The Girl Scout Council of Orange...

The Girl Scout Council of Orange County recognized the top cookie

sellers for the 2003 Girl Scouts Cookie Sales Program. Costa Mesa

residents Shona Lamb, Alyssa Allison and Linsi Carroll and Newport

Beach residents Elise Wiesinger and Laura Yeargain were honored for

their entrepreneurship, money management and marketing skills ...

Nine OCC students have taken student government positions. The

student body president is Ben Jensen of Aliso Viejo, the

vice-president is Erick Garcia Aragon of Mission Viejo, and the

business manager is Ly Nguyen of Costa Mesa. The Inter-Club president

is Jose Soto of Santa Ana. Elected board members include Rachel

Harrigan of Tustin, Zachary Liberman of Santa Ana, Mona Mikati of

Huntington Beach, Richard Noroski of Irvine and Mohammad Rafiq of

Garden Grove ... Eric Neff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass C. Neff of

Newport Beach, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford,

Conn. He will attend Emory in the fall ... Gail Bongcaras of Rancho

Santa Margarita has been hired as executive director of Project

Access, an organization that provides education and enrichment

programs to low-income youth, families and seniors ... Danielle

Galasso of Costa Mesa has received a bachelor’s in childhood

education from Boston University ... Orange Coast College students

Osbaldo Nieves and Margaret Walk have received $1,000 scholarships

from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation ... Alexander K. Fankuchen,

son of E. Fankuchen and L. Kantrowitz of Corona del Mar, earned

honors for his spring term at Philip Exeter Academy ... Navy Seaman

James E. Bettencourt, son of Phil E. Bettencourt of Costa Mesa, has

completed recruit training with honors ... Marine Corps Pfc. Ernesto

A. Alvizo, son of Teresa and Ernesto Alvizo of Costa Mesa, has

completed the basic food service course ... These students have been

selected for the spring quarter dean’s honors list at UC Santa

Barbara: Costa Mesa residents Amy Buffington, Brenna Cooley, Kimberly

Dootson and Dane Louvier; and Newport Beach residents Joel Furman,

Autumn Smith and Paige Thompson ... Douglas M. Dukes of Costa Mesa, a

senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been recognized on

the spring semester’s dean’s list ... Marine Corps Lance Cpl.

Nicholas B. Zeramby, son of Sherry A. Zeramby of Costa Mesa and Scott

A. Zeramby of Albion, has completed a two-week bilateral training

exercise with Albanian military forces while assigned to the 26th

Marine Expeditionary Unity based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. ... Marine

Corps Pvt. Benjamin M. Romero, son of Gloria M. and Antonio A. Romero

of Costa Mesa, has completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine

Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.

* 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.