The Corona del Mar varsity and...

The Corona del Mar varsity and junior varsity cheerleading squads

joined forces to compete in the Super-Large Varsity High School

Division. The team won first place at the USA regional cheerleading

competition and qualified for more national and regional competitions

later this year ... Navy Cmdr. John Slaughter, son of Newport Beach

residents Donna and Charles Slaughter, has just returned from a

six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf.

Slaughter visited the ports of Crete, Greece, and Jebel Ali, United

Arab Emirates. His squadron flew helicopters in anti-submarine

warfare and search and rescue missions. Slaughter graduated in 1979

from Newport Harbor High School and joined the Navy in 1983 ... Navy

Petty Officer 2nd class David Smith, son of Newport Beach residents

Janine and Henry Smith, just returned from a similar six-month

deployment. He was assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Barry

... Corona del Mar High 2002 graduate Ben Wynkoop graduated from

Marine Corps basic training Friday. Wynkoop will go on to infantry

and then aviation training in Pensacola, Fla. ... Four hundred Orange

Coast College students were named to the college’s President’s List

for achieving a 4.0 grade point average and completing at least 12

units for the semester. Michael Robertson of Balboa Peninsula and

Lesli De La O and Susan Deane of Balboa Island achieved these high

standards. From Corona del Mar, Tyler Cowx, Jonathan D’Amico and

Flavia Ruzi were on the list. From Costa Mesa, Jane Alder, Marie

Anderson, Mayumi Arai, Adriana Arce, Kellie Brown, Gayle Clauson,

Elizabeth Cluff, Katyana Conley, Jennifer Corder, Daniel Coutu,

Bonnie Dias, Amanda Dietz, Mami Fukumoto, Elizabeth Glanders, Gemma

Graham, Su Hyun Han, Su-Jung Han, Melissa Herbias, Alexandra

Herskovitz, Cindy Hickman, Gitella Himmer, Maki Hirata, Uyen Ngoc Q.

Hoang, Isabelle Huguet, Jessica Iverson, Natsuko Iwabuchi, Carey

James, Keegan Jennings, Keiko Kanechuika, Rabia Khan, Yuko Kida,

Sunhee Kim, Tomoyuki Koga, Dina Lager, Stacey Lam, Anne Lopez, Elyse

Marozick, Dawn Miller, Emi Morisaku, Aya Morozumi, Saori Nemoto,

Takamitsu Nemoto, Hung Khanh Nguyen, Ly Nguyen, Irene No, Joanne No,

Alissa Nuttall, Shinji Ogura, Tuyen Duc Pham, Shannon Rogers, John

Ross, Maria Rossi, Ayako Sekimura, Naomi Seto, Eun Ju Song, Sara

Steinfurth, Kessee Stewart, Yuka Sugiura, Chiharu Suzuki, Jacob

Switzenberg, Kaho Tanabe, Mark Tracy, Quyen Trinh, Dorothy

Wasilewski, Steven Whittaker and Xuelian Xia made the grade. Newport

Beach residents Brian Clayton, Rachael Deckard, Jeremy Dodson, Yuki

Fushimi, Andrew Gold, Charlie Hirst, Eric Holmes, Lisa Katuari, Maori

Konishi, Jason Malkin, Naoko Matsuo, Leslie May, Vanessa Mellini,

Suzanne Menaker, Rika Meyer, Rudolph Niemann, Shane Pollard, Marilyn

Pope, Erich Reyburn, Michael Rogers, Natalie Andre, Laszlo Varga and

Tara Vavere were successful. From Newport Coast, Joanna Latanska,

Danica Long and Brittany Ziegler were honored.

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please

direct noteworthy information to Coral Wilson by fax at (949)

646-4170, or send e-mail to coral.wilson@latimes.com.