Toyota Motor Sales has named Florence Dodge...
Toyota Motor Sales has named Florence Dodge as its Star Volunteer and Don Haller a Rising Star Volunteer. The winners received an award and a check for the charity of their choice. Dodge donated $5,000 to the Long Beach Campfire Council. Haller donated $1,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach. Dodge and Haller work at Toyota Motor Sales in Torrance.
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Beth Shaw of Hermosa Beach has received a South Bay Producers Guild Award for “Yoga Fit,” the local cable show she produces. Shaw also teaches classes at local health clubs, runs workshops and has created a line of workout clothes.
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Redondo Beach resident Jeff Sanny, professor and chairman of the physics department at Loyola Marymount University, was granted a $31,500 Cottrell College Science Award from Research Corp. in Tucson. The Cottrell grant will allow Sanny to study solar wind as a part of his ongoing research in physics.
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Alan Cherry of Redondo Beach received the 1994 Accounting Faculty Merit Award from the California Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Committee on Accounting Education. Cherry is an accounting professor at Loyola Marymount University.
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El Camino College’s Board of Trustees has elected William Beverly, an attorney and Manhattan Beach resident, president of the board for a one-year term. Beverly has been on the board for three years, representing Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach.
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Three teachers from the South Bay area were nominated for the 1994-95 Bravo Award by the Music Center Education Division for their achievements in arts education. The nominees are Peggy Sivert of Manhattan Beach’s Mira Costa High School, James Webb of Torrance’s North High School and Marcia Barryte of Rancho Palos Verdes’ Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle School.
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Karen Bristol, Ryan Song, Lyle Tagawa and Debby Ngo of Westchester High School were recognized at the UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies competition for their achievements in biology, chemistry and calculus.
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Patricia Gazin was named president of the Book Collectors of Los Angeles. Gazin, of Hermosa Beach, has volunteered for the Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library for more than 30 years.
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The Rev. J. Bond Johnson has been serving as interim pastor of the First United Methodist Church of San Pedro during the leave of the Rev. Barbara Kilgore. Johnson is a family psychologist and founding pastor of the La Tijera United Methodist Church in Westchester.
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Manhattan Beach resident Max Schulz became a voluntary curator at USC’s Fisher Gallery after retiring from the university, where he taught English for more than 30 years. Schulz received his master’s degree in museum studies from USC last year.
