Literacy Council Announces Tutor-Training Graduates

The Central Orange County Literacy Council has announced the names of new graduates of its 18- and 30-hour Laubach Tutor Training programs for tutoring English as a second language.

The graduates of the 30-hour program who trained at the Costa Mesa Literacy Center are Dorothy Anderson, Louise Arnold, Howard Baldini, Donna Carison, Jane Grilliot, Kay Kemp, Chuck Lester, Morah Maher, Raquel de los Rios, Joyanne Sloan, LaVeonde Tabor, Caroline van Note and Florence Wecklich, all from Costa Mesa.

Others are Betty Boyes, Karen Copland, Nancy Keyser and Rachel Walles, Huntington Beach; David Grantly and Sandra Wood, Irvine; Beth Cahill, Sallee Smith and Evelyn Takone, Santa Ana, and Essie Fales, Bob Goodman, Marilyn Gould, Dede Nickelson and Barbara Patterson, Newport Beach.

Also graduating are Bob Gwyn, Orange; David Negretta and Vaughn Rees, Tustin; Roberta Usher Schmidt, Balboa; Jeffrey Simons, Laguna Beach, and Lizette Garcia, Aliso Viejo.

Graduates of the 18-hour program at Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove are June Ballew, Marvin Ballew, Richard Carter, Huntington Beach; Teresa Bolen, Fullerton; Elizabeth Bond, Patty Humphrey, Kazuko Ikeda and Tamara Wilcox, Santa Ana; Esther Chen and Robin Chen, Anaheim Hills, and Margaret Covington, Denise Goodson, Solon Goodman and Marjorie Wilson, Orange.

Others are Doris Delnero, Nate Hosen, Vern Martin, Wanda Martin, and Gere Nelson, Garden Grove; Ralph Eichenberger, Seal Beach, and Daniela Galev, Marianne Galev, Susan Hayzlett, Bill Heck and Leslie Pogue, Anaheim.

More are Peggy Gross, Cypress; Chris Roy Jackson, Buena Park; Phil LaGreca, Long Beach; Carolyn McCombs, Costa Mesa; Patricia Moran-Johnson, Placentia; Anita Thompson, Los Alamitos, and Holly Ward, Fountain Valley.

Yorba Linda resident Barbara Clark, a graduate of Esperanza High and Claremont McKenna College, is at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, to earn a postgraduate diploma in African studies.

Clark, who was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship for a year of study, had been teaching English in Japan.

Four chefs from the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim won the Los Angeles Team Champion Gold Medal at the recent Chefs in America “American Harvest Competition.”

The winning team included Michael Norton, executive chef; Robert Arcos, chef; Bill Orton, assistant banquet chef, and Carl Wirz, executive pastry chef.

Their award-winning entree was duck quenelles, sauce and rice, and a dessert of frozen strawberry parfait.

Jean Marie Forbath of Costa Mesa, a community volunteer, was honored by Soroptimist International of Newport Harbor for her contributions toward education, health care, housing and welfare reform in Orange County.

Anaheim resident Dorothea Hilliard has been named Woman of the Year by the Anaheim Angeles chapter of the American Business Women’s Assn. She has served as chapter president, vice president and treasurer.

Yana Yanovsky, a senior at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, will represent the Huntington Beach Clara Barton chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the national DAR Good Citizens competition later this year.

Yanovsky won the local Good Citizens Award contest in competition against Holly Cuthbert of Ocean View High, Toby Curto of Liberty Christian High and Erin Breen of Huntington Beach High.

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