People

* Spotlight on achievers

Kevin Magee

Former UC Irvine basketball player

The Irvine City Council honored Magee, an All-American from 1980 to 1982 with the UC Irvine basketball team, for his unbroken collegiate record.

Magee is the only basketball player in NCAA history to rank in the nation’s top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage for two consecutive years. Magee averaged 26.3 points and 12.3 rebounds per game during his two seasons with UCI. He served as team captain both years.

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Diane Ross

Professor, Cal State Fullerton

The university presented Ross with the fifth annual Jewel Plummer Cobb Diversity in Education Award.

The award honored her for making “a significant impact on the education of students” in the arena of multicultural and gender issues in the university’s School of Human Development and Community Service. She received a check for $1,000 with the award.

Ross, who coordinates the women’s studies program, has been a Cal State Fullerton faculty member since 1973.

The award is named in honor of former Cal State Fullerton President Jewel Plummer Cobb.

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Bob Amren

Sergeant, Westminster Police Department

The Westminster City Council and apartment owners on 15th Street saluted Amren and his team of police officers for driving out suspected gang members from the apartments across from City Hall.

In 1991, the Police Department created the Metro Team under the direction of Amren to target members of the Orphan Gang. Through sting operations, increased patrol and monthly meetings with apartment owners, Amren’s team succeeded in moving the gangs out.

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Christine Karlberg

Cantrell

Science teacher, Hewes Middle School in Tustin

Cantrell recently was selected as Orange County’s top middle school science teacher by Toshiba America Companies of Southern California and KOCE-TV. She was honored for her science lesson entitled “Anatomy of a Crime,” in which her students went to a mock police academy and learned about fingerprinting, hair, fiber and blood analysis.

She received a $500 cash prize. *

J. Michael Reed

Journalism instructor, Saddleback College

Reed was named Outstanding Journalism Teacher of the Year for 1994 by the California Newspaper Publishers Assn. during a conference in San Francisco.

Reed was one of three California educators honored at the conference. Under Reed’s guidance, Saddleback College’s newspaper, The Lariat, won its second National Pacemaker Award last year.

--COMPILED BY LESLEY WRIGHT, WITH BERT ELJERA, LYNN FRANEY, RUSS LOAR AND ALAN EYERLY