Lacey Cedarstrom of Newport Beach accepted...

Lacey Cedarstrom of Newport Beach accepted the honor of attending

the prestigious National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in Los

Angeles. The career development program in July is for high school

students who show leadership potential and an interest in medicine. A

student at Corona del Mar High, Cedarstrom was nominated based on her

high grade point average, volunteer work, award and activities. She

serves as an officer for the city of Newport Beach Youth Council and

is a member of the Academic Decathlon Team Jr. ... Elana Peters of

Corona del Mar received an award for her book “Hard Questions, Simple

Answers: A Workbook to Take the Crisis Out of Caregiving.” Today’s

Caregiver magazine gave her the award at the Sharing Wisdom

Caregivers Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ... Preston Altobello

of Corona del Mar graduated from the University of San Diego on May

25 with a bachelor’s in graphic design ... William Galvery, Orange

Coast College associate professor of welding technology, was honored

with a regional welding award for teaching, presented by the America

Welding Society ... The Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce honored Traci

Travis of Costa Mesa and Jonathan Najman of Lake Forest as Orange

Coast College’s male and female students of the year. They were

honored at the chamber’s 24th annual Recognition Breakfast at the

Costa Mesa Hilton ... The Orange Coast College’s Foundation received

a gift of $140,000 from the estate of former campus librarian George

Ciarlo, who passed away Dec. 7. The funds will be distributed between

the college’s Library Endowment Fund and Scholarship Endowment Fund

... Newly appointed Southern California sales manager Scott Florence

will lead Tahitian Noni International’s first California-based

corporate office in Costa Mesa ... Meredith S. Story, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Story of Newport Beach, earned a bachelor’s in

sociology from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont ... Courtney Ikuta

of Newport Beach was among 100 University of Minnesota students who

took their research and public engagement projects to the university

president for “Impress the President: A Student Exposition” ...

Kerstin Manderson, daughter of Leslie Deladurantey and Mark Manderson

of Newport Beach, received a bachelor’s in social work from Gordon

College in Massachusetts. ... Bao Tran of Costa Mesa earned a

doctorate of medicine from Creighton University in Nebraska.

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please

direct noteworthy information to Coral Wilson by fax at (949)

646-4170, or send e-mail to [email protected].