Robert J. Waltos managing partner of...

Robert J. Waltos managing partner of Northwestern Mutual Financial

Network/The Waltos Group of Newport Beach, was recently named

president-elect of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Southern

California Chapter ... Christopher Ober of Costa Mesa was recently

hired as a senior analyst at Long Beach based Strategic Equity Group.

Ober’s duties involve the analytical and reporting aspects of the

firm’s valuation, investment banking and business advisory services

... Marine Corps Pvt. Christopher M. Atkins, son of Colleen M. Atkins

of Corona and Dan R. Atkins of Costa Mesa, recently completed 12

weeks of basic training at the Marine Corps’ Recruit Depot in San

Diego. Atkins spent numerous hours in classroom and field

assignments, which included learning first aid, uniform regulations,

combat water survival, marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat and assorted

weapons training ... Jessica Amzoll of Costa Mesa was recently named

to the dean’s list for the fall semester at California Lutheran

University in Thousand Oaks. Amzoll was named to the list by

maintaining a 3.5 grade-point average in her academic work ...

Alexander S.B. Ha, of son of K.Y. Ha and H.S. Moon of Newport Beach,

a 10th-grader at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., earned

highest honors for the fall semester ... Debra J. Richardson,

professor of informatics at UC Irvine and interim dean of the School

of Information and Computer Science since December 2002, was recently

named dean of the school by Chancellor Ralph Cicerone ... Chiaki

Kobayashi, Nami Kontani, Heather A. Kronstedt, Junko Kurokawa, Quynh

H. Le, Beom Joon Lee, Bobby Lenhart, Morgan L. Lewan, Anthony M.

Lewis, Ryan C. Longnecker, Jose Lopez Matamoros, William K. Lund, Ben

A. Marker, Tim Matthies, Pia A. Mattsson, Jerry L. McAdams, Paula A.

McIntosh, Christine A. McLaughlin, Heather L. Metcalf, Trifon S.

Metodiev, Lindsey A. Meyers, Sean I. Mirza, Noboru Mizota, Michel A.

Montmorency, Emi Morisaku, Chizuru Nakazawa, Norell R. Narum, Gene B.

Nguyen, James A. Noriega, Ivy Jazel B. Nucum, Shinsaku Ohno, all of

Costa Mesa, were named to the Orange Coast College dean’s list for

the fall semester of 2003.

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