Developer Lusk Named Citizen of the Year in Newport Beach

The 1984 Citizen of the Year in Newport Beach is builder William Lusk, vice chairman of the John E. Lusk and Son development company. Lusk is a member of Big Brothers, the Boy Scouts, City of Hope, the 552 Club of Hoag Memorial Hospital, vice chairman of the Newport Beach Citizens Traffic Advisory Committee and chairman of the annual Police Awards Luncheon.

Two UC Irvine professors have been awarded Fulbright grants for study abroad, and three foreign students are visiting the university on Fulbright scholar grants. English professor Myron Simon is teaching American literature classes at the University of Debrecen in Hungary, and Aliko Songolo, an associate professor of French, is lecturing at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon, Africa. Visiting Fulbright scholars at UCI are Georg Dorn of Salzburg University, Austria; Subhash Lakhotia from Barnaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and Juergen Schlaeger of the University of Constance, West Germany.

Lifesaving efforts by three Orange County Transit District bus drivers have brought them citations for bravery from the district board of directors. The lifesaving drivers cited included Duke Crawford of Huntington Beach, who pulled a motorist from a burning van after a traffic accident in July, 1983; Julian Balfour of Santa Ana, who saved a baby who had stopped breathing in November, 1984, and Gary Hennessy of Anaheim, who also revived a baby in September, 1984.

The 1985 presiding chairman of the Orange County chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews is Newport Beach attorney Robert R. Hurwitz. Co-chairmen of the organization are David W. Carroll of Pacific Bell, A. E. (Red) Patterson of the California Angels and James Roosevelt of the Chapman Enterprise Institute. Orange County’s new protocol officer, Mary Jones of Disneyland, is secretary, and Martin Brower, who recently left the Irvine Co. to launch his own business newsletter, is treasurer.

After serving as the interim chancellor since June, Beverly A. Miklich of San Clemente has been named chancellor of National University in Irvine.