People

Abilene Christian U. (Tex.): Appointed Michelle Morris, manager of special publications at the Abilene Reporter-News, to be director of marketing and public relations.

American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts (Napa, Cal.): Appointed Daphne L. Derven, national director of education at the American Institute of Wine and Food (San Francisco), to be curator. The center is a 13-acre educational and cultural complex scheduled to open in 2001.

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York): Appointed Ellen Hofstatter, director of support services for the civil division at the Legal Aid Society (New York), to be director of human resources and administration.

American Council on Education (Washington): Appointed Vickie M. Barr, assistant director of the HEATH Resource Center, to be director of the center, which is a national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for disabled people. She succeeds Rhona C. Hartman, who is retiring.

Augsburg College (Minneapolis): Appointed Ida Simon, vice-president for development at Saint Paul’s College (Lawrenceville, Va.), to be vice-president for advancement and community relations.

Averett College (Danville, Va.): Appointed Jeffrey M. Lamie, planned-giving and major-gifts officer at the College of New Jersey (Trenton), to be director of special and planned giving.

Belmont U. (Nashville): Appointed Shane A. Seymour, director of annual giving at Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro), to be director of development for the Schools of Business.

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (New York): Appointed Eillene Leistner, director of development at American Friends of the Israel Museum (New York), to be executive vice-president.

Boy Scouts of America-Gerald R. Ford Council (Grand Rapids, Mich.): Appointed Michael D. Sulgrove, scout executive at the Boy Scouts of America-Samoset Council (Wausau, Wis.), to be scout executive.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Tim Sheahan, director of development at Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be senior vice-president.

Bradford College (Haverhill, Mass.): Appointed Michael L. Garroway, director of development, to be vice-president for institutional advancement, effective January 1. (This corrects an item that appeared in the October 30 issue.)

Bryn Mawr College (Pa.): Appointed Amy E. Nash, a staff member at Planned Parenthood of Chester County (West Chester, Pa.), to be assistant director of prospect research.

California State U. at Fresno: Appointed John D. Zelezny, professor and chairman of mass communication and journalism, to be assistant vice-president for university relations.

Claremont School of Theology (Cal.): Appointed the Rev. Mary B. Birgelaitis, former pastor of First United Methodist Church of Temple City (Cal.), to be development associate.

Delaware Valley College (Doylestown, Pa.): Appointed Paul Acampora, executive director of the Bucks County, Pa., office of the American Cancer Society, to be director of annual giving.

Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, N.C.): Announced the retirement of Sheldon Morgenstern, founder and music and education director. He is stepping down after 36 years to pursue teaching and conducting opportunities in Europe.

Edwin Gould Foundation for Children (New York): Schuyler Merritt Meyer, Jr., chairman and former president, died November 4 from cancer. He was 79. Mr. Meyer was also president of the Edwin Gould Academy and founder of the George Bird Grinnell American Indian Children’s Fund (Dover Plains, N.Y.).

Episcopal Diocese of Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Stuart Daniel Entwistle, director of corporate and foundation relations at Catholic Relief Services (Baltimore), to be director of financial development.

Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home (Boys Town, Neb.): Appointed Dee Kohler, director of center management at MemberWorks Inc. (Houston), to be director of the Boys Town National Hotline.

Friends of the Earth (Washington): Appointed Chris A. Pabon, development officer at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (Arlington, Va.), to be director of foundation relations.

Frontier Community College (Fairfield, Ill.): Appointed Jeffry A. Crawford, director of marketing and public relations at the Missouri Symphony Society (Columbia), to be director of public information and marketing.

Generations United (Washington): Appointed Donna M. Butts, executive director of the National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention (Bethesda, Md.), to be executive director. Generations United promotes policies and programs that strengthen intergenerational relations.

Helen Keller International (New York): Appointed Jeffrey W. Mecaskey, former associate for the Program for Tropical Disease Research at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York), to be coordinator of the Trachoma Task Force. H.K.I. conducts research and works to control trachoma and other blinding diseases in more than 80 countries.

Independent Curators Incorporated (New York): Appointed Judith Olch Richards, associate director, to be executive director. I.C.I. also appointed Angela Gilchrist, former deputy director of the New York Kunsthalle, to be director of development.

Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis: Appointed Cheryl Sullivan, state secretary at the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (Indianapolis), to be vice-chancellor for external affairs.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Jim Moody, vice-president at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Rome) and a former U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Julia V. Taft, who was recently appointed assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration.

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas: Appointed Gary Weinstein, assistant executive vice-president and campaign director at the United Jewish Federation of Metrowest (Whippany, N.J.), to be executive vice-president.

Jewish National Fund (New York): Appointed Lynda Kraar, national communications director at AMIT (New York), to be national director of marketing and communications. The J.N.F. is a fund-raising arm of the Jewish National Fund of Israel, a land-reclamation and conservation group.

The Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Lois Perschetz, former executive editor of Baltimore magazine, to be editor of The Gazette, and Deborah Pankey Stewart, director of publications at Baltimore City Community College, to be director of the office of special events.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York): Appointed Robert G. Wilkens, Jr., director of development for major gifts, to be vice-president of development. He succeeds Mortimer H. Chute, Jr., who recently retired.

Meridian International Center (Washington): Appointed Kenton W. Keith, director of the United States Information Agency’s Office of North African, Near Eastern, and South Asian Affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, to be senior vice-president for programming.

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago): Appointed David R. Mosena, former president of the Chicago Transit Authority, to be president and chief executive officer.

Oxfam America (Boston): Appointed Janet Gelbart, vice-president for administration and finance at Riverside Community Care (Dedham, Mass.), to be director of finance and administration.

