The judges of the South Bay Municipal...

The judges of the South Bay Municipal Court have unanimously elected Dudley W. Gray II as presiding judge for 1992, succeeding Judge Thomas R. Sokolov. Deanne Smith Myers was unanimously elected as 1992 assistant presiding judge.

Gray was appointed to the South Bay Municipal Court by Gov. George Deukmejian in January, 1990. He was born in Gardena and raised in Rancho Palos Verdes. After graduating from the College of Idaho he obtained his law degree from the University of Idaho in 1978. He then entered private law practice in Torrance with his father, Dudley Gray Sr., and his brother, Jeffrey Gray.

Gray, his wife and two children live in Rancho Palos Verdes. Judge Myers, appointed to the bench in December, 1989, by Deukmejian, is a former federal prosecutor and civil litigator. She holds degrees from USC and Loyola Law School. Myers and her family live in Palos Verdes Estates.

John M. Wilson, president of San Pedro Peninsula Hospital, has been elected to the board of directors of the Hospital Council of Southern California. He will serve as the harbor area representative to the board. The Hospital Council is an organization of more than 220 health care institutions in six counties.

Daniel McLean has been named the new chief executive officer and president of Daniel Freeman Hospitals in Inglewood and Marina del Rey. Most recently, he was chief executive officer of National Medical Enterprises’ Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego. Before relocating in San Diego, McLean was chief executive officer and executive vice president of Valley Hospital Medical Center and HealthWest Foundation in Van Nuys.

Edward C. (Pete) Aldridge has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the AerospaceCorp. He will replace Samuel Tennant, who is retiring after 30 years with the company. Aldridge, currently president of McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Co. in McLean, Va., and secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration, will assume his new duties in March, 1992. The Aerospace Corp. is a federally funded research and development center providing engineering and technical support for U.S. national security launch and space systems.

Three South Bay volunteers and one employee have been honored for their work with the Los Angeles chapter of the American Red Cross. Spotlight Award winners are Carolin Keith of Epson America, Nancy Alquist of San Pedro and Lori Fenner Osborn of Hermosa Beach. Keith was presented with the Corporate Award for her efforts in sending several employees of Epson America to serve as mass care workers in San Francisco after the Bay Area earthquake.

Alquist, who has served in the chapter’s South Bay District for 11 years, was cited for outstanding service in the district’s Emergency Services program. Osborn received a Candlelight Award for her work in Emergency Services after the Bay Area earthquake and for the planning and execution of an earthquake drill on Terminal Island.

Also honored was Paul Myers of Torrance, who received the Tiffany Award for Employee Excellence. Manager of the chapter’s South Bay District, he was cited for initiating efforts to establish the Red Cross Service Center in the Del Amo Fashion Center and the Hawthorne Training Center. He accepted an assignment to Iraq in April, 1991, where he worked with the United Nations in providing relief to Kurdish refugees.

Los Angeles Harbor College instructors Beverly Shue, Kathy Tendick and Leonard Glover are recipients of the 13th annual Eugene Pimentel Award for Teaching Excellence. The three were honored at a campus ceremony during which each received a “lamp of learning” statuette from Lou Schreiber, chair of the selection committee.

Shue, a Harbor City resident and an associate professor of microbiology who has been a faculty member since 1964, has received several National Science Foundation fellowships and has made workshop presentations at UCLA and UC San Francisco.

Harbor City resident Tendick is a chemistry professor and a college faculty member since 1966. She has helped establish her academic department as one of the strongest in the city. She also helped develop the instructional materials now used in the college’s chemistry department and was largely responsible for the modernization of the chemistry stockroom.

Electronics instructor Glover, of San Pedro, has been a faculty member since 1976. He has been active in the development of the new process plant technology curriculum at Harbor and in applying new instructional techniques.

Shana Persin is the new director of education and youth at Congregation Ner Tamid in Rancho Palos Verdes. She is responsible for both the religious school, high school and youth activities programs for the congregation. Persin received her bachelor’s degree in Jewish studies from UCLA and her master’s in education from the University of Judaism. Before accepting her new position she taught at various synagogues in the Los Angeles area. She also was youth director at Congregation Ner Tamid for three years before returning to school to complete her graduate studies. For more information about the synagogue or specific activities, call (310) 377-6986. Ner Tamid is located at 5721 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes.

De De Hicks, executive director of the South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach Volunteer Center, recently

accepted on behalf of the center the Gloria M. Deukmejian Founder’s Award which is presented yearly to an individual Volunteer Center for excellence and innovation.

The local center is one of more than 40 Volunteer Centers in California. It operates on an annual budget of $300,000 plus in-kind donations but it provides services to the community valued at $5.5 million. Each year more than 12,000 volunteers are referred by the center to local nonprofit agencies. The center also conducts the Adopt-a-Family holiday program, holds 10 training workshops each year and operates one of the state’s largest court-referral programs. For the last nine years it has organized the “Human Race” for more than 100 nonprofit agencies. The center is at 1230 Cravens Ave., Torrance.