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Newport Beach resident Kurt F. Strassmann was named executive vice

president and managing director of Grubb & Ellis’ Orange County office.

Grubb & Ellis is a business advisory firm with expertise in real estate.

Strassmann has been executive vice president and managing director of

Grubb & Ellis’ Anaheim office since 1999. He will now be responsible for

both the Anaheim and Newport Beach offices. Orange County is the firm’s

largest and most profitable region nationally. Strassmann began his

career at Grubb & Ellis in 1985 as an industrial broker with the Anaheim

office. . . . Larry Nichter and Jed Horowitz, of the Pacific Center for

Plastic Surgery in Newport Beach, have been recognized by the American

Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery for maintaining, on average, the

highest volume of cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures in 2001.

Nichter and Horowitz were recognized with about 1,500 other

board-certified plastic surgeons nationwide as a result of a survey based

on more than 14,000 questionnaires that were mailed out to doctors

throughout the nation. . . . Cherri Penne-Myers of Newport Beach made the

dean’s list for the fall semester 2001 at Charles R. Drew University in

Los Angeles. A student in the physician assistant program, Penne-Myers

has organized domestic violence training for physician assistants in the

program and also helped to implement domestic violence training into the

university’s curriculum. . . . Four Newport-Mesa residents made the

dean’s list at Azusa Pacific University. Costa Mesa residents include

Lyndsay A. Bowen, a social work major, and Christena L. Kimmel, a

physical education major. Newport Beach residents and social work majors

Jennifer A. Egan and Michelle D. Way made the list, which recognized

students during the fall 2001 semester maintaining a 3.5 or better

grade-point average. Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive Christian

evangelical university established in 1899 that has an enrollment of more

than 6,800 students. The school offers more than 40 areas of

undergraduate study, 19 masters’ degree programs and three doctorates. .

. . Newport Beach resident Emilyn Evarts, a junior at American University

majoring in visual media in the School of Communication, was named to the

fall 2001 dean’s list. At American, a student must obtain a 3.5

grade-point average or better for the semester. American University is in

Washington, D.C., and enrolls students from the U.S. and more than 150

countries.

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