Educator Named Rosary High Principal

Yorba Linda resident Trudy Mazzarella, who taught religion, served as an academic counselor and more recently as assistant principal at Rosary High School in Fullerton, has been named its principal. The all-girl preparatory high school has an enrollment of 800.

Mazzarella holds a bachelor’s degree in education from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana and a master’s degree in religious education from the University of San Diego. The mother of five sons is completing her 13th year at the high school.

Before Rosary, Mazzarella taught religion and was a faculty member of the Orange Catechetical Institute and served as a member of the Diocesan Religious Education Board.

Costa Mesa resident Ron Endrich, an Orange Coast College student, won first place in the Orange County Fair’s 15th annual Joan Boris press photographers’ competition in the college portfolio category for the second consecutive year.

Robert Goshen, 70, of El Toro and an OCC student, won second place in the same category with his color pictures taken during the Los Angeles riots.

Kevin O’Shaughnessy, a Garden Grove resident and exalted ruler of Garden Grove Elks Lodge 1952, and Art Echternacht, a Santa Ana resident and exalted ruler of Santa Ana Elks Lodge 794, were commended for their dedication during their attendance at the recent 128th National Order of Elks Convention in Dallas.

Marc Coopersmith, a recent graduate of Tustin High School, said the $750 he was awarded by the Tall Club of Orange County will go toward school fees at Georgetown University.

Stephanie Langenfelt, a graduate of Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo who will attend Stanford University, and Timothy J. Van Reusen, a graduate of Edison High School in Huntington Beach who will attend Brigham Young University, each received $500 scholarships.

They were judged on the basis of the club’s minimum height requirements--5 feet, 10 inches for women and 6 feet, 2 inches for men--academic achievement, community service and an essay on “What Being Tall Means to Me.”

Ten-year-old David Hellenihi of Huntington Beach was named a weekly winner of the Sheraton Hotels in Hawaii Photo Contest. He submitted a picture of Diamond Head on Waikiki Beach. He is now eligible to compete for the grand prize of a six-night stay and round-trip air fare for a family of four.

Dr. J. Edward Berk, a Laguna Hills resident and professor of medicine at UC Irvine, was named Distinguished Educator by the American Gastroenterological Assn. for outstanding teaching and educational efforts. Only four other doctors have been given that honor by the group.

Julie Ramphal, a computer teacher at A.G. Currie Middle School in Tustin, has received an exemplary performance award from Computer Using Educators, a statewide organization of teachers, college professors and administrators of educational technology. Ramphal is a Pepperdine University graduate and holds a master’s degree in educational computing.

Honor scholarships totaling $5,950 to cover the cost of enrollment fees and books were awarded to 17 area high school graduates by Fullerton College.

Sharing in the grants were Heather Sato and Sabrina Haass, Kennedy High School, La Palma; Quy Hoang and Nora Quezada, Savanna High, Anaheim; Cynthia Malvin, Anaheim High; Jennie Rowell, Esperanza High, Anaheim; Christine Steyn, Loara High, Anaheim, and David Thergood, Valencia High, Placentia.

Others were Laura Lopez and Oanh Pham, Fullerton High; Sara Magana, Rosary High, Fullerton; Karen Shelley, Buena Park High; Marie Bernabe, Norma Morales and Christine Lopez, Sonora High, La Habra, and Heather Burton and Jennifer Warner, El Dorado High, Placentia.

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