Women Orange County

Costa Mesa's Learning for Life foundation will honor nine Orange County Women of Excellence Nov. 7 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Newport Beach. The foundation is an educational arm of the Boy Scouts of America, Orange County Council, that teaches values and ethics to schoolchildren. Every year, the organization recognizes women accomplished in law, business, education, the arts, health and social services.

Some of the most interesting people are identified on campaign contribution reports under the modest heading of "housewife." They are the wives of developers, architects and executives of all stripes. There's the woman whose occupation is listed as housewife but whose address is: "The Penthouse, The Fairmont, San Francisco." There are times when contributions by the spouses of local leaders have caused controversy: The wives of the Baldwin brothers, owners of the Baldwin Co.

Appearing in court for the first time since Denise Huber's body was found last week in a freezer at his country club home, murder suspect John J. Famalaro listened impassively Wednesday as an investigator testified that the house painter had a history of threatening and assaulting women. Yavapai County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Mascher told a packed courtroom that several of Famalaro's former girlfriends had described being threatened or feeling threatened by him, Mascher said.

Tamara Lindley-Brown contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from an old boyfriend. Patti Wetzel, a physician, got it from the accidental stick of an infected needle. And Susan Tibbetts' condition was diagnosed as AIDS after an almost-forgotten sexual liaison of long ago. All three women have been living with the virus and its aftermath for the past several years.

Act on your dreams was perhaps the overriding message that a panel of local women leaders had to offer at Friday's Women in Leadership Conference. The audience of mostly women at the one-day conference at South Coast Plaza Village were encouraged to maintain their career goals, but also to support each other's efforts to do so.

Costa Mesa's Learning for Life foundation will honor nine Orange County Women of Excellence Nov. 7 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Newport Beach. The foundation is an educational arm of the Boy Scouts of America, Orange County Council, that teaches values and ethics to schoolchildren. Every year, the organization recognizes women accomplished in law, business, education, the arts, health and social services.

Women chattering in foreign languages and broken English walk in and out of an ordinary blue stucco house in Orange County. The house, with white trim, lace curtains and a striped tomcat stalking birds in the front yard, looks like any other in Southern California. But the women who live there know their home is a refuge, a place so hidden that few know what goes on inside. Every day the residents of this battered-women's shelter share secrets of lives filled with terror and shame.

Appearing in court for the first time since Denise Huber's body was found last week in a freezer at his country club home, murder suspect John J. Famalaro listened impassively Wednesday as an investigator testified that the house painter had a history of threatening and assaulting women. Yavapai County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Mascher told a packed courtroom that several of Famalaro's former girlfriends had described being threatened or feeling threatened by him, Mascher said.

Carol Andreson wants every woman to feel rich and beautiful. Her line of costume jewelry--called Rich & Beautiful--apparently helps them do just that because it has been enjoying brisk sales to men and women from all walks of life. "Fabulous fakes" is what she calls her line of cubic zirconia and simulated gems--rubies, emeralds and sapphires. The former actress is also a registered nurse who actually played a continuing role as a nurse on the old "Dr. Kildare" television series starring Richard Chamberlain.

UC Irvine researchers, armed with a new $2.3-million grant, will meet today to plot a study of breast cancer genetics in Orange County, which has the highest rate of that cancer in the nation. * The grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a four-year study that will attempt to isolate the gene for breast cancer by studying its occurrence in families. Then scientists can attempt to discover what roles the gene and the environment play.

Tamara Lindley-Brown contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from an old boyfriend. Patti Wetzel, a physician, got it from the accidental stick of an infected needle. And Susan Tibbetts' condition was diagnosed as AIDS after an almost-forgotten sexual liaison of long ago. All three women have been living with the virus and its aftermath for the past several years.

Women chattering in foreign languages and broken English walk in and out of an ordinary blue stucco house in Orange County. The house, with white trim, lace curtains and a striped tomcat stalking birds in the front yard, looks like any other in Southern California. But the women who live there know their home is a refuge, a place so hidden that few know what goes on inside. Every day the residents of this battered-women's shelter share secrets of lives filled with terror and shame.

Act on your dreams was perhaps the overriding message that a panel of local women leaders had to offer at Friday's Women in Leadership Conference. The audience of mostly women at the one-day conference at South Coast Plaza Village were encouraged to maintain their career goals, but also to support each other's efforts to do so.

Some of the most interesting people are identified on campaign contribution reports under the modest heading of "housewife." They are the wives of developers, architects and executives of all stripes. There's the woman whose occupation is listed as housewife but whose address is: "The Penthouse, The Fairmont, San Francisco." There are times when contributions by the spouses of local leaders have caused controversy: The wives of the Baldwin brothers, owners of the Baldwin Co.

UC Irvine researchers, armed with a new $2.3-million grant, will meet today to plot a study of breast cancer genetics in Orange County, which has the highest rate of that cancer in the nation. * The grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a four-year study that will attempt to isolate the gene for breast cancer by studying its occurrence in families. Then scientists can attempt to discover what roles the gene and the environment play.

It was a joyous, tearful family reunion as Kevin Lee Green returned home Saturday after spending 17 years in custody for an Orange County murder that police now say he didn't commit. "I knew I wasn't guilty, and I tried to tell everyone that would listen I wasn't, and it didn't work," Green told television reporters. Vindication came Thursday, when a horrified legal system realized its error and granted freedom to the former Marine, who promptly flew to St.