27 Volunteer Language Tutors Graduate

Twenty-seven volunteer tutors recently graduated from the South Coast Literacy Council’s English as a Second Language program and will be assigned to one of 20 centers to help foreign-born adults improve their English speaking, writing and reading skills.

They are Karen Anacker, Doreen Benton, Serena Choi, Sally Feng, Elaine Goodman, Donna Pehoski, Martha Rosario, Camerone Welsh and Pam Nelson, Irvine; Dayton Dickey and Margaret Dickey, San Juan Capistrano; Carolyn Doherty, Mission Viejo; Bess Earp and Christine Young, Laguna Hills, and Andrea Gilbert and Linda Scott, Tustin.

Others are Bradon Hill, Mark Morris, Robert Tyler and Pamela Wood, Costa Mesa; Amanda Knapp and Mark Williams, Dana Point; Rita Kurtz and Lisa Pawlek, Newport Beach; June Nguyen, Fountain Valley; Aminita Pearl, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Stanley Urghart, Santa Ana.

Rabbi Shelton Donnell, a Santa Ana resident and president of the Pacific Southwest Region for the Assn. of Reform Zionists of America, has returned from the recent International World Zionists Congress in Jerusalem.

Donnell, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Ana, was one of 500 delegates at the meeting, frequently referred to as the “Parliament of the Jewish People.”

The congress sets the agenda and guides the Jewish agency’s distribution of more than $700 million raised annually for programs and services in Israel.

Optometrist Richard Kidder has become president of the Greater Irvine Lions Club, succeeding Tom Brady.

The Irvine resident, who also practices in that city, is a graduate of UC Irvine and Southern California College of Optometry in Fullerton.

Other officers are Bill Jackson, Arnie Lubliner and Allan Krippner, all vice presidents; Rose Mary Sorter, secretary, and Jim Shaffer, treasurer.

Placentia resident Lisa Donee has been awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the 1992 program of Summer Seminars for School Teachers.

She is a teacher at Walnut High School in Walnut, and will travel to the University of Illinois at Chicago to teach a five-week seminar entitled “Jane Austen: Society and the Self.”

She received a $2,825 stipend to cover travel, study and living expenses.

Anaheim residents Virginia Miller and Marie Solis-Martinez were honored with educational fellowships from the Anaheim branch of the American Assn. of University Women.

Both members of the branch, Solis-Martinez is active in fund-raising and is a regular convalescent home volunteer, and Miller coordinates the branch’s bridge group, which generates scholarship money.

Morgan Howard, editor of Highlights, the Huntington Beach High School newspaper, was a delegate at the recent 41st annual California Scholastic Press Assn. Journalism Workshop at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is a senior.

Nancy Spencer, a Fullerton resident who started as a personnel assistant in 1975 and progressed to her current position as personnel manager for the city of Fullerton, has been named president-elect of the Southern California Personnel Management Assn.

The Purdue University graduate, a board member of Fullerton Beautiful Inc. and the Fullerton Sister City Assn., will become president in 1993.

Midshipmen Kelli Wynne, a Fountain Valley resident, and Steven Medland of Yorba Linda graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., with 159 other members of the class of 1992.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wynne of Fountain Valley, and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Medland of Yorba Linda.

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