Nine Named to Pediatric Cancer Research Board

Nine Orange County business and political leaders were named to the new Honorary Advisory Board to the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to pediatric cancer research.

They are Thomas Hover, of A-M Homes in Newport Beach; Marty Wikstrom, of Nordstrom in Costa Mesa; Tom Matthey, of Merrill Lynch in Santa Ana; Tom Seeberg, public relations for the California Angels in Anaheim; Raymond Juels, of Southern California Edison Co. in Rosemead; Bruce Lehman, Akins Development in Irvine; James E. Moore, of Bank of Anaheim; Pat Flanagan, of Taco Bell’s West Coast operations in Irvine; and Orange County Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez. The new board’s aim is to offer expert advice on fund-raising efforts for PCRF, which began its support of the pediatric cancer research laboratory at Children’s Hospital of Orange County in 1983.

San Juan Capistrano resident Burt Sims has won the Far West Ski Assn.’s Bill Barry Media Award for “outstanding media coverage of skiing.” It was the fifth time that Sims has won the award, named for a pioneering Reno newsman and National Ski Hall of Fame member.

Karen Pyke, a Mission Viejo resident and social relations doctoral student at UC Irvine, has received a $2,110 grant to research “Changes in Gender Strategies Across Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage.”

The sociological study, which is scheduled for completion in 1991, will examine how men and women change upon divorce and remarriage and attempt to identify specific factors that contribute to that change.

The study will include surveys of a random sample of 200 Orange County men and women who are in a second marriage following divorce.

The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation.

Dana Hills High junior Clinton J. Coil, 15, will be awarded his Boy Scout Eagle Rank at a Court of Honor on July 22 at the Dana Point Youth and Group Facility in Dana Point Harbor. The Monarch Beach resident conducted community earthquake preparedness classes and door-to-door demonstrations of proper utility turnoff procedures for his community service project.

After 45 years with the city, Fullerton City Librarian Carolyn Johnson said she will retire in September. “I felt it was time. You just have to say ‘it’s finished’ at some point,” she said.

Johnson was named coordinator of children’s services of the library in 1959 and was appointed city librarian in 1981.

Tom Franks, owner of Werner Boat Sales South in Costa Mesa, was elected president of the Southern California Marine Assn., a trade organization for recreational boating in California with 950 member firms.

Joe Jackman, Shellie Emrick, Scott Lee, Kim Timmins, Russell Heath, Anila Putcha, Lisa Horgan, Todd Ricker, Mario Mello, Felipe Zambrano, Julie Waineo, Joel Clelland, Michele Cusiter and Tony Quezada shared the $5,200 in scholarships awarded by the Placentia Round Table Women’s Club. All were seniors who graduated from Placentia Unified School District high schools.

The Newport Harbor Republican Women’s Club awarded $1,000 internship scholarships to Newport Beach residents Jillian Smith and Anne Viene. The two are summer interns in legislative offices in Orange County.

Christine Andres, an instructional aide at Helen Estock Elementary School in Tustin, was honored by the Tustin Unified School District Board of Education for serving as a volunteer teacher showing third-grade students how to play the recorder.

Andres, who has a degree in music, gave music lessons on the recorder, a simple wind wood instrument with eight finger holes, to 100 students twice a week at lunchtime during the past semester.