People

Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado (Denver): Appointed Douglas G. Laub, former associate vice-president at City of Hope National Medical Center-Beckman Research Institute (Los Angeles), based in Denver, to be director of endowment and planned giving.

American Associates, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev (New York): Appointed Bernard C. Moscovitz, chief professional officer at National United Jewish Appeal (New York), to be executive vice-president.

Antioch New England Graduate School (Keene, N.H.): Appointed Ellen Leuchs, director of foundation and corporate giving and director of planning at Victim Services (New York), to be assistant to the president for development and alumni and external affairs.

B’nai B’rith International (Washington): Appointed Mel Galun, a consultant on capital and endowment campaigns at Joel S. Friedman and Associates (Harrison, N.Y.), to be national development director.

Carnegie Hall (New York): Appointed Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, director of the Cologne Philharmonic Hall (Germany), to be executive and artistic director. He succeeds Judith Arron, who died on December 18.

Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America (St. Peter, Minn.): Appointed Nancy Caldwell Mead, director of development, to be national director of Dollars for Scholars. CSFA also appointed Val Baertlein, a consultant to St. Stephen’s Church (Minneapolis), to be executive director of Minnesota Dollars for Scholars (Minneapolis), and Ann Worley, former associate director at People Assisting the Homeless (Los Angeles), to be executive director of Southern California Dollars for Scholars (Santa Ana).

Colgate Rochester Divinity School (N.Y.): Appointed John P. Gleason, vice-president for development at the Al Sigl Center (Rochester, N.Y.), to be vice-president for development.

The Computer Museum (Boston): Appointed Lucia Luce Quinn, vice-president for corporate-brand strategy and management in the worldwide sales and marketing department at Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, Mass.), to be executive director, and Ellen Spear, acting executive director, to be deputy director.

The Development Exchange (Minneapolis): Appointed Catherine Harvanko, manager of direct marketing at Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul), to be associate director of the Center for Membership Support.

Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres (New York): Appointed Damon Rosenzweig, a public-health specialist working in the Sudan, to be corporate- and foundation-relations officer.

Emporia State U. (Kan.): Appointed Boyce Baumgardner, chief operating officer and corporate secretary of the university foundation, to be executive director of university advancement.

Ferrum College (Va.): Appointed Bev Fitzpatrick, a partner at the Issues Management Group (Roanoke, Va.) and assistant vice-president for governmental relations at Radford U. (Va.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement, and Ed Harriman, director of development, to be associate vice-president for development.

Fund for Educational Excellence (Baltimore): Sister Rosemarie T. Nassif, president and executive director, is resigning this spring to become president of Holy Names College (Oakland, Cal.).

Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Patricia Wilson, director of development and external affairs at the Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education (San Mateo, Cal.), to be executive director.

GuideStar (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Barbara Link, principal at Farm Works (Fairfield, Conn.), an on-line project for organic farmers, to be vice-president for new-media services. GuideStar is a non-profit organization that provides information on the programs and finances of American charities.

Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis): Appointed James Houghton, artistic director at the Signature Theatre Company (New York), to be artistic adviser.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Michael Crook, director of grassroots outreach at the Evangelical Environmental Network (Philadelphia), based in Richmond, Ind., to be director of media relations, and Mike Jones, deputy director of communications and information management at the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio), to be director of the Information Resource Center.

Heritage Foundation (Washington): Appointed Herb B. Berkowitz, vice-president, to be director of the new Center for Media and Public Policy, and Paul Gallagher, director of communications at the Center for Jewish and Christian Values (Washington), to be senior writer in the public-relations department.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Brigitte Savage, director for membership, to be vice-president for membership and development.

Indiana State U. Foundation (Terre Haute): Appointed Melony Sacopulos, managing director and director of planned giving, to be general counsel of the university.

Irvine Barclay Theatre (Cal.): Appointed Domenick Ietto, director of development at the Old Globe Theatre (San Diego), to be vice-president.

James Madison U. (Harrisonburg, Va.): Appointed Mitchell L. Moore, vice-president for development and public relations at Sweet Briar College (Va.), to be vice-president for development and alumni relations.

Lawyers Alliance for New York: Appointed Sean C. Delany, legal director, to be executive director, effective June 30.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Michael Rubinger, chief operating officer, to be interim president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Paul S. Grogan, who recently became vice-president for government, community, and public affairs at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.).

