Volunteers Honored by Palsy Assn.

An estimated 100 guests watched as the United Cerebral Palsy Assn. of Orange County honored outstanding volunteers, corporate supporters and staff members at its recent awards program at Le Meridien Hotel in Newport Beach.

Heading the list of honorees was Barbra Marches of Newport Beach, who received the coveted President’s Award.

Others recognized were Aletha Anderson of Santa Ana, Outstanding New Board Member; Cynthia Walsh Bell of Yorba Linda, Outstanding Board Member; Allstate “Helping Hands” of Brea, Outstanding Corporate Volunteer Group; Serrano Middle School in El Toro, Youth Service Group Award, and the Santa Ana Lions Club, Civic Service Group.

Also honored were Nancy Irvine of Newport Beach; Ed Postal, Santa Ana; Peggy De Road, Yorba Linda; Tim Fleming, Huntington Beach; Jeanette Eash, Orange; and Mike Zwingle, El Toro, all Friendship Award winners; and Steve Paulin of Tustin, Barry Robertson Spirit Award.

The awards were presented by David Rahn, the association’s board of directors president, and Joanne Miner, executive director of the group.

Dana Hills High School students cleaned up in the Saddleback College annual high school theater festival, with Tessa Zugmeyer and Marty Scalzo winning top actress and actor categories.

The school also won in the Best Production category for its presentation of “The Rainmaker.”

Maggie Slater of Newport Harbor High in Newport Beach and Demian Talmo of Ocean View High in Huntington Beach won for best supporting roles.

In San Juan Capistrano, Viejo Elementary School teacher Lori Anderson was awarded a full tuition scholarship by the South Coast Audubon Society to attend the Audubon Ecology Camp in the West in Wyoming this summer to study nature.

Robert Elert, a 26-year Elks member, has been installed as Exalted Ruler of Mission Viejo/Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge 2444 and member Russell Linden was named Elk of the Year.

Former Orange Coast College students Raul Magana, a 1972 graduate and former project supervisor for the AIDS Community Education Project; Martha Newkirk, a registered nurse who graduated in 1966 and was a regent for the University of California, and Starr Parodi, a composer and arranger who graduated in 1980, will be inducted in the college’s Alumni Hall of Fame Oct. 12.

Don Roberson of MacDonald-Stephens Engineering Inc. of Mission Viejo has been elected vice president of the California Water Pollution Control Assn., a 7,000-member volunteer group of the Water Environment Federation.

Honored at a recent Fullerton School District Board of Education meeting for being selected Teacher of the Year at their respective schools were Sara Bell, El Toro, of Acacia Elementary; Mary Ann Sexton, Yorba Linda, of Commonwealth Elementary; Nancy Marshall, Fullerton, of Ferndrive Elementary; Mary Perkins, Fullerton, of Golden Hill Elementary; Bridget McTague, Santa Ana, of Hermosa Drive Elementary, and Debbie Rhoads, Fullerton, of Laguna Road Elementary.

Others were Susette Brown, Anaheim, of Maple Elementary; Gretchen Francisco, Anaheim, of Orangethorpe Elementary; Mary Breen, Fullerton, Pacific Drive Elementary; Theresa Collar, Placentia, of Raymond Elementary; Gloria Mata, Buena Park, of Richman Elementary, and Susan Gardner, Fullerton, of Rolling Hills Elementary.

Also Masako Kawase, Fullerton, of Sunset Lane Elementary; Lynn Stiegler, Orange, of Valencia Park Elementary; Marcia Maloney, Yorba Linda, of Woodcrest Elementary; Joe Schubert, Los Angeles, of Ladera Vista Junior High, and Brendan Newberry, of Parks Junior High.

Tustin resident Melinda Morgan has been appointed to the Professional Advisory Board of the Public Relations Option of the Cal State Long Beach journalism department.

Besides her role at the college, the owner of Morgan PR Consultants in Tustin is a board member of the Orange County branch of the Public Relations Society of America and is a member of Center 500, a guild of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

The advisory board consists of professional public relations people who aim to improve the university’s public relations program.

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