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The Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Jodi Berkowitz, campaign director, to be vice president for campaign directors; Julie Dolan, vice president for financial development, to be senior vice president for financial development; Priscilla Natkins, senior vice president for campaign management, to be executive vice president for campaign management; and Paula Veale, senior vice president for corporate communications and financial development, to be executive vice president for corporate communications and financial development.

The Africa-America Institute (New York): Appointed Alyce Hill, director of executive election and support at the Peace Corps (Washington), to be vice president for bridging programs in the Washington office, and Elye Pitts, executive director of the Institute for Business Assistance and assistant dean for business development and technologies at Santa Barbara City College (Calif.), to be vice president for education and skills development. AAI offers educational and professional opportunities to Africans.

The American Foundation for the Blind (New York): Appointed Maureen M. Matheson, executive director of Guidance Publishing at the College Board (New York), to be vice president of AFB Press and the information center.

American Society of Association Executives (Washington): Appointed Diane James, executive director of the Georgia Society of Association Executives (Atlanta) and its foundation, to be director of allied partners.

Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana (Calif.): Appointed Heather A. McKenzie, vice president of development at the Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana), to be major-gifts officer and executive vice president of the organization’s foundation.

Butler U. (Indianapolis): Appointed Cameron McGuire, executive director of major gifts, to be associate vice president for university advancement.

CareGroup Healthcare System (Boston): Appointed Nancy Van Zant, vice president of corporate development services at Mercy Health Services (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and president of the Mercy Health Foundation (Farmington Hills), to be senior vice president of development for CareGroup and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Center for the Visually Impaired (Atlanta): Appointed Edward F. McCoy, executive director of the Florida Lions Conklin Center for the Multihandicapped Blind (Daytona Beach), to be executive director.

Central Florida Community College (Ocala): Appointed Joe Wallace, dean of student auxiliary services at U. of North Alabama (Florence), to be director of marketing and public relations.

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Paul Freiling, a writer and researcher for development services, to be director of donor societies, and Forrest (Woods) Williamson, director of donor societies, to be director of donor-society travel.

Concordia U. at St. Paul: Appointed Michael Flynn, vice president for university advancement, to be vice president for special gifts, and Douglas B. Hartford, former vice president for public affairs at Metropolitan State U. (St. Paul), to be vice president for university advancement.

Drake U. (Des Moines): Appointed Angela Voos, vice president for development and alumni relations at Grinnell College (Iowa), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Families USA (Washington): Appointed John Fairbanks, press secretary and congressional liaison in the Washington office of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (New York), to be communications director, and Amanda McCloskey, legislative representative at the AARP (Washington), to be health-policy director.

Florida Bar Foundation (Orlando): Appointed Donald E. Hines, vice president for development and public relations at Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro), to be director of development.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): Appointed Mary Anstine, a lawyer in York, Pa., to be associate director of alumni relations; Kathy Casey, assistant to the director of alumni relations, to be assistant director of alumni relations; William Deptula, director of annual giving, to be capital-gifts officer; Penny Jenkins, assistant director of annual giving, to be associate director of annual giving; Janet Wiley Mulderrig, development officer, to be director of capital gifts; and Susan Pyron, associate director of annual giving, to be director of annual giving.

Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit (Royal Oak, Mich.): Appointed Anne Luttrell Borg, vice president of development at the Haven (Pontiac, Mich.), to be executive director. Gilda’s Club, named after the late comedian Gilda Radner, provides emotional-support services to people with cancer and their families.

Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Anne Swire, associate director for foundation relations at Ohio State U. (Columbus), to be director of corporate- and foundation-resource development.

Guide Dogs for the Blind (San Rafael, Calif.): Appointed Eric Broque, vice president of finance and administration at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), to be chief financial officer.

Hope International U. (Fullerton, Calif.): Appointed Gordon D. Venturella, the senior pastor of First Christian Church (Downey, Calif.), to be vice president for advancement.

Jane Addams Hull House Association (Chicago): Appointed Sam Ross, vice president for university advancement at Benedictine U. (Lisle, Ill.), to be vice president of marketing and development.

Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta: Appointed Steven A. Rakitt, executive vice president of the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island (Providence), to be executive director.

The Jewish Museum (New York): Appointed Jeffrey G. Fischer, director of development and external affairs at the New York Foundation for the Arts, to be director of development.

