Six Honored for Community Work

Six county women who have made significant contributions to the community were recognized at the recent ninth annual Rancho Santiago College Women of Achievements Awards program.

The honorees are: MarGreta Jorgensen, a family consultant for the Orange Caregiver Resource Center; Harriet Tyler, a 40-year volunteer for many organizations, including the NAACP, and president of the Interested Citizens Group of Orange County for 21 years; Katherine Kutschka-Lindquist, who studies children prenatally exposed to drug or alcohol abuse; Isa Smashey Rogers, a worker for Interval House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence; Audrey Yamagata-Noji, an assistant dean at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana and a member of the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education, and Deanna Taylor, whose divorce led her to teach divorce recovery workshops for adults and children.

Real estate entrepreneur Frank Jao of Huntington Beach has been selected to receive the 1992 Golden West College Outstanding Citizen Award, the school’s highest honor to an individual.

The immigrant of Chinese-Vietnamese ancestry, a leader in the county Vietnamese community, will receive his award Friday at the college’s 25th annual commencement.

Collin Elias, son of Barbara and Simon Elias of Costa Mesa, has completed his assignment with the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, where he helped to install 82 latrines, 27 cement floors in houses, five water catchment systems and a small pharmacy.

The Humboldt State University graduate, who earned a degree in wellness and nutrition and previously helped teach minorities and children about nutrition, has been working in the Dominican Republic since November, 1989.

Huntington Beach has named Kelly Crawford, 17, as the city’s 1992 Youth of the Year for her achievements in school and the community.

The Marina High School student, vice president of her senior class and a varsity song leader, has worked as a volunteer for the National Charity League and the Orangewood Home for Abused Children.

Before studying at Vanderbilt University in the fall, Kelly will work as an instructor at summer dance camps at various Southland universities.

Clarice Fujita’s design for a Mercedes-Benz poster won first place at the recent exhibition of the Mercedes-Benz Club at Fashion Island. She is a Cypress High School student.

Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates, an Irvine multi-disciplinary design and engineering firm, has won the 1991 Project of the Year honor from the California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors. The firm was cited for its residential and golf course development in the Coachella Valley.

Robert Gregory of Corona del Mar won first place and $200 in the recent Art Beat 1992 competition and exhibition, sponsored by South Coast Plaza Village’s merchants.

His entry was a conceptual chair made of fine wire. The Orange Coast College student competed against students from 14 Southland colleges, universities and art schools.

Villa Park resident Evelyn A. Freed has been named to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.

The mother of three, an owner of Wilden Pump & Engineering Inc. in Colton, is a graduate of San Bernardino Valley College and studied business administration at Cal Poly Pomona.

Her husband, Frank Freed, director of counseling at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, is a graduate of Fuller’s Graduate Schools of Theology and Psychology.

Ann Fontana of Garden Grove has been named a regent of the Huntington Beach Clara Barton Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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