People

Spotlight on achievers

Dorothy Nieto Manzer

Clinical social worker, Orange County

Manzer has been named manager of Project LEARN (Local Efforts to Address and Reduce Neglect). This child abuse-prevention program is conducted in Orange County by the Children’s Bureau of Southern California.

Manzer previously worked as director of clinical services at CPC Brea Canyon Hospital and was a therapist for the Pilgrimage Family Therapy Center in Tustin.

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Cameron Phillips

Firefighter, Garden Grove

The Garden Grove Fire Department has named Phillips battalion chief. A 19-year veteran of the force, Phillips most recently was a captain.

Phillips, 41, was the city’s representative to North Net, a regional firefighting agency that serves Garden Grove, Anaheim, Fullerton and Orange. He served as controller of a computer-aided dispatch and records management committee supervising the reorganization, relocation and upgrade of North Net’s $2.2-million communications center.

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Laura Lee and Mai-Phuong Nguyen

USC students from Mission Viejo

Lee and Nguyen were named as two of 16 students who received scholarships from the Asian Pacific American Support Group for 1994-95. The students will receive $2,000 each from the group, a USC alumni and friends organization.

Lee is a junior majoring in broadcast journalism and political science, and Nguyen is a fourth-year medical student.

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Walter and Patricia Leandro

La Habra residents

When the Leandros accepted a low-interest home loan from La Habra’s Neighborhood Housing Service, they weren’t thinking of becoming video stars. “We were shocked,” Patricia Leandro says, referring to a request that they appear in a video for recruiting low-income buyers.

Now the couple are likely to be seen by would-be homeowners for years at Neighborhood Housing Service seminars throughout the country. *

Maureen Hickler

Job coach, Saddleback Community Enterprises

Hickler won the Irvine Spectrum Rotary Club’s Vocational Achievement Award for her 10 years of service in supervising disabled employees at Tuttle-Click Ford in Irvine.

Saddleback Community Enterprises of Mission Viejo is a nonprofit organization that provides vocational training and job placement services for developmentally disabled adults. Hickler supervises about 10 disabled workers at the Ford dealership.

--COMPILED BY ALAN EYERLY WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BERT ELJERA, LYNN FRANEY, RUSS LOAR AND MIMI