BUSINESS NOTES

NEWPORT RESIDENT NAMES PRESIDENT OF MCDONALD’S BOARD

Scott Frisbie, 39, a Newport Beach resident, has been elected president

of the McDonald’s Operator’s Association of Southern California Board of

Directors. His one-year term runs through June 2000.

Frisbie will preside over the 11-member board, which deals with

advertising, marketing, promotional and public relations activities in

Southern California. Frisbie has served on the board for the last two

years. His family owns over a dozen restaurants in Orange County.

“I’ve been part of the McDonald’s family ever since my father bought our

family’s first restaurant in 1975,” Frisbie said, referring to Jim

Frisbie’s purchase of a Placentia McDonald’s. “I am now very proud to

serve as board president and use my nearly 15 years of management

experience to help make decisions that will benefit McDonald’s

restaurants throughout Southern California.”

COSTA MESA COMPANY WORKING ON-LINE

Costa Mesa-based Bozell Southern California will begin taking part in

marketing services for boxLot.com, an online auction site.

The site recently hired Bozell Worldwide, a leading global advertising

agency, and Burson-Marsteller Southern California, a consulting firm, to

help with its marketing. The agencies will collaborate to build the

virtual community where collectors meet, share expertise and trade rare

and collectible merchandise.

Bozell Southern California will develop the branding and advertising, and

Burson-Marsteller will create a communications campaign.

“We selected Bozell Southern California and Burson-Marsteller because of

their proven ability to build and enhance technology-based consumer

brands,” said Randy F. Price, boxLot.com vice president of strategic

marketing.

HOST FAMILIES WANTED FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS

American Intercultural Student Exchange, a nonprofit educational

foundation, is seeking local host families for high school exchange

students for ten months during the 1999/2000 school year. The host

families, which may also include single parents, provide foreign students

with a bedroom, meals and a family atmosphere as they attend a local high

school. Call 1-800-SIBLING if interested.