Longy School of Music (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed John Marksbury, director of foundation and government support at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to be director of development.

Meharry Medical College (Nashville): Appointed John H. Britton, former director of public relations at Bowie State U. (Md.), to be associate vice-president for marketing and communications.

Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): Appointed Anita Lynn, director of capital campaigns at Valley Forge Military Academy (Wayne, Pa.), to be deputy executive director for development.

Metropolitan Association for Philanthropy (St. Louis): Appointed David R. Ashenhurst, former executive director of the Nord Family Foundation (Oberlin, Ohio), to be president.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles): Appointed Katherine W. Lee, development associate at the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, Cal.), to be media-relations coordinator.

Museum of Jewish Heritage: a Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York): Appointed Abby R. Spilka, vice-president of marketing at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, to be public-relations manager.

National U. (La Jolla, Cal.): Appointed Timothy Larrick, deputy director for institutional development at the San Diego Natural History Museum, to be vice-president for development and alumni relations.

Nazareth College (Rochester, N.Y.): Appointed Linda G. Gillim, former director of development and public affairs at the George Eastman House (Rochester, N.Y.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Northeastern Illinois U. (Chicago): Appointed Melvin C. Terrell, vice-president for student affairs, to be vice-president for student affairs and public affairs.

Partnerships With Industry (San Diego): Appointed Vickie Cap, program director at the organization’s North County office (Oceanside, Cal.), to be associate executive director, and Deena Feinman, project director and grants coordinator at the Council of Jewish Federations (San Diego), to be development director.

The Preservation Society of Newport County (Newport, R.I.): Appointed Trudy Coxe, Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

Quest Inc. (Apopka, Fla.): Appointed Benito Juan Alomia, director of development at the Center for Economic and Social Rights (New York), to be director of development. Quest Inc. provides services for disabled people.

Quinnipiac College (Hamden, Conn.): Appointed James E. Kirby, Jr., senior associate director of undergraduate admissions, to be director of alumni affairs.

Reed College (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Hugh Porter, director of development, to be vice-president for development.

Rhodes College (Memphis): Appointed John W. Kerr, associate vice-president for public relations at Saint Louis U., to be executive director of communications.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Patricia Ryan, director of corporate gifts at Norwich U. (Northfield, Vt.), to be director of government, corporate, and foundation relations.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Susan Avila, former vice-president for development at California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco), to be director of development, and Katie Koch, former controller and acting finance director at the San Francisco Symphony, to be chief financial officer.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition at the Association of Research Libraries (Washington): Appointed Alison Buckholtz, a consultant in Washington, to be communications manager.

The Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Announced the retirement of I. Michael Heyman, effective later this year.

State U. of New York at Albany: Appointed Robert R. Ashton, vice-president for college relations at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.), to be vice-president for university advancement.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Michael C. Eicher, associate vice-chancellor for development, to be vice-chancellor for external affairs.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Daniel P. Thiel, director of development at Arkansas State U. (State University), to be associate vice-president for development and alumni affairs.

U. of Miami: Appointed Carlos Harrison, a former Fox News Channel correspondent (Miami), to be associate director of media relations.

U. of Mississippi (Oxford): Announced the retirement of Edwin E. Meek, assistant vice-chancellor for public relations and marketing.

U. of Nebraska Foundation (Lincoln): Appointed Clark Rosenlof, associate director of development, to be assistant vice-president of its Omaha office.

U. of North Carolina at Greensboro: Announced the retirement of Wilson M. Davis, director of the university news service.

U. of Southern California (Los Angeles): Appointed Millie Loeb, director of corporate and foundation relations at California State U. at Northridge, to be director of foundation relations for the School of Medicine.

United States International U. (San Diego): Appointed Nancy Birdwell, director of development for corporate and foundation relations at U. of Texas at Austin, to be vice-president for development.

Volunteers of America-Southwest California Corporation (San Diego): Appointed Gerald McFadden, president and chief executive officer of Volunteers of America-Oregon (Portland), to be president and chief executive officer.

Warren Wilson College (Asheville, N.C.): Appointed Chase M. Jeffords, executive director of Circle Players (Nashville), to be director of the annual fund.

