Timothy Gregory Named Altadena’s 1991 Citizen of Year

Timothy P. Gregory, chairman of the board of the preservation group Altadena Heritage, has been named 1991 Citizen of the Year by the Altadena Chamber of Commerce.

Gregory was selected for his major contributions to the improvement of Altadena through Altadena Heritage, which he co-founded in 1986 with Dottie Bridal. The impetus was the impending sale of the Scripps Hall estate to a condominium developer. Bridal and Gregory organized a letter-writing campaign that helped persuade the owners to sell instead to Pasadena Waldorf School, which pledged to preserve the house and gardens.

Altadena Heritage incorporated in 1988 and has 500 members governed by a 21-member board of directors.

Gregory, 45, who is archivist for the Pasadena Historical Society, graduated from UCLA and earned a master’s degree in library science at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the Society of California Archivists, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the California Preservation Foundation, among other organizations.

He will be honored at a dinner at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Altadena Country Club, 2290 Country Club Drive. Tickets, at $35, may be obtained from the chamber.

James N. Gamble of Pasadena has been named chairman of the board of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Gamble is chairman of Gamble, Jones, Holbrook & Bent investment counselors.

He has served on the board for 23 years and has been treasurer and chairman of the building committee.

Gamble is also chairman of the advisory board of the Gamble House and co-founder and treasurer of the Pasadena Area Residential Aid organization.

Three members of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District have been selected to serve on committees of the Assn. of California Water Agencies.

Anthony Fellow will serve in legislative affairs, Royall K. Brown on ground water and Burton E. Jones on finance.

The Upper San Gabriel district serves Arcadia, El Monte, South El Monte, San Gabriel, Baldwin Park, Rosemead, Monrovia, West Covina, Bradbury, Irwindale, Duarte, Glendora, City of Industry, La Puente, Temple City and South Pasadena.

Dr. Denman Hammond, a Pasadena pediatric hematologist/

oncologist, has been elected chairman of the National Medical and Scientific Committee for the American Cancer Society.

Hammond is associate vice president for health affairs at USC and professor of pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine.

R. Michael Lindsay of San Marino has been named chairman of the county Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem & Personal & Social Responsibility.

The 24-member task force was established by the Board of Supervisors in 1987 to advise the supervisors on programs and activities that enhance self-esteem, encourage responsibility and help overcome such social problems as drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy and welfare dependency.

Lindsay, who is retired from the county Probation Department, founded the Northeast Los Angeles Youth Council and the South-Central Consortium in South-Central Los Angeles, organized the Foothill Parenting Network, headed the Foothill Juvenile Justice Committee and served as president of the Northeast Los Angeles Human Relations Committee.

Peter Rosenwald, manager of the Duarte Community Library, has been given an Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award by the Duarte Chamber of Commerce. Rosenwald has helped parents and teachers become more familiar with the library and has helped start a volunteer literacy program.

Dr. Allan K. Yung has been elected chief of staff at Alhambra Community Hospital, where he has been a staff member since 1975. Yung, a resident of San Marino, has served as president of the Chinese Physicians Society of Southern California.

William K. Branch of Pasadena has been named president of the Valley Hospital Foundation, which raises money for Valley Hospital Medical Center in Van Nuys. Branch previously was vice president for corporate campaigns at United Way.

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