Sunday, August 15, 2010

Name Dropping, Aug. 15: Jacob's Heart board gets new members

Name Dropping, Aug. 15: Jacob's Heart board gets new members

Name Dropping, Aug. 15: Jacob's Heart board gets new members

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 01:42 AM PDT

Jacob's Heart, a Freedom-based nonprofit serving families with children affected by cancer, took a somewhat unusual route recently to expand its Board of Directors: a newspaper advertisement. The response was excellent, according to Jacob's Heart Executive Director Dr. Susan Osorio, and the board now boasts 12 members with varied backgrounds and experience.

New members are Rose Arellano, branch manager of Bay Federal Credit Union; Judith Barbata, speech and language pathologist; Sheila Coonerty, clinical psychologist; Patricia Fink, retired Superior Court clerk; Juli Furtado of Santa Cruz Bicycles; and Allison Mendoz, an oncology nurse at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. They join the existing board members Melissa McDill, Gloria Vasquez, Carolyn Post, Lee May, Mary Boyd and Cory Kayser.

Ice Cream Social

Ragtime piano duo Jack and Chris Bradshaw will provide the entertainment during the La Selva Beach Women's Club meeting, set for 1 p.m. Sept. 23 at the organization's clubhouse. Guests will have an opportunity to meet the 2010-11 officers installed at the group's May luncheon.

New committee chairmen include President Edie Stene; First Vice President Jane Parks-McKay; Second Vice President Cindy Passaro; Secretary Gervaise Connolly; and Treasurer Ruth Holmoe.

CARROLLS TRAVEL TO ITALY

Terri and Bob Carroll of Santa Cruz travelled to Italy in May and met up with their daughter and Peace Corps volunteer Megan Carroll, who

graduated from Soquel High School in 2004. Megan Carroll is stationed in the small Ukranian town of Horodok and working at a school for disabled children. She's met several other Santa Cruz County residents also serving in the Peace Corps, her family said.

SANTA CRUZ NONPROFITS AWARDED $75,000

The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group presented $75,000 to four Santa Cruz County nonprofits Aug. 4 at Shadowbrook Restaurant in Capitola. Accepting the awards on behalf of their organizations were Missy McDill, Jacob's Heart; Janet Gluch-Leunis and Cara DeSimone, Hospice of Santa Cruz County; Mary Kashmar and Michelle Ney, WomenCARE; and Sam Leask and Anne Lindberg, Katz Cancer Resource Center at Dominican Hospital.

UC Santa Cruz researchers Camilla Forsberg, Seth Rubin and Lindsay Hinck also accepted awards for their research with leukemic stem cells, tumor growth and breast-cancer cells.

The checks were presented by Jeni Brill of the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, board president Alison Butler and board members Dr. James Beckett, Tom Evenson, Bob Munsey and Kim Furman.

Awards and Honors

Kelli Owen graduated from New Mexico State University, Albuquerque, with a master's in social work. She is an alumna of Soquel High School.

Kindred Healthcare of Santa Cruz recently received the Bronze Commitment to Quality award from the American Health Care Association. The rehabilitation center will receive the award in October during the association's annual meeting in Long Beach.

Maggie Allen-Young, a graduate of Alternative Family Education Homeschooling in Santa Cruz, was awarded a scholarship by the Santa Cruz Art League to attend the California College of the Arts in Oakland in the fall. She is the daughter of Barbara and Jim Allen-Young.

Three local students were awarded degrees from Kaplan University Online on Aug. 7 during a televised ceremony in Chicago. Sara Coil of Ben Lomond received an associate's in business administration, and Santa Cruz residents Sandra Inman and Jessica Shaffer were awarded bachelor's degrees.

Army Pvt. Quiriat Mendez, a 1998 graduate of Soquel High School, graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.

Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Luis Sanabia graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Santa Cruz High School in 2005 and from Sonoma State University in 2009. Sanabia is the son of Celia Garibaldo of Santa Cruz.

Rebecca Anne Fahrner of Soquel, a metals and jewelry major at the Savannah College of Art and Design, was named to the school's dean's list for the spring quarter.

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