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American U. in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad): Announced the retirement of Norma S. Tucker, director of development and university relations, effective in September.

Capital Research Center (Washington): Appointed John K. Carlisle, director of the Environmental Policy Task Force at the National Center for Public Policy Research (Washington), to be editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch for this group that studies issues in philanthropy.

Catholic Guild for the Blind (Chicago): Appointed David J. Tabak, director of real property, probate, and trust law at the American Bar Association (Chicago), to be executive director.

Children’s Hospital Foundation (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Jon M. Fitzgerald, vice president of development at Holy Cross Hospital (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be president.

Community Colleges of Spokane (Wash.): Appointed Lawrence G. Miller, former vice president for institutional advancement at Chattanooga State Technical Community College (Tenn.), to be associate vice chancellor for marketing and public relations.

Davidson College (N.C.): Appointed Kevin R. McCarthy, executive director of college relations, to be campaign director.

eGrants.org (San Francisco): Appointed Dan Geiger, co-founder and former chief executive officer of OpNet Community Ventures (San Francisco), to be executive director. He succeeds China Brotsky, who will remain involved as a member of the Board of Directors while returning full-time to her position as director of special projects at the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center (San Francisco). This organization was created by the Tides Foundation to provide charities online-donation services and training in online fund raising.

Family & Children’s Services of Central Maryland (Baltimore): Appointed Matthew J. Mulligan, coordinator of annual giving at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Baltimore), to be assistant director of development.

Florida Orchestra (Tampa): Appointed C. Edwin Davis, director of development at the Wistar Institute (Philadelphia), to be director of development.

Glaucoma Foundation (New York): Appointed James P. Digan, director of leadership gifts at Albany Medical Center (N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Don Haszczyn, finance director of medical systems in northern Europe in the London office of General Electric (Fairfield, Conn.), to be vice president for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, based in Budapest.

Indiana U. at Bloomington: Announced the resignation of Christopher Simpson, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Kids Included TogetherSan Diego: Appointed Allison A. Marklein, associate with the director of development at Canine Companions for Independence (Oceanside, Calif.), to be director of marketing and fund development. This charity develops programs for children with disabilities.

Landmark College (Putney, Vt.): Appointed Kathleen O’Dell, former vice president for institutional advancement at Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Mississippi Action for Community Education (Greenville): Appointed Cornelius Jones, coordinator for the Mid South Family Alliance at the Foundation for the Mid South (Jackson, Miss.), to be president and chief executive officer, succeeding Ruby Buck.

National Geographic Society (Washington): Appointed Barbara Chow, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton administration, to be executive director of its Education Foundation and the Geography Education Outreach program.

Rosalie Manor Community & Family Services (Milwaukee): Appointed Lyn Hildenbrand, center director at COA Youth and Family Centers (Milwaukee), to be executive director. She succeeds Rosemarie Fisher, who is retiring.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Theresa Pepitone Selby, former director of development at North Country Animal League (Morrisville, Vt.), to be director of annual giving.

San Francisco Zoological Society: Appointed Sheila Bergman, director of development and external affairs at the Zeum Art and Technology Center (San Francisco), to be director of development and the capital campaign.

Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Announced the resignation of Robert W. Fri, director of the National Museum of Natural History, effective this autumn.

South Florida Annenberg Challenge (Miami): Appointed James R. Swingle, former program specialist supervisor at the Florida Department of Education (Tallahassee), to be program director.

U. of North Texas (Denton): Mark S. Moore, vice president for development, died May 20 in Corinth, Tex., at age 48.

U. of Wyoming (Laramie): Appointed Richard H. Miller, special assistant to the president for governmental and community relations, also to be vice president for governmental, community, and legal affairs.

Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.): Appointed Mark W. Jones, vice president for advancement at Goucher College (Baltimore), to be dean for college advancement and secretary of the college, and Paul Pribbenow, dean for college advancement and secretary of the Board of Trustees, to be research fellow for the college’s Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts.

GRANT MAKERS

Delaware Community Foundation (Wilmington): Appointed Paul C. King Jr., president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (Wilmington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Jeffrey Y. Campbell, program officer in the community and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, to be deputy director of that unit; Mihaela A. Fertig, grants-processing specialist, to be grants-analysis coordinator; Christopher R. Gillespie, grants-processing specialist, to be grants-analysis coordinator; Maura C. Harford, president of Harford Education Resources (New York), to be project specialist for Project GRAD in the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts and culture program; Keisha A. Lewis, grants administrator in the office of management services, to be grants administrator in the education, media, arts and culture program; Paula Nimpuno-Parente, program specialist for the Africa desk of the Bernard van Leer Foundation (The Hague), to be program officer in the community and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Johannesburg office; William N. Okedi, South Africa director at the African Medical and Research Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Johannesburg office; Renée Rose, grants-processing specialist, to be grants-analysis coordinator; and Urvashi Vaid, director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute (New York), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Claudia Dawn French, executive director of AIDS Action (Washington), to be executive director, effective August 1. She will succeed Katherine Pease, who announced her resignation in January.

Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Bess Stephens, manager of educational relations at the company, to be executive director of the foundation and director of philanthropy and education for the company.

Initiative Foundation (Little Falls, Minn.): Appointed Brad Kruse, program officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation (Indianapolis), to be organizational-development specialist at this foundation that provides assistance and grants for community development in central Minnesota.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Steven G. Harnish, a credit analyst in the Miami office of Bank of America (San Francisco), to be investment associate, and Eric Newton, former managing editor of the Newseum (Arlington, Va.), to be director of journalism initiatives.

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York): Appointed Joel Wachs, a member of the Los Angeles City Council and a recent candidate for mayor of that city, to be president, effective October 1. He succeeds Archibald L. Gillies, who announced his resignation last year.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Library Association (Chicago): Elected Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, director of the Westchester Library System (N.Y.), to be president.

American Lung Association (New York): Elected Cordell Meeks, a district-court judge for the 29th Judicial District of Kansas (Kansas City), to be president.

Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Elected Eric H. Holder Jr., former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and a partner at Covington & Burling (Washington), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

RAND (Santa Monica, Calif.): Elected Ronald L. Olson, a partner at Munger, Tolles and Olson (Los Angeles), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Saint Paul Foundation: Elected Joan A. Grzywinski, president and district manager of the St. Paul and South Metro Minneapolis market in the St. Paul office of Norwest/Wells Fargo Company (San Francisco), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANT AND OTHERS

GivingCapital (Philadelphia): Appointed Christopher Blunt, chief marketing officer in the Americas at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (New York), to be chief executive officer of this company that produces online fund-raising tools and membership-management systems.

Mirenda & Associates (Denver): Appointed Gregory Movesian, vice president of development at Up With People (Broomfield, Colo.), to be a senior consultant.

L.W. Robbins Associates (Holliston, Mass.): Appointed Chad Lucier, senior account executive, to be account supervisor; Kent Rohrbach, senior account supervisor, to be senior account director; and Lisa M. Smith, senior account director in the fund-raising and membership-services division at Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.), to be senior account director.