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* Haskell International Inc. has named Terrence...

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* Haskell International Inc. has named Terrence A. Noonan, 58, to fill a vacant post on its board of directors.

Noonan is currently president of Furon Co., a components company based in Laguna Niguel.

Haskell, based in Burbank, is a maker of high-pressure liquid pumps used in the electronics industry.

* James E. Stutz has been named president of Glendale-based Fidelity Federal Bank.

Stutz has been executive vice president and head of the bank’s retail financial services group since January 1994.

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Also, Stephen J. Austin, Fidelity’s director of internal audit, has been appointed executive vice president and head of the newly formed risk evaluation group.

* Lucent Technologies has named Rachelle Waters to the position of account executive in Ventura County. She will be responsible for the sale of telecommunications and multimedia systems to small- and medium-sized businesses throughout her territory.

Lucent Technologies was formed as a result of AT&T;’s planned restructuring into three companies. It designs, manufactures and installs business telecommunications systems.

* Bob Blossom has joined the Ventura firm of Mainstreet Architects & Planners. Blossom has been an architect for 22 years and serves on Ventura’s design review committee.

Mainstreet Architects’ current projects include the new Fillmore City Hall, a school and auditorium for the San Buenaventura Mission and the master plan for the town of Piru.

* The Marketing Works has hired Joyce Shipley as its newest account executive. Her sales territory will extend from Simi Valley to Ventura.

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The Marketing Works specializes in the development of direct mail campaigns for businesses and nonprofit organizations.

* Leonard Pomata was named president of Litton Industries’ McLean, Va., subsidiary, PRC Inc. Previously, Pomata was senior vice president and general manager of PRC’s systems integration business.

He replaces William C. Hoover, who took another job.

* Nancy Miller of Santa Barbara has joined the law firm of Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton in Oxnard and Westlake Village, and will specialize in administrative law, focusing on the firm’s public agency practice.

Miller has experience in business, employment and education law litigation, with emphasis on trial, arbitration and administrative hearings.

* Dick Albrent, owner of Albrent Painting in Ventura, received the Fritz Huntsinger Sr. Eagle Award at the annual Eagle Scouts Recognition Dinner for the Ventura County Council of the Boy Scouts. He has been involved with scouting since he was a boy and achieved his Eagle Scout award at 17 in Kimberly, Wis.

He has served 21 years as scoutmaster of Troop 135 in Ventura, which he started with a charter from the Ventura Elks.

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* Don Tello has joined Citizens State Bank as assistant vice president and manager of the Fillmore branch. Tello was assistant vice president and manager for the Bank of A. Levy for more than a decade, and he retained his managerial position after the bank merged with First Interstate in 1995.

Citizens is the oldest locally owned and operated community bank in Ventura County, with three branches in Santa Paula and Fillmore.

* David R. Shapiro, a Ventura ophthalmologist whose practice is devoted exclusively to RK and laser surgery for the correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism, has been invited to author a chapter for the refractive surgery issue of “International Ophthalmology Clinic.”

Writings by Shapiro, who has performed more than 3,000 refractive surgical procedures, have been published extensively, and he has helped teach modern procedures to more than 1,000 ophthalmologists.

* Sam Hishmeh, owner of six Domino’s Pizza stores in Santa Paula, Ventura, Meiners Oaks and Santa Barbara, was awarded a Domino’s Pizza Silver Franny Award for operational excellence. Hishmeh was one of 15 franchisees, of the company’s more than 1,200 store owners, to receive the honor.

Awards are based on a variety of criteria, including sales performance, product quality, operational audit scores, community involvement, store safety, security levels and employee morale.

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* Arden Hill, owner of Cabrillo Mechanical & Sheet Metal in Oxnard, was chosen contractor of the year by the Tri-Counties Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Assn. He has been in the sheet-metal industry for 50 years and active in the association for 28 years.

The association, based in Ventura, represents 22 contributing contractor firms in the sheet-metal and air-conditioning industries in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

* Jerry G. Carlson, Ventura County National Bank vice president, is transferring to the Westlake Village office to expand lending services to businesses and professionals in the Conejo Valley and surrounding areas.

Carlson, who has more than 25 years of banking experience in Southern California and the Midwest, will focus on providing custom loan packages for mid-size and large companies. He has spent the last 10 years with banks in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, joining VCNB in 1993.

* Robert M. Anderson has resigned as chairman of Pacific Rim Holding Corp. and its subsidiary, the Pacific Rim Assurance Co., saying he wants to concentrate on business efforts.

Timothy R. Busch, who already sits on the board, has replaced him as interim chairman. That leaves one vacant board seat to be filled this summer.

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Pacific Rim is a workers’ compensation insurer.

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