6 to Be Honored for Community Service at YWCA Luncheon

The Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA will honor six women for volunteerism and other achievements at the 19th annual Second Century Awards Luncheon on March 25.

Former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be the keynote speaker.

Honorees are Anne Beall, Jaylene L. Moseley, Katherine Padilla, Peggy Phelps, Lois B. Richard and Norma Sandusky Coombs.

Beall has been involved in the beautification of the Linda Vista-Annandale neighborhood and has served on the boards of the Pasadena Parks and Recreation Committee and the Pasadena Beautiful Foundation. She also has tutored poor children and volunteered with the Pasadena Mental Health Agency.

Moseley is managing director of the Flintridge Foundation and trustee of Moseley Charitable Trusts. She also is on the board of the Pasadena Hall of Science and Castle Green Exterior Restoration Committee and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.

Padilla has served on the Pasadena Public Library Commission and has been involved in Project Day Foundation, Planned Parenthood, El Centro de Accion Social, the Mothers Club and the Pasadena Scholarship Committee for Americans of Mexican Descent.

Phelps has served on the board of the Pasadena Art Alliance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Art Commission and Pasadena Chamber Orchestra. She is a board member of the All Saints AIDS Service Center and the Claremont Graduate School and has served on the boards of the Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA and the Foothill Family Service Center.

Richard has been director of Pasadena HeadStart and State-PreSchool. She also is on the board of the Pasadena Child Health Foundation and the Commission on the Status of Women. She is a board member of Lanterman Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled, Alkebulan Cultural Center and Black Women’s Forum.

Coombs has been president of the Pasadena Education Assn. and chairwoman of the National Education Assn./Pasadena Unified School District Instructional Improvement Council. She also has been involved in the Community Alliances to Preserve Equal Educational Opportunity in Pasadena, American Civil Liberties Union, Pasadena United Way, Pasadena-Foothill Valley YWCA, Zonta and the President’s Committee of Huntington Memorial Hospital.

The luncheon will begin at noon at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel. Tickets are $75 and benefit the YWCA’s Carousel Day Care program. They can be obtained by telephoning Jill Grady at (818) 793-5171.

Pomona Police Chief Lloyd Wood has been appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to the California Council on Criminal Justice, which analyzes legislation involving the criminal justice system.

The 37-member council includes the attorney general and members appointed by the governor and the Legislature.

Wood, 51, was an El Monte police officer for 18 years before becoming police chief of Azusa in 1981 and then Pomona in 1990.

* Dr. Elhamy Khalil has been named medical director of Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona.

Khalil, a pediatrician who graduated from Cairo University College of Medicine and earned a master’s degree in public health from UC Berkeley, joined Lanterman in 1983.

Lanterman is a residential facility that serves 1,060 people with disabilities, including mental retardation, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and autism.

* Arnold R. Schaffer has been named chief executive officer at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park. He had been group director of three acute-care hospitals in Florida.

Engineering consultant James Van Winkle, 47, has been appointed director of South Pasadena’s Department of Public Works. Before going into private consulting in July, Van Winkle was city engineer in Santa Clarita for 16 months and had previously worked for Inglewood. His salary in South Pasadena will be $71,688 per year. City Manager Ken Farfsing praised Van Winkle for his engineering and computer background. Van Winkle earned his doctorate in water resources at UCLA in 1980. He also has degrees in structural engineering and sanitary engineering.