Suzanne Barnes is a speech pathologist who works out of her Arcadia home and is only the 106th specialist in the world to receive the COM certificate for oral facial myology. She is profiled.
Joseph I, 15, a 9th-grader at Foothills Junior High School has been named one of 15 semifinalists in the instrumental music category for the Music Center's Second Annual Spotlight Award. The Spotlight Award Ceremony and Dinner will be held March 5 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Mr. I has also been invited to attend master classes given by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Arcadia resident Thomas McKernan Jr., president and CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, has been awarded the 1995 Drucker Center Alumni Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement.
A request from a group of parents that the play "Secrets", dealing with AIDS and birth control, be cancelled at Foothills Junior High has been unanimously denied by the Arcadia Board of Education. Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and performed throughout the state, the play was requested by parents at the junior high level after it was shown last year at Arcadia High School.
First Avenue Junior High was one of 3 area schools to receive the state Dept. of Education's Distinguished High School and Middle School Awards. Arcadia's Foothill Jr. High received the award in 1988. The other winners included San Marino High School and the L. A. County High School for the Arts at Cal State Los Angeles.
Sandi McQuilkin, a volunteer at Holly Avenue Elementary School, has received the Golden Apple Award for her service to the community. The award, given for outstanding community leadership, is sponsored by the Northwest San Gabriel Valley Administrators Association.
Genevieve Perchlak, 63, a survivor of a Nazi labor camp, speaks to eighth graders at Foothills Junior High School every year when they are reading "The Diary of Anne Frank."
Leonard Rodriguez, executive vice principal at St. Francis School in La Canada-Flintridge, has been named Assistant Principal of First Avenue Junior High School.
Patricia Ann "Pann" Baltz, 44, of Camino Grove Elementary School, is sharing the Walt Disney Co. Outstanding Teacher of 1993 award after a ballot mix-up awarded it solely to a Texas teacher. She will receive a $25,000 honorarium, $25,000 for Camino Grove, and $10,000 for the school district.
Gerry Woods, who is in the process of recovering from an almost fatal gunshot wound to the head last year, went in a wheel chair to receive his certificate of graduation from Foothills Junior High School.
The Arcadia Chamber of Commerce presented awards to three outstanding Chamber members: Peter Ulrich, Michael Costuma and Elvin Pate. They are profiled. Photos.