36 Senior Girl Scouts Are Awarded the Organization’s Highest Honor

The Gold Awards, the highest honor given to Girl Scouts, was presented to 36 Senior Girl Scouts by the Girl Scout Council of Orange County at a recent banquet at the Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa.

The high school girls earned the awards through achievement in leadership, community service, skills development, career exploration and completion of a service project.

Honorees are Anna Turanitza, Shannon Stanton, Laurie Franklin, Jennifer O’Leary and Jennifer Hoskinson, Anaheim; Amanda Laws, Buena Park; Michelle Miller and Kaena Yangisawa, Costa Mesa; Sherri Jacobson, Cypress; Amy Van Buskirk, Dana Point; Katherine Sanger, Fountain Valley; Kathleen Bardin, Fullerton; Pam Doering and Mendi Poag, Garden Grove, and Laura Cluff, Erin Bostick and Jan Hunt, Huntington Beach.

Also, Helen de la Maza, Irvine; Jennifer Bell and Heidi Kutcher, Lake Forest; Lisa Anderson, Karen Norbrothen and Michelle Stone, Mission Viejo; Gwen Twist, Newport Beach; Tami Waters and Koreen Korfoot, Orange, and Virginia Sawyer, Karen Baird and Brenda Lynch, Placentia.

Others are Charity Morain, San Juan Capistrano; Melissa Mason and Lorin Fineman, Santa Ana; Emmy Chang and Rachel Chochrane, Seal Beach; Thu-Than le Tran, Tustin, and Christena Thomas, Westminster;

Keynote speaker at the awards program was Olympic gold medalist Pat McCormick. Jacqueline K. Schaar, president of the council, presented the awards.

Huntington Beach resident William R. Carlson, owner of three roller-skating rinks in Southern California, was recently named Cerritos Businessperson of the Year by the Cerritos Chamber of Commerce.

Owner of Skate Depot in Cerritos, Carlson was lauded for his extensive community service to Cerritos and various charities and civic organizations.

In earlier years, Carlson has been honored by the Roller Skating Assn. and as Man of the Year by Rinksider Magazine. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Dawn Kamber, a resident of Huntington Beach, has won the 1992 C. Everett Koop Award for her program “Surviving Heart Attacks,” which aired on KSBR-FM in Mission Viejo. It was judged the most outstanding work in the Radio Series, Extended Feature or Talk Show category. She is news director of the station.

Tracey Turner, a recent graduate of Mission Viejo High School, has been presented the $8,000 Mission Viejo Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge 2444 scholarship, given annually to a handicapped student.

Junior volunteers Katherine Anabo, Anjali Rege and Vien Tran, of Tustin; and collegiate volunteers Melissa Larkin, Irvine; Michael Moore, Santa Ana; Farzin Samadi, Orange, and Sausan Tahtawi, Tustin, won $500 scholarships from the Auxiliary of Western Medical Center-Santa Ana.

Employees recognized for their continuing studies in a medically related field are Chantel Bigelow and Jayne Scholosser, Ontario; Kala Crobarger, Escondido; Vickie Lyon Fessler, Pomona; Don Fox and Jamie Luby, Irvine; Lynn Ingalls, Mission Viejo; Stacie Oakley and Pamela Pimentel, Santa Ana, and Michelle Salenga and Cheri Sawyers, Tustin.

Seal Beach resident Judy Beckner Sloan, a 16-year veteran of legal education and a visiting professor at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, has been named a full professor of law at the school.

A former faculty member at the University of Toledo College of Law, Sloan joined Southwestern in 1991. Besides teaching, she has been active in the faculty speakers series committee, which brings distinguished speakers to the campus.

She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Chicago and her law degree form the University of Maryland School of Law.

Los Alamitos resident Judy Hughes, an elementary school librarian in the Long Beach Unified School District, has won the 1992 Orange County Library Assn.’s Scholarship Award. The $600 grant is given to the outstanding student in the master of library degree program at San Jose State University, Fullerton Campus.

Rocky Balch, a 1990 graduate of Edison High School in Huntington Beach, has become the third member of his family to graduate from the U.S. Army Airborne School and to be awarded the Silver Wings of a paratrooper.

Balch, who is in his second year at the West Point Military Academy, joins his father, Ken Balch, of Huntington Beach, and uncle, Jack Balch, a retired Army colonel, in winning his wings.

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