The Peterson Group of Newport Beach...
The Peterson Group of Newport Beach appointed Arlene Garfield
office coordinator. With more than 10 years of administrative and
sales management experience, Garfield is expected to be an asset to
the 11-year-old full-service marketing communications agency. She
will be responsible for facility operations, safety procedures,
office material acquisition, travel coordination, reception, internal
archiving and meeting coordination.... Navy Seaman Recruit Nathaniel
R. Taylor recently graduated from the Basic Enlisted Submarine Course
at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn. Taylor, son of Denise
C. Lang of Macon, Miss. and Patrik M. Taylor of Costa Mesa, completed
the five-week course that focused on basic construction theory and
operation of nuclear-powered submarines, shipboard organization,
damage control and safety, as well as hands-on training with reality
simulators....Marine Corps Pfc. Jonathan O. Bass of Costa Mesa
recently completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in
San Diego. Bass, son of Jeanine M. and Jeffrey O. Bass, completed the
12-week training consisting of a physical conditioning program, as
well as classroom and field instruction. Bass, a 2002 graduate of
Newport Harbor High School, ended his training phase with The
Crucible, a 54-hour team effort of problem solving evolution prior to
his graduation ceremony.... Larry Moore will take over as the new
crew coach at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Moore, a former
member of OCC’s 1970 varsity eight crew team, rowed for two years at
Cornell University in New York and has been a rowing coach for 20
years. He was also the head crew coach at UC Irvine from 1983 to
1991.... Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced last month’s promotion of
Gina Nguyen-Denton to area manager of offices in Costa Mesa,
Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana. Nguyen-Denton, who
began her career with Enterprise in 1997 as a management trainee
working behind the rental counter, will be responsible for the five
offices and 20 employees. She holds her degree in political science
from UC Santa Barbara and will be based in the company’s north
Huntington Beach branch.... Stephanie Wai, a senior at Santa Catalina
School in Monterey, has been selected as a semifinalist in the 48th
annual National Merit Scholarship competition. She is the daughter of
Mrs. Kit Yee Wai of Newport Beach. Nationwide, about 16,000
semifinalists have been selected. They now have the opportunity to
continue in the competition for about 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards,
worth $30 million, that will be offered next spring. More than
1.3-million high school juniors in more than 20,000 U.S. high schools
entered the 2003 National Merit Program by taking the 2001
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
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