Girls State delegates selected

JIM DE BOOM

Seven young women have been selected as delegates and seven as

alternates from local high schools to attend Girls State next month

at Pitzer College in Claremont.

The women were chosen by the American Legion Auxiliary of Newport

Harbor Unit 291 for the conference, which will be held June 26 to

July 2.

Auxiliary members selected Jaclyn Lineback and Athina Meshkin from

Corona del Mar High School; Tu Nguyen and Judie Akansel from Costa

Mesa High School; Sarah Muradian and Sage O’Toole from Estancia High

School; Afarin Davari and Mengfei Chen from Irvine High School; Laure

Kohne and Marla Meninger from Newport Harbor High School; Megan

Caldera and Sinead Maguire from Northwood High School; and Katherine

Sengoba and Jessica Jensen from Woodbridge High School.

They were selected because of their academic excellence, as well

as their involvement in extracurricular school and community

activities, according to auxiliary member Cynthia Culp.

The delegates will join 500 young women from around the state for

the weeklong conference.

The young women were recently honored at a district luncheon and

will be involved in other activities throughout the year. All

expenses are paid for by the post auxiliary, and sponsors are

welcome.

The post auxiliary sponsors numerous programs that benefit the

youth in the community, and it contributes countless hours of service

to our veterans.

If anyone is interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact the

American Legion office at (949) 673-5070.

ROTARY IS PROLITERACY

Newport Beach Sunrise Club President Fay Bosler introduced Jim

Tracy, who is the treasurer for Newport Beach’s ProLiteracy program,

at a recent meeting.

ProLiteracy is an adult literacy program at the Newport Beach

Public Library and provides tutors for the club’s adult Monday

evening program at Back Bay High School. Bosler presented Tracy with

a check for $2,500 for the ProLiteracy program.

ROTARY HONORS TRACK STARS

For the 24th consecutive year, the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa

has honored the 20 top winners from the City of Newport Beach Track

Meet, according to Rotarian Art Walton.

Corona del Mar Coach Bill Sumner was the keynote speaker,

inspiring the 20 youth and their parents who attended the dinner

meeting, with stories about high school track stars Josh Yelsey and

Annie St. Geme. Rotarian Nate White presented each of the winners

with a Friendship Medal from the Rotary’s sister club in Okazaki,

Japan.

Parent Susan Dean thanked the Rotary Club on behalf of the

athletes and parents as the awards banquet concluded.

READING BY 9

Donations from Daily Pilot readers during the holiday book drive

last year have paid for 2,400 books for three local elementary

schools, according to Roger McGonegal, Reading by 9 chairman for the

Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa.

Drive donors are invited to visit Pomona Elementary School from 11

a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Whittier Elementary School from 10 to

11 a.m. Thursday, or Wilson Elementary School from 11:30 a.m. to 1

p.m. Friday, to see the books that will allow third-grade students to

nurture their love of reading.

RSVP to Flor at Pomona at (949) 515-6980, Dinah at Whittier at

(949) 515-6990, and Imelda at Wilson at (949) 515-6995.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

Congratulation to Costa Mesa resident Lane Calvert, who received

the Community Service Award from the Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith

Council at the National Day of Prayer Breakfast.

Calvert, who is active in the Bahai faith of Costa Mesa, has

served on the Council’s board of directors for the past eight years,

chaired the United Nations Peace Walk for several years, is active in

Rotary International and is an executive with the Exploring-Learning

for Life program in Orange County.

Calvert is retiring from the council board in order to prepare

himself to become Rotary District 5320 Governor in 2006.

WORTH REPEATING

From the Thought for Today, provided by Greg Kelley of the

Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council: “Successful people are always

looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are

always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

-- BRIAN TRACY

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK

Help your community and the world through a service club! For

many, service club membership is an extension of our religious

beliefs and congregation affiliation.

You are invited to attend a service club meeting this coming week

to learn more about opportunities for service. Most clubs will buy

your first meal for you as you get acquainted with them.

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The 48-member Newport Beach Sunrise Rotary Club meets

at the Five Crowns restaurant to hear retired Marine Lt. Gen. John

Rhodes discuss the evolution of warfare (www.newportbeachsunrise

rotary.org).

Noon: The Rotary Club of Costa Mesa, now with 12 members, meets at

the Holiday Inn.

6 p.m.: The Costa Mesa Newport Harbor Lions Club meets at the

Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club.

WEDNESDAY

7:30 a.m.: The Newport Harbor Kiwanis Club will meet at the

University Athletic Club.

Noon: The Exchange Club of the Orange Coast meets at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club for the Teacher and ACE Awards.

6:15 p.m.: The Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa meets at the Bahia

Corinthian Yacht Club to hear a program on the UCI Institute for

Brain Aging and Dementia.

THURSDAY

7:00 a.m.: The 20-member Costa Mesa Orange Coast Lions Club meets

at Mimi’s Cafe.

Noon: The 50-member Costa Mesa Kiwanis Club will meet at the

Holiday Inn (www.kiwanis. org/club/costamesa); the 50-member Kiwanis

Club of Newport Beach/Corona del Mar meets at the Bahia Corinthian

Yacht Club; the 85-member Exchange Club of Newport Harbor meets at

the Nautical Museum to hear Chris Gregory on Coaching Kids Week

(www.nhexchangeclub.com); the 100-member Rotary Club of Newport

Irvine meets at the Radisson Hotel to hear Andrew Policano, dean of

UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business (www.nirotary.org).

* COMMUNITY & CLUBS is published Saturdays in the Daily Pilot.

Send your service club’s meeting information by fax to (714) 921-8655

or by e-mail to [email protected].