Neighbors

Independent staff

NEIGHBORS is news about movers and shakers in your community. To submit

information to this feature, please send it the Independent, Attn:

Neighbors, 18682 Beach Blvd. Suite 160, Huntington Beach 92648, fax to

965-7174 or e-mail at o7 hbindy@earthlink.netf7 .Army Pvt. Paul M.

Brawley and Army Pvt. Enedina Brawley, a husband and wife from Huntington

Beach, have arrived for duty in Vilseck, Germany. The couple is assigned

to the 201st Combat Support Battalion ... Navy Airman Christopher D.

Likins, son of Jeannine DePenne of Huntington Beach, recently completed a

six-month deployment to the western Pacific and Indian oceans and Arabian

Gulf while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, home ported

in Bremerton, Wash ... Kathleen Runzel of Huntington Beach was honored at

Cal State Long Beach’s 17th annual Internship Essay Competition in the

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. She interned with Safeco

Insurance Co. ... Bob Comoglio of Fountain Valley was recently appointed

senior art director with the advertising, marketing and public relations

firm RiechesBaird in Irvine ... Melanie Megan Kruger, a graduate of

Huntington Beach High School, received a $5,000 scholarship from Seattle

Pacific University ... Joey Pesner, son of Cheryl Pesner of Fountain

Valley and a graduate of Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Ore.,

won second place in the Chaine de Rotisseurs Best Young Chef in America

competition ... Shannon Kathleen Britt, daughter of Terry and Lyn Britt

of Huntington Beach, has accepted an early appointment to the Naval

Academy in Annapolis, Md. ... Christian Samuel Heimple of Huntington

Beach received a bachelor’s degree with high honors in civil engineering

from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. ... Andrew Wayne Pietila of

Huntington Beach received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich. ... Rachel

Elizabeth Melton of Huntington Beach and Robert Chia-Hsing Lee of

Fountain Valley have been named to the dean’s academic honor list at

Baylor University in Waco, Texas ... Robert Teitelbaum, a 1995 graduate

of Edison High School and a graduate of Claremont McKenna College,

received the Harold Sterling Vanderbilt Scholarship from Vanderbilt

University in Tennessee where he will study for his master’s degree ...