3 win community service award Three Newport...

3 win community service award

Three Newport Beach residents have received the Girl Scout Council

of Orange County’s 2005 “Women of Distinction” honor for community

service.

Peggy Goldwater Clay, Julie Jacobson and Ronna Shipman will be

honored by the council at a luncheon on April 5 at the Hyatt Regency

Irvine. Proceeds from the luncheon will benefit Project Hope School,

an outreach program for girls in homeless families.

Clay, a board member of the KOCE-TV Foundation and the Brain

Imaging Center at UC Irvine, has also done fundraising work for

abused and hearing-impaired children and for the Discovery Science

Center of Orange County.

Jacobson has served as a Girl Scout leader and senior advisor and

has volunteered at Hoag Hospital.

Shipman, who recently retired as vice president of community

relations for the Orange County Register, has done volunteer work for

the Red Cross, Arts Orange County and others.

Tickets for the April 5 luncheon are $75. Call (714) 979-7900 for reservations.

UCI student earns Mitchell Scholarship

UC Irvine student Brittany Schick will be the first UCI recipient

of the George Mitchell Scholarship. The senior honors student, who

will graduate with a commission in the U.S. Air Force, was recognized

in a resolution submitted by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine).

DeVore will present the signed proclamation to Schick at a special

ceremony at UCI on Wednesday.

DeVore said the fact that Schick is one of 12 students selected

for the scholarship, out of 220 applicants from 166 universities,

speaks volumes about her ambition and vision of a successful leader.

The Mitchell scholarship is named for the former U.S. Senator from

Maine who was instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace process.

Schick, a political science and international studies double

major, has an interest in national intelligence. The scholarship will

help fund her study for a master’s degree in International Relations

at Dublin City University.

World firsts come to playwrights festival

South Coast Repertory’s eighth annual Pacific Playwrights Festival

is just around the corner.

Each year, the festival offers audiences a look at work from

established writers as well as emerging playwrights.

Headlining this year’s festival, which runs May 6-8, are two fully

staged world premieres: Richard Greenberg’s “A Naked Girl on the

Appian Way” and Lucinda Coxon’s “Vesuvius.”

Greenberg has written six previous South Coast Repertory

premieres. His most recent play, “Take Me Out,” traveled from London

to New York in a co-production by the Donmar Warehouse and the Public

Theater, and transferred to Broadway in early 2003 where it won the

Tony Award for Best Play.

In “A Naked Girl on the Appian Way,” Greenberg broadens his world

to include nearly the entire family of man in one family. There’s a

secret behind every surprise, and the surprises keep on coming.

Coxon has also written premiers for South Coast Repertory. This

year’s “Vesuvius” is set at a resort near Naples and depicts the

story of lost loved ones and lost ones found.

Along with the fully staged productions, the festival will include

workshop productions and staged readings.

For more information, or to purchase tickets for the festival,

call (714) 708-5555 or visit https://www.scr.org.