More than 3,050 candidates for graduation...

More than 3,050 candidates for graduation received their diplomas

and certificates during commencement ceremonies at Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo in June. Of the more than 3,000 degrees conferred at two

ceremonies, about 210 were master’s degrees. Graduates from Costa

Mesa include Damien Isaias Alvarado, Rodrigo Ernesto Bolanos,

Christopher Howard Boyd, Nicholas David Breslin, Kaitlyn Joann

Bourgeois and Michael Thomas Steinfeld. Graduates from Newport Beach

include Kari Marie Anderson and Amanda Marie Kent, and Myles Hal

Davis from Balboa Island....Melissa Blair of Corona del Mar High

School and Warren Shaeffer of Newport Harbor High School were each

awarded the $1,000 Dorothy Hardcastle scholarship by Speak Up Newport

for the 2001-02 academic year. The organization determined that both

students reflected the spirit of the scholarship by participating in

various volunteer work, both for their schools and their communities.

Blair will attend Tulane University in the fall, and Shaeffer will

attend Harvard....Gensler Architecture, Design & Planning Worldwide

welcomed Shelley Muusse and Cheryl Becsi to the firm’s Newport Beach

office in February and March of this year. Muusse has more than 22

years of experience in corporate workplace interiors, lifestyle,

entertainment, hospitality and health-care design. Becsi, who

rejoined the firm with 17 years of experience, is a certified

interior designer and has been an active participant in Gensler’s

firmwide Risk Management and Newport Beach Operations taskforces....

Robert Scott Wylie, director of the Children’s Rights Clinic and

adjunct professor at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, was promoted

in May to associate dean for external affairs and made the John

FitzRandolph director of clinics and externship. Both positions will

require Wylie to nurture relationships between the school, the legal

community and other constituencies, as well as providing

opportunities to give student hands-on experience in various legal

specialties. Wylie will continue to fulfill his two previous

positions in addition to his added responsibilities.