Kazeminezhad of Esperanza High were singled out for academic achievements, extracurricular accomplishments and volunteer service.
The Newport Beach Public Library’s Adult Literacy Services program graduated the following from its tutor-training program:
Denise Brady, Carolyn C. McAdam, Sergio Murer and Thomas Boler, Corona del Mar; Christie Campbell, Santa Ana; Pamela Hurley Diamond, Kavita Gurushanthaiah, Gertrude E. Horn, Kristen Jacobs, Rosemarie Thompson and Mary A. Doi, Irvine; Dawn Frady, Jean Ritter, Karen Cook, Douglas T. Link and Doris Webb, Newport Beach; Leslie Friedman and Joy Boardway, Huntington Beach; Adell Hyman, Costa Mesa; Bobbie Logerquist, Laguna Niguel, and Wendy Jaquez, Chino Hills.
Georgina Dodge, a Westminster resident and Golden West College alumna, was awarded the Hellon Fellowship for academic excellence.
The honor provides her with $41,000 and tuition expenses for two years of graduate school and one year of dissertation work.
Dodge, who spent six years in the U.S. Navy as an electronics specialist before attending Golden West, will graduate from UC Irvine in June with a degree in English. She plans to attend UCLA for graduate studies.
Longtime Corona del Mar resident Luvena Hayton was presented the Outstanding Citizen Award by the Corona del Mar Kiwanis Club, which recognized her community and church activities.
Gregory J. Terlecky, a San Clemente resident and executive vice president and general agent of New England Financial Advisors in San Juan Capistrano, was named Boss of the Year by the Orange County chapter of the Life Insurance Company Office Management Assn.
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