Neighbors

Lawrence Mayo & Ponder, a Newport Beach advertising agency, has named

Maria Nepite of Santa Ana as associate creative director. She will be

responsible for all agency accounts and will lead the agency’s Latino

marketing team. Nepite has worked extensively in advertising creating

television, outdoor, radio and print advertising for Ford, Sears, Kraft,

Toyota, Pacific Bell and Levi’s. Nepite is a member of the Cuban American

Scholarship Fund and holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish

Literature/Latin American Studies from Cal State Fullerton. . . .

Katherine Elizabeth Henze, daughter of Bob and Caroline Halford of

Newport Beach, was named to the dean’s list at the University of Notre

Dame for outstanding scholastic achievement during the 2001 spring

semester. The dean’s list recognizes students with a 3.4 or higher

grade-point average during the past semester. Henze will be a senior in

the university’s College of Arts and Letters, majoring in pre-law. . . .

Sophomore undeclared engineering student Douglas M. Dukes of Costa Mesa

was named to the dean’s list for the 2001 spring semester at Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. To qualify for the dean’s list at

Rensselaer, students must maintain a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher

and have nothing less than a C grade. . . . J.E.T. Rutter was elected

president of the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum board of trustees. The

Newport Beach resident has been involved with the museum since its

beginning in 1985, the year he retired. A boating and sailing enthusiast,

Rutter is also a member of Newport Harbor Yacht Club. . . . Samantha

Broderick of Costa Mesa landed the leading lady role of Virginia in the

musical “The Canterville Ghost” by the group Performance Riverside. In

addition to her stage work, Broderick has been cast as the lead in an

independent film titled “Enigma.” . . . Newport Beach-based technology

services firm inhouseIT has hired Britton Jasper to serve as the

company’s public relations director. Jasper will work alongside the

director of business development and with local media to expand the

company’s awareness in the public, as well as its client base.

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