Neighbors

The Irvine Co. Office Properties hired Newport Coast resident Susan

Carter as its new technology leasing director of its eight multi-tenant

buildings in the Irvine Spectrum. Carter has more than a decade of

marketing, leasing, asset management and sales experience. She was

formerly a marketing agent for Insignia/O’Donnell Partners, responsible

for leasing a 1.5-million-square-foot commercial real estate portfolio.

Carter directed the marketing of a $3-million commercial real estate

portfolio for Irvine-based Dolphin Partners Inc. that included properties

throughout Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties.

The Irvine Co. is a privately held real estate investment firm based in

Newport Beach. Its portfolio includes 68 high- and low-rise office

buildings, 290 two- and three-story campus office buildings, three

regional and 27 neighborhood shopping centers and 75 apartment

communities. . . . Past presidents of the Newport Beach Newcomers Club

were honored recently. Pictured from left on the top row are Phyllis

Brannan, Jean D’Constanzo, Bobbie Allen, Florence Smith, Paula Kruse and

Marcie Weig. Sitting in the bottom row are Dee Epley and Barbara Strodel.

Juliet Barlow was not present. The Newcomers Club was started in 1976 by

a small group of women interested in making friends and learning about

their new community. The club is open to all residents in Newport Beach,

including all townships and islands annexed by the city. The club meets

the third Wednesday of each month and has groups pertaining to bridge,

golf, tennis, books and walking. . . . Physician Paul A. Selecky received

the Big Breathe Easy Honoree award for his devotion to helping people

with lung disease breathe easier. Selecky is the medical director of the

Pulmonary Department and Sleep Disorders Center at Hoag Hospital in

Newport Beach and is a clinical professor of medicine at UCLA. He belongs

to the American Thoracic Society, formerly the medical division of the

American Lung Assn., and he is past president of the California Thoracic

Society. Selecky has volunteered with the American Lung Assn. for 25

years and has been honored twice by the American Lung Assn. of California

for “the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of the cause,

prevention or treatment of lung disease. He received his medical degree

from the University of Pennsylvania and did his graduate training at

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. . . . Two Newport Beach students made the

honor roll at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Penn., for the 2002

winter term. Twelfth-grader Katherine Edrie Rader, daughter of Melinda B.

Rader of Newport Beach, and 11th-grader Jeremy Matthew Katz, son of Dr.

and Mrs. Stanley Katz of Newport Beach, made the honor roll during the

recently completed winter term. Mercersburg Academy is a college

preparatory boarding school that prepares men and women for four-year

colleges and universities. This year, 425 are enrolled from 25 states and

19 foreign countries.

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