4 Westside Students Are Getty Interns

Four Westside college students are among 15 undergraduates chosen for summer internships in the J. Paul Getty Trust programs. They are UCLA students LaVynell Thomas, Karen Tongson and Christine Yamanaka, and Hollywood resident Janet McIntyre, who attends Occidental College.

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Westside attorney Steve Kramer will serve as warden for the 1995 Miracle Mile Jail-a-Thon, a mock moot court where local leaders are arrested and jailed. The bail money collected will benefit the American Cancer Society. The event is Aug. 9 and 10.

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The Santa Monica-based Milken Family Foundation has named Thomas C. Boysen its senior vice president for education. Boysen is the state of Kentucky’s outgoing commissioner of education. The foundation funds educational programs at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.

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Beverly Hills resident Linda S. Peterson has been named to the Southwestern University School of Law Board of Trustees. Peterson is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Sidley & Austin.

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Henry M. Cherrick, dean of UCLA’s School of Dentistry, has resigned from his post because of failing health. Cherrick will remain on the faculty but take a one-year sabbatical. A national search for a successor is under way.

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Detective Leisha Lekawa of the Culver City Police Department has been elected president of the Women Peace Officers Assn. of California, a training organization of female and male officers from municipal, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

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Venice resident Milton Wolpin has been confirmed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to serve on the Los Angeles County Task Force on Nutrition. Wolpin, a psychologist, was appointed by Supervisor Mike Antonovich after spending 23 years on the USC faculty.

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Bonnie Frankel, coach of the Loyola Marymount women’s cross-country team, was recently named head coach of the men’s team. Frankel is best known for her successful challenge to the NCAA’s five-year eligibility rule while she was a Loyola student in 1991.