Museum Volunteers Honored

Volunteer docents and gallery aides who lead tours at the Children’s Museum at La Habra were honored at a recent recognition tea at the center.

Special awards went to Anna Jahn of La Habra, one of the founding members who has volunteered since 1980; Vikki Westerskov of Long Beach and Robin Rose of Anaheim, who travel the farthest, and Laurie Fitzgerald, 16, a junior at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, the youngest docent.

Also honored were Marion Vodden, Joan Burks, Janet Ruud, Anna Jahn, Bev Christensen, Lora Burri, Adrienne Henschel, Marie Knox, Betty Barringer, June Giffen, Carol Mann, Diane Walther, Mary Simonian, Peg Barth, Delores Avilez, Kathryn Jones, Zelma Perry, Joan Kawase, Janis Williams, Chris Julin, Theresa Schmidt, Dee McGroarty, Jeanne Lish, Louise Brown, Marisa Cei, Pepper O’Neill, Marie Adisian, Joann Hubbard, Rebecca Connor, Sally Cook, Helen Chambers, Sean Stephens and Mike Beaumont, all from La Habra.

More are Dorothy Knox, Shayna Rosenberg and Mary Ferris, Brea; Blanche Harman and Lorraine McKemy, Fullerton; Charlene Underwood, Rowland Heights; Nicki Jeanerett, Buena Park; and Faye Aquilar and Grace Heger, Whittier.

A check for $25,000 was presented to Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach by Ralphs Grocery Co. on behalf of Pamela Andres of Huntington Beach, who won a like amount in the store’s “Be Cool to Your School” contest.

Ralphs offered to donate matching funds to local schools selected by the contest winner.

Andres picked Ocean View since her two children, Jennifer and Michael, attend the school. The check was presented to Principal Carla Rush, who said the school is looking into various ways to use the money.

“I really want to involve Mrs. Andres in the decision,” she said.

Lyle Hull III, 11, a student at Stanford Elementary School in Garden Grove, was named Competitor of the Year at the recent Tournament Promoters Assn. competition. The award is one of a series of state, national and international karate titles he has won. He started karate at age 5.

David Berchtold-King, 17, a resident of Coto de Caza and a senior at Santa Margarita High School, has been selected as one of 300 people nationwide to attend the seventh annual Washington Journalism Conference from March 25 to 29. He is a reporter on the school newspaper, The Falcon.

Mechanic Warren G. Harding, an Anaheim resident, was named Employee of the Year, Forest Long of Garden Grove was named Driver of the Year, and Debora Rucker of Huntington Beach was named Customer Information Operator of the Year by the Orange County Transportation Authority.

Literacy tutors who graduated at Costa Mesa’s Golden Rule Learning Center Basic Reading and ESL Reading programs are Barney Barngrover, Greg Strong, Anne Kelly and Cathy Warwick, Costa Mesa; and Maggie Novak, Miriam Demmel and Marie Eckess, Newport Beach.

Others are Rosy Dalton, Corona del Mar; Carmen Smith, Fountain Valley; Amalia Kahler, Laguna Niguel, and Patricia Ford, Huntington Beach.

Literacy Volunteers of America, Placentia Library and Anaheim Affiliate conducted the three-week training program.

Maura Johnston of Anaheim has been named a finalist for a $1,000 grant in the Jostens Foundation Leader Scholarship Program for 1992. The senior at Cornelia Connelly School in Anaheim was one of more than 35,000 high school students who applied for one of the grants given annually to 200 students.

The family of Dave Slesh, a Laguna Niguel resident, will hold a 90th birthday party Tuesday for him with a luncheon in Dana Point and later a reception in Aliso Viejo.

Slesh takes daily walks for exercise, according to his daughter Carole Neustadt of Aliso Viejo, who said her father liked to tell her and others: “This is the only body you got, the only one you’re going to get, so you better take good care of it.”

Costa Mesa resident and Orange County American Cancer Society volunteer Robert Cowley has been named the first recipient of the Sandra Kent Memorial Award established in memory of Kent, a former volunteer who epitomized “the best” in volunteerism.

“Without the dedication of volunteers like Cowley it would be impossible for us to accomplish as much as we do in the fight against cancer,” said Selma Sladek, volunteer coordinator in Orange County,.

Three Cheers, c/o Herbert J. Vida, The Times, 1375 Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa Calif. 92626