Pasadena Names New Head of Northwest-Area Programs

A Sacramento official has been appointed as Pasadena’s director of programs for the predominantly black Northwest neighborhood.

Anthony Allen Randolph, currently the director of the department of human services for the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Authority, takes over the politically sensitive job March 1, City Manager Philip Hawkey announced Tuesday.

Ellen Reynolds, who had been the acting director of Northwest programs for four months, has resumed a teaching career at Pasadena City College.

After an outpouring of complaints by Northwest residents, who charged that they had experienced years of neglect, the City Council pledged in 1985 to make the neighborhood one of the city’s top priorities. Some residents have since complained that changes have not come fast enough.

Randolph, a candidate for a Ph.D. in urban studies at USC’s Center for Public Affairs, has worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the city of Compton.

Chief Brad Posey has announced he will retire July 10 after 30 years as a Glendora police officer and 24 years as the city’s police chief.

Posey said he has served under four city managers, 10 mayors and 18 City Council members. City Manager Art Cook said he may use an executive search firm and hopes to have a new chief selected before Posey leaves office.

Barbara G. Pieper has been named the first woman chair of a Tournament of Roses committee.

Pieper, a volunteer with the Tournament of Roses for 16 years, was named to head the Security & Properties committee. She is a former mayor of La Canada Flintridge.

The tournament has been under heavy pressure to increase the number of women and minorities in top leadership positions since last fall, when ethnic groups and others attacked the organization for being exclusively white men at the top.

Also, CL Keedy III, a 17-year tournament volunteer, will be chairman of the Guest Luncheon committee. Keedy is active in the Pasadena Rotary Club and the Pasadena Board of Realtors.

Dr. James P. Almas has been named president of the medical staff at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.

Almas, co-director of pathology and the clinical laboratory at the hospital, graduated from medical school at Columbia University.

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