GRANT MAKERS

Chicago Tribune: Appointed Frank Carlos Gihan, home-office director of public and community affairs at the McDonald’s Corporation (Chicago), to be director of community relations, and Byron White, a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, to be manager of community relations.

CNG Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed James C. Mesloh, director of the foundation and director of corporate relations at the Consolidated Natural Gas Company, to be executive director. He succeeds Ray N. Ivey, who is retiring.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Rebecca Arno, communications manager at the Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Cal.), to be communications officer.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Deborah Marrow, Getty Grant Program director, also to be interim director of the Getty Research Institute.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Michael O’Keefe, executive vice-president and chief executive officer, has been appointed by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to be Commissioner of Human Services (St. Paul). The foundation also announced the appointment of Richard J. Scott, director of finance and administration at the Guthrie Theater Foundation (Minneapolis), to be director of finance and administration. He will assume the administrative responsibilities of Marilyn J. Pidany, vice-president for administration and corporate secretary, who is retiring after 23 years at the foundation.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York): Paul Mellon, co-founder, died February 1 at his home in Upperville, Va. He was 91.

Monsanto Fund (St. Louis): Appointed Deborah J. Patterson, director of corporate responsibility at the Monsanto Company, to be president. She succeeds John Mason, who retired February 1.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Cal.): Announced the resignation of Jennifer Kane, communications director.

West Central Initiative (Fergus Falls, Minn.): Appointed Nancy Straw, director of business initiatives, to be executive director.

Wood Fund of Chicago: Appointed Todd Dietterle, director of the Community Organizing Grant Program, to be vice-president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

AARP Andrus Foundation (Washington): Elected James G. Parkel, former president and chief executive officer of the IBM International Foundation (Armonk, N.Y.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

The Community Foundation (Richmond, Va.): Elected the following to the Board of Governors: Joseph L. Antrim III, executive vice-president at Davenport & Company LLC (Richmond); Waller H. Horsley, principal at the law firm of Horsley & Horsley (Richmond); and Fred T. Tattersall, managing director at the Tattersall Advisory Group (Richmond).

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (Conn.): Elected Julia McNamara, president of Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, Conn.), and Jerome Meyer, a member of the clinical faculty at Yale New Haven Hospital and a private psychiatrist, to the Board of Directors.

Council on Economic Priorities (New York): Elected Gavin Anderson, a former executive at KPMG Peat Marwick (Montvale, N.J.) and the Colgate-Palmolive Company (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Fiscal and Administrative Officers Group of Community Foundations (Washington): Elected Thomas S. Hay, vice-president of finance and administration at the Pittsburgh Foundation, to be chairman.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Elected Cynthia Hardin Milligan, dean of the College of Business at the U. of Nebraska (Lincoln), to be a trustee.

Legacy Fund of Hamilton County (Carmel, Ind.): Elected the following to its Board of Governors: Douglas P. Conner, principal of Cardinal Ventures (Indianapolis); Richard Crosser, president and chief operating officer of Crossmann Communities (Indianapolis); Sherry Kittle, a community volunteer; Thomas A. Meyers, senior vice-president and director of marketing at Conesco Capital Management (Carmel); Pam Robinson, a community volunteer; and Steven J. Schenck, president and chief executive officer of Union Planters Bank (Indianapolis).

National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver): Elected Larry Gelfond, president and managing director of the accounting firm of Gelfond Hochstadt Pangburn & Company (Denver), to be chair-elect of the Board of Directors.

Oregon Health Sciences Foundation (Portland): Elected George J. Passadore, president of Wells Fargo’s operations in Oregon, Idaho, and southwestern Washington, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

The Quantum Foundation (West Palm Beach, Fla.): Elected William A. Meyer, chairman of the Meyer Jabar Hotel (West Palm Beach) and chairman of Co-operative Retirement Services of America (Memphis), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

The Rosenberg Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Bill Ong Hing, executive director of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (San Francisco) and a visiting professor of law at the U. of California at Davis, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

WNYC (New York): Elected Eduardo Mestre, co-head of investment banking and vice-chairman at Salomon Smith Barney (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees, effective April 8.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Jim Kaltenbach, senior account executive, to be account supervisor.

The Whelan Group (New York): Appointed Michael Redmond, executive director of community development at Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor (Garrison, N.Y.), to be senior consultant.