People

American Jazz Philharmonic (Culver City, Cal.): Appointed Marilyn McAvoy, director of development at the Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles), to be director of development for this group and its summer educational program, the Henry Mancini Institute.

Asia Society (New York): Appointed Michele Cohn Tossi, vice-president for development at the United Nations Association (New York), to be vice-president for external relations.

Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.): Appointed Bill Wagnon, associate director of university relations at Mississippi State U. (Starkville), to be associate vice-president for communications.

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena): Appointed Theresa Davis, associate director of corporate relations, to be director of the alumni fund, and Andrew B. Shaindlin, senior director of alumni programs at U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be executive director of the alumni association.

Cazenovia College (N.Y.): Appointed Carol M. Satchwell, a member of the development staff, to be senior director of development.

Children’s Defense Fund (Washington): Appointed Peggy A. Lewis, deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, to be director of communications.

City U. of New York-Queensborough Community College (Bayside, N.Y.): Appointed Helene M. Hyland, dean of institutional advancement, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

The Cleveland Botanical Garden: Appointed Margaret Gudbranson, a lawyer with the firm of Nicola, Gudbranson & Cooper (Cleveland), to be director of major and planned gifts.

The College Board (New York): Appointed Chiara Coletti, former executive director of the office of public affairs at the Board of Education of the City of New York, to be vice-president for communications and public affairs.

Council of Better Business Bureaus (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Kenneth J. Hunter, Chief Postal Inspector of the U.S. Postal Service, to be president. He succeeds James L. Bast, who is retiring.

Covenant House (New York): The Rev. Bruce Ritter, the founder who resigned amid a scandal in 1990, died on October 7. He was 72.

Earlham College (Richmond, Ind.): Appointed Karen Roeper, director of information services at Alma College (Mich.), to be director of public affairs.

Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore): Appointed Theresa Silanskis, former senior director of development at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Annapolis, Md.), to be development director.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed Jeffrey D. Chapman, director of development for the College of Business Administration, to be director of corporations and foundations, and Marilee Hanes, vice-president and commercial-loan officer at Mercantile Bank (Topeka, Kan.), to be a planned-giving officer.

Lawyers Alliance for New York: Appointed Elizabeth M. Guggenheimer, deputy bureau chief of the Charities Bureau at the New York State Attorney General’s Office (New York), to be legal director. LANY offers legal services to other non-profit organizations.

Lehigh U. (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Bonnie N. Devlin, assistant vice-president for development at U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be vice-president for advancement.

LeTourneau U. (Longview, Tex.): Appointed Cindy H. Jordan, director of development at Trinity School of Texas (Longview), to be director of corporate, foundation, and annual giving.

Long Island U. at Brooklyn (N.Y.): Appointed Laura McKaie Negron, assistant dean of career education, to be dean of institutional advancement.

McKendree College (Lebanon, Ill.): Appointed Gretchen D. Fricke, director of foundation relations, to be registrar and assistant dean of the college.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York): Appointed Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in January. He will succeed Paul A. Marks, who will continue to conduct cancer research at the center.

Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet (New York): Appointed Elizabeth Marx, executive director of the Rauch Foundation (Garden City, N.Y.), to be executive director.

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (Washington): Appointed A. J. Goodman, a deputy finance director for the Gore 2000 Presidential Campaign, based in Los Angeles, to be development director, and Jennifer Jaff, a staff attorney at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Washington), to be senior staff attorney.

National Children’s Cancer Society (St. Louis): Appointed Laura Cortner, case manager, to be assistant director of patient and family services.

National Public Radio (Washington): Appointed Cheryle Robinson, acting director of corporate communications, to be vice-president of communications.

The Nature Conservancy-Arizona Chapter (Tucson): Appointed Christine Ewing, director of major gifts at Hospice of the Valley (Phoenix), to be director of development for central Arizona.

Northwest Center (Seattle): Appointed David Wunderlin, a small-business consultant based in Seattle, to be chief executive officer and executive director. He succeeds James McClurg, who is retiring from this center that offers educational, rehabilitative, and employment services to disabled people.

People For the American Way (Washington): Appointed Ralph G. Neas, president of the Neas Group (Bethesda, Md.), a consulting firm, and former executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (Washington), to be president, effective January 3. He succeeds Carole Shields, who will now serve as co-chair of the board with Norman Lear.

Population Council (New York): Appointed Purnima Mane, programming and planning coordinator in the office of the executive director at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (Geneva), to be director for program planning in the international-programs division.

