Five Acres Center Honors Volunteers

Five Acres, an Altadena treatment center for abused, neglected and abandoned children, has announced its annual volunteer awards.

* Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser was named Person of the Year for exceptional dedication and inspirational leadership since he became involved with Five Acres in 1987.

* The Descanso Pediatric Medical Group of La Canada Flintridge, which has been providing medical services for children at the home since 1960, received the Special Services to Children award.

* Teredata Corp. of El Segundo, which has raised more than $130,000 for Five Acres in the last three years through a benefit golf tournament, earned a Special Recognition award.

* Cynthia Perucca was named Volunteer of the Year for her help in securing community support of the renovation of the Five Acres emergency shelter.

* Richard L. Davis received the Dorothy Cook Lifetime Achievement Award. Davis has been involved with Five Acres for 20 years and has been instrumental in the expansion of its Family Group Homes and Family Resource Center and its services to abused deaf children. The award is named for Cook, a philanthropist who has contributed to Five Acres for more than 20 years.

Lt. Mike Delaney, a 28-year veteran of the Monrovia Police Department, has been promoted to captain, replacing Bob Page, who is retiring.

Delaney, 49, will be responsible for the police patrol, which includes motorcycle and bicycle patrols, parking and traffic control.

Donley L. Brady of Arcadia, a lawyer, has been appointed to the board of visitors of the U.S. Department of Defense Systems Management College at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Brady is a former member of the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corp., which helps insure the foreign investments of American companies.

Pat McCormick, Olympic gold medal winner and founder of the Pat McCormick Educational Foundation, has been selected as the recipient of 1992 Award of Distinction by the San Gabriel Valley YWCA.

The McCormick foundation provides programs on self-esteem, drug and gang awareness and prevention, tutoring, educational field trips and a summer camp for youth in the Hacienda Heights and La Puente areas. Twenty-five students ages 13-16 are now active in the program.

McCormick won four gold medals, two in 1952 and two in 1956, for springboard and platform diving. She established the foundation in 1986.

She will be honored at a May 29 luncheon at the Industry Hills and Sheraton Resort. Information may be obtained from the YWCA at (818) 960-2995.

The Rev. Robert A. Johnson of Arcadia, a California Army National Guard chaplain, has been awarded the Bronze Star for exceptionally meritorious military service rendered during the Persian Gulf War.

Johnson was responsible for the care of 1,000 Reserve and National Guardsmen from Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.

Deborah G. Dixon has been named to the newly created post of director of creative services for the Theatre Corp. of America, which operates the Pasadena Playhouse.

Previously, Dixon was project director of the Fund for New American Plays and worked for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, both in Washington.

Daniel Dominguez has been named 1992 Outstanding Older American by the city of San Gabriel.

Dominguez, 79, who was born in San Gabriel in 1913, the year the city incorporated, is a retired employee of the city’s post office. He was a member of the San Gabriel School District Board of Education for 24 years.

He is also treasurer of the San Gabriel Historical Assn. and is active in the San Gabriel Mission, St. Anthony Church, Marion Home for the mentally retarded, Rancho San Antonio Boys Town and the San Gabriel Valley Medical Center.