Literacy Council Honors Volunteers

Ceremonies for special recognition for years of volunteer service as well as recognition of new literacy volunteers were held recently by the Central Orange County Literacy Council.

Both groups of honorees are literacy tutors or teachers of English as a second language.

Heading the list of veteran volunteers were Rowena Black and Esther Brown, both of Santa Ana, with 25 years of teaching, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of the literacy council.

Twenty-year awards were earned by Wanda Burner of Anaheim; David Westerfield, Huntington Beach, and Pauline Wylie-Schoof, Santa Ana. Honored for 15 years were Judy Brown, Fountain Valley; Mazel Westerfield, Huntington Beach, and Jean Roberts, Santa Ana.

Receiving 10-year awards were Helen Cohn, Los Alamitos; Fred McGalliard, Santa Ana; Laura McGalliard, Santa Ana; Mary Thompson, Corona del Mar, and Annabelle Sandler, Los Alamitos.

Five-year honorees were Edith Brennen, Gladys Carson, Herbert Bean, Evalyn Townsend and Marjorie Kriep, all of Garden Grove; Jean Hain, Yucaipa; Emma Sirick and Hazel Lansdowne, Westminster; Mary Ann McKinney, Tustin, and Marian Hofferbert, Santa Ana.

The new tutors are Joyce Barton, Erika Brown, Russell Clark, Conrad Max, Helen Salquist and Charles White, all of Santa Ana; Maynard Baker, Garden Grove; Larry Forcey, Orange; Betty Kennedy, Tustin, and Ovenby Hoffman Ack and Mary Sue Saylor, both of Irvine.

Anne-Louise Adamiak, 34, a first-year Orange Coast College interior design student, has been awarded a $2,000 scholarship by the Network of Executive Women in the Hospitality Industry.

The Huntington Beach resident decided to change careers after working 15 years in the restaurant industry, three of them as manager of the Velvet Turtle in Irvine.

She now holds several part-time jobs, including conducting an aerobics class in Huntington Beach and offering riding lessons at the Huntington Beach Equestrian Center.

Leonel Vargas, general manager of the Pet Care Co. in Newport Beach, has received the Employer Appreciation Award from Westview Vocational Services, which trains and finds jobs for people with developmental disabilities.

Vargas, honored for his management abilities in employee relations, was selected from a field of 65 business managers throughout Orange County who employ the developmentally disabled.

James Edwards Jr. of the Edwards theater chain has been presented the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor’s “Book of Golden Deeds Award,” given annually to a Newport Beach citizen for exceptional community service.

Edwards, a member of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Hoag Hospital 552 Club, has for years been involved in charitable organizations, including the Exchange Club’s annual movie premiere fund-raising program.

Carlos Lopez of El Modena High School in Orange won Best of Show and $100 for his ceramic sculpture titled “Me and My Shadow” at the recent Orange Coast College third annual High School Art Exhibit.

Students who won first place $75 prizes from the 19 Orange County high schools that participated were Jake Arellano, Costa Mesa High, first in two-dimensional category; Travis Conley, Foothill High, three-dimensional category, and Mark Molsberry, El Modena High, photography competition.

And at Fullerton College, Faujan R. Umrani 46, of Fullerton and Xuanedzung Thi Tran 30, of Anaheim have been named Man and Woman of the Year. They each received $300 cash awards and an engraved plaque.

The 1991 Grand Award of Excellence for Engineering: Land Development was presented to the Tustin-based land planning firm of Hall & Foreman Inc. by the California Council of Civil Engineering and Land Surveyors at its recent conference in Hawaii.

For his research on “Seismic Response Analysis and Design of Liquid Storage Tanks,” UC Irvine professor Medhat Haroun has been selected for the 1992 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Earlier this year, Haroun received the Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the Orange County Engineering Council, an umbrella organization of engineering societies composed of more than 10,000 engineers from all disciplines.

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