Who’s Who in Pasadena Advocates

A roster of Pasadena Advocates’ board of directors reads like a sampling from a city Who’s Who--movers and shakers, past and present. The group’s directors are:

Bruce Ackerman--Executive vice president of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and a Pasadena Now member.

Delmer Beckhart--Architect; president of the Eagle Rock architectural firm of Peterson, Beckhart, Wesley & Stice; past president of the chamber; a Tournament of Roses Assn. member, and a founding Pasadena Now member.

James Boyle--Past president of the Tournament of Roses Assn. and a former Pasadena Now member.

Harold Britton--Landscape contractor and board chairman of the Lower Hastings Ranch Assn.

Guillermina Byrne--Senior research attorney with the California Court of Appeal, Growth Management Task Force member and past City Planning Commission chairwoman.

Larry Collins--Past publisher of the Pasadena Star-News, the city’s daily newspaper, and a Pasadena Now member.

Harriman Cronk--Stockbroker, past economic development director for the chamber, former Tournament of Roses Assn. president and a founding Pasadena Now member.

Rob Fisher--Insurance representative and past president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Armando Gonzalez--Architect and former chairman of the Community Development Committee.

Jo Heckman--Real estate agent and a past 12-year member of the city’s Board of Directors who was defeated in 1987 by City Director William Paparian.

Oliver Ho--Self-employed; husband of Betty Ho, field representative for City Director Kathryn Nack.

Nelson Holdo--Vice president of Troy & Co., a jewelry store on Lake Avenue, and president of the South Lake Business Assn.

John Kennedy--President of the Pasadena chapter of the NAACP and past member of the Northwest Task Force.

Jim Lee--Stockbroker, past chamber president and Pasadena Now founding member.

Besse Licher--Past member of the City Infrastructure Committee, unsuccessful city Board of Directors candidate in the 1960s and owner of Licher Direct Mail, a printing and mailing service that serves many of Pasadena’s political candidates and groups.

Floyd Loupot--Owner of Miracle Ear hearing aid center, Chamber of Commerce member and president of the Better Hearing Institute.

Larry Mielke--Pasadena Now co-founder, president of Gemtel Corp. and a partner in Huntington Hotel Associates, the group reconstructing Pasadena’s Huntington Hotel.

Larry Minasian--Owner of Minasian and Associates, a property management firm.

Allen Munnecke--Owner of Calar Systems, an air conditioning company, and a Tournament of Roses Assn. member.

Don Nack--Engineer and president of Nack & Sunderland engineering firm; husband of City Director Kathryn Nack.

Ibrahim Naeem --Executive director of the Pasadena-Foothill ranch of the Los Angeles Urban League and a member of the Pasadena Community Access Corp. board.

Nat Read--Owner of Read Communications, a public relations firm with clients including Larry Mielke, Pasadena City College, South Lake Business Assn. and One Colorado Boulevard.

Lou Richards--Past Avon Corp. public relations vice president, past chamber president and a Pasadena Now member.

Rosemary Schroeder--Founding president of Oak Knoll Improvement Assn.; former Planning Commission chairwoman, and an employee of The Chandler Group, the Burbank development company that plans to build 94 residential units and 80,000 square feet of office space on a downtown lot secured from All Saints Episcopal Church.

Margaret Sedenquist--Member of the board of directors of Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc. and a commercial realtor whose unsuccessful race in 1985 against Director Jess Hughston set a record for the most money ever spent in a city campaign, $85,000.

Joel Sheldon--Past president of the Chamber of Commerce, owner of Vroman’s Bookstore on Colorado Boulevard and a partner with Ken McCormick to develop the Vroman’s block and the Pasadena Playhouse block.