Stanley Cummings

"Community Spirit People in Orange County tend to find fulfillment in the pursuit of individual goals, to the exclusion of goals requiring cooperation and the need for common sacrifice for the common good. The major issues facing us in the coming decade all require cooperation, consensus building and a certain amount of sacrifice. The positive side is that it can be a very fulfilling effort if we choose to see it that way."

"Community Spirit People in Orange County tend to find fulfillment in the pursuit of individual goals, to the exclusion of goals requiring cooperation and the need for common sacrifice for the common good. The major issues facing us in the coming decade all require cooperation, consensus building and a certain amount of sacrifice. The positive side is that it can be a very fulfilling effort if we choose to see it that way."

Stanley Cummings, director of the Orange County Marine Institute in Dana Point, is scheduled to speak Tuesday before the Maritime Committee of the House of Representatives in an effort to gain an exemption from the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 for the institute's brig, Pilgrim. The act prohibits foreign-built or registered vessels from doing business in the United States.

The Orange County Marine Institute, which has been trying to keep the Pilgrim II in Dana Point Harbor since its arrival there four years ago, may have to wait a few weeks longer before it finally owns the two-masted sailing ship. Stanley Cummings, director of the institute, said Wednesday that escrow, originally scheduled to close Monday, may be delayed at least until the end of May.

The Marine Institute at Dana Point Harbor has received a $30,000 matching grant from the California Community Foundation and a $2,500 grant from the Arco Foundation to fund a pre-campaign study for facility expansion and to support several educational programs. The California Community Foundation grant will be used to produce a funding prospectus and working model for the proposed expansion of 48,000 square feet at the institute, which plays host to 50,000 students annually. Dr.

After nearly two hours of heated debate, the City Council voted Tuesday to end its participation in the Orange County Marine Institute joint powers agreement, helping to pave the way for the 18-year-old educational facility to go private.

The brig Pilgrim II, a feature on the Dana Point scene since its arrival four years ago, should soon have a permanent home in the harbor there as a result of a unanimous vote Tuesday by the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Although the Orange County Marine Institute has tried since 1981 to buy the Pilgrim, several pitfalls, including nervousness by officials over who would pay for the ship were the institute to default, have stood in the way of a purchase.

A local angler fishing four miles off the coast last weekend landed a great white shark, a rare catch for those waters. Measuring 5 feet and weighing in at a scant 55 pounds, the great white was landed after snatching a hook baited with mackerel. "Usually, they don't come down this far south," said John O'Neil, who was fishing for mako sharks off Crystal Cove with four friends in his 31-foot sportfishing boat when the great white was hooked.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but a windfall fosters creativity too: Three Orange County educational institutions allotted a total of $1.25 million in the new state budget already have imaginative plans to put the money to use. Santa Ana's planned Discovery Science Center, which received $750,000, intends to use the cash to finish construction. Dana Point's Orange County Marine Institute, awarded $475,000, wants to launch a major expansion.