Heather Smith has returned from a...

Heather Smith has returned from a year in Argentina, where she

learned porteno Spanish. Smith was selected last year as an

ambassador for the Rotary International Club to promote its

dedication to world understanding and peace. Smith was then sponsored

by the Newport-Irvine Rotary Club to part of the Rotary Youth

Exchange, which took her to Argentina ... Navy Petty Officer 3rd

Class Stephen E. Rodriguez, a 2000 graduate of Estancia High School,

received the Navy’s Retention Excellence Award for the fiscal year

2003 with his fellow crew members aboard the aircraft carrier

Enterprise, ported in Norfolk, Va. The Retention Excellence Award,

also known as the Golden Anchor, recognizes a command’s ability to

meet or exceed its annual goals for sailor retention ... Navy Lt.

Kyle P. Durand, son of Jane C. Sandmann of Whittier and Paul H.

Durand of Costa Mesa, received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation

Medal for two years of outstanding service while assigned to Naval

Legal Service Office Northwest in Bremerton, Wash. ... Orange Coast

College’s dance team captured its sixth successive open division

dance title at the National Dance Team Championships held at the Walt

Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. ... Lauren M. Cowman, Josiah A.

Dahlin, Chrystine H. Dang, Amy R. Delrez, Adam P. Devine, Cathy B.

Do, Joanna M. Dulude, Camelia Dunn, Donald M. Elias, Jessica S.

Eller, Natalie A. Embrey, Jeffrey K. Faulkner, Kaysie D. Fisher,

Bejay E. Fonk, Douglas T. French, Brandon C. Giatti, Amy K.

Glassmoyer, James S. Grabill, Tabatha M. Green, Stephen A. Hagen, Kim

T. Haina, Kesha L. Henderson, Uyen Ngoc Q. Hoang, Michael N. Hochman,

Timothy J. Hollifield, Kyoko Hori, Jason B. Howell, Jeffrey L.

Hunter, Jessica C. Iverson, Carey A. James, Stephen P. Jensen,

Fernando C. Jota, Michael G. Kearns, Jenessa L. Kenway, Han-Ah Kim,

Sunhee Kim, Michael R. Knighton and Yumi Kokubo were named to the

Orange Coast College honors list for the fall semester of 2003. The

students were able to maintain a grade-point average of 3.75 to 4.0

... Lacey Allison-Rose Aschbrenner, granddaughter of Lysiane and

Richard H. Beatty of Newport Beach, was selected to participate in

the Miss Junior Teen Anaheim Pageant.