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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