Congratulations

Orville Selgelid, a resident of Elks Convalescent Hospital in

Glendale, celebrated his 101st birthday on July 13.

He graduated from the University of Washington in 1925 with a degree

in economics, and moved to Los Angeles three years later. He worked a

three-year apprenticeship at an accounting firm in downtown Los Angeles,

and after attaining his Certified Public Accountant degree, he worked at

Thompson, Riley and Hall for several years. From 1950 until his

retirement in 1965, he worked for Max Factor Co.

After retiring, he traveled around the world, making six trips to

Central Europe, three trips to exotic places in Africa, three trips to

Asia and also has traveled to South America, Australia, New Zealand,

Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii.

Selgelid lived in Silver Lake for many years before moving to Casa

Glendale retirement home and later came to Elms.

Robert Kawahara of La Crescenta was one of 70 honorees at the 19th

Volunteer Recognition and Awards Luncheon presented by the L.A. County

Board of Supervisors.

Since 1995, Kawahara has participated in the Superior Court Temporary

Judge program. He sits as a temporary judge in traffic arraignments and

trials, small-claims trials and civil-service matters. Kawahara has

practiced primarily civil and criminal litigation since 1981. As a member

of many legal organizations, he also provides free direct legal services

to low-income individuals and disaster-related victims.

James H. Shin of Glendale, the son of Jung O. Shin, was one of 300

Phillips Academy seniors to graduate from the independent high school in

Andover, Mass.

Shin received the Dr. Scholl’s Bicentennial Scholarship for his

substantial academic and extracurricular achievements. He plans to attend

Princeton University.

He has won many major competitions for both the violin and piano

throughout the Midwest. He performed the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra at 10.

He recently performed at the Shanghai Grand Opera Theater and recorded

the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at a Hong Kong radio station.

Undergraduate students at the UC Santa Barbara achieving excellence

have been selected for the dean’s honor list by attaining a grade-point

average of 3.75.

Students from Glendale are Allison Marie Jelin, Tevan Oganesyan and

Casey William Slemmons

Students from La Canada Flintridge are Erin K. Blum and Edmund

Vanbraam Roberts.

Students from La Crescenta are Jillian Lane Cohen, Jeremy Robert

Costello, Anastazja Hanna Kaczmarek, Scott Anthony Rienbolt and Stephen

Marshall Sullivan.

Students from Sunland are Jacqueline Robinson Moore and Kathleen Ellen

White. Students from Tujunga are Robert Jacob Shafer, Daniel Michael

Sweeney, Marisa Joy Tantiwong and Elizabeth Mary Yerke.

Diana Shin, a graduate of Crescenta Valley High School, received the

annual Verdugo Hills Art Assn. Art Scholarship.

She received private art lessons for 10 years, attended Saturday art

programs at Pasadena Art Center of Design for two years and attended

CalArts in Valencia on the weekends.

She will apply the scholarship to further her college art education.