People

American Society of Association Executives Foundation (Washington): Appointed Marsha Rhea, vice-president, to be executive vice-president and chief operating officer.

Austin Peay State U. (Clarksville, Tenn.): Appointed Lenora P. Hoffman, assistant vice-chancellor for development at U. of Tennessee at Martin, to be vice-president for development and university relations.

Blackburn College (Carlinville, Ill.): Appointed Jerry C. Anderson, project manager for public relations at Genetics Corporation (DeKalb, Ill.), to be director of public relations, and Sarah E. Pruitt, development associate, to be director of alumni and development.

Break Away: the Alternative Break Coalition (Nashville): Appointed Jill Piacitelli, service-learning coordinator at the College of Eastern Utah (Price), to be program director. Break Away promotes community-service activities for college students during spring and other school breaks.

Brooks School (North Andover, Mass.): Appointed Karen Callahan, director of leadership gifts at Northfield Mount Hermon School (Northfield, Mass.), to be director of development and alumni relations.

California School of Professional Psychology (San Francisco): Appointed Thomas E. Long, business director at Los Lupenos de San Jose (Cal.), to be director of development.

Community College of Baltimore County (Baltimore): Appointed Linda C. Jolly, interim president of Howard Community College (Columbia, Md.), to be vice-chancellor for institutional advancement.

The Concord Community Music School (N.H.): Appointed Betsy McNamara, director of resource development at the Concord Area Trust for Community Housing, to be director of development.

Connecticut Opera (Hartford): Appointed John W. Fichtel, director of marketing and development at the Foxborough Regional Center for the Performing Arts (Mass.), to be director of development.

Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Alan A. Rubin, former president of the National Park Foundation (Washington), to be executive director of Global Goodwill Inc. GGI will work to establish employment and job-placement programs for disabled people outside the United States and Canada.

Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals Foundation (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Susan R. Besanceney, director of ambulatory women’s-health services at Grant/Riverside, to be executive director.

Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis): Appointed Jon Haddorff, director of individual giving at the Houston Grand Opera, to be director of individual giving.

Houston Grand Opera: Appointed Melinda Guthrie, assistant to the director of individual giving, to be director of individual giving.

I-CAR Education Foundation (Rolling Meadows, Ill.): Appointed Paul G. Slomski, marketing manager at Supreme Software (Woodstock, Ill.), to be associate director of development.

Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, N.M.): Appointed Melissa Tallent, former development officer and director of the Northeast regional office at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (New York), to be capital-campaign director.

Jawanio Inc. (New City, N.Y.): Appointed Jeffrey A. Kassover, director of development at the National Conference of Christians and Jews-Greater New York Region (New York), to be director of development. Jawanio is the Rockland County affiliate of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State.

Kinder-Mourn (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Tracy Lent, director of development at Tiger Haven (Kingston, Tenn.), an endangered-species sanctuary, to be director of development. Kinder-Mourn provides support and counseling services for bereaved parents and grieving children.

Louisburg College (N.C.): Appointed Betty Sue Taylor, director of donor services at Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), to be director of development.

Loyola U. New Orleans: Appointed Thomas P. Weatherall, former director of alumni relations at St. Peter’s College (Jersey City), to be director of alumni and parent relations.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge): Appointed Kathryn A. Willmore, secretary of the corporation, executive assistant to the president, and director of public-relations services, to be vice-president and secretary of the corporation.

National Building Museum (Washington): Appointed G. Martin Moeller, Jr., executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (Washington), to be executive vice-president.

National Philanthropic Trust (Jenkintown, Pa.): Appointed Eileen R. Heisman, senior vice-president, to be president. She succeeds Clark D. Pitcairn, who will focus on philanthropic projects within the Pitcairn Trust Company, which serves as the administrator and lead investment manager for NPT.

New School for Social Research (New York): Appointed Michael Seltzer, program officer in the governance and civil-society pro gram at the Ford Foundation (New York), to be acting chair of the Nonprofit Management Program at the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy.

