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Robert Teitelbaum graduated Magna Cum Laude from Claremont McKenna

College in May ... Christine Hansen, of Huntington Beach, a pharmacist

and a musician, will be honored by Golden West College as a 1999 Pillars

of Achievement recipient ... Dan Jones has been named administrative dean

for Instructional Systems Development at Coastline Community College ...

Orange Coast College student Jennifer Garcia of Huntington Beach took a

superior in junior informative speech, and OCC’s Jon Stauber of Fountain

Valley, grabbed a superior in novice poetry, at the Fall Warm-Up (speech)

Tournament at El Camino College ... Susanne Goldstone, 1998 Edison

Graduate and daughter of Dr. Harvey and Adrianne Goldstone, was recently

elected Sophomore Vice President at Yeshiva University’s Stern College in

New York. She also served as Class Vice President this past school year

... Norman Leonard of Huntington Beach is cast as Hamlet in Orange Coast

College’s Repertory Theatre Company’s fall production, “I Hate Hamlet”

... The Kiwanis Club of Huntington Beach honored Nancy Gibbons with the

Kiwanis Foundation Dunlap Award. She has given thousands of hours helping

the community, and spent a year raising funds and awareness for Casa

Pacifica, a home for abused and abandoned children ... Union Bank of

California has named Jennifer IcInteer the branch manager for its Adams

Avenue branch ... The Cal State Fullerton Alumni Association elected

Huntington Beach resident Roger Kotch as vice president of finance on the

board of directors for 1999-2000 ... Navy Seaman Recruit Michael Leer,

son of Robert Leer of Fountain Valley, completed U.S. Navy basic training

at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. ... Marine Pfc. John

Jacobson, a 1998 Huntington Beach High School graduate, reported for duty

with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division at the Marine Corps

Base in Camp Lejeune, N.C. ... Travis Harlan, a 1998 graduate of Los

Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, completed basic cadet training and

received the rank of cadet fourth class at the U.S. Air Force Academy in

Colorado Springs, Colo. ... Huntington Beach resident Kris Scott joined

the Washington State University fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha ... David

Eastman, son of Judy Eastman of Huntington Beach, completed the cadet

basic training program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

... Ann Riecker, an employee of First Bank & Trust in Huntington Beach,

participated in a fund-raiser in which she was arrested by a

representative of the Muscular Dystrophy Association to raise money for

the association. Riecker was taken from her office, taken by limousine to

the association’s jail and locked for four hours until she made numerous

phone calls in order to post bail to be released. She raised $700 ...

Susan Lynn, city clerk for the City of Fountain Valley, was awarded the

designation of Certified Municipal Clerk from the International Institute

of Municipal Clerks for achieving high educational experience and service

requirements ... Jill Meyers of Huntington Beach, an athlete and scholar

at the University of Massachusetts, was selected as one of Glamour

magazine’s 1999 Top Ten College Women. She will be profiled in the

October issue of the magazine ... Huntington Beach resident Bill Saska

was recently honored as a local hero in the fight against breast cancer

at Shelly BMW. After Saska lost his sister to breast cancer five years

ago, he began running in the Komen Orange County Race for the Cure in her

honor, and volunteering his time to The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer

Foundation ...