Three students at California State University Dominguez...

Three students at California State University Dominguez Hills have each received a $1,000 Dominguez Brand scholarships sponsored by the Carson Cos. They are Kelly Cull of Hawthorne, Lydia Slizza of Hermosa Beach and Martha Beltran of Gardena. All three are liberal studies majors and will be pursuing elementary school teaching credentials.

Cull, entering her senior year, is a full-time student who works two part-time jobs, as a teacher’s assistant and in a bank. She has a 3.38 grade-point average.

Slizza, also entering her senior year, has a 3.8 GPA. She works for the Los Angeles Unified School District as an instructional aide at Gardena Community Adult School.

Beltran, who will be a junior, has a 3.26 GPA. She will study in Spain next year as a part of the university’s international program. She plans to polish her Spanish language skills to enhance her future career as a bilingual educator.

Christian Dedrick of Hermosa Beach is among 330 Americans who participated in the first Kazakh-American Cultural Festival held June 21-July 6 in Kazakhstan, second largest of the 15 Soviet republics. The cultural exchange was initiated by Southern Baptists working with the Central Asian Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that directs Christian aid toward human and economic development. Americans of various religious denominations participated. A reciprocal festival will take place in Philadelphia next May. For information, write to Central Asian Foundation Inc., 915 Sharon Ave. North, Red Lion, Pa. 17356.

Torrance resident Rebecca G. Ropchan has been appointed vice president of nursing at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte.

Ropchan received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing science at St. Louis University in Missouri. Before joining City of Hope, she was clinical nursing director in the UCLA critical care department for 15 years.

Liz Tyler of Torrance, a former 18-year resident of Palos Verdes Estates, is the new executive director of the Wellness Community-South Bay Cities, a nonprofit organization that provides support, hope, learning and friendship to cancer patients and their families.

Tyler has more than 15 years’ experience in management and fund raising for nonprofit organizations including Grand People, which provides cultural and recreational services for more than 35,000 senior citizens; Community Counseling Service of Los Angeles, and the Palos Verdes Art Center.

Tyler founded Art at Your Fingertips, an art education program in South Bay elementary schools, and developed a support group for Los Angeles inner-city schools to help Central American refugees adjust to and stay in school. She also developed a vocational training program for adults who are jobless due to mental illness.

Orthodontist Ralph B. Allman Jr., clinical professor of orthodontics at USC’s School of Dentistry, has been elected to the university’s board of trustees. Allman received a bachelor’s degree in 1957, a DDS degree in 1962 and a master’s degree in orthodontics in 1966, all from USC. He is active in numerous USC alumni organizations and community activities.

Angie Ghattas, a seventh-grader at Hermosa Valley School, was chosen by the school’s DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program as its outstanding DARE graduate for 1990-91 because of her excellent class participation and her winning essay, “A Drug-Free Society.”

The DARE program includes all sixth-grade students at the school. It is administered by Hermosa Beach Police Officers Tom Thompson and Lauri Harris.

Debbie Wallace, owner of Employment Service Agency of Torrance, is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Kerr-Cordero Award for distinguished community service.

Dr. Robert J. Nejdl is the new chairman of the board of directors of the Research and Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance.

Nejdl, a resident of Long Beach, is chief of surgery at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Harbor City. He is a member of the bioethics committee sponsored by the Los Angeles Medical Assn. and the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. and was recently named outstanding physician of the year by Kaiser Harbor City.

Other officers are surgeon Dr. Masahi Uriu, with offices in Gardena and Inglewood; psychiatrist Dr. Harriet S. Kaplan, who practices in Torrance, and Dr. William Swanson, full-time medical director at Harbor-UCLA. Kaplan and Uriu both live in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Torrance resident Kerry Harrington Morrison, vice president of the California Assn. of Realtors, has been named to the county’s Commission on Local Government Services by Supervisor Deane Dana. She was a Coro Foundation Fellow in 1980-81, a member of the Building Industry Assn. of Southern California’s Governmental Affairs Council in 1981-82, and worked with the Harbor Regional Center for Developmentally Disabled Citizens from 1978 to 1980.

Cheryl Ernster is the new president of the Torrance Junior Woman’s Club. Other new officers are Sharon Broadbent, Beverly Lenker, Roberta Quinn, Dora Steitzer, Norine Thomas, Carol Peters and Teri Kennedy. For information about membership in the club, call 378-0534.

Craig Midge of Rolling Hills Estates and Eric Jones of Los Angeles are recipients of the 1991 Frederick Douglass Scholarship presented annually by the Black Faculty and Staff Assn. at Los Angeles Harbor College. Each received $500.

Midge, a pre-med major who will attend Cal State Fullerton, is is a hospital corpsman second class in the U.S. Naval Reserve assigned to the Marine Corps as a medical corpsman. Jones, who has been admitted to the USC school of business administration this fall, has received $20,000 in scholarships.