North Carolina A&T State U. (Greensboro): Appointed Mable S. Scott, director of public relations, to be assistant vice-chancellor.

Northeast Louisiana U. (Monroe): Appointed Richard L. Baxter, associate vice-president for advancement, to be vice-president for university advancement and external affairs.

NSFRE Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Dave M. Coyne, acting director and former senior coordinator of annual giving, to be director.

Operation Smile (Norfolk, Va.): Appointed James Benefiel, director of health economics at the Johns Hopkins U.’s Employer Health Plan (Baltimore), to be vice-president for finance and administration.

Philadelphia@Work: Appointed Richard Greenwald, vice-president for government relations at AmericaWorks (New York), to be chief executive officer. Philadelphia@Work is a new non-profit group dedicated to training welfare recipients for permanent jobs.

Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area: Appointed Stephen E. Trombley, acting president and senior vice-president, to be president and chief executive officer.

Project HOPE (Millwood, Va.): Appointed Jack Bode, vice-president for human resources and public affairs at the International Rescue Committee (New York), to be vice-president for development and communications.

Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Ind.): Appointed Adeline Stefanac Cashore, assistant director of alumnae relations, to be director of donor relations.

Salem Academy and College (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Patty Burkart, art director at R. L. Reid and Company (Winston-Salem), to be director of publications.

San Jose State U. (Cal.): Appointed Mary L. Worth, business manager of the life-sciences division at E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Cal.), to be chief operating officer of the SJSU Foundation.

Scleroderma Research Foundation (Santa Barbara, Cal.): Appointed Carol Brown, director of development, marketing, and communications at Gilda’s Club (New York), to be executive director.

SHOPA Foundation for Educational Excellence (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed Scott Walters, former assistant executive director of the Girl Scouts of America-Black Hawk Council (Madison, Wis.), to be executive director.

U. of Chicago: Appointed Al Chambers, director of strategic issues at Ford Motor Company (Detroit), to be vice-president for university relations.

U. of Illinois (Urbana): Appointed Susan H. Trebach, director of news and public affairs at U. of Wisconsin at Madison, to be executive director of public affairs.

Vesper Society (Oakland, Cal.): Appointed Judith K. Larsen, vice-president of marketing research and development at ACNielsen (Chicago), to be president. The Vesper Society is a faith-based, non-profit group involved in social issues, including health care and democracy in Central America.

Volunteers of America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Carl Ericson, manager of external relations at the Columbia Energy Group (Reston, Va.), to be director of public relations.

Xavier U. of Louisiana (New Orleans): Appointed Karl Turner, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board (New Orleans), to be associate vice-president for development.

GRANT MAKERS

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Amy Fackelmann, former program coordinator at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be donor-services officer, and Nicole Jones, special assistant and National Urban Fellow at the Indianapolis Foundation, and Leslie Pollner, a fellow in the CORO Fellows Program (Los Angeles), to be program associates.

The Central Indiana Community Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Rosemary Dorsa, program director, to be vice-president for programs, and Gregory E. Lynn, vice-president for programs, to be vice-president for administration and facilities. The foundation also named Jennifer Pope Baker, director of development at the St. Francis Healthcare Foundation (Indianapolis), to be director of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.

The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Karen D. Stone, director of development and president of the U. of New Mexico Foundation (Albuquerque), to be vice-president for development.

Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Cal.): Appointed Robert D. Rosendale, former chief financial officer and vice-president for finance and administration at the Rhode Island Foundation (Providence), to be vice-president for investment and finance and chief financial officer.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Joseph A. Aguerreberre, Jr., program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program, to be deputy director; Omotade Akin Aina, deputy executive secretary for publications at the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (Dakar, Senegal), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in Nairobi, Kenya; Deborah A. Barry, founding director of El Programa Salvadoreno de Investigacion Sobre el Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (San Salvador), to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in Mexico City; Queen E. Booker, an independent consultant and graduate student at the U. of Mississippi (Oxford), to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Richard A. Fehnel, program officer, to be acting representative for South Africa and Namibia, based in Johannesburg; Sharon Lapp, senior social scientist at the Fayoum Rural Health and Family Planning Project-Social Planning, Analysis and Administration Consultants (Fayoum, Egypt), to be program officer, based in Cairo; Lisa J. Messersmith, country program adviser in Bangladesh for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in Hanoi, Vietnam; Aida Opoku-Mensah, regional director at the Centre for Public and Policy Debate for Southern Africa (Lusaka, Zambia), to be program officer for the education, media, arts, and culture program, based in Lagos, Nigeria; Gaby Oré Aguilar, staff attorney for Latin American and Caribbean projects at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy International Program (New York), to be program officer for the humandevelopment and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in Santiago, Chile; Mark A. Robinson, a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (East Sussex, England), to be program officer, based in New Delhi; Sarah F. Spencer, grants administrator in the grants administration and operations unit of the office of management services, to be grants administrator in the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program; and Margaret B. Wilkerson, director of the Center for Theater Arts and chair of the dramatic-arts department at U. of California at Berkeley, to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program. The foundation also appointed Amir A. Abbasi, investment accountant, to be senior investment accountant in the financial-services department; Jean R. Bergquist, senior corporate-procurement specialist at Ogilvy & Mather (New York), to be purchasing manager for the office of administrative services; Robyn R. Colasuonno, operations assistant, to be grants administrator-reporting unit in the office of management services; Harry Kavros, chief administrative officer and chief operating officer of the Global Fixed Income Research and Economics Departments at Credit Suisse First Boston, to be manager of the office of management services; Mary C. Loftus, director of public relations at the Kent Place School (Summit, N.J.), to be manager of dissemination and administration in the office of communications; and Isidoros E. Tsamblakos, senior investment accountant, to be banking manager in the financial-services department.

The Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Beth Tuttle, director of marketing and communications for the Newseum, to be vice-president of marketing for the Freedom Forum and the Newseum.

The Stewart Huston Charitable Trust (Coatesville, Pa.): Appointed Scott G. Huston, program assistant, to be program director.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Gail L. Imig, associate vice-provost at Michigan State U. (East Lansing), to be program director for food systems and rural development, and Rebecca E. Mahlunge, directorate manager at the Norfolk Mental Health Care National Health Trust (Norwich, England), to be executive assistant to the director of Africa programs at the foundation’s office in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Michigan Women’s Foundation (Livonia): Appointed Sue Wagner, former interim executive director of the Lansing Principal Shopping District (Mich.), to be director of major gifts and fund-development coordinator.

Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Cal.): Appointed Lynn Alvarez, a program officer at the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles), to be a program officer; Regina Argueta-Misra, health and dental specialist at the San Mateo County Head Start Program (Cal.), to be grants administrator; Ellen Clear, program officer, to be senior program officer; Maureen Rittenberg, a program assistant in the continuing-studies and summer-session office at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Cal.), to be a development associate; and Christina Sutherland, senior program officer, to be director of programs.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Appointed Margie Gart, a volunteer and former marketing director at the Children’s Museum of Denver, to be project manager for the Endowment Challenge, a new effort to build the endowments of Jewish organizations and synagogues in Denver and Boulder, Colo.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Chimes (Baltimore): Elected Stephen S. Kramer, vice-president and regional trust officer at First Union National Bank (Baltimore), to be chairperson of the Board of Directors. The Chimes provides support services to enable disabled people to live independently.

Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America (St. Peter, Minn.): Elected Patrick J. Ellingsworth, vice-president and general tax officer at the Atlantic Richfield Company (Los Angeles), to be chair of the Governing Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

DMW Worldwide (Wayne, Pa.): Appointed Barbara Hagen, senior vice-president and account group head at the McClure Group (Wayne), to be president of the St. Louis office.

Vantage Direct Marketing Services (Brookline, Mass.): Appointed Lynn Edmonds, senior vice-president and general manager of the fund-raising division at Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.), to be executive vice-president and general manager.