Neighbors

Newport Beach resident Greg Compton has been named the new president and

executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County. Compton has

been a Habitat volunteer for more than two years and recently served as

Habitat’s Vice President of Family Partnership. ... Army Pfc. Fernando

Gonzalez, the son of Teodulo and Rosa Gonzalez of Costa Mesa, is in

Tuzla, Bosnia, to participate in Operation Joint Forge, a multinational

peacekeeping mission in the area. Gonzales is a 1998 graduate of Newport

Harbor High .... The Orange Coast College speech and debate team

defended its title recently at the California Community College state

speech and debate championships at Fresno City College in Fresno. The

weekend performance gave the team its eighth state speech title since

1986. ... Air Force Airman Stephen E. Henry, the son of Costa Mesa

resident Ted L. Henry, has graduated from the munitions systems

apprentice course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas. ...

Megan Callahan, the daughter of Nelson and Ann Callahan of Corona del

Mar, made the dean’s list for fall 1999 at the University of San Diego,

where she is majoring in sociology. ... Rebecca Lee Fleming, daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fleming of Costa Mesa, made the fall 1999 honor roll

at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.