Richard M. Moon is the new president...

Richard M. Moon is the new president of the Rotary Club of Westchester. Moon, a certified public accountant, is president of Richard W. Moon & Associates of Marina del Rey. He serves on the board of managers of the Westchester YMCA, is an assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, and has served as a division commissioner of the American Youth Soccer Organization. Moon has coached soccer and youth basketball teams and resides in Westchester with his son, Bradley, and daughter, Christina.

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Four Los Angeles County lifeguards, recipients of the county’s Lifeguard Medal of Valor, were honored at a dinner sponsored by the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. The chamber also honored retired Chief Lifeguard Frank (Bud) Stevenson with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Medal of Valor lifeguards are:

Michael Patterson of Redondo Beach, who swam through chilly spring waters and massive kelp beds off Cabrillo Beach to save a fully-clothed victim who had fallen from a passing boat.

Bob Ingersoll and Alfred Laws, who braved high seas off Malibu in an inflatable boat to rescue two men whose 16-foot catamaran had capsized.

Robert Bartlett, who, while off duty, risked his life in an unsuccessful attempt to save a man who had fallen from a sailboat off Long Beach.

Stevenson started his career as a lifeguard in 1933 working for the city of Hermosa Beach. A few years later, when the county took over, he became a county lifeguard. He served as chief county lifeguard for two decades, and by the time he retired in 1971 he had earned the reputation of being the father of modern ocean lifeguard procedures. He is credited with implementing uniformly high training standards for all county lifeguards. According to Capt. Robert Buchanan, Stevenson was responsible for the county’s purchase of its first motorized ocean rescue boat and designed its first high-speed model.

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LaShauna Williams, a 1992 graduate of Westchester High School, created the winning design to be used on T-shirts for the Jet to Jetty 5K-10K Run and 5K Family Fitness Walk scheduled for Nov. 20 in Playa del Rey. Williams’ design will also appear on flyers for the race. She created the winning design while a student in a graphic arts class at Westchester High School. The Jet to Jetty race is a major fund-raiser for the Airport Marina Counseling Service, a private, nonprofit, outpatient mental health clinic serving the greater Westchester area since 1961.

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Rancho Palos Verdes resident Ronald Salovey has been appointed to the John Robert Fluor Chair in Chemical Engineering at the USC School of Engineering. Salovey, a USC professor of chemical engineering and materials science, directs the university’s polymer engineering science program. He joined the USC faculty in 1975, after working in private industry for 17 years, in order to develop an academic program in polymer sciences and engineering.

The John Robert Fluor chair was established in 1976 in honor of the former chairman of the Fluor Corp. Fluor was a USC alumnus and member of the USC Board of Trustees from 1962 until his death in 1984.

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Stefan Wolowicz of Zdonek and Wolowicz accountants is the new president of the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce. Wolowicz will be working with the following members of the board of directors: Norm Buchanan, Dave Cason, Chris Crawford, Steve Cummins, Lisa Dony, Barry Engelberg, Dawn Ann Farnin, Owen Griffith, Wayne Harmon, Bert Hoffman, John Homer, Carolin Keith, Tony Kriss, James Lester, Boyd Lindquist, Kurt Miyamoto, James Olson, Robert Popeney, Ted Porter, Susan Rhilinger, Don Robinson, Sam Schauerman, Chip Scholz, Alan Schwartz, Irene Silverman, William Silvestri, John Tootle, Tom Wafer, John Watters, George Woelki and Dennis Young.

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Redondo Beach residents Sherri Miller, a liberal studies major, Bridget Marrin and Michelle Laplante, biology majors, and Lisa Paaske, a nursing major, were named to the 1993 spring semester dean’s list at Mount St. Mary’s College.

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John S. Foster Jr. of Rancho Palos Verdes has been named a winner of the 1992 Enrico Fermi Award by President Clinton. Foster is a member of the TRW Board of Directors and former TRW vice president. He is one of three physicists to receive the honor, the government’s oldest science and technology award. The Fermi Award is given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Foster is a past director and one of the founding technical members of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Fermi award, which originated in 1956, honors the memory of Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who achieved the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago.

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Burton Fletcher of Fletcher & Associates, attorneys, is a new member of the board of directors of The Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, where he recently completed volunteer parent-aide training. Fletcher serves on the board of directors of South Bay Children’s Health Center, Pop Warner Football of Torrance, and Southwood Riviera Homeowners Assn.

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Two recent South Bay high school graduates are recipients of four-year, $2,400 college scholarships from the Watson Land Co. They are Heidi-Lynn Doon, a graduate of Carson High School, who will attend UC Irvine to major in biology, and Jenette Briggs, a graduate of Banning High School, who plans to major in business administration at UC Riverside. Each was chosen by her school’s scholarship committee to receive the scholarship, which provides $600 a year for four years.