Ballet Master Named

Raymond Van Mason, formerly a principal dancer with Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been appointed Ballet Pacifica’s first ballet master. A dancer with Ballet West for 17 years, Van Mason also choreographed for that company, Rocky Mountain ballet, Utah Opera and Ballet Pacifica in its 1998 summer choreographers project. His duties for the Irvine-based troupe will include training and coaching dancers, as well as assisting in community outreach activities.

Museum Ad Wins Award

The Fullerton Museum Center has won an award from the California Division of Tourism for a cable television commercial produced to advertise last year’s exhibit about Bodie, once one of the state’s richest Gold Rush towns. The commercial was created and donated to the museum by Dean Andrews of Side Show Productions in Huntington Beach.