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California CPA, Dec, 2001

Announcements

Los Angeles-based Turner, Warren, Hwang & Conrad has admitted Kian Moshirzadeh as partner ... Odenberg, Ullakko, Muranishi & Co has promoted Steve F. Green to partner, managing the Carlsbad office. The firm also has promoted Doug Pallotta and Jimmy Cheung to supervisors in its San Francisco office ... Victor J. Gonzales has joined Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt in Long Beach as principal in the firm's tax practice ... Matthew Nethaway has been promoted to the position of audit manager within the education practice at Sacramento Valley-based Perry-Smith and Lisa McCargar has joined as audit manager in the firm's technology, emerging industries and healthcare practice.

Achievements

CalCPA's Committee on Taxation has awarded its 2001 Saul Braverman Memorial Award for distinguished service to Stockton-based CPA John DeGregori. DeGregori is a former COT member who served as the FTB liaison for the committee ... Lina Ledford, a partner with West Covina-based Parke, Guptill & Co, has been elected president of the Covina Rotary Club.

Firm News

Robert J. Frcek announces the establishment of his Santa Monica firm, Benefit Plan Audit Services, LLC.

In Memory

Karen Bramer passed away Oct. 19 after a battle with cancer. Bramer was a CPA based in Beverly Hills. She leaves behind her daughter Alana. Bramer was a former member of the CaICPA Council, Westside Technology Users Group and the state Technology Committee. "Karen was always giving of herself, helping those around her in need. I never once heard her complain about her personal misfortunes," says fellow CaICPA member Larry Russell, president, Cambridge Tech. Consulting Group in Valencia. "She kept her battle with cancer to herself. Toward the end she devoted most of her time performing as a short-term mother, making arrangements for Alana's well being. It was a very moving picture of a mother giving up all she had for her daughter, all without one word of bitterness. I will miss her."

CalCPA member James J. Petrinovich passed away Oct. 31. Petrinovich founded Petrinovich Pugh & Company in San Jose in 1951 and retired in 1986. In addition to his CPA firm, he was a successful restaurateur, operating a number of restaurants in the greater San Jose area.

"In the 35 years I knew him, I never heard him say a harsh word about anyone. He made people around him feel good; the guy could light up a room when he walked in, and nobody loved life like 'Mr. P'," says Paul Pugh, his partner of 25 years at Petrinovich Pugh & Company.

Marc Parkinson, managing partner of the firm, says, "One of our clients, who was an orphan, told me that if he could have picked his father, he would have picked Jim. There were a whole lot of guys who thought of Jim as a second father."

Funeral services were held Nov. 3 in Los Gatos.