Rider U. (Lawrenceville, N.J.): Appointed Jessica L. Besler, assistant director of annual giving, to be director of annual giving.

Saint John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed Patti Epsky, associate director of development and public affairs for the seminary at Saint John’s U. (Collegeville, Minn.), to be executive assistant to the president, and Jody Fisher, a reporter at WCBS News Radio (New York), to be director of media relations.

San Francisco Art Institute: Appointed Karen Moss, director of education and community programs at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), to be director of exhibitions and public programs.

The Smithsonian Associates (Washington): Appointed Laurie O. Stroope, director of development and alumni relations for the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education at Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be director of development. Smithsonian Associates is the membership and continuing-education arm of the Smithsonian Institution.

Southwestern College (Chula Vista, Cal.): Appointed Rosemary Sullivan Zins, director of institutional advancement at the Community College of Rhode Island (Warwick), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Springfield College (Mass.): Appointed John Kindzerske, former assistant vice-president at Boston U., to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Susquehanna U. (Selinsgrove, Pa.): Appointed Shari Trembulak, acting director of alumni relations, to be director of alumni relations.

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (San Francisco): Appointed Marilyn Blair, a principal at TeamWork (San Rafael, Cal.), to be director of operations and human resources; Heather Gladding, administrative assistant, to be operations manager; Joanna Goldberg, human-resources assistant, to be human-resources manager; Monique Holden, manager of a transferee-housing program at Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati), to be director of property management; Chris Mohr, associate fund developer, to be community-relations manager; and Judy Romanenkov, senior accountant, to be director of finance.

Texas A&M U. at Corpus Christi: Appointed Trent Hill, interim vice-president for institutional advancement, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Janet Bailey Faude, former president of Aetna Insurance Agency at Aetna Retirement Services (Hartford), to be vice-president for development and alumni relations.

U. of Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Sharon I. Shanley, a former associate attorney at the firm of Wagner, Watson & Tettit (Honolulu), to be a development officer in the office of regional campaigns.

U. of Maryland at College Park: Appointed Theone M. Relos, director of public relations and marketing at Smith, Bucklin, and Associates (Washington), to be executive director of marketing and communications at the Office of Continuing and Extended Education.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Christine Sturm Kirk, director of development at the Baptist Home for Children and Families (Bethesda, Md.), to be director of development, and Suzanne Mineck, former assistant director of planned and major giving at U. of Iowa (Iowa City), to be director of planned giving.

U. of New Mexico (Albuquerque): Appointed Pam Hurd-Knief, director of institutional advancement at the Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation (Albuquerque), to be director of development and alumni/ae affairs for the School of Architecture and Planning.

U. of North Texas (Denton): Appointed Roddy Wolper, director of university relations at U. of Dallas, to be director of news and information.

U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: Appointed Eugene Haberman, vice-president for alumni and development at U. of Toledo (Ohio), to be assistant chancellor for development and alumni relations.

UJA-Federation of New York: Appointed John Ruskay, chief operating officer, to be executive vice-president.

United Jewish Communities (New York): Appointed Stephen D. Solender, acting president and also executive vice president at the UJA-Federation of New York, to be president. UJC also appointed Louise Frankel Stoll, senior vice-president for strategic planning and corporate communications in the Bethesda, Md., office of Dames & Moore Group (Los Angeles), to be executive vice-president and chief operating officer, and David Altshuler, founding director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York), to be president of its as-yet-unnamed foundation. This new organization was created by the merger of the Council of Jewish Federations, United Israel Appeal, and United Jewish Appeal.

Utica College of Syracuse U. (Utica, N.Y.): Appointed Kim Lambert, public-information officer at Madison-Oneida BOCES (Verona, N.Y.), to be director of public relations.

Virginia Union U. (Richmond): Appointed Claudia Wall Johnson, former director of the Greater Results through Academic Development (GRAD) Program of the Richmond Public Schools, to be director of community relations.

Wayne State U. (Detroit): Appointed Gerrie Paulson, director of planned giving at Cleveland State U., to be director of major gifts.

Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green): Appointed Michael E. Goetz, director of annual giving and interim director of university development at U. of Alabama at Huntsville, to be director of planned giving.

Western Maryland College (Westminster): Appointed Joyce E. Muller, director of public information, to be associate vice-president for communications and marketing, and Douglas C. Myers, director of development at Suburban Hospital (Bethesda, Md.), to be associate vice-president for development.

Western U. of Health Sciences (Pomona, Cal.): Appointed Jeanette Janik, director of development at the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to be assistant vice-president for development.