Loyola Marymount U. (Los Angeles): Appointed Charles J. Rasberry Jr., assistant vice president for development at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be vice president for university relations.

Mercy Corps International (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Jeffrey L. Cotter, former senior counsel at Charitable Funding Services (Santa Barbara, Calif.), to be director of major gifts.

Miami U. (Oxford, Ohio): Appointed Jayne Irvin, associate vice president for development at U. of Florida (Gainesville), to be vice president for university advancement.

National Aphasia Association (New York): Appointed Joan F. Peters, associate director at Bronx Independent Living Services (New York), to be executive director.

National Center for Nonprofit Boards (Washington): Appointed Sandra R. Hughes, senior governance consultant and executive adviser to the president, to be chief knowledge officer; Wilson M. Jones, director of corporate relations at the Aspen Institute (Washington), to be executive vice president and chief operating officer; and Jeffrey A. Tomitz, audit manager and senior business consultant at Raffa & Associates (Washington), to be chief financial officer.

National Equity Fund (Chicago): Appointed Joseph S. Hagan, managing director of the Capital Markets Housing and Health Care Finance Group and co-manager of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Group at Bank One (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer.

National Youth Employment Coalition (Washington): Appointed David E. Brown, deputy director, to be executive director, effective July 1. He succeeds Alan Zuckerman, who resigned.

National-Louis U. (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Suzanne Depeder, manager of corporate health at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago), to be associate vice president for marketing, and Ellen Karp, staff member at Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Evanston), to be director of the annual fund.

The Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): John C. Sawhill, president and former president of New York U., died May 18 at the age of 63.

Nebraska Wesleyan U. (Lincoln): Appointed Vaughn Studer, a consultant at Farmland Industries (Lincoln), to be director of development.

New York Botanical Garden: Appointed Rhonda Poe, executive director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (U.S.) (Wayne, Pa.), to be associate vice president for development.

New York Public Library: Appointed Cynthia D. Clark, assistant university librarian for technical services at the U. of California at Irvine, to be director of technical services for the research libraries.

Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Peter Raffa, director of development and public relations at the Lighthouse for the Blind (Seattle), to be executive director.

Northwestern College (St. Paul): Appointed Joseph Smith, athletics director and coach of men’s basketball, to be vice president for development.

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Appointed Charles Croce, associate vice president for marketing and relations at William Paterson U. of New Jersey (Wayne), to be director of marketing and public relations; Camille Focarino, director of programs and special events for development and alumni relations at the U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be director of special events; and Norman Keyes Jr., manager of media relations, to be director of media relations.

Playhouse Square Center Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Jeon Francis, public-relations director at Cleveland Public Theatre, to be public-relations coordinator, effective June 5.

The Population Council (New York): Appointed Regine Sitruk-Ware, head of medicine, research, and development at Exelgyn Laboratories (France), to be executive director of contraceptive development at the Center for Biomedical Research.

Rider U. (Lawrenceville, N.J.): Appointed Gina G. Spagnoli, director of development, to be vice president for development and university relations.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Michael T. Hourigan, director of office operations and admissions volunteers at Norwich U. (Northfield, Vt.), to be director of annual giving.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Janet Bishop, associate curator of painting and sculpture, to be curator of painting and sculpture.

Soroptimist International of the Americas (Philadelphia): Appointed Suzanne de Grouchy, finance manager at the Maritime Exchange for the Delaware River and Bay (Philadelphia), to be finance and data director, and Kathleen Moore, senior advertising-account executive and media-placement specialist at the U. of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering (Philadelphia), to be membership and marketing director.

Southeastern U. (Washington): Appointed Pierce E. DeGross, regional director of business development at KPMG (Washington), to be development officer.

Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale: Appointed Rickey N. McCurry, associate vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs at U. of Tennessee at Knoxville, to be director of institutional advancement.

Southern Polytechnic State U. (Marietta, Ga.): Announced Beverly Golden, vice president for advancement, has retired as of May 31.

St. Barnabas Health System (Gibsonia, Pa.): Appointed Douglas W. Day, administrative director of St. Barnabas Medical Center, also to be assistant vice president.

