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<br /> <br />[ <br /> <br />[ <br />i~ <br />II <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Henry and Susan Samueli <br />Mighty Ducks <br /> <br />3 0 51 and 55, Corona del Mar. . . This year the couple <br />purchased the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim from the Walt <br />C Disney Co. for a reported $75 million. . . After the deal was <br />announced. the pair pledged to keep the hockey team In <br />Orange County. . . Henry is the co-founder. chairman and <br />chief technical officer of Broadcom. the Irvine-based chip <br />manufacturers. . . Broadcom was started while Henry was working <br />as a UCLA electrical engineering professor. . . Henry and Susan <br />I founded the Samueli Foundation in 1999. . . The foundation's <br />beneficiaries are numerous, including several organizatio,ns . <br />involved in healthcare. education, the arts and the county s Jewish <br />community. . . A key endowment was $20 million to UC Irvine for <br />the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. . . UCLA's engineerin~. <br />school also bears the Samueli name. . . Also support Opera Pacific <br />I and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. . . The Samueli <br />Theater is currently under construction at the performing arts <br />center. . . Last year's ranking: 17 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />St. Andrews Presbyterian Church <br />Community clash <br /> <br />31 Established 1947. Cliff Haven. . . The church stirred up a <br />hornet's nest among neighbors with a 2002 proposal to <br />expand the church with a new youth and family cen'er, <br />more parking and other facilities. . . On one side is the <br />church led by Rev. John Huffman, its pastor for 28 years; on <br />the other side, n~ighbors in Cliff Haven and Ne,:",port Heig~ts. with <br />Don Krotee as their frequent spokesman. . . Neighbors objected to <br />the expansion proposal, claiming the church and nearby high <br />school already cause enough traffic, parking and noi~e ~roblems <br />. . . Church officials say they need the expansion. which Includes a <br />gymnasium, to meet the needs of a changing congregation. . . <br />After hours of public hearings and several failed attempts at <br />mediation. the two sides squared off before the Newport Beach <br />City Council in August, when the council granted the church an <br />added 15,000 square feet - nearly a third less space than.the <br />church was aSking for in already pared-down plans. . . Neighbors <br />still thought that would be too much. and church officials haven't <br />decided whether the space granted them makes the expansion <br />worth building. . . Last year's ranking: Huffman, 15; Krotee, 86 <br /> <br /> <br />/';" . <br />'=:-,,'...." <br />.....~,.. .. <br />~ J:. .'.~ <br />, '. if. :~' <br /> <br />Doug McAllister <br />It suits him <br /> <br />32 32, Corona del Mar. . . <br />Owner of Sutra Lounge <br />. . . Has worked with <br />Dennis Rodman at Josh <br />Slocum's. . . President <br />and CEO of Culinary Management <br />Group. . . His newest restaurant, <br />Kantina, will open in Newport Beach <br />this year. . . Is working on carrying <br />out a steakhouse restaurant concept <br />. . . A business mastermind who <br />never graduated from collega . . . <br />Loves to travel - recently got back <br />from celebrating Oktoberfest In <br />Germany and Fashion Week in Italy <br />and France. . . No wife, no children <br />. . . Unnlnkacllast year <br />