LONG BEACH : Directors Appointed for Aquarium Project

Mayor Beverly O’Neill has appointed 16 public and business leaders to the board of directors of a proposed $100-million aquarium.

The board will work with developer Kajima International Inc. while the aquarium is being designed and built, then oversee its operation when it is completed, said Robert J. Paternoster, manager of the city’s Queensway Bay waterfront development project. The proposed Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific is expected to anchor the development.

The directors, who were named last week, are Barbara Adams, Long Beach City College president; Aurelio E. Agundez, president of the Latino Entrepreneurial Assn.; Joseph R. Cerrell, chairman of Cerrell Associates Inc.; Long Beach school Supt. Carl A. Cohn; James Gray, president of Harbor Bank; Stephen Hadley, veterinarian; Renee Handler, president of the Handler Co.; Russell Hill, president of Halbert, Hargrove-Russell; Fred Jensen, president of Queen City Bank; Marie Knowles, president of Arco Transportation Co.; Whitey Littlefield, general manager of Somerset Distributors; Robert C. Maxson, Cal State Long Beach president; Merrill J. White, director of operations for the Nautical Heritage Society, and attorneys Douglas Otto, Fred L. Riedman and Gary J. Vyneman.