People

Alban Institute (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed June M. Costa, director of development at the Vesper Society (Oakland, Cal.), to be director of development.

Albany Institute of History and Art (N.Y.): Appointed Diane Cameron, development director at Unity House (Troy, N.Y.), to be director of development.

American Jewish World Service (New York): Appointed Rabbi Joshua Saltzman, program consultant to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s Department of Community Education (New York), to be director of education, outreach, and communications.

American Red Cross (Washington): Announced the resignation of Elizabeth H. Dole, president.

Animal Rescue League of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh): Appointed Tim Crum, a fund-raising consultant at the Heisman Group (King of Prussia, Pa.), to be director of development and public relations for the league and its division, the Pennsylvania Wildlife Center.

Berklee College of Music (Boston): Appointed David McKay, vice-president for institutional advancement at Trinity College (Burlington, Vt.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

California U. of Pennsylvania: Announced the retirement of Richard H. Webb, vice-president for university advancement.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington): Appointed Thomas W. Skladony, former special adviser in the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic and a visiting scholar and director of communications at the Institute for Public Affairs (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), to be director of publications.

City of Hope (Los Angeles): Appointed Norman R. Fishman, financial-resource director at the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, to be senior vice-president for development.

City U. of New York, College of Staten Island: Appointed Barbara Caldwell, director of community outreach at Prospect Park (Brooklyn, N.Y.), to be assistant director of college advancement.

Coalition on Child Abuse & Neglect (Garden City, N.Y.): Appointed Doug Davidson, director of development at the Interreligious Fellowship for the Homeless of Bergen County (Teaneck, N.J.), to be director of development.

College of St. Catherine (St. Paul): Appointed Marilyn Urrutia, manager of major gifts at the American Red Cross of the St. Paul Area, to be director of donor relations.

Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio): Appointed Barbara M. Jennings, executive director of the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority (Columbus), to be vice-president of development, effective March 1.

Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries (Washington): Appointed Vickie Schachter, assistant director of employment and training at Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.), to be special assistant to the president and chief executive officer, responsible for fund raising and new-program development.

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (New York): Appointed Patrick J. Waide, Jr., chief financial and administrative officer of the Bessemer Group and Bessemer Securities Corporation (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Frances Hesselbein, who will become chairman of the Board of Governors.

Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Michael J. Curran, mid-Atlantic regional director for the Real Estate Investment Group at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Washington), to be president of the Enterprise Social Investment Corporation.

Episcopal Community Services (Philadelphia): Appointed Beatrice A. Fulton, a clinical social worker, to be coordinator of the STARR (Supportive Therapy for AIDS-Affected Relatives) program.

Fisher College (Boston): Appointed Claire M. Lawlor, director of development and public relations at Sisters of Notre Dame (Worcester, Mass.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness (Hunt Valley, Md.): Appointed Terry Pink Alexander, director of the annual fund and professional relations at the U. of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, to be executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area office; Barbara Broide, field director of the American Cancer Society’s Los Angeles Coastal Cities Unit, to be executive director of the Los Angeles area office; Vivian Holmes, assistant vice-president of university advancement at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark), to be executive director of the New York Metro Area office; Carolyn Sidwell, executive director of the American Cancer Society-Southeast Division’s Triad Office (Greensboro, N.C.), to be executive director of the North Carolina office; and Carolyn Woodruff, executive director of the American Cancer Society-Illinois Division’s Northwest Cook County Unit (Palatine), to be executive director of the Chicago area office.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville): Appointed Chase Wheeler Rynd, executive director and chief executive officer of the Tacoma Art Museum (Wash.), to be executive director.

Frontier Culture Museum (Staunton, Va.): Appointed Marian Quinlan, director of development at the First Nations Development Institute (Fredericksburg, Va.), to be director of institutional advancement.

J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles): Appointed Scott J. Schaefer, senior vice-president at Sotheby’s (New York), to be curator of paintings.

Golden Gate U. (San Francisco): Appointed Larry Lollar, vice-president for development and special assistant to the president at U. of Texas at Austin, to be vice-president for university advancement.

Golden West U. (Huntington Beach, Cal.): Appointed Margie Bunten, foundation-development specialist, to be director of public relations and institutional advancement.

Good Shepherd Food-Bank (Lewiston, Me.): Appointed Kevin Feldman, development director at Joy of Jesus (Detroit), to be development director.

Hampton U. (Va.): Announced the resignation of Alonzo Brandon, vice-president for development.

