3 Students Win $300 Arts Council Scholarships

High school graduates Lynette Tapia of San Clemente High, and Allyson Still and Chris Lavender, both of Capistrano Valley High, have received Dana Point Coastal Arts Council scholarships. Each received $300.

Tapia, a UC Irvine Young Singer of the Year Award winner, plans to major in opera theater at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio.

Still, who has won many art contests, is enrolled at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she will major in graphic design.

Lavender, who has been a percussionist with the All Southern California Honor Band, is a Fullerton College student who plans to attend the Berkeley School of Music.

Paul Viviano, 38, of Huntington Beach is one of 12 health-care executives younger than 40 nationwide to be recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine. Viviano is president and chief executive officer of St. Jude Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Fullerton. Before he joined the St. Jude staff in 1987, Viviano had been chief executive officer of Long Beach Community Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center and Lakewood General Hospital.

Three former Orange Unified School District students have received scholarships from the Assistance League of Orange. A $1,000 award went to El Modena High graduate Lauren Walden, who is attending Pomona College in Claremont. Awards of $500 went to Villa High graduate Victoria Valenzuela and El Modena High graduate Elizabeth Zamora, both enrolled at Cal State Fullerton.

Carolyn Biller of Santa Ana has received national certification in piano and piano pedagogy from the Music Teachers National Assn. Biller has a master’s degree in music from Cal State Fullerton and is an independent music teacher.

Sister Marie Therese Solomon, executive director of the Lestonnac Free Clinic in Orange, has been named 1991 Business and Professional national award winner by the board of directors of Religious Heritage of America.

Religious Heritage, a nonprofit interfaith organization that promotes Judeo-Christian ideals, will honor Solomon and 14 other national award winners Oct. 14 at its 41st Annual National Awards Program in St. Louis, Mo.

Alexandra Navarro, 16, Laura Lopez, 16, Gloria Delgado, 17, Josie Martinez, 17, and Ramona Lopez, all of Santa Ana; Jacqueline Jackson, 15, Mission Viejo; Martha Renteria, 22, Garden Grove; Elva Serna, 21, and Sandra Ruvalcaba, 18, Anaheim, and Natalie Mendoza, 18, of West Covina are competing for the title of Queen of La Jamaica at the 10th annual La Jamaica Festival Sept. 7 in Santa Ana. The festival is a project of the Mexican-American Council of the Bowers Museum. Each of the young women represents an organization for whom she sells tickets to a drawing. The queen is chosen by the number of tickets sold.

Juliette Harton of Seal Beach was among 330 people from the United States to participate in a cultural exchange program earlier this summer in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union. The trip was initiated by Southern Baptists working with the Central Asian Foundation, a nonprofit social service organization. The purpose of the exchange was to promote arts, humanitarian, business and social projects.

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