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Esther Gordon said she’s devastated by the loss of a beloved Costa Mesa family’s son who grew up with her children. Norman Schureman, 50, a professor at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, was gunned down while at a Persian New Year celebration March 20. His funeral was Saturday, and he was memorialized Sunday. “There’s nothing I can say other than the fact that it’s a sad, sad situation, such a loss, such an untimely death,” Gordon said.

  Died February 19, 2010, of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, in Costa Mesa. He was born in Pasadena December 20, 1930 and attended schools in Altadena and Pasadena and the University of California at Berkeley . He is survived by his wife, Margaret, his son, Lawrence Jr., Brother-in-Law Philip McWilliams, Sister–in–Law (Melody), many friends, and his loving cousins who were the light of his later years and who particularly delighted in his wild, corny sense of humor.

Michael Millikan, M.D. (August 5, 1933 - February 6, 2009) was born on August 5, 1933 in Pasadena, CA, to Clark and Helen Staats Millikan. He was the grandson of Noble Prize Winning physicist Robert A. Millikan. After attending Polytechnic in Pasadena and Hotchkiss Preperatory School in Connecticut he later graduated from Yale University in 1955. He then went to Albany Medical School and after, became Chief Resident at LA County Hospital for three years. He opened his own practice as a general surgeon at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, and later went on to practice internal medicine at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena.

Joan Howard Sammis passed away on November 25 after a valiant nine month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born on May 7, 1935 in Pasadena, CA to Nelson and Betty Howard and lived an idyllic childhood in Pasadena, Houston, Texas and Watertown, Connecticut while her father was in the Navy in the Aleutian Islands during WWII. She and her sister Natalie attended Westridge School in Pasadena from kindergarten through high school and she met her husband, Lee Sammis, at Cal Berkeley, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

The Orange Coast College women’s volleyball team will open the Southern California Regional playoffs at home against Pasadena City College tonight at 7. The Pirates (18-4) are the No. 8 seed in the regionals, while the Lancers (16-6), tied for second in the South Coast Conference, are the No. 11 seed. The Pirates finished third in the Orange Empire Conference, winning five of their last six matches to do so, including solid triumphs over Cypress and Golden West College.

Dr. Millard Hardy (“Mac”) McLain Nov. 21, 1921 to Sept. 28, 2008 Pasadena physician Millard Hardy McLain passed away peacefully at home on the evening of Sept. 28 at 86 years. Mac was born at the Huntington Hospital and raised in the Pasadena area where his aptitude as a student and passion for the outdoors were encouraged by his parents, Fred and Faith McLain. He attended Eagle Rock High School, then Occidental College, where he was a class officer and a competitive diver coached by Olympic diver Sammy Lee. Upon graduation, he was immediately drafted but allowed to pursue his medical studies at Stanford University in an accelerated three year program.

Jones, Thaddeus C., M.D. March 25, 1924 - July 16, 2008 Born in Pasadena, Ca., Dr. Thaddeus C. Jones practiced medicine in Laguna Beach for over 50 years. He attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, the Catalina Island School for Boys and Princeton University. In 1942, he enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in the South Pacific aboard the destroyer, USS Massey. Dr. Jones completed medical school at U.S.C. and set up his practice in Laguna Beach in 1955. He was also a former chief of staff at South Coast Medical Center.

Pasadena is known for its ability to keep up with the times. From Cal Tech to fashion to dining, it consistently remains on the front end of industries, but Old Town Pasadena still remains as one of the more prominent attractions in an engaging town. Old Town Pasadena celebrates its history with timeless architecture and mixes it with youthful markets. From the Apple store to the Laemmle Cinemas, the area has attractions for various persons and cultures. Dreams of Tibet sells items revolving around Tibet as well as imports from Thailand, Nepal and India.

A conference at a Pasadena church to discuss Middle East issues has touched off tension between area Christians and Jews. Many Los Angeles rabbis and other Jewish leaders have criticized All Saints Episcopal Church for agreeing to host a conference sponsored by a Jerusalem-based ecumenical Christian group that advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation. Some say it is wrong for the group’s founder to compare the suffering of Palestinians to that of Jesus and the early Christians.

Kidspace Museum started in 1979 at California Institute of Technology, whose ingenuity and high-tech aspirations inspired the museum to become one of the foremost interactive learning experiences nationwide. Its first production, “Making Senses,” was a community project by the Junior League of Pasadena to stimulate education. The group designed the exhibit to feature robotics and neon light displays that would attract younger students to education. They expected 2,000 visitors.