Hoag receives $10K from Fletcher Jones...

Hoag receives $10K from Fletcher Jones

Fletcher Jones Motorcars has raised $10,000 to benefit the breast

cancer program at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. The dealership

raised the money through several events in October, including an

internal fund-raising campaign. To raise awareness for early

detection and treatment of the disease, Fletcher Jones also adorned

its showroom door with a huge pink ribbon and has been distributing

health information to visitors of their Newport Beach location.

Orange County has an unusually high rate of breast cancer: One in

seven women here contract the disease, as opposed to one in eight in

most other parts of the country.

Fletcher Jones Motorcars is at 3300 Jamboree Road. For more

information, call (949) 718-3000 or visit www.fjmercedes.com. This

week, Hoag Hospital announced it had reached its $50-million

fund-raising goal for its new women’s pavilion, a comprehensive

women’s health center scheduled to be completed in autumn 2005.

Rockefeller appointed to arts commission

Kirwan Rockefeller, director of UC Irvine Extension’s Arts,

Humanities, and Fund-raising programs, has recently been appointed to

the Newport Beach Arts Commission. The Commission advises the City

Council on all artistic, aesthetic and cultural aspects of the city

and encourages programs for the cultural enrichment of the community.

He has also been appointed vice-president of the Newport Beach

Film Festival. Before joining UC Irvine Extension, Rockefeller served

as director of education for the Entertainment Industries Council and

Universal Studios Hollywood as well as an assistant professor at the

California Graduate Institute.

OCC professor wins choreography awards

Orange Coast College dance instructor, Marie de la Palme, captured

two major awards in the professional division of the fifth annual

“Dance Under the Stats Choreography Festival”, sponsored by the

McCallum Theater Institute in Palm Desert.

The festival was held Nov. 2 to 3. More than 130 entries were submitted for consideration and 20 were performed Sunday in the

professional division competition.

De la Palme garnered the $5,000 grand prize for her solo work “Le

Coeur de Illumine.” It marked the first time that a solo work has won

the competition’s grand prize. De la Palme performed the piece Sunday

evening. She also received a $1,000 award for best duet for her pas

de deux, “Eternally Beloved.”

Palme, 43, a Newport Beach resident, has been teaching at OCC for

a dozen years. A native of Paris, she became a professional dancer in

Europe at the age of 18.