FHP Manager Chosen for Award
Irvine resident Alice Doyle was named Hospital Social Work Director of the Year for 1991 by the Southern California Chapter of the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors.
She is social services manager for Cerritos-based FHP Health Care’s California region.
Doyle, a licensed clinical social worker, manages 24 social workers at FHP locations throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties.
The award was established in 1981 by the group, which has 120 Southern California member hospitals, to recognize a society member who develops innovative methods to solve problems and improve patient care.
The UCLA Alumni Assn. presented a $2,500 Distinguished Scholar Award to graduate student Alireza Atri of El Toro, and a $2,000 Distinguished Scholar Award to undergraduate Douglas P. Enright of Santa Ana.
The awards were based on academic achievement and service to campus and community.
In addition, the association awarded $1,000 merit leadership scholarships to Jose Roberto Alvarez of Yorba Linda, and DeAnna Bush of El Toro, both freshmen at the university.
The awards were based on high school grade-point average. Financial need was not a factor.
Orange resident Dr. Ronald F. Young, a professor and chief of neurosurgery at UC Irvine, has been selected as an honored member in the 1990-91 “Who’s Who in Health and Medical Services.” He is also president of the medical staff at UCI Medical Center in Orange.
Jill Marie Barr, 27, daughter of Sunny and Thomas Anderson of Mission Viejo, has completed her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire,where she has worked since January, 1990.
The San Francisco State University graduate worked with subsistence farmers in community agriculture, teaching improved planting techniques of major crops.
She also lectured on basic nutrition and sanitation and helped build grain storage facilities, chicken coops, pigpens and community gardens.
Cesar R. Arellanes of Laguna Hills, a cadet at Valley Forge Military Academy and Junior College in Wayne, Pa., was presented the Valley Forge Historical Trail Medal after his successful completion of the seven challenges of the trail.
Rachel Tarr, senior at Foothill High School in Santa Ana, was selected grand prize winner in the fifth annual High School Art Calendar Contest at Irvine Valley College for her drawing titled “Charting a Course.” She received a $100 scholarship.
The Western Sun, a student newspaper at Golden West College, won first place for general excellence in the category of large college, standardized newspapers at the recent Journalism Assn. of Community Colleges conference held at Rio Hondo College in Whittier.
It was the third time in five years the paper has won the award, according to Jim Tortolano of Garden Grove, the paper’s adviser.
Alan Johnson of Seal Beach has been certified as a master fabric craftsman, the highest level awarded by the Marine Fabricators’ Assn. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The group represents 4,500 marine canvas and marine interior fabricators and designers in the United States and Canada.
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