MILLENNIUM MOMENT

Hay Langenheim was a longtime civic leader in Newport-Mesa and former

executive secretary of the Newport Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce.

He was responsible for securing the location of the chamber’s late-1960s

offices on Pacific Coast Highway and for developing the Western Sprint

Rowing Championships, a race of college crew teams that took place in

Newport Harbor. He was a commodore of the Balboa Power Squadron and the

Lido Isle Yacht Club.

Langenheim was educated at Yale University, where he became a friend of

Cole Porter’s. Later in life, Langenheim went on to become president of

the Orange County Philharmonic Society.

Although he spent virtually his entire career in business and civil

service, Langenheim, who died in 1973, was said to spice up his work days

by frequently breaking into song, something Porter surely would have

understood.

MILLENNIUM MOMENT celebrates the people who have made a major

contribution to the Newport-Mesa community during this century.