Yacht Racing Group Honors OCC Chief

Orange Coast College President David A. Grant, who also coached the OCC rowing team for 29 years before stepping down last year, has been honored by the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Assn.

Grant was presented the Richard Lough Memorial Trophy, signifying his contributions to college sailing and rowing, at the group’s recent 50th-anniversary dinner at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club.

Grant is a member of the Sailing Hall of Fame in Annapolis, Md.

OCC is the only community college in the nation with a rowing team.

Stanton resident Sabrina Vigar, assistant director of convention services at the Anaheim Hilton and Towers, has won the Distinguished Convention Services Management Award from the Professional Convention Management Assn.

A. David Holland, managing director of Northern Trust Bank of California in Newport Beach, has been named a member of the board of directors of FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity) Harbor Area, a United Way agency that helps the needy in Costa Mesa, Irvine and Newport Beach.

Newport Beach resident Richard Berg recently celebrated his 51st birthday by donating $51,000 to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, saying “I tried to think of an interesting way to give back to the community all that has been given to me.�

The retired financial industry worker last year celebrated his 50th birthday with a $50,000 donation to Orange Coast College’s crew team, which passes his oceanfront home each morning on practice runs.

Dorothy Bullard of Orange; Rosa Choi and Catherine Halpin of Irvine; Anita Dolwani and Gary Whitaker of Westminster; Patrick Kennedy and Patricia Phillips of Tustin; and Naomi Pires of Santa Ana, have graduated from the 30-hour Central Orange County Literacy Council training course and have become certified literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) tutors.

Ashley Johnson, 16, of Newport Beach, has been named a regional semifinalist in ‘Teen Magazine’s 1993 Great Model Search, which has attracted 20,000 entries.

Ashley, whose picture is in the magazine’s February issue, is one of 480 semifinalists nationwide who are competing for the title and more than $5,000 in cash awards.

The winner’s picture will appear on the cover of the magazine’s October issue.

Douglas B. Buckley, 17, of Newport Beach; Thomas M. La Parne, 13, of Huntington Beach; and Richard D. Street, 18, of Placentia, were awarded their Boy Scout Eagle Rank at court of honor ceremonies.

For their community service project, Douglas collected clothing for the homeless in Costa Mesa and Santa Ana; Thomas fingerprinted 200 children at the Huntington Beach Mall; and Richard organized and helped clear a hiking trail in Featherly Park in Anaheim Hills that had been ruined by flooding.

Fullerton School District sixth-graders Alice Im of Laguna Road School and Jeremy Cates of Orangethorpe School shared first place in the Fullerton Elks Lodge’s “Why We Should Honor Our Flag� essay contest.

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