Volunteer English Tutors Certified by Literacy Council

Three groups of volunteer tutors who were trained to teach the reading, writing and speaking of English as a second language have been certified by the Central Orange County Literacy Council.

The new tutors are Jeanine Ablett, Lester Blum, Carole Boggs, Patricia Chatterton, Hildegard Eckman, Barbara Gleason, Frances Henry, Cody Tabor, John Klimowski, Marlene McLaughlin, Betty Mitchell, Judy Villa, Erni Sakamoto, Lore Seigel and Gerry Starnes.

Others are Loella Blanas, Mary Clark, Dolores Degenhardt, Sharon Douglas, Jo Anne Goulding, Ellen Huberman, Kristina Kiefer, Kay Lozano, Sandra Martinez, Maria Mehegan, Teresa Otsuki, Helen Ricks, Barbara Siverman, Jean Taub and Bud Venne.

More are Denise Castaneda, Jeanne Crawford, Mary DeLuca, Gloria Lugo, Don Farmer, Rosemary Gilhooey, Karl Hawley, Marcil Howard, Don Heidelberger, Palmer Jones, Barbara McHale, Bo Tin, Deborah Lawson Sisker, Lincoln Winslow and Weny Wakuya.

Class teachers were Sue Culbertson, Yvonne Leong, Ruth Wilson and Margery Fuller. The three training classes were held at Garden Grove’s Crystal Cathedral and at the United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa.

Carlos Fernandez, 21, of Huntington Beach, a former Golden West College water polo player and swimmer, has been selected as recipient of the Wilson-California Community College Scholar Athlete Award. He will be honored Nov. 15 at a luncheon at the Santa Clara Marriott hotel.

Jean Blakey, a teacher in the Garden Grove Unified School District for 30 years, the last 25 at Bryant Elementary School, has been awarded the Garden Grove Education Assn.’s “I Make a Difference Award.”

Besides her role as a teacher, Blakey has also involved herself in community activities. She is president of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach-West Orange County, an organization of 18,000 members, as well as the Long Beach Symphony.

In 1987, the Long Beach resident received the Humanitarian Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Bill Horan of Huntington Beach will compete in the Nov. 23 Founder’s District humorous speech contest at the Anaheim Quality Hotel after winning the Toastmasters International District C “speak-off” in Westminster.

His speech, “Grin and Bare It,” offered a look at the advantages of being bald. Other participants were Ponch Bhatia and Mark Nelson, both of Huntington Beach, and Rick Riegel of Newport Beach.

In other contests, Ethel Clayton of Anaheim won first place in the impromptu category and Nancy Biggs of Long Beach won first place in the speech evaluation competition.

Anita Hoey, senior librarian at Fullerton’s Hunt Branch Library, has received “Apple of Our Eye” and “Independent Living” awards from the Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled for being “a wonderful role model and an outstanding city employee.”

Hoey, who has cerebral palsy, has been a Fullerton library employee for 23 years. She holds a history degree from Cal State Fullerton and a master’s degree in library science from USC.

She is a past recipient of the city’s Employee of the Year award.

Pete Espinosa, a counselor at Saddleback College, has been named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Irvine branch of the League of Latin American Citizens.

Joseph Sciarra, 9, of Newport Beach, a voracious reader, won the recent California Multiple Sclerosis Read-a-Thon by reading 180 books and raising $1,200 in pledges.

“Joseph reads books before school, after school and before he goes to bed,” said his mother, Colleen Sciarra.

Joseph, who wants to be a veterinarian, is a fourth-grader at Mariners Elementary School in Newport Beach.

Anaheim Hills residents Gerald J. Garner and Joan Garner were named Humanitarians of the Year by the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. They will be honored by the college at a dinner dance Nov. 9 at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club. The Garners were cited for their support of the college and service to Orange County communities.

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