Last OC Exec Exits Amerisource; Update from Rudy
OC INSIDER by Rick Reiff
And then there were none. Senior VP Brent Martini’s resignation from Valley Forge, Pa.-based AmerisourceBergen Corp. for “personal reasons” completes the departure of Bergen Brunswig holdovers from the top management ranks, less than a year after Amerisource acquired the OC drug distributor. However, Brent’s dad, OCBJ Businessperson of the Year Robert Martini, notes he’s only nine months into a three-year term as chairman of the merged company. Watch for Brent on the sports car racing circuit
Rest and treatment has worked for Ed Arnold’s ticker,the KOCE anchor should be back on the air by July 1
The OC Alzheimer’s Association has completed its CEO search: Heidi Shurtleff, formerly with J. Walter Thompson and currently volunteer president of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, takes over July 1
Almost there: Hoag Hospital says it “only” needs $2 million more to reach the $50 million goal for building a seven-story Women’s Pavilion; target opening is 2005
Update from Rudy Pollak on his venture with Maryknoll Benner and John Martin: “Balboa Desserts is fine three years after we bought the company. Going ‘national’ with Kroger (Ralphs here). Just became the supplier for Steak and Ale and Bennigans from Metromedia Restaurant Group out of Dallas. On TV with QVC selling cakes to the masses like a 21st Century Fuller Brush salesman”
Arnold Schwarzenegger has received an honorary doctoral degree from Chapman U
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has honored its OC chapter for “extraordinary growth in fundraising”,up 34% from 1999 to 2001, nearly three times the national average
Tech writer Chris Farnsworth is leaving the Register to pursue screenwriting in Hollywood
PR pro Meg Waters, who helped south county stop the El Toro airport, was in Dallas helping the 284 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops handle a press corps that outnumbered them by 2-1. Waters, a consultant for the Diocese of Orange, was one of about 20 flacks from around the country who attended the extraordinary meeting where the bishops adopted a strict policy toward sex abuse by priests. While Waters’ main job was to make sure Bishop Tod Brown’s voice was heard back in Orange County, she and her colleagues wound up assisting and advising the bishops’ overwhelmed in-house pr staff. Waters, a Catholic, said she felt Providence guiding bishops and journalists alike: “I don’t think God really cares if there’s an airport at El Toro
but I think God really cared about this outcome.”
