Monica R. Smith, a certified meeting professional...

Monica R. Smith, a certified meeting professional and sales

executive, was named corporate sales manager for the Newport Beach

Conference and Visitor’s Bureau. She will be responsible for

attracting national corporate meetings to Newport Beach, promoting

corporate group business growth and maintaining positive

relationships between the bureau and its clients, hospitality

partners and members ... Newport Beach resident Rachael Melinda Rose

recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. Cloud State University in

St. Cloud, Minn. ... Alexander S. B. Ha of Newport Beach, a

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

honors for the spring term ... Elliot Hayes of Costa Mesa will serve

as Orange Coast College student body president for the 2004-05 school

year. A business major and the son of a former member of the U.S.

national rowing team, Hayes captained OCC’s novice rowing crew in the

spring term ... Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar at Fashion

Island in Newport Beach has appointed Laguna Niguel resident Jaye

Sechrest as its operating partner. Sechrest has worked for the

Fleming’s chain since its inception in 1998.

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