People

Alfred U. (N.Y.): Appointed Carol B. Wittmeyer, director of corporation and foundation giving, to be associate vice-president for university relations.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Rosemont, Ill.): Appointed Sandra R. Gordon, director of communications at the American Academy of Dermatology (Schaumburg, Ill.), to be director of the department of public and media relations.

American Diabetes Association-Northern Illinois Area (Chicago): Appointed David Schreier, senior advancement officer at the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago, to be senior advancement officer.

American Leprosy Missions (Greenville, S.C.): Appointed Jody Bryson, interim vice-president for enrollment management and marketing at Newberry College (S.C.), to be Southeast area representative.

American Marketing Association Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Jan Pomerantz, vice-president of the Atlanta office of Ketchum Public Relations, to be executive director.

American Red Cross (Washington): Announced the resignation of Matt Branam, chief operating officer.

American Tinnitus Association (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Steve Laubacher, an organizational development consultant at the Catholic Youth Organization (Detroit), to be executive director.

American U. of Beirut (Lebanon): Appointed Sarah Porter Thayer, deputy director of capital campaigns at Tufts U. (Medford, Mass.), to be deputy vice-president for development and external affairs.

Amherst College (Mass.): Appointed Paul Statt, a consultant in Keene, N.H., to be director of media relations.

Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center (Chicago): Appointed Walter H. Hansen, executive director of the Fund for America’s Libraries (Chicago), to be special assistant to the president. The Anixter Center provides services to people with disabilities.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock): Appointed Ashley Hoffpauir, executive director of the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute (Little Rock), to be senior vice-president of major gifts, and Ann Linebarger, director of development at the Centers for Youth and Families (Little Rock), to be senior vice-president of annual gifts.

Arthritis Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed John H. Klippel, clinical director at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (Washington), to be medical director.

Baylor U. (Waco, Tex.): Appointed Howard H. Williams, Jr., minister of education and discipleship at Calvary Baptist Church (Waco), to be director of church relations.

Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.): Appointed Peggy Haywood Hair, director of foundation and corporate gifts at Gettysburg College (Pa.), to be associate vice-president for development and director of alumni affairs.

Center for Health Care Strategies (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Patricia J. Barta, manager of health-management programs at Prudential HealthCare (Roseland, N.J.), to be senior program officer for the Medicaid managed-care program.

The Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Appointed Reade Johnson, a consultant who specializes in direct marketing based in Richmond,to be direct-response manager.

Community College of Rhode Island (Warwick): Appointed Julie M. White, director of access to opportunity, to be director of institutional advancement.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Announced the resignation of Greg Barnard, director for public relations. He will now work as a senior vice-president for the community-development banking group at Bank of America (San Francisco), based in Washington.

Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania: Appointed Bruce Q. Whitehair, vice-president and manager of public relations at PNC Bank (Erie, Pa.), to be vice-president for development and marketing.

The Educational Alliance (New York): Appointed Robin Bernstein, chief program officer, to be executive director.

Episcopal Community Services (Philadelphia): Appointed Kelly McBride, associate at Fairmont Ventures (Philadelphia), to be grants manager.

Fresh Start Surgical Gifts (San Diego): Appointed Martin Alex Davis, managing vice-president at Pacific ENT Medical Group (Solana Beach, Cal.), to be executive director. Fresh Start provides reconstructive surgery to young people who otherwise could not afford or have access to it.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): Appointed Joanna Gurbada, phonathon coordinator at Hood College (Frederick, Md.), to be annual-giving officer, and Penny Jenkins, assistant director of