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John S. Foster Jr. of Rancho Palos Verdes has been named a winner of the 1992 Enrico Fermi Award by President Clinton. Foster is a member of the TRW Board of Directors and former TRW vice president. He is one of three physicists to receive the honor, the government’s oldest science and technology award. The Fermi Award is given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Foster is a past director and one of the founding technical members of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Fermi award, which originated in 1956, honors the memory of Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who achieved the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago.

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Burton Fletcher of Fletcher & Associates, attorneys, is a new member of the board of directors of The Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, where he recently completed volunteer parent-aide training. Fletcher serves on the board of directors of South Bay Children’s Health Center, Pop Warner Football of Torrance, and Southwood Riviera Homeowners Assn.

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Two recent South Bay high school graduates are recipients of four-year, $2,400 college scholarships from the Watson Land Co. They are Heidi-Lynn Doon, a graduate of Carson High School, who will attend UC Irvine to major in biology, and Jenette Briggs, a graduate of Banning High School, who plans to major in business administration at UC Riverside. Each was chosen by her school’s scholarship committee to receive the scholarship, which provides $600 a year for four years.