Colleges : Campus scene : FULLERTON / University Landscape Manager Honored

In a setting where the typical honor is for academic achievement, a Cal State Fullerton manager has won a more esoteric award.

Mert Johnson, head of landscape services for the university, has received the Governor’s Employee Safety Award for developing a program for the control and use of pesticides and herbicides in a non- agricultural setting.

Johnson, who manages a 17-member crew responsible for trimming trees, cutting grass and keeping the 200-acre campus clean, was also recognized for developing and implementing a safety and training program that uses a combination of lectures, demonstrations and videotapes.

“Mert is relentless,” said Charles Stevens, the university’s physical plant director. “He will not let an observed safety violation go by unaddressed.”

HUNTINGTON BEACH / Golden West Names Employees of the Year

A learning resources professor, a dean and an administrative secretary are Golden West College’s 1995 Employees of the Year.

At the community college’s fall convocation ceremonies, President Philip Westin recognized Associate Prof. Dean Mancina as Faculty Member of the Year, Division Dean Marilyn Dorfman as Administrator of the Year and Edith Cardinali, an administrative secretary, as Classified Employee of the Year.

“Dean Mancina, Marilyn Dorfman and Edith Cardinali exemplify the personal commitment and professional excellence that our students deserve as we assist them in their pursuit of student success,” Westin said.

Mancina, an associate professor of learning resources, has been with Golden West since 1978.

Dorfman, who is responsible for overseeing the college’s tutorial learning and writing centers as well as the R. Dudley Boyce Library, has been a Golden West employee since 1970.

Cardinali, a Golden West employee since its founding in 1966, is an administrative secretary in the Office of Instruction and Student Services and is active in a number of campus groups.

LAGUNA BEACH / Hospital Auxiliary Awards Scholarships

South Coast Medical Center’s auxiliary has awarded $1,000 college scholarships to a trio of students from South County.

The recipients are Jeffrey Venstrom of Laguna Beach, Devon Costello of Mission Viejo and Arvind Jayaram of Aliso Viejo.

Venstrom, who plans a career in pediatrics, is attending Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Costello is in the nursing program at the University of San Francisco. And Jayaram is enrolled at UC San Diego and plans to specialize in genetics.

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