St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Appointed Margaret Dwyer Minson, director of alumni relations, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Susquehanna U. (Selinsgrove, Pa.): Appointed Sara G. Kirkland, vice president for university relations, to be acting president, effective July 22.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Prescott D. Stewart, associate director of capital giving, to be director of alumni relations.

U. of Louisville (Ky.): Appointed Joseph S. Beyel, vice chancellor of Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be vice president for development and alumni.

U. of Texas at Austin: Appointed Patricia L. Clubb, vice president of development, to be vice president for campus services.

U. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: Appointed Les Cave, director of corporate and foundation relations at U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, to be executive director of development.

Ukranian Catholic Education Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Maria Salemi, director of external relations at the National Equity Fund (Chicago), to be executive director. The organization also appointed Borys Bodnaruk, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Dobrotvir, Ukraine, to be an associate director.

WTTW/Window to the World Communications (Chicago): Appointed Timothy P. Cornillie, vice president of national marketing at the Television Bureau of Advertising (New York), to be managing director of national program sponsorship.

Zeum Art and Technology Center (San Francisco): Appointed Stephen Becker, deputy director at Lindsay Wildlife Museum (Walnut Creek, Calif.), to be director of external affairs.

GRANT MAKERS

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed J. Robert W. Burnet, program coordinator at the Kuona Trust (Nairobi, Kenya), to be program officer for the media, arts, and culture unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program, based in the Nairobi office; Ondina Fachel Leal, professor of anthropology and coordinator of Nucleus for the Anthropology of Body and Health at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Rio de Janeiro office; Keisha A. Lewis, community-affairs representative at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York., to be grants administrator in the office of management services; Dave J. Mazzoli, senior administrative assistant, to be grants administrator for the media, arts, and culture unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program in the office of management services; and Jeffrey T. Olson, acting deputy director for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, to be acting director for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program.

The foundation also appointed William R. Dimmler Jr., consultant and senior network engineer at Bootsector Service Corp. (Farmingdale, N.Y.), to be network systems engineer for information technology; Eric W. Doppstadt, senior manager for private equity investments, to be director for private equity investments in the investment division; Kim Y. Lew, portfolio strategist, to be senior manager for private equity investments in the investment division; Lorna L. Lewis, senior accountant in international operations, to be manager of general accounting for accounts payable and international operations in financial services; David S. Nelson, technology analyst and portfolio manager at Lord Abbett & Co. (New York), to be portfolio strategist for the investment division; Idelle Nissila-Stone, assistant archivist for information services, to be associate archivist for information services; and Eileen A. Posch, tax and financial analyst, to be manager of tax reporting for financial services.

Harry and Janet Knowles Foundation (Haddonfield, N.J.): Appointed Angelo Collins, an associate professor at Vanderbilt U. (Nashville) and director of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium at the Council of Chief State Officers (Washington), to be director. This recently established foundation will support programs to improve science and mathematics teaching.

Playboy Enterprises (Chicago): Appointed Cleo F. Wilson, director of public affairs and executive director of the Playboy Foundation (Chicago), to be vice president for public affairs, overseeing the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards and the Freedom of Expression Award given at the Sundance Film Festival.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Marcia S. Hanson, executive vice president for corporate development at Amerus Group (Des Moines), to be vice president of development.

Tides Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Berit Ashla, program officer, to be director of management strategies and services, and Christopher J. Herrera, a senior accounts executive in the San Francisco office of Abernathy Anderson (Washington), to be director of communications.

West Central Initiative (Fergus Falls, Minn.): Appointed Wendy Merrick, coordinator of the Child and Youth Council for Grant County (Elbow Lake, Minn.), to be family-initiatives director for the West Central Initiative Fund.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Association of Museums (Washington): Elected Freda Nicholson, president and chief executive officer of Discovery Place (Charlotte, N.C.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

U. of California at San Francisco Foundation: Elected Barbara Bass Bakar, former president and chief executive officer of Emporium and Weinstock’s department stores (San Francisco), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Effinity Online (Washington): Appointed Bob Schwartzberg, director of development at Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area (Washington), to be vice-president for non-profit relations. Effinity Online links cause-based groups to online retailers in marketing partnerships.

MyAssociation.com (Salt Lake City): Appointed John S. Parke, vice president of national accounts at Marriott International (Washington), to be vice president of sales, based in the Washington office. This company develops Web sites for associations to help them raise money and deliver information and services to their members.