Bruin Coach Coaxes Trojan to Donate; OC 50 Rundown

Rick Neuheisel hasn’t led UCLA against USC yet, but the new Bruins head football coach already has leveraged the rivalry for the benefit of OC United Way. Neuheisel, keynote speaker at United Way’s annual Real Estate and Building Industry luncheon last week at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, declared he was donating his $2,500 honorarium to the nonprofit and challenged one of the many Trojans in the audience to match it. Tom Schriber, chairman of shopping center developer Donahue Schriber, complied. Neuheisel then urged a UCLA partisan to match that. Answering the call: “NFL on Fox” analyst Terry Donahue, Neuheisel’s former coach at UCLA and the brother of Schriber’s late partner Dan Donahue …

The event drew 750, down from 1,000 last year, and raised $517,000, down from $560,000. Given what’s been going on in real estate, United Way’s Kristin Bush calls the results “awesome” …

Pacific Life’s sleek new HQ for its life insurance division, off the 73 toll road in Aliso Viejo, took only 15 months to build. CEO Jim Morris says that’s less time than it’s taken one of his employees to remodel a kitchen …

How are we doing? Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle says some public utilities have done it, but he knows of no other city that has commissioned J.D. Powers

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