Heritage Foundation (Washington): Appointed Aaron Schavey, international trade specialist for the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington), to be economic-policy analyst, and Bridgett Wagner, director of events for the 25th-anniversary campaign, to be director of coalition relations.

Houston Annenberg Challenge: Appointed Linda G. Clarke, program director, to be executive director.

Houston Symphony: Appointed Cornelia B. Mason, director of development at the Louisville Orchestra (Ky.), to be director of development.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Richard R. Hoffert, president and chief executive officer of the North Carolina Symphony (Raleigh), to be president and chief executive officer.

Institute for International Economics (Washington): Appointed John Todd Stewart, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, to be deputy director.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed John Zarafonetis, international director of the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger (Washington), to be director of the division on development policy and practice.

John Marshall Law School (Chicago): Appointed William K. Beach, a consultant in Chicago, to be assistant dean for institutional development and director of the capital campaign.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Linda Claremon, acting senior director of development and director of annual giving at the Maryland Science Center (Baltimore), to be associate director of development for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, and Kathleen Hider, chief development officer at the Maryland Food Committee (Baltimore), to be associate director of development for the School of Nursing.

KCPT (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Bonnie Rabicoff, director of marketing and public relations at the Barstow School (Kansas City), to be capital-campaign director.

KWMU (St. Louis): Appointed Tom Kovach, account executive, to be major-gifts manager.

LifeBridge Health (Baltimore): Appointed Donald R. Giller, vice-president of strategic development at Sinai Hospital and Sinai Health System (Baltimore), to be vice-president of marketing and development.

Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Appointed Debbi S. Honorof, vice-president, to be president and chief executive officer.

Louisburg College (N.C.): Announced the retirement of Bob Mize, vice-president for institutional advancement.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (Des Plaines): Appointed W. Paul Brinkman, executive director of development at Iowa State U. (Ames), to be vice-president of resource development.

MacPhail Center for the Arts (Minneapolis): Appointed Douglas Fair, executive director of the Wilmington Music School (Del.), to be executive director.

Manchester College (North Manchester, Ind.): Appointed Timothy McElwee, director of development, to be vice-president of institutional advancement.

Merrimack College (North Andover, Mass.): Appointed David Vigneron, associate director ofdevelopment at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), to be executive director of development.

Museum Trustee Association (Washington): Appointed Charles F. Dambach, president of the National Peace Corps Association (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

National Kidney Foundation (New York): Appointed Todd Sandness, director of development for the School of Business at the Kansas U. Endowment Association (Lawrence), to be national development director. NKF also appointed Jill Adams, vice-president at Survival Skills Education and Development and director of the women’s center at Rockhurst College (Kansas City, Mo.), and Steve Caruso, district executive at the Boy Scouts of America (Kansas City), to be affiliate-relations directors.

National Sleep Foundation (Washington): Appointed Richard L. Gelula, managing director of Orr Associates (Washington), to be executive director.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Tammy E. Newmark, environmental enterprise and investment specialist at TechnoServe (Norwalk, Conn.), to be manager of Fondo EcoEmpresas/EcoEnterprises Fund, a $10-million fund that will provide venture capital and technical support to environmentally responsible business projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Nebraska Wesleyan U. (Lincoln): Appointed Michael Collins, senior account manager at MDS Harris (Lincoln), to be vice-president for university advancement.

New York Botanical Garden (Bronx): Appointed Kim E. Tripp, director of the botanic garden at Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), to be vice-president for horticulture.

New York City Opera: Appointed Claudia E. Keenan, director of marketing at the Manhattan Theatre Club (New York), to be marketing director.

Newport Restoration Foundation (R.I.): Appointed Nicholson Roos, director of education at the Newport Historical Society, to be director.

Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (Ann Arbor, Mich.): Joseph A. (Jay) Connor, president and chief executive officer, has announced his resignation, effective March 15. He will lead the Collaboratory for Community Support, a new non-profit group based in Ann Arbor that will conduct research on non-profit organizational effectiveness.

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York): Appointed Leslie Calman, former director of the Barnard College Center for Research on Women (New York), to be deputy director.

Palm Beach Community College (Lake Worth, Fla.): Appointed Erin S. McColskey, policy director at the Florida State Board of Community Colleges (Tallahassee), to be director of governmental relations and executive assistant to the president.

Peace College (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Elizabeth J. Skok, director of external relations and capital gifts at the Fort Sanders Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.), to be special assistant to the president.

