People

American Medical Association Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Kathleen MacArthur, vice president of corporate partnerships at the American College of Healthcare Executives (Chicago), to be executive director.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Holly Hall, a senior editor at The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Washington), to be editorial manager in the communication and marketing department.

Aquidneck Island Land Trust (Middletown, R.I.): Appointed Anne W. Garnett, senior managing director for development at the Rhode Island Zoological Society (Providence), to be executive director.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (Union, N.J.): Appointed Tom Werder, managing director at the George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, N.J.), to be executive director, effective September 1.

The Centre for Living with Dying (Santa Clara, Calif.): Appointed Alvin Platt, director of development at the Mid-Peninsula Day School (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be chief executive officer.

Georgetown U. (Washington): Appointed Dianne Wicklein, director of the university´s Blue & Gray Society, to be director of development for faith, ethics, and service programs in the office of alumni and university relations.

Grantmakers In Health (Washington): Appointed Leslie Whitlinger, a managing director in the health practice of the Washington office of Hill and Knowlton (New York), to be director of communications and development.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Dennis Bender, vice president of communications, to be senior vice president of communications; Mike Carscaddon, vice president of finance, to be senior vice president of administration; Denise Devenny, controller, to be vice president of finance; and David Williams, senior vice president of administration, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Junior Achievement (Colorado Springs): Announced the retirement of James B. Hayes, president and chief executive officer, effective once a successor has been named.

New England Aquarium (Boston): Appointed Kenneth C. Blaisdell, senior director of development for the School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts U. (Medford, Mass.), to be vice president for development.

New Hampshire College (Manchester): Appointed Michael T. MacNeil, director of leadership gifts at Saint Anselm College (Manchester), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

The Phillips Collection (Washington): Appointed Lynn Rossotti, manager of public relations at the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore), to be director of public relations.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) (Seattle): Appointed Christopher J. Elias, senior associate and country representative in the international-programs division based in the Bangkok office of the Population Council (New York), to be president, effective September 1. He succeeds Gordon W. Perkin, who resigned November 1, 1999, and is now the director of the global health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle).

Save the Children (Westport, Conn.): Appointed Dianne Sherman, a communications director at the U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington), to be associate vice president for public affairs.

U. of Iowa (Iowa City): Announced the resignation of Ann M. Rhodes as vice president for university relations. She will remain at the university as associate counsel. The university also appointed Floyd Akins, director of major and planned giving at Grinnell College (Iowa), to be senior director of development for the College of Business; Deborah Dreusicke, a lawyer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to be director of development for the libraries; Christopher J. Goodale, director of alumni and development for the Law School at Drake U. (Des Moines), to be associate director of development for the College of Medicine and the College of Public Health; and Michael Kingan, assistant dean for development and community relations for the College of Law at U. of Washington (Seattle), to be director of development for the College of Liberal Arts.

U. of Virginia Medical Alumni Association (Charlottesville): Appointed Brian E. Campbell, associate director for alumni affairs, to be executive director.

Winrock International (Morrilton, Ark.): Appointed Caryl Garcia, executive director of the Association for Women in Development (Washington), to be managing director of leadership development, based in the Arlington, Va., office.

GRANT MAKERS

Columbus Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Mary M. Cretella, technical-assistance director at the U.S. Department of Education´s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug and Violence Prevention, based at the Education Development Center (Boston), to be a program officer, and Sidney R. Hargro, employment specialist and public-policy advisor at the United Way of Franklin County (Columbus), to be a program officer.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Sarah Cook, a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the U. of Sussex at Brighton (England), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in the Beijing office; Maha Adel El-Adawy, health and population adviser at the European Union MEDA Team (Egypt), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Cairo office; Milwida Guevara, former fiscal expert and adviser for the International Monetary Fund (Washington) and undersecretary for the Department of Finance of the Republic of the Philippines, to be program officer for the education, media, arts and culture program, based in the Manila office; Mina T. Liu, visiting professor at the East China Institute of Law and Politics (Shanghai), to be program officer for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in the Beijing office; John K. Naughton, temporary assistant for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts and culture program, to be project coordinator for organizational services; and Kenneth B. Wilson, program officer in the Johannesburg office, to be senior director of the education, media, arts, and culture program.

The foundation also appointed Harry W. Brockenberry, help-desk and operations manager at Petroleum Heat and Power (Plainview, N.Y.), to be senior project leader for end-user support and information technology in the office of administrative services, and Thomas Earley, senior analyst and NT administrator in the department of physical education at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, N. Y.), to be network project leader for information technology in the office of administrative services.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed John W. Altman, professor of entrepreneurial practice at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College (Babson Park, Mass.), to be a vice president for the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis): Appointed H. Allen Wright Jr., executive vice president of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, to be a program director in the organization´s education division.

Peace Development Fund (Amherst, Mass.): Appointed the Rev. John H. Vaughn, minister for education and social justice at the Riverside Church in the City of New York, to be executive director.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Susan K. Urahn, director of planning and evaluation and interim director of the education program, to be director of the trusts´ education program.

Points of Light Foundation (Washington): Announced the resignation of Virginia Austin, senior vice president and executive director of the “Family Matters” program.

Prince Charitable Trusts (Chicago): Appointed Benna Wilde, program director, to be managing director of Chicago programs and co-director of Rhode Island programs. She succeeds Elizabeth Perriello Rice.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Kettering Foundation (Dayton, Ohio): Elected Suzanne Morse, executive director of the Pew Partnership (Charlottesville, Va.), to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis): Elected Daniel P. Carmichael, retired secretary of Eli Lilly (Indianapolis), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.): Elected Diana Lam, superintendent of schools in Providence, R.I., to be a member of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Esra Yagan, director of the non-profit fund-raising division at InfoCision Management (Akron, Ohio), to be vice president for business development.