People

Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales (Center Valley, Pa.): Appointed Marianne Salcedo, director of foundation and corporate relations at Cedar Crest College (Allentown), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

The ArtsCenter (Carrboro, N.C.): Appointed Colin Bissett, senior public-relations and development counselor at Richard French & Associates (Raleigh, N.C.), to be executive director.

Central Baptist Family Services (Chicago): Appointed Sherry Manning, an intern in the quality-assurance and fund-allocation department at United Way/Crusade of Mercy (Chicago), to be a grant writer.

Community Resource Center (Denver): Appointed Gabriel Guillaume, a volunteer with the Vista program, to be community-organizing coordinator.

Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education (Washington): Appointed Jacqueline D. Skinner, associate dean of students at Saint Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), to be associate director of this grant-making unit of the Council of Independent Colleges (Washington).

Council on Competitiveness (Washington): Appointed Judith T. Phair, vice president for institutional advancement at the U. of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Adelphi), to be vice president for public affairs.

Dillard U. (New Orleans): Appointed John Donohue, executive director of development at the U. of Texas at San Antonio, to be vice president for development.

Family Research Council (Washington): Appointed Kenneth L. Connor, a lawyer at Wilkes & McHugh (Tallahassee, Fla.), to be president.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance: Appointed Peggy Amsterdam, director of the Delaware State Division of the Arts (Dover), to be executive director.

Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant): Appointed Carol Nemitz, vice president for student affairs, to be vice president for institutional relations.

Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: Appointed Rabbi Gerry J. Rosenberg, executive director of the Chicago office of State of Israel Bonds (New York), to be senior development officer for campaigns.

National School Boards Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Leah Burns-Atkins, director of advertising and sponsorship sales at the National School Board Association (Alexandria), to be director.

Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Bruce Layton, program director in the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (Albany), to be director of government and community relations.

Regional Performing Arts Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Matthew Cooper, ticket-operations manager at Carnegie Hall (New York), to be ticketing-services manager, and Sandra Ritchwood, associate director for arts training at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark), to be director of education.

Saint Joseph´s U. (Philadelphia): Appointed John J. Zabinski, executive director of capital campaigns, to be vice president for development.

Seattle Symphony: Appointed Stephen J. Agostini, executive assistant to the state of Wisconsin´s secretary of administration (Madison), to be chief financial officer.

St. Francis College (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Appointed Dennis McDermott, former director of athletics at Xavierian High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.), to be alumni director.

Sweet Briar College (Va.): Appointed Heidi Hansen McCrory, director of development at Randolph-Macon Woman´s College (Lynchburg, Va.), to be executive director of development.

U. of California at Merced: Appointed Michael L. Campbell, assistant dean for college relations in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the U. of California at Davis, to be executive director of university development.

U. of Georgia (Athens): Appointed Robert S. Hawkins, assistant vice president for development at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena), to be associate vice president for development.

Victims Outreach (Dallas): Appointed Kristianne Hinkamp, development director at Our Friends´ Place (Dallas), to be executive director.

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Affairs: Appointed Eugene J. Alpert, vice president for academic affairs, to be senior vice president for academic affairs; Arleen Ramirez Borysiewicz, director of strategic initiatives, to be vice president for external affairs; Susie Erenrich, founding executive director of the Cultural Center for Social Change (Washington), also to be program manager of the nonprofit-leaders program; Carmenchu Mendiola Fernández, senior program coordinator for communications, to be manager for communications; Pilar Mendiola Fernandez, director of the North American program, to be vice president for internships and advanced leadership programs; Rob Henderson, director of internships, to be vice president for institutional and government relations; Susan Keverline, a doctoral candidate in psychology at George Washington U. (Washington), to be program manager of the Women in Public Policy program; Mark Kimble, president and chief executive officer at Outsourcing & Accounting Consulting (Washington), to be comptroller; Caroline Lotux, program coordinator for academic affairs, to be senior program coordinator for academic affairs; Michael B. Smith, senior vice president, to be executive vice president in addition to serving as chief operating officer; Karen Sokolow, senior program manager for internships, to be deputy director of internships; Peter Stephens, senior program manager of the NAFTA Leaders Internship program, to be managing director of internships; and Jason Vega, senior program coordinator for NAFTA programs, to be manager of institutional advancement.

World Vision (Federal Way, Wash.): Appointed Scott Jackson, president and managing director of the Seattle office of APCO Worldwide (Washington), to be senior vice president of regional ministry and resource development at this human-services organization.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Announced the resignation of Anna Faith Jones, effective June 30, 2001.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Appointed Bernadette M. Marriott, vice provost for research and graduate studies, dean of the graduate college, and professor of biology at Northern Arizona U. (Flagstaff), to be vice president for programs and communications.

Caring for Colorado Foundation (Denver): Appointed Chris J. Wiant, executive director of the Tri-County Health Department (Greenwood Village, Colo.), to be president of this new health-care organization created after the sale of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Colorado (Denver).

Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York): Appointed Lance E. Lindblom, a program officer in human rights and international cooperation at the Ford Foundation (New York) and former executive vice president at the Open Society Institute (New York), to be president and chief executive officer, effective later this year. He succeeds Charles Halpern, who announced his resignation in February.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Monice M. Kaczorowski, director of libraries at the firm of Ross and Hardies (Chicago), to be senior information specialist, and Constance M. Yowell, an associate professor in the School of Education at the U. of Illinois at Chicago, to be a program officer for the program on human and community development.

MONY Life Insurance (New York): Appointed Julie Schonberger White, an evaluator of programs at the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be director of corporate social policy.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Meg Wise, development coordinator at the Community Women´s Education Project (Philadelphia), to be director of donor services.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): Appointed Stephen B. Heintz, founding president and chief executive officer of Demos: a Network for Ideas and Actions (New York), to be president, effective February 1, 2001. He succeeds Colin G. Campbell, who resigned earlier this year and now serves as president of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.).

Eugene V. & Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust (Santa Fe, N.M.): Appointed Sherry Thompson, program officer, to be associate director.

Women´s Community Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Roberta Mancini, interim executive director since August 1999, to be executive director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Cheryl White Mason, a partner working in the San Francisco office of O´Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: Elected Fred Bondy, chief operating officer of Parkway Drugs (Lincolnwood, Ill.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver): Elected Lawrence P. Gelfond, senior director of Gelfond Hochstadt Pangburn (Denver), to be chairman of the board.

Volunteers of AmericaGreater New York: Elected Jean-Marie Horovitz, executive vice president for risk management at EAB (Uniondale, N.Y.), to be chairman of the board.

World Wildlife Fund (Washington): Elected William K. Reilly, president and chief executive officer of Aqua International Partners (San Francisco) and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Bush administration, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Convergence Services (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Aura Kenny Dunn, an educational adviser to Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), to be director of federal policy at this government-relations and consulting firm.

Phillips & Associates (Los Angeles): Appointed Helen Bechtolt, former director of special gifts and director of major gifts at Claremont McKenna College (Calif.), to be senior counsel at this fund-raising firm.