GRANT MAKERS

Baltimore Community Foundation: Announced the resignation of Timothy Armbruster, chief executive officer. Once a successor has been chosen, Mr. Armbruster will devote full-time attention to his concurrent duty as president of the Morris Goldseker Foundation (Baltimore). BCF also appointed Cheryl A. Casciani, executive director of Citizens Planning & Housing Association (Baltimore), to be director of programs.

Benton Foundation (Washington): Appointed Andy Carvin, new-media program officer at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington), to be senior associate for the “Communications Policy and Practice” program.

Adolph Coors Foundation (Denver): Appointed Sally W. Rippey, program officer, to be executive director, effective July 2000. She succeeds Linda S. Tafoya, who will retire after 24 years with the foundation.

The Denver Foundation: Appointed David Portillo, executive director of Padres Unidos (Denver), to be assistant program officer for the Strengthening Neighborhoods Initiative, and Christine Soto, program officer and coordinator for the initiative, to be director of programs.

Dyson Foundation (Mill Brook, N.Y.): Appointed Maneesh Goyal, a recent graduate of the Yale School of Public Health (New Haven, Conn.), to be program officer for health.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Elizabeth (Betsy) C. Campbell, director of the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, to be senior director and acting director; Sarah H. Costa, program officer in the Rio de Janeiro office, to be program officer in the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Janet E. Graber, assistant to the president at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Mass.), to be assistant manager for professional recruitment in the office of human resources; Mary Lopez, assistant grants administrator in the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program in the office of management services, to be grants administrator; Henricus (Hein) Paulus Mallee, sector specialist for rural development for the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, based in China, to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program in the Beijing office; Manuel F. Montes, senior fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu), to be program officer for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program; Jeffrey T. Olson, program officer in the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, to be acting deputy director; Mark Sidel, lecturer at the U. of Iowa College of Law (Iowa City) and vice president of the Stanley Foundation (Muscatine, Iowa), to be program officer for philanthropy and the independent sector in the New Delhi office; and Andrew Watson, professor of Asian studies and head of the Centre for Asian Studies at the U. of Adelaide (Australia), to be a representative in the Beijing office.

The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio (Athens): Appointed Leslie Lilly, executive vice-president and chief operating officer at the Foundation for the Mid South (Jackson, Miss.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis): Thomas H. Lake, honorary chairman of the endowment and former president of Eli Lilly & Company (Indianapolis), died October 10. He was 80.

Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.): Appointed Marcia W. Bromberg, vice-president for finance at the U. of Wisconsin System (Madison), to be chief financial officer.

Open Society Institute (New York): Announced the resignation of Arthur C. Helton, director of forced-migration projects. He now serves as senior fellow for refugee studies and preventive action at the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).

San Francisco Foundation: Appointed Jeanne Friedman, director of development at the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Cal.), to be director of development, and Sara Ying Kelley, director of public affairs at the California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco), to be director of public affairs.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association of Academic Health Centers (Washington): Elected Anthony L. Barbato, president and chief executive officer of the Loyola U. Health System at Loyola U. of Chicago, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Baltimore Community Foundation: Elected Ioanna T. Morfessis, founding president and chief executive officer of the Greater Baltimore Alliance, and Timothy C. Scheve, executive vice-president of Legg Mason (Baltimore), to be trustees.

The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (N.C.): Elected Albert S. Lineberry, president of Hanes Lineberry Funeral Homes (Greensboro), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. The following individuals were elected to the board: Michael B. Cashwell, a banking consultant based in Greensboro; Carter W. Leinster, a principal at Triad Planning (Greensboro); Kenneth C. Mlekush, chief financial officer at Jefferson Pilot Financial (Greensboro); Melanie R. Soles, owner of the Social Butterfly (Greensboro); Melvin C. Swann, Jr., former assistant superintendent of Guilford County School District (Greensboro); and Craven E. Williams, president of Greensboro College.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Elected Frank Cruz, president of Cruz and Associates (Laguna Nigel, Cal.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (New York): Elected Barbara Dobkin, founder of Ma’yan: the Jewish Women’s Project (New York), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Corey V. Torrence, president and chief executive at Logica (Lexington, Mass.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Marts & Lundy (Lyndhurst, N.J.): Appointed Michael F. Sinkus, president and treasurer, to be chairman and chief executive officer. This fund-raising firm also appointed Charles P. Howland, San Francisco regional manager, to be president, based in San Francisco.