Randy Palmer of Newport Beach won...

Randy Palmer of Newport Beach won Second Best of Show and the

award for Best Modified Engine with his 1965 Plymouth Belvedere

during the fourth annual Strawberry Sunday Funfest and Classic Car

Show at the Orange County Market Place in Costa Mesa. Palmer won a

$200 cash prize and two trophies ... Evan C. Cooper of Costa Mesa

received academic honors at Northeastern University when he was named

to the university’s dean’s list for the winter quarter ... Taylor and

Associates Architects, a Newport Beach-based company, promoted Brad

Smith to principal. Smith has played a key role with the architecture

and interior design firm for the past 12 years ... Brad Bowlus of

Newport Beach has been named one of six Fathers of the Year by the

Orange County chapter of the Father’s Day Council and the American

Diabetes Assn. Bowlus is the president and chief executive of

PacifiCare Health Systems’ Health Plans division ... Cranston Stroup,

a Newport Beach poet from the 1930s, was remembered in an art

exhibition and reading at the Sherman Library and Gardens ...

Christopher John Bissonnette of Newport Beach was named vice

president in the Southwest Division of AXA Advisors ... Jim Rothwell

of Newport Beach was one of two students selected as Purdue Pete, the

sports mascot at Purdue University, for the 2003-04 school year ...

David E. Holden of Newport Beach earned placement on the dean’s list

at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. ... Amy Elizabeth

Baum of Newport Beach graduated from Saint Mary’s College in Notre

Dame, Ind. ... Costa Mesa residents Alissa Bachran, Florestella

Barron and Marilyn Myers graduated from Azusa Pacific University in

Azusa, Calif. ... Cecil Henry Shirar II graduated from the

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. ... Robert M.

Campbell of Newport Beach was honored with the prestigious Lifetime

Achievement Award at the UC Irvine Graduate School of Management’s

Real Estate Conference and Lifetime Achievement Award Luncheon.

* NEIGHBORS spotlights achievements in the community. Please

direct noteworthy information to Coral Wilson by fax at (949)

646-4170, or send e-mail to [email protected].