People

The Admiral (Chicago): Appointed Glenn Brichacek, director at Mather Place (Evanston, Ill.),

to be president and chief executive officer of this nonprofit retirement community.

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (Frederick, Md.): Appointed Harvey W. Cohen, chief development officer at the Foundation Fighting Blindness (Owings Mills, Md.), to be senior vice president for development of the Air Safety Foundation.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Charles Dean Connor, principal for client strategy at the Dilenschneider Group (Chicago), to be senior vice president for communication and marketing.

American Symphony Orchestra League (New York): Announced the retirement of Charles S. Olton, president and chief executive officer, effective June 2003.

Arthritis Foundation-Georgia Chapter (Atlanta): Appointed Andrew Ivey, account director at Grizzard Advertising (Atlanta), to be director of development.

Bible League (Chicago): Announced the resignation of the Rev. Dennis Mulder, president.

Camp Fire USA-Minnesota Council (St. Paul): Appointed Michelle Thimm Biesiada, director of communications at Arc Hennepin-Carver (Minneapolis), to be chief marketing and development officer; Marchel Lea, Teen Programs manager, to be marketing manager; and Barb Ohs, development and communications assistant, to be fund-development manager.

Compass Community Services (San Francisco): Appointed Erica Kisch, director of the Compass Family Center program, to be executive director.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Donna Coleman Gregg, partner at Wiley, Rein & Fielding (Washington), to be vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary.

Detroit Institute of Arts: Appointed Nettie Seabrooks, former chief operating officer of the City of Detroit, to be chief operating officer.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Rosemary Gilchrist, chief operating officer at Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit), to be senior vice president and chief operating officer.

Dominican Retreat House (Elkins Park, Pa.): Appointed Gregory J. D’Angelo, president of the Charitable Sense Group (Jenkintown, Pa.), to be director of development.

Great Books Foundation (Chicago): Appointed George L. Schueppert, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Outboard Marine Corporation (Waukegan, Ill.), to be president. Mr. Schueppert succeeds Peter Temes, who will be the president of the Antioch New England Graduate School (Keene, N.H.).

Hale House (New York): Appointed Annie Murphy, director of programs and services at Dignity Housing (Philadelphia), to be director of development. Hale House provides care to children born with HIV or exposed to drugs in utero, and those whose mothers are incarcerated.

Interfaith House (Chicago): Appointed Michael C. Cook, a partner at Ross and Hardies (Chicago), to be executive director.

Jewish Family Service Agency of Las Vegas: Appointed Robert E. Swire, chief executive officer of Robert E. Swire & Associates (Boca Raton, Fla.), to be executive director.

Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Washington): Appointed H. Clay Braswell, program officer at the Inland Foundation (Indianapolis), to be director of development.

Laurel School (Shaker Heights, Ohio): Appointed Deborah Farquhar Jones, director of development at Hiram College (Ohio), to be director of development and external affairs.

Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation: Appointed Bertle D. Hansen III, vice president and regional site manager, Southern California, for the Caelum Research Corporation (Rockville, Md.), to be associate director of major gifts.

Madonna U. (Livonia, Mich.): Appointed Andrea Nodge, director of marketing and public relations, to be vice president for university advancement.

Mediascope (Studio City, Calif.): Appointed Donna Mitroff, senior vice president of policies and practices in programming, education, and community issues at Fox Family Worldwide (Los Angeles), to be president. Mediascope is a research and education organization that promotes social issues through entertainment media.

National Childhood Cancer Foundation (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Paul T. Burke, national director of marketing and communications at United Cerebral Palsy Associations (Washington), to be president.

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (Washington): Appointed J. Donald Schumacher, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care (Cheektowaga, N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Network Chicago: Appointed Alfred Andreychuk, senior development officer, to be development director for WFMT radio, and Lloyd A. Fry, development director, to be vice president of development for Window to the World Communications.

Operation Weed & Seed St. Louis: Appointed Kim Norman, executive director of St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Victim Services, to be executive director. The organization aims to “weed out” violent crime, gang activity, and drug use and “seed” high-crime areas through social and economic revitalization.

Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.): Announced the resignation of Laura Nichols, senior vice president for corporate communications and public affairs.

Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Association (Providence): Appointed Judith A. Brissette, senior associate at R.H. Perry & Associates (Washington), to be president.

United States Fund for Unicef (New York): Appointed Donna L. Blackwell, chief executive officer of Human Works (New York), to be vice president of communications and public relations, and Jeffrey T. Towers, executive vice president at Public Interest Data (Alexandria, Va.), to be vice president of development.

United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington): Appointed Robert Egger, director of D.C. Central Kitchen, to be interim chief. Norman O. Taylor, chief executive, announced his retirement in early September in the wake of investigations into the charity’s management and accountability.

Wonder of Reading (Los Angeles): Appointed Elizabeth H. Michelson, a consultant, to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Helen Bader Foundation (Milwaukee): Appointed Tobey Libber, director of planning and community services at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, to be program officer for Jewish life and learning.

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Patrick Marx, managing director of Imagitas (Waltham, Mass.), to be communications director.

Carnegie Corporation (New York): Appointed Constancia Warren, senior program officer at the Academy for Educational Development (New York), to be senior program officer and director of the Urban School Reform Initiative in the Education Division.

JPMorgan Chase (New York): Appointed Gregory King, a vice president, to be a grants officer in the corporate social-responsibility group and manager of the community-development philanthropy team, and Bob Rosenbloom, grants officer for community-development philanthropy in the tri-state region, to be senior grants officer for national and international philanthropy.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Sarah Harrison, director of development at the Morris Animal Foundation (Englewood, Colo.), to be vice president of advancement.

Geffen Cancer Foundation (Vero Beach, Fla.): Appointed Philip Flynn III, director of institutional advancement at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (Fort Pierce, Fla.), to be executive director.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed David F. Smydra, president of DFS Associates (Detroit), to be community-liaison program officer, based in Detroit, and Polly Talen, senior vice president in charge of nonprofit and foundation partnerships at DoTheGood (Minneapolis), to be communityliaison program officer, based in St. Paul.

New York Foundation: Announced the retirement of Madeline Lee, chief executive officer.

San Diego Foundation: Appointed Mariano Diaz, global director of the Nike Foundation, Global Community Affairs (Beaverton, Ore.), to be senior vice president of community partnerships.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Elected Rita Scardaci, director of the Plumas County Public Health Agency (Quincy, Calif.), to the Board of Directors.

El Paso Community Foundation: Elected Ramiro Guzmán, president of Ramiro Guzmán & Associates (El Paso) and Viva Distributing (El Paso), to the Board of Directors.

Flinn Foundation (Phoenix): Elected David J. Gullen, an internist and geriatrician at Mayo Community Internal Medicine, Phoenix Campus, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Frank H. Cruz, president of Cruz & Associates (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), and David Mas Masumoto, an author and organic farmer, to the Board of Directors.

Window to the World Communications (Chicago): Elected Sandra P. Guthman, president and chief executive officer of the Polk Brothers Foundation (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed the following to be consultants in its professional-services division: Charles Friedline, conversion specialist at the Carney Hospital Foundation (Dorchester, Mass.); Steve Lonsinger, a consultant in Chicago; Kimberly Low, director of special giving at the Music Center of Los Angeles County; and Molly May, management consultant at IBM Global Services (Atlanta).

Foundation Source (Norwalk, Conn.): Appointed Page Snow, chief officer, institutional planning at the Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia), to be chief philanthropic officer.

Goettler Associates (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Christopher K. Norman, chief development officer of Pontifical College Josephinum (Columbus, Ohio), to be senior consultant.

ResearchWorks (San Diego): Appointed Randi Haithcock, corporate manager, to be vice president of operations.