CITY NAMES ALVORD TO NO. 2 SPOT PARKS DIRECTOR PROMOTED.Byline: Jennifer Jennifer became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century. The name Jennifer is a Cornish variant of Guinevere, deriving ultimately from Proto-Celtic *windo-seibaro- "white ghost", via Brythonic *wino-hibirā (cf. Hamm Hamm, village, Luxembourg Hamm, village, S Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, near Luxembourg city. Gen. George S. Patton is buried in the large U.S. military cemetery there. Staff Writer BURBANK - Mary Alvord, a Burbank native and 30-year city employee, was named assistant city manager Wednesday, making her the first woman to assume the city's No. 2 job. Alvord, 50, will take over next month for Steve Helvey, who is leaving to become city manager in Whittier. ``Mary has really proved herself worthy of this job,'' said City Manager Robert ``Bud'' Ovrom. ``She has been in the trenches, doing the work at an outstanding level for a long time.'' Alvord, director of Burbank's Parks and Recreation Department, is credited with expanding the city's park facilities in the nine years she has held the job. Under her watch, McCambridge Park was renovated, the Starlight Bowl There are several buildings named Starlight Bowl:
She is known as an effective manager who is firm but fair. Ovrom said she can make and explain tough decisions, and have people walk away happy with her. Alvord is a product of Burbank parks. She grew up across the street from Verdugo Park, where she learned to swim and took arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. classes. In 1968, she graduated from John Burroughs High School John Burroughs High School is a public high school located in Burbank, California. Emilio Urioste, Jr. is the current principal. The school was built in the 1920's, but wasn't established as a high school until 1948. The school was named after naturalist John Burroughs. and later received a bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . By that time, she had already started working part time for the Burbank Parks and Recreation Department and soon took a full-time job. Over the years, Alvord rose through the ranks as she brought up her only daughter, Jennifer. Alvord said she has been rewarded by knowing that the department fosters a better quality of life in her home town. Although she is saddened by leaving her post, she looks forward to the new challenge of being assistant city manager. She knows what it takes to make a large department deliver services, she said, and plans to bring that to her desk in the city manager's office. ``I love this community,'' said Alvord. ``I'll now apply that passion on a citywide basis.'' |
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