For Amy Shyu, Success Is Suite

Amy Shyu, 9, of Laguna Hills was named winner of the elementary division of the recent Southwest Division of the Music Teachers National Assn. student competition.

Amy, a fourth-grader at Linda Vista Elementary School, played “At the Beach,” a three-movement suite for piano, in the contest.

Amy also studies violin and Chinese dancing and is a member of the Little Panda Chorus of Irvine. She plans to become a composer.

Trina Williams of Fountain Valley, a school nurse at Ralston Intermediate School in Garden Grove, has been awarded a $250 scholarship grant from the California PTA to continue studies in school health.

Ann Mottola of Huntington Beach has been named special events administrator for the Cultural and Fine Arts Division of the Fullerton Community Service Department.

Among those events are the annual Founders Day Street Faire in May, the Fourth of July fireworks show and arts programs at the Fullerton Museum Center.

Mottola previously was art facilitator for the R.J. Donovan State Correctional Facility in San Diego, a 4,500-inmate medium-security prison.

El Toro resident Edward M. Masterson has been installed as president of the Apartment Assn. of Orange County. The association is a service organization for property owners and has 3,500 members.

Newport Beach architect and resident Dell H. DeRevere is the new president of the 380-member Orange County chapter of the National Assn. of Industrial and Office Parks.

Tustin resident Julian P. Cangelosi was named Man of the Year-1990 by the First Friday Friars of Orange County.

The group, a Catholic men’s service organization, recognized Cangelosi’s years of effort in church, civic, charitable and professional activities. He is founder and president of Cangelosi Accounting Corp. in Tustin.

Jerry Margolin has been named Garden Grove Citizen of the Year. His name will be added to a list of other community volunteers who will be saluted at the Cypress College 1991 Americana Awards Dinner at the Disneyland Hotel on Feb. 23.

Margolin, president of the Garden Grove Kiwanis Club, is a past president of the Garden Grove Strawberry Assn. The dinner raises money for scholarships and other funds for needy students at Cypress College.

UC Irvine biological sciences students Esquivel Barrera, Jorge Nieva, Alexander Olvido and Rebecca Torres have been awarded $500 National Science Foundation Incentives for Excellence Scholarship grants.

They were selected by a faculty committee for their academic achievements and for showing promise in science teaching and research careers.