People

Alabama Environmental Council (Birmingham): Appointed Diane Dossey Scanland, director of foundation and corporate support at the Denver Rescue Mission, to be executive director.

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (Washington): Appointed Donna L. Sorkin, executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (Bethesda Md.), to be executive director.

Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries (Hollidaysburg, Pa.): Appointed Susan Ulrich McLaughlin, assistant director of development for the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State U. (University Park), to be vice-president for advancement.

American Dental Association Health Foundation (Chicago): Appointed R. Barkley Payne, executive director of Operation Brightside (Louisville, Ky.), to be senior director of fund raising and development.

American Lung Association of Massachusetts (Middleboro): Appointed Carlos Alvarez, executive director and chief executive officer of the American Lung Association of Queens (Forest Hills, N.Y.), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

American Lung Association of Queens (Forest Hills, N.Y.): Appointed Arthur Makar, senior director for major and planned gifts at the organization’s national office in New York, to be executive director and chief executive officer.

American Red Cross-San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter: Appointed Douglas C. Frost, a lawyer in Upland, Cal., and James Sardina, vice-president of investments and compliance office manager at East Brokers International (La Jolla, Cal.), to be gift-planning officers.

Association for Child Development (East Lansing, Mich.): Appointed Jill A. Warren, a consultant at Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be chief executive officer.

The Bell Campaign (San Francisco): Appointed Andrew McGuire, executive director of the Trauma Foundation at San Francisco General Hospital, also to be executive director of this new organization that advocates stricter gun-control laws.

Beta Theta Pi Foundation (Oxford, Ohio): Appointed Jonathan A. Brant, executive vice-president of the National Interfraternity Conference (Indianapolis), to be director, effective September 1.

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena): Appointed Jill E. Perry, director of public relations at Mount St. Mary’s College (Los Angeles), to be director of media relations.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Robert F. Bergman, director, died on May 6 after suffering a sudden and rare blood disorder. He was 53 and had served as director since 1993.

College of St. Catherine (St. Paul): Appointed Mary Dowse, director of communications and marketing at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (St. Paul), to be director of communications.

The Corporation for Supportive Housing (New York): Appointed James A. Krauskopf, dean of the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School U. (New York), to be president.

Daemen College (Amherst, N.Y.): Appointed John C. Dunne, a consultant in Clarence, N.Y., to be officer for corporations and foundation relations.

Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries (Washington): Appointed Christine Brooks, manager of procurement and distribution at Prince George’s County Public Schools (Upper Marlboro, Md.), to be senior vice-president and chief operating officer.

Development Training Institute (Baltimore): Appointed Carol Gallant, senior program officer at the Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Washington), to be vice-president for program development.

Elon College (N.C.): Appointed Dean Bruno, vice-president for university advancement at St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Michael Syphax, president of the Artists’ Gallery (Columbia), to be assistant director of resource development.

Georgetown U. Medical Center (Washington): Appointed Sandra J. Lovinguth, interim executive director and chief financial officer at the Art Museum of Western Virginia (Roanoke), to be executive director for development, and Timothy L. Mahoney, assistant director at Georgetown U.’s Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, to be assistant director for development.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): Appointed Emily Clarke, managing editor of the university literary magazine, to be assistant director of planned giving, and Craig Diehl, a former consultant in Nashua, N.H., to be director of the Orange and Blue Club.

Girard College (Philadelphia): Appointed Christopher I. Blackwall, development officer at the Overbrook School for the Blind (Philadelphia), to be director of external affairs.

Grand Canyon National Park Foundation (Flagstaff, Ariz.): Appointed Deborah E. Tuck, executive director of the Ruth Mott Fund (Flint, Mich.), to be president.

Homewood Foundation (Williamsport, Md.): Appointed John W. Warren, vice-president and chief development officer at Shenandoah U. (Winchester, Va.), to be director of funds development. The Homewood Foundation is the fund-raising arm of the Homewood Retirement Centers.

Indiana U. Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis): Appointed Patrick M. Rooney, assistant dean for academic programs at Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Columbus and special assistant to the vice-president for long-range planning and chancellor of Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis, to be director of research. He will also continue to serve as special assistant.

MedicAlert Foundation (Turlock, Cal.): Appointed Laura Biewer, director of member operations, to be vice-president of membership services, and David Branham, human-resources director at Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical (Hollister, Cal.), to be vice-president of human resources.

Mississippi State U. (Starkville): Appointed Richard Armstrong, director of development for the College of Business and Industry, to be director of planned giving.

National Alliance to End Homelessness (Washington): Appointed Nan Roman, vice-president of policy and programs, to be president and chief executive officer. The group also appointed Churchill J. Gibson, vice-president of administration and finance, to be executive director and chief operating officer.

The National Lekotek Center (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed David S. Rubovits, chief of pediatric psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at Mercy Children’s Medical Center (Pittsburgh), to be director of applied research and evaluation. The center develops play centers and toy-lending libraries for disabled children.

Ohio U. (Athens): Appointed Kelli Bell, a recent graduate of the U. of Cincinnati College of Law, to be assistant director of development for planned giving; Susan Berg, assistant dean for development at the Honors Tutorial College and University College, to be assistant dean for development for the College of Business; Mark Dorgan, a development researcher, to be an assistant dean for development for the College of Fine Arts; Colleen Carow Girton, public-information coordinator for the telecommunications center, to be director of development communications; Lori Lewis, assistant dean for development and alumni affairs for the College of Health and Human Services, to be assistant dean for development for the Russ College of Engineering and Technology; Doug McCullough, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at DePaul U. (Chicago), to be an assistant dean for development for the College of Fine Arts; Susan Rider, clerical coordinator for the College of Communication, to be a development researcher; and Bryan Wockley, program assistant at the Salzburg Seminar (Austria), to be a development researcher.

Old Dominion U. (Norfolk, Va.): Appointed David Aussicker, vice-president for development at Pathfinder Resources (Grand Rapids, Mich.), to be director of major gifts for colleges, and Alonzo C. Brandon, director of major gifts, to be acting executive director of the Educational Foundation and Intercollegiate Foundation and director of the capital campaign.

Pennsylvania State U. (University Park): Appointed David Lieb, associate vice-president for development at California U. of Pennsylvania, to be director of university development.

Pine Ridge School (Williston, Vt.): Appointed Martin Y. Fisher, director of development at Sterling College (Craftsbury Common, Vt.), to be director of development.

Presbyterian Homes (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed David B. Magnuson, senior vice-president of institutional advancement at Trinity International U. (Deerfield, Ill.), to be vice-president of development.

Rice U. (Houston): Appointed Eric Johnson, vice-president for development at Carnegie Mellon U. (Pittsburgh), to be vice-president for resource development, and Terry Shepard, director of university communications and assistant to the president at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Cal.), to be vice-president for public affairs.

The RWJ University Hospital Foundation (New Brunswick, N.J.): Appointed N. Lynn Jones, communications associate at the Partnership for the Homeless (New York), to be foundation-operations, research, and special-events coordinator.

The Salvation Army (London): Appointed John Gowans, territorial commander in the United Kingdom (London), to be general, the international head of the organization.

The Seven Hills School (Cincinnati): Appointed Gary E. Monnier, director of development at the Wheeler School (Providence, R.I.), to be director of development.

St. Edward’s U. (Austin, Tex.): Appointed LaMarriol Smith, publishing-account coordinator at the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (Austin), to be director of communications.

Stateline United Way (Beloit, Wis.): Appointed Stephen W. Kinkade, executive director of the United Way of Adams County (Quincy, Ill.), to be executive director.

U. of California at Santa Cruz: Appointed Ronald P. Suduiko, chief executive officer of the U. of Massachusetts Foundation (Amherst), to be vice-chancellor for university relations.

U. of North Carolina at Greensboro: Appointed Patricia W. Stewart, vice-president at the Florida State U. Foundation (Tallahassee), to be vice-chancellor for university advancement.

U. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma City): Appointed the following to be associate directors of development: Charles Ashley, assistant vice-president for marketing and corporate relations at Partyka Resource Management (Oklahoma City); Gayle Hill, site administrator and marketing liaison at the Oklahoma City office of Open MRI of America (Montvale, N.J.); and Kenneth Lisle, a lawyer in Edmond, Okla.

United Way of Greater Duluth (Minn.): Appointed Judy Blanck, campaign director, to be president.

United Way of Midland (Tex.): Appointed Cynthia Y. Benson, director of finance, to be executive director.

United Way of Skagit County (Burlington, Wash.): Appointed Paul Chaplik, former superintendent of the Burlington-Edison Public Schools, to be executive director.

Utah Valley State College (Orem): Announced the retirement of Dick L. Chappell, vice-president for administration and institutional advancement. The college also announced the appointment of Tanise Chung-Hoon, assistant athletic director for student services and assistant women’s-basketball coach, to be director of development for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Steve Hall, executive director of the Provo Education Foundation (Utah), to be director of development for the School of Business and the Mountainland Applied Technology Center.

Vanderbilt U. (Nashville): Appointed Beverly K. Bond, associate vice-chancellor for alumni and development, to be vice-chancellor for alumni and development.

WCPN-Cleveland Public Radio: Appointed Tara Renk, manager of station relations at WCLV-FM (Cleveland), to be community-relations director.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed John M. Shugert, vice-president for development and alumni affairs at Bentley College (Waltham, Mass.), to be vice-president for development.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Appointed Stephen J. Del Rosso, Jr., program director at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, to be senior program officer in the international peace and security program. The foundation also appointed Deana Arsenian, program officer for international peace and security, Gloria Primm Brown, program officer for education, and Michael H. Levine, deputy chair of the education division, to be senior program officers in their respective programs.

The Community Foundation for Muskegon County (Muskegon, Mich.): Appointed Chris Ann McGuigan, a partner in the law firm of Lague, Newman and Irish (Muskegon), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Patrcia B. Johnson, who is retiring after serving as president for 19 years.

Danforth Foundation (St. Louis): Appointed Laura Barlow, former vice-president of communications at the St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association and a part-time consultant to the foundation, to be program associate; Robert H. Koff, vice-president, to be senior vice-president; and Wilma Wells, senior consultant and program director, to be vice-president.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Deborah T. Bloom, assistant manager for reporting, to be assistant manager for grants information in the office of management services; Albert Davis, user-support consultant, to be network-communications specialist for management-information systems; Helen R. Neuborne, program officer in the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program, to be deputy director for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Julie R. Pinnock, supervisor for correspondence control for the office of the secretary, to be administrator for the economic-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program for grants administration and operations in the office of management services; Jennifer D. Powell, training specialist and research assistant for the office of human resources, to be administrator for the economic-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program for grants administration and operations in the office of management services; Galina V. Rakhmanova, research associate at the Center of Demography and Human Ecology at the Institute for Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts and culture program in the Russian office; Katherine K. Richardson, data-base manager at Credit Suisse First Boston (New York), to be supervisor for correspondence control for the office of the secretary; Rosalia M. E. Sciortino, program officer in the Jakarta office, to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program in Manila; Fred S. Tom, operations-system specialist, to be assistant manager for operations in the office of management services; and Laura Walworth, a consultant, to be manager of art and design for the office of communications.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Susan Macall Allen, head of the Department of Special Collections for the Young Research Library at the U. of California at Los Angeles, to be chief librarian.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Cal.): Appointed Paul Brest, dean of the Stanford Law School (Palo Alto, Cal.), to be president, effective January 1, 2000. He will succeed David Pierpont Gardner, who has served as president since 1993.

James S. Kemper Foundation (Long Grove, Ill.): Appointed Thomas Hellie, vice-president at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Chicago), to be executive director.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Beatriz G. Clossick, senior financial analyst in corporate accounting at Knight-Ridder Inc. (Miami), to be controller.

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation (New York): Appointed Jack Cowart, deputy director and chief curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington), to be executive director, effective September 1.

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation (Philadelphia): Announced the resignation of Mary Kuhn, executive director, effective June 30. Lise Yasui, a trustee, will serve as acting executive director while an executive search is conducted.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Elected Sidney D. Kline, Jr., a partner at the law firm of Stevens and Lee (Reading), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Mental Health Association of Georgia (Atlanta): Elected Elizabeth E. Finnerty, executive director of the George West Mental Health Foundation (Atlanta), to be president.

Starlight Children’s Foundation (Los Angeles): Elected Warren Kornblum, chief marketing officer at Toys ‘R’ Us (Paramus, N.J.), to be president of the board.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Blackbaud Inc. (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Kyle C. Haines, grants administrator at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (Portland), to be fund-raising system consultant for the Pacific Northwest, based in Portland.

Energize Inc. (Philadelphia): Appointed Liz Schrader, floor director and stage manager at WCAU-TV (Philadelphia), to be publications director for this publishing and consulting firm that specializes in volunteer management.