Pitzer College (Claremont, Cal.): Appointed Alice F. Holzman, director of special projects and programs at the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, to be vice-president for college advancement.

Reed College (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Betsy Ladd, director of development, to be director of major and planned giving, and Hugh Porter, director of Yale College programs for the alumni fund at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.), to be director of development. Both appointments are effective in mid-January.

Rocky Hill School (East Greenwich, R.I.): Appointed Martha Curit Hough, development director at the Lincoln School (Providence, R.I.), to be director of development.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Barbara Wessel, senior director for college-based development at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be vice-president for institutional development, effective in January.

Salisbury State U. (Md.): Appointed Maureen McNeill, a free-lance journalist in Salisbury, to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Siena College (Loudonville, N.Y.): Appointed Dell N. Thompson, former director of individual giving at the Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center (N.Y.), to be director of planned giving.

Southeast Missouri State U. (Cape Girardeau): Appointed Jane Stacy, director of alumni development, to be director of development.

Stetson U. (DeLand, Fla.): Appointed Susan P. Anderson, director of major gifts, to be director of scholarship gifts.

Theatre Communications Group (New York): Announced the resignation of John Sullivan, executive director and publisher, effective at the end of December. T.C.G. is a national service organization for American non-profit professional theater companies.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Roger A. Meyer, associate director of university development and director of principal gifts, to be director of development for the Division of Medical Sciences.

U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): Appointed Edward Abrahams, director of government and community relations at Brown U. (Providence, R.I.), to be assistant vice-president for federal relations.

U. of Sioux Falls (S.D.): Appointed Mark Gries, director of special gifts at Buena Vista U. (Storm Lake, Iowa), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

U. of Texas at El Paso: Appointed Yolanda Rodriguez Ingle, coordinator of alumni affairs, to be assistant director of corporate and foundation relations.

U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh: Appointed James Brehm, director of development for the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State U. (Ames), to be executive director of development and of the university’s foundation.

U. of Wisconsin System (Madison): Appointed Kevin Boatright, special assistant to the vice-president for university relations, to be assistant vice-president for university relations.

United Way of the Saint Paul Area: Appointed Bill Rodriguez, marketing director at Lifetouch (Bloomington, Minn.), to be vice-president for marketing.

Wells College (Aurora, N.Y.): Appointed Jan Kennedy Olsen, director of the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be vice-president for external relations, and Margaret J. Thomas, associate director of annual giving at St. Bonaventure U. (Olean, N.Y.), to be associate director of development for annual giving.

Women in Community Service (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Anita Roberson-Taylor, former personnel-compliance monitor at the New Orleans Public Schools and executive director of My House (New Orleans), a transitional-housing organization, to be New Orleans-area director.

Wycliffe Associates (Orange, Cal.): Appointed Alan W. Bergstedt, president of the Visionary Management Group (Covina, Cal.), to be chief executive officer. Wycliffe Associates recruits volunteers and solicits donations for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Jeff Brenzel, chief executive officer of InterLearn Inc. (New Haven), to be executive director of the Association of Yale Alumni.

GRANT MAKERS

California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Appointed Juana D. Kennedy, former program officer at the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles) and segment producer and research director for a 12-part documentary recently produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, to be communications officer.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Frances G. Hansford, a staff member in the foundation’s Latin American office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to be executive assistant to the vice-president for programs, and Terri D. Wright, maternal- and child-health director and bureau chief in child and family services at the Michigan Department of Community Health (Lansing), to be a program director for health policy.

Monsanto Company (St. Louis): Appointed Lynn Barth, a consultant in corporate community relations, philanthropy, and volunteerism, to be director of corporate contributions.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Edward F. Reidy, Jr., deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Learning Results Services at the Kentucky Department of Education (Frankfort), to be program officer for education, effective in January.

United Nations Foundation (New York and Washington): Appointed Timothy E. Wirth, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and a former U.S. Senator from Colorado, to be president. This new foundation was recently set up by the media magnate Ted Turner to administer his $1-billion pledge to the United Nations.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Washington): Elected Stephen E. Proctor, chief executive officer of Presbyterian Homes (Camp Hill, Pa.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Center for Plant Conservation (St. Louis): Elected C. W. Eliot Paine, director emeritus of Holden Arboretum (Mentor, Ohio), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Commonwealth Fund (New York): Elected Samuel O. Thier, president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System (Boston) and professor of medicine and health-care policy at Harvard Medical School (Boston), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

The Factary (Bristol, England): Appointed Angela Hope, appeal-committee manager in the corporate fund-raising department at NCH Action for Children (England), to be sales and marketing director. The Factary is a prospect-research firm.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Dextral Austin, controller at the John Harland Company (Decatur, Ga.), to be chief financial officer; Carol C. Folsom, director of the annual-fund and direct-marketing programs at the Children’s National Medical Center (Washington), to be director of the new Washington-area office, based in Tysons Corner, Va.; William Greene, director of Internet development at Jesus Fellowship (Miami), to be director of Internet marketing; and Holly Tipple Nomura, account executive, to be senior account executive.

Philanthropy Solutions (Detroit): John G. Fike, former associate director of development for planned and major gifts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, has established this new consulting firm for non-profit groups in southeastern Michigan.Boy Scouts of America-Gerald R. Ford Council

(Grand Rapids, Mich.): Michael D. Sulgrove Generations United (Washington): Donna M. Butts Independent Curators Incorporated (New York):

Judith Olch Richards InterAction (Washington): Jim Moody Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago):

David R. Mosena United Nations Foundation (New York and Washington):

Timothy E. Wirth Wycliffe Associates (Orange, Cal.): Alan W. Bergstedt