Kiwanis Club Awards $4,400 Scholarships to 4 Graduates

College scholarships of $4,400 each were presented to four graduating sophomores at Rancho Santiago College by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Ana in recognition of the graduates’ academic excellence and to help meet their financial needs.

The recipients, all Santa Ana residents, are Andrea Eberhardt, who plans to study law at UC Berkeley; Alberto Huerta, planning to study management at UCLA; Laura Salcido, who will study theater arts at UC Santa Cruz; and Christopher Sandoval, the college’s associated student body president, who will study law at Western State University College of Law.

In addition, a Kiwanis vocational scholarship of $500 was presented to Rita Ceja of Santa Ana to study for her licensed vocational nursing certificate.

Newport Harbor High School graduate Paul L. Backus of Newport Beach has been appointed to the U.S. Air Force Academy. His father, Larry A. Backus of Newport Beach, is a 1963 graduate of the academy.

Also, Steven Medland of Yorba Linda graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., where he received a degree in marine systems engineering and was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy.

He has been accepted by the Navy Nuclear Power Program and will report Monday to the Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Fla.

Pamela Seminaro, an Anaheim Hills home-taught student since 1990, has been admitted to the 1992 Yale University Summer School. She was sponsored by the Junior Statesmen Foundation based in Redwood City.

Seminaro, who studied under the auspices of Canyon High School, has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average and is the first home-taught honors student accepted for the foundation program.

She is also the first Canyon High student to be accepted into the intensive three-week summer program, which ends July 31.

FORMA, a Costa Mesa-based planning, design and landscape architectural firm, was presented an award for its contribution to environmental solutions by the South County Chambers of Commerce board of directors.

The firm was honored for its comprehensive approach to urban design, community planning and environmental management of air, water, transportation and recycling.

A $1,000 English Scholarship award was presented to Sunbie Cornick of Fullerton during Fullerton College’s humanitarian division awards tea to honor creative writing, foreign language and students of English as a second language.

Others who were honored with grants were Ann Curry, Brian H. Dobyne, Rene Muniz Shahandeh, Anthony Munoz, Haruko Chang and Thomas Rush, Fullerton; Joyce Deveny, Divya Stampwala, Lucia Guzman and Teresa Mendoza, Anaheim; and Michele Marie Wood, Walnut.

Others are Sidonia Mitchell, Matthew Allen, Veronica Lui, Lillian Vega and Saundra Watson, Yorba Linda; Zulma Martinez, La Habra; Ebrahim Keyayati, Tustin; John Denatadt, Cerritos; and Scott Edwards, Placentia.

Julia A. Cheung of Fullerton, Cristy G. Lomenzo of Yorba Linda, and Joyce S. Hartman of Buena Park, won top honors in the recent Cal State Fullerton outstanding student awards program.

Other honorees were Jeffrey M. Holoubek, Long Beach; Tobias Themba Mngomezulu and John A. Wheeler, Fullerton; Kimberly M. Niller, Rowland Heights; Aimee M. Lopes, Orange; and Elizabeth O. Frawley, Anaheim.

Fullerton Police Lt. Tony Hernandez, a 21-year veteran of the force and a Fullerton resident, has been promoted to captain. He will be in charge of the department’s administrative services division.

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