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Newport Beach advertising agency Lawrence, Mayo & Ponder recently

announced the promotions of Bill Dicks to senior art director and Matt

McNelis to junior copywriter. Dicks joined the agency in 1997 as an art

director and has created campaigns for Business Week, California Pizza

Kitchen, Experian, Fatburger, and New Horizons Computer Learning Centers.

McNelis was an intern at LM&P; and worked on accounts for Fatburger, AIDS

Walk, HealthAllies.com and UCI Extension. McNelis will be responsible for

concept development and copywriting for television, print, radio, direct

mail and outdoor advertising.[photos for both] ...Twyla Odume of Costa

Mesa was one of more than 270 high school juniors and seniors to

participate in the 24th Annual Southern California Youth Leadership

Conference [YCS] at Pepperdine University June 25-29, 2001. Odume spent

four days interacting with leaders to explore topics such as crime and

punishment, free enterprise, character, responsibilities, politics and

international affairs. ...Caron Dean Shore has been named Wimberly

Allison Tong & Goo’s [WATG] new worldwide director of human resources and

administration. Shore will work in the firm’s Newport Beach office. Shore

has more than 15 years of experience in human resources and

administration leadership.[photo] ...Mark E. Lucescu was recently elected

as vice president of investments by the Board of Directors of Marcus &

Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Company, the nation’s largest

real estate investment firm with offices in Newport Beach. Vice president

of investments is the highest level of recognition the firm awards to its

sales agents for consistency and excellence in maintaining client

relationships. Lucescu was named the number one retail broker in the

company in 2000 for the fourth time in six years. He had aggregate

closings of about $295 million in investment real estate. ...Ira Hermann

of Northwestern Mutual’s Waltos General Agency in Newport Beach, ranked

in the top 20 in sales among more than 7,500 Northwestern Mutual

Financial Network representatives nationwide, was recognized at the 121st

Annual Meeting of the Association of Agents for sales achievements for

the year ending May 31. The Network consistently ranks as one of the

“Best Sales Forces” in the industry by “Sales and Marketing Management”

magazine. ...Costa Mesa residents were also recognized for their

achievements at Northwestern Mutual. Those receiving awards at the July

23rd conference were: Travis Van Den Berg, Tyler F. Terry, James W.

Lauro, Curt Carlson, Linda Lea Wallace, Jim V. Peters, Timothy J. Molnar,

and Glenn M. Howard. ...Katrina Kaufman of Newport Coast was among the

Dean’s List honorees at Columbia University for spring 2001. To be on the

list, students need to maintain a grade point average of 3.33 or higher.

Columbia offers more than 6,000 courses and comprises 15 schools and more

than 100 research institutions. Current faculty include Seven Nobel Prize

winners and eight recipients of the National Medal of Science.

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