Sam Schauerman, president of El Camino College,...

Sam Schauerman, president of El Camino College, is the new president of the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce. Board members seated June 21 are Ted Porter of Southern California Edison Co., Stefan Wolowicz of Zdonek Accountancy Corp., Chris Crawford of South Bay Municipal Court, James Lester of Little Company of Mary Hospital, Carolin Keith of Epson American and Margo Davis of Torrance Holiday Inn, vice presidents; David Cason of Torrance-South Bay YMCA, treasurer, and William Oberholzer of Republic Bank, past president.

Three Loyola Marymount University faculty members will play key roles in today’s Beverly Hills Symphony Outdoor Summer Classical Concert at the Greystone Park Courtyard. One will compose, one will conduct and one will perform.

LMU music Prof. Bogidar Avramov will conduct the symphony in the premiere performance of “Concerto Grosso for Jazz Soloist and Strings,” composed by Albert Vinci, chairman of LMU’s music department. West Coast jazz veteran and part-time faculty member Buddy Collette and his quartet will perform Collette’s composition “Monorail” for strings and jazz quartet.

The concert will take place at 4:30 p.m. today. Tickets are $20 each. For information call 285-2537.

Father Thomas Patrick O’Malley has been appointed the 13th president of Loyola Marymount University. He succeeds Father James N. Loughran, president for the past seven years.

O’Malley, 61, was rector of the Jesuit Community at Fairfield University and Preparatory School immediately before his appointment to LMU. From 1980 to 1988, he was president of John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. He was ordained to the priesthood in Brussels on Aug. 5, 1961, and has been active in Catholic higher education across the nation.

Pamela A. Lemkin, vice president of Doctors Home Technologies in Torrance, has been elected the 1991-92 president of the Los Angeles County Medical Assn., South West District 9 Women’s Auxiliary, which covers Torrance, Lomita, Gardena, the beach cities, Rolling Hills and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The auxiliary promotes medical and public health projects in the community. Past auxiliary projects include restoration of the medical clinic at Harbor View House, a home for the mentally disabled, and continued financial support of the Los Angeles Poison Control Center.

Palos Verdes Peninsula residents Barbara Dorman and Kevin Peterson have been elected to the board of directors of the Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation.

Dorman is owner of American Girl Secretary and Executive Suites in Rolling Hills Estates. Her community involvement includes serving on the Norris Theatre for the Performing Arts board, the Palos Verdes Art Assn. and Friends of the Palos Verdes Library.

Peterson is South Bay district manager for GTE. Named Redondo Beach Man of the Year two years ago, he has served on more than a dozen nonprofit organizations.

Lillian Light is the newly elected president of the Palos Verdes Audubon Society. Other new officers are Joseph Slap, Ellen Brubaker and Oliver Coker. Other board members are Martin Byhower, Robert Carr, Joe Meltzer, Bart Tendick and Holly Humes. The society meets at 7:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each month at South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Hermosa Beach resident John Post has been named the 509th “Daily Point of Light” by President Bush. Post, 29, was so named for his volunteer work, which includes the founding of “Club Calypso,” a summer day camp for young residents of Harbor Hills, a local housing project.

The club is open for seven weeks each summer, from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday. About 60 children, ages 6 to 14, use the facility each day it is open. Post and 25 other young adults and college students serve as friends and mentors to the youngsters. The volunteers lead baseball and softball games, teach arts and crafts, and chaperon camp-outs and field trips.

Post has also started a tutoring program during the school year, a big brother/big sister program, and a food distribution program. About 20 young people voluntarily attend tutoring sessions each Tuesday. Each of 14 volunteers is matched with a young person to establish an individualized long-term relationship.

The President names a Daily Point of Light six days a week. They are individuals or groups who make a difference in the lives of others and help solve pressing social problems by acts of community service.

Ruth McGrew, a retired teacher from Palos Verdes Peninsula, is one of 15 Southland residents now visiting Central America as representatives of Witness for Peace, a faith-based, politically independent organization. Delegation members will attempt to meet with the ordinary, often very poor people of Guatemala and Nicaragua, as well as representatives of grass-roots organizations, human rights groups and church organizations, in addition to politicians and community activists. The Witness for Peace group left this country Friday and will return Aug. 4.

The Rev. Deborah Dunn-Cunningham has been appointed curate at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Palos Verdes Estates. She was graduated from the University of Texas, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree cum laude. From 1988 to 1991 she attended General Theological Seminary in New York, where she obtained her Master of Divinity cum laude. She was ordained to the Diaconate in June at St. Francis Church. Mrs. Cunningham, her husband, Michael, and two children, Simon, 6, and Sarah, 17 months, live in San Pedro.

Frank De Simone of Hawthorne was selected to attend the 1991 National Young Leaders Conference this month in Washington. De Simone was among 350 outstanding high school students from across the nation at the conference, sponsored by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council. During the six-day conference, he met with key leaders and news makers from the three branches of government, the media and the diplomatic corps.

Fourteen college-bound seniors from local high schools were honored recently at the annual Sandpipers Scholarship Luncheon at the Manhattan Beach Country Club.

They are Melinda Maxson and Dylana Blum, Rolling Hills High School; Holly Sawyer, Miraleste; Heather Sundin and Kelly Sanders, Palos Verdes; Mary Mulligan, Bishop Montgomery; Heather Foote, Kendra Gage and Jennifer Scarlett, South Torrance; Andy Owens and Tammy Brown, Mira Costa; Mark Pearson, Vickie Wiest and Dedriann Richardson, Redondo.

The Sandpipers, a women’s philanthropic group, donated $42,000 in scholarships this year. This included $20,000 in continuing college aid to local students. Candidates must have at least a 3.0 grade-point average, be active in school and community and show financial need.