Irvine Poet Named to Humanities Council

Poet Mitsuye Yamada of Irvine has been named to the California Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Yamada, a visiting scholar at UCLA in 1992 and artist-in-residence at San Diego State University in 1991, has been conducting workshops and lectures on poetry, Asian-American literature, feminism and human rights at numerous colleges and universities throughout the country.

She is the author of “Camp Notes and Other Poems,” an account of the experience of her family in an Idaho internment camp during World War II.

Mission Viejo resident Joe Urban, a veteran Mission Viejo/Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge member, has been named public relations chairman of the California/Hawaii Elks Assn.

Bill Manning of Anaheim, president of Orange Valve and Fitting Co., has been named Manager of the Year by the Orange County Chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management.

Cypress resident Jaime Bertramsen has been accepted by Youth For Understanding International Exchange to live with a family in Australia on YFU’s 1993 summer program to help promote international understanding and world peace. He is a Los Alamitos High student.

Este Bailey, a San Clemente resident and a Saddleback/Irvine College student, won a gold medal in impromptu speaking in the recent California Community College Forensics Assn. state championship at Moorpark College.

Fountain Valley real estate broker Nancy Rhyme has been named Realtor of the Year by the 2,000-member Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley Assn. of Realtors.

Besides her work as a realtor who developed an outreach program to educate board members on professional standards and ethics, Rhyme is a member of the Orange County Philharmonic Society and speaks to elementary children on classical music.

Roland Schinzinger of Irvine, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Irvine, has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to engineering ethics, and leadership in engineering education.

Ernest C. Brown of San Juan Capistrano has been named chairman of the El Camino Real Distract of the Boys Scouts of America, which includes much of the South County.

Brown, a veteran of the Boy Scouts during which he earned his Eagle rank, is managing partner of the 20-attorney Ernest C. Brown & Co. law firm in Irvine.

Laguna Beach resident Toni Alexander, president of the marketing communications firm of InterCommunicationsInc in Newport Beach, has been presented the Barbara J. Stewart Award for her contributions and public service to the building industry. The honor was presented at the industry’s recent annual MAME awards ceremony that also recognized others for their merchandising and marketing excellence.

Alexander is a member of the Cal State Fullerton communications department board of directors and the UC Irvine Executive Round Table.

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