Sandra Gibson to Head Arts Agencies Panel
Sandra Gibson will head the board of directors of the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping local arts agencies. Gibson, executive director of the Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach Regional Arts Council, has been on the assembly’s board for five years.
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At a National Philanthropy Day celebration in Los Angeles, five employees, volunteers and donors from Long Beach Community Hospital Medical Center were recognized. They were Jean Bixby Smith, for her support since her family donated the land for the center in 1924; Jess Grundy, who started the center’s foundation; Diane DeWalsche, for her volunteer work; Ken Davis, for fund raising, and Christina Curtiss, for volunteering in pediatric intensive care.
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KidSpeaK, a Long Beach-based writing program for children, recently announced the winners of its first poetry contest for elementary and middle school students. The elementary school winners, all in Long Beach, were Darline Ky, Kettering Elementary School; Brittany Leftwich, Jackie Robinson Elementary School; Keegan Walker, Naples Elementary School, and Valeria D. Turner, Burbank Elementary School. Middle-school winners were Zachary Locklin, Hughes Middle School; Andrea Lee Reeves,) Rogers Middle School; Ping Hu, Jefferson Middle School, all in Long Beach, and Laura Anderson, McAuliffe Middle School, Los Alamitos.
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John C. Rios, former president of the Whittier Union High School district board, was elected president of the California School Board Assn.’s Hispanic Caucus. Rios, a Whittier resident, also teaches accounting and federal income tax at Rio Hondo College in Whittier.
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