Presbyterian Hospital Foundation (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Joshua R. Newton, director of annual giving at Converse College (Spartanburg, S.C.), to be director of major gifts, and Mary Scott Peterson, capital-campaign manager and director of annual support at Winthrop U. (Rock Hill, S.C.), to be director of corporate and foundation support.

Purdue U. North Central (Westville, Ind.): Appointed Robert J. Skadberg, Jr., development associate at Purdue U. at West Lafayette (Ind.), to be director of development and external funding.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston: Appointed Maura King Scully, assistant director of the alumni association at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), to be director of development communications, and Mary T. Tiernan, director of alumni relations at Bridgewater State College (Mass.), to be director of donor research.

Roosevelt U. (Chicago): Appointed Laura Sabransky, former volunteer coordinator at the Chicago Academy of Sciences, to be assistant director of alumni relations.

Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Ind.): Appointed Kay Evans Ball, executive director of the Family & Children’s Center Foundation (South Bend, Ind.), to be director of development; Mary Lou Mullen, interim director of the annual fund, to be director of the annual fund; and Kathryn Pilot, a fund-raising consultant at the Suddes Group (Delaware, Ohio), to be director of major gifts.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Polly R. Winograd, associate director of public relations at the New York Philharmonic, to be public-relations manager.

Seattle Pacific U.: Appointed Robert Gunsalus, chief development officer at Bartlesville Wesleyan College (Okla.), to be director of development.

Second Harvest (Chicago): Appointed Deborah Leff, president of the Joyce Foundation (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Christine Vladimiroff, who resigned last summer to become prioress of the Benedictine community in Erie, Pa.

Smith College (Northampton, Mass.): Appointed Karin George, vice-president for development at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), to be chief advancement officer, effective March 1.

St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed Frank Sirianni, chief information officer, also to be vice-president.

St. Mary’s U. (San Antonio): Appointed Sylvia Acosta, senior development officer at Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center (Lubbock), to be executive director of development.

Swarthmore College (Pa.): Appointed Dan C. West, vice-president for college relations at Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.), to be vice-president for development, alumni, and public relations.

Teachers College, Columbia U. (New York): Appointed Donald Sutton, managing director for development and public affairs at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Brooklyn, N.Y.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

U. of Iowa (Iowa City): Appointed Brad Chenoweth, manager of the annual fund at Project Inform (San Francisco), to be director of development for the museum of art, and Kevin Collins, senior development officer at U. of St. Thomas (St. Paul), to be director of development for the College of Engineering.

U. of Southern California (Los Angeles): Appointed Lambert Bittinger, director of planned giving at Little Company of Mary Health Services Foundation (Torrance, Cal.), to be director of development for planned giving.

U. of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (Brownsville): Appointed Rafael E. Vela, coordinator of special projects and development activities, to be director of development.

U. System of Maryland (Adelphi): Appointed Joye Mercer, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington), to be senior writer in the office of public affairs.

United Way of Central Stark County (Canton, Ohio): Appointed John Garofalo, interim campaign director, to be campaign director, and Angela Perisic, campaign associate, and Kevin Schafer, administrative assistant, to be campaign division directors.

University Circle Incorporated (Cleveland): Appointed David T. Abbott, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland), to be president.

Vanderbilt U. (Nashville): John S. Beasley II, vice-chancellor for alumni and development, has announced his retirement, effective in June.

Visiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn (N.Y.): Appointed Matthew G. McCrosson, senior manager for consulting at KPMG Peat Marwick (New York), to be executive vice-president and chief operating officer.

Washington U. (St. Louis): Appointed Deborah Fite Booker, director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid for the School of Business, to be director of external relations and assistant dean of the school.

Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.): Appointed Gloria Cagigas, associate vice-president for institutional advancement, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

WGUC (Cincinnati): Appointed Neil Dattilo, senior account executive at Advo Inc. (Florence, Ky.), to be underwriting sales representative, and Leonard Sternberg, executive vice-president at Cedar Village Retirement Home (Mason, Ohio), to be major-gifts specialist.

Window to the World Communications (Chicago): Appointed Farrell L. Frentress, director of development at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, to be senior vice-president for marketing and community relations.

GRANT MAKERS

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee): Appointed William A. Schambra, director of general programs, to be senior vice-president for program.

S. H. Cowell Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Mary S. Metz, dean of extension at the U. of California at Berkeley and president emerita of Mills College (Oakland, Cal.), to be president, chairman, and chief executive officer. She succeeds J. D. Erickson, who will continue to serve on the Board of Directors.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Timothy P. Whalen, director of conservation grant making for the Getty Grant Program, to be director of the Getty Conservation Institute.

Hawaii Community Foundation (Honolulu): Appointed Kelvin Taketa, vice-president and director of the Asia-Pacific region at the Nature Conservancy (Honolulu), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Jane Renfro Smith, who retired last summer.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Mary Carole Cotter, general corporate attorney at the Kellogg Company (Battle Creek), to be foundation senior counsel.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust (Chapel Hill, N.C.): Announced the retirement of William Friday, executive director, effective June 30.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the New School for Social Research (New York), to be president, effective in September. He will succeed Adele Smith Simmons, who is stepping down after serving as president for 10 years. The foundation also appointed Renee de Nevers, a senior associate at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Project on World Security (Washington), to be program officer in the Program on Global Security and Sustainability, responsible for grant making related to arms reduction and security policy, and Magaly de Oliveira Marques, a representative in Bolivia for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (New York), to be coordinator of the office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which works primarily on population issues.

Manatee Community Foundation (Bradenton, Fla.): Appointed Marilyn Howard, district director at Junior Achievement in Manatee and Sarasota Counties (Bradenton), to be executive director.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Announced the resignation of Michael O’Keefe, executive vice-president and chief executive officer.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed the following to be program officers: Shannon Lawder, associate program officer and regional representative in the Prague office; Lori Villarosa, associate program officer for the civil-society program; and Kevin Walker, assistant to the president and associate program officer for the exploratory and special-projects program.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Joseph H. Wilson, development director for national programs at Pacifica Radio Network (Washington), to be program officer for the human-rights and global-security program.

Sapelo Foundation (St. Simons Island, Ga.): Appointed Phyllis J. Bowen, administrative assistant, to be executive director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Cancer Society (Atlanta): Elected Charles J. McDonald, chairman of the dermatology department at Brown U. (Providence, R.I.), to be president.

American Teleservices Association (North Hollywood, Cal.): Elected Gene Gray, vice-president at APAC TeleServices (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), to be president of the Board of Directors.

The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund) (New York): Elected Alicia H. Munnell, a professor of management sciences and director of the Retirement Research Center at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), to be a trustee.

Dia Center for the Arts (New York): Elected Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes & Noble (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

ESR Children’s Health Care System Foundation (Atlanta): Elected Douglas J. Hertz, president and chief executive officer of United Distributors (Smyrna, Ga.), to be chairman of the board.

Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations (Miami Lakes): Elected Lois Gracey, state director for Communities In Schools of Florida (Boca Raton), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Elected Claude M. (Mick) Kicklighter, deputy undersecretary of the U.S. Army for international affairs, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Conn.): Elected Blanche S. Goldenberg, retired chair of the Balf Company (Newington, Conn.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Jacksonville Community Foundation (Fla.): Elected Byron E. Hodnett, chief executive officer of First Union National Bank of Florida (Jacksonville), and Wilford C. Lyon, Jr., retired chairman and chief executive officer of Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company (Jacksonville), to be trustees.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Elected Anthony Earl, former Governor of Wisconsin and a partner in the law firm of Quarles & Brady (Madison, Wis.), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Elected Mike Maidenberg, president and publisher of the Grand Forks Herald (N.D.), to be a trustee.

Markle Foundation (New York): Elected Stephen Friedman, a senior principal at Marsh & McLennan Capital (New York), and Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School (Cambridge, Mass.), to be members of the Board of Directors.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society (New York): Elected Richard B. Slifka, treasurer and co-owner of the Global Petroleum Corporation (Waltham, Mass.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Wildlife Refuge Association (Washington): Elected Robert L. Herbst, former assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, and national parks during the Carter Administration, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Elected William Foege, professor in the department of international health at Emory U.’s Rollins School of Public Health (Atlanta) and former executive director of Global 2000 at the Carter Center (Atlanta), and Antonia Hernandez, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Los Angeles), to be trustees.

Women of the West Museum (Boulder, Colo.): Elected Jane Butcher, senior vice-president, to be president of the board.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

First Counsel (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Kristina J. C. Pekock, capital-campaign director at Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), to be president of the South Group Division.

Mark R. Fisher & Associates (Farmington Hills, Mich.): Appointed David C. Clinard, a recent graduate of Erskine College (Due West, S.C.) with a degree in business management, to be assistant director of public relations and development.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Connie Dean, director of sales and fund-raising services at Experian North America (Lincoln, Neb.), to be vice-president for account services.

Lewis Kennedy Associates (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Nova L. Hamar, assistant membership director at Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland), to be development associate.