People

American Brain Tumor Association (Des Plaines, Ill.): Appointed Elizabeth Wilson, executive director for communications and public affairs at the National Safety Council (Itasca, Ill.), to be executive director. She succeeds Naomi Berkowitz, who has retired.

American Enterprise Institute (Washington): Appointed Arthur C. Brooks, a professor of business and government policy at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be president. He will succeed Christopher DeMuth, who will remain as a senior fellow, on January 1.

American Heart Association (Dallas): Announced the retirement of M. Cass Wheeler, chief executive officer, effective December 31.

American Tinnitus Association (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Gary Reul, director of curriculum and instruction at the North Shore School District (Bothell, Wash.), to be chief executive officer.

Battleship Missouri Memorial (Honolulu): Appointed Michael A. Carr, vice president of family wealth management at the Bank of Hawaii (Honolulu), to be president and chief operating officer.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Announced the death of Sherman Emery Lee, who served as director from 1958 to 1983, on July 9. He was 90.

Dia Art Foundation (New York): Appointed Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), to be director, effective September 15. He succeeds Jeffrey Weiss, who left in March to return to curatorial and scholarly work.

Dumbarton House (Washington): Appointed Karen L. Daly, education director, to be executive director. Dumbarton House is a historic home that serves as the headquarters for the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

Food for the Poor (Coconut Creek, Fla.): Appointed Scott Harding, regional representative for Southeast Asia at Sheffield International Developments (England), to be government-programs director.

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles: Appointed Lise L. Luttgens, interim chief executive officer of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California (Pasadena) and former chief operating officer at the Fulfillment Fund (Los Angeles), to be chief executive officer. This new regional council comprises the former Angeles Girl Scout Council, Girl Scout Council of Greater Long Beach, Girl Scouts-Joshua Tree Council, Girl Scouts-Mt. Wilson Vista Council, Girl Scouts-Spanish Trails Council, and Girl Scouts of the San Fernando Valley.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Mayra Martínez-Fernández, senior policy adviser at Patton Boggs (Washington), to be director of public affairs.

Indiana U. Foundation (Bloomington): Appointed Eugene R. Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U. (Indianapolis), to be president. Patrick M. Rooney, director of research at the center, will serve as its interim executive director.

Institute for Higher Education Policy (Washington): Appointed Michelle Asha Cooper, deputy director for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education (Washington), to be president.

Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Baton Rouge): Appointed Melanie Guste, an organizational-development consultant in Baton Rouge, to be president and chief executive officer.

Lung Cancer Research Foundation (New York): Appointed Deborah Eger Walsh, an event consultant in Phoenix, to be executive director.

Ohio State U. (Columbus): Appointed Jonathan D. Hook, associate vice president and chief investment officer at Baylor U. (Waco, Tex.), to be vice president and chief investment officer.

Project Angel Food (Los Angeles): Appointed Margaret Steele, director of development and communications, to be chief executive officer. This organization delivers meals to people with serious illnesses living in Los Angeles County.

United Service Organizations (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Sloan D. Gibson IV, retired vice chairman and chief financial officer at AmSouth Bancorporation (Birmingham, Ala.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective September 1. He will succeed Edward A. Powell, who plans to retire.

USA for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Washington): Appointed Marc Breslaw, vice president for development and communications at the Jewish Social Service Agency of Greater Washington (Rockville, Md.), to be executive director.

Witness (New York): Appointed Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm, executive vice president of content strategy and acquisition at Joost (New York), to be executive director. Witness uses technology to promote awareness about human-rights violations.

GRANT MAKERS

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York): Appointed Daniel L. Goroff, a professor of mathematics and economics at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, Calif.), to be a program director.

The Boston Globe: Appointed Robert M. Powers, executive director of internal communications at The Boston Globe, to be vice president of communications and public affairs. Mr. Powers will be responsible for the company’s foundation.

Campion Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Lisa Jaguzny, deputy director at People for Puget Sound (Seattle), to be executive director.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Fred Sainz, director of communications and press secretary to Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego, to be director of communications and marketing.

Goldman Environmental Prize (San Francisco): Appointed Melina Selverston-Scher, a consultant and writer in New York and founding director of the Amazon Alliance (Washington), to be program officer focused on Latin America and Africa.

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed K. Niles Bryant, associate director of real estate and resources at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to be director of real assets, and Denise Strack, director of real assets, to be chief investment officer.

Greater New Orleans Foundation: Appointed Ellen M. Lee, senior vice president of programs, to be interim president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Gregory Ben Johnson, who led the foundation from 1983 to 2008.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Announced the resignation of Jonathan F. Fanton, president, effective in September 2009.

John Templeton Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.): Announced the death of Sir John Templeton, founder, on July 8. He was 95.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Denise Burger, assistant to the vice president, to be director of operations; Jeff Clarke, chief administrative officer, to be vice president; Debra Lopez, administrative assistant, to be grants-management associate and event manager; Jordan Marshall, an account executive at Marketing Solutions (Anchorage), to be initiatives and special-projects manager; Chris Perez, a senior program officer at the F.B. Heron Foundation (New York), to be a program officer; and Cassandra Stalzer, a public-affairs specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, based in Palmer, Alaska, to be communications manager.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Teresa Wells, South Carolina director of communications for the presidential campaign of former Senator John Edwards, based in Columbia, to be chief media strategist.

Thrive Foundation for Youth (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Carol Welsh Gray, executive director for the Center for Venture Philanthropy at Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, Calif.), to be executive director.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Susan Katz Froning, president and chief executive officer of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be special assistant to the president and chief executive officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation (New York): Elected Alfred Sommer, a professor of epidemiology and international health at the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Atlantic Philanthropies (New York): Elected Frederick (Fritz) A.O. Schwarz Jr., senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York U. Law School, to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the Board: William Hall, chair of medical microbiology at University College Dublin, and Cecilia Muñoz, vice president at the National Council of La Raza (Washington).

Environmental Defense Fund (New York): Elected Carl Ferenbach, co-founder and managing director of Berkshire Partners (Boston), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Flinn Foundation (Phoenix): Announced the death of Donald K. Buffmire, who served as chair of the Board of Trustees from 1984 to 1988, on July 2. He was 85.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected Alan B. Krueger, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton U. (N.J.), to the Board of Directors.