Orange County supervisors Tuesday approved the third group of inductees for the Orange County Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
The inductees for the Dec. 9 ceremony are:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron, best known for directing blockbuster movies such as \u201cAvatar,\u201d \u201cTitanic\u201d and \u201cThe Terminator.\u201d Cameron\u2019s ties to Orange County include studying physics at Fullerton College before switching majors to English.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Surfer Robert August, who is known for his role in the surf documentary \u201cThe Endless Summer\u201d and grew up in Seal Beach.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ed Caruthers, the 1968 Olympic silver medalist in the men\u2019s high jump. He competed for Santa Ana College and was a longtime Orange County teacher.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Conductor Carl St. Clair, the music director for the Costa Mesa-based Pacific Symphony from 1990 until earlier this year when he took the title music director laureate.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Philanthropist James Irvine of the James Irvine Foundation of the Irvine Company.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Huntington Beach businessman Ed Laird, an active supporter of various community groups.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Sammy Lee, the 1948 and 1952 Olympic gold medalist in men\u2019s platform diving.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Philanthropists Henry and Susan Samueli, who formed their foundation after Samueli made his fortune when his pioneering tech company Broadcom went public. The Samuelis also own the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Eddie Sheldrake, who co-founded the Polly\u2019s Pies restaurant chain with his brother Donald after being an All-Pacific Coast Conference first-team selection in basketball for UCLA in the 1950-51 season.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Gaddi Vasquez, a former chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and Peace Corps director.<\/p>\n
Orange County Board Chairman Doug Chaffee hailed Cameron as \u201cone of the most influential filmmakers of today.\u201d Chaffee also said he and his wife much enjoy dining at Polly\u2019s Pies and admire the career of Sheldrake.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento praised Caruthers for his teaching career in the Garden Grove School District and for continuing \u201cto be very active in this community.\u201d A new park at 423 S. Raitt St. was named in his honor.<\/p>\n
Lee was a \u201cphysician and mentor,\u201d who was \u201cthe first Asian-American man to earn a gold for the United States\u201d in the Olympics, Sarmiento said.<\/p>\n
Sarmiento also offered \u201ca shoutout for Gaddi Vasquez, a former supervisor here and first Latino to serve on the Board of Supervisors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wagner said Vasquez is \u201ca friend to everybody on this board\u2026 genuinely a treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County supervisors Tuesday approved the third group of inductees for the Orange County Hall of Fame. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,32137,166,2847,24771,36381,36382,171,2086],"class_list":["post-60974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-approve","tag-county","tag-fame","tag-hall","tag-inductees","tag-newest","tag-orange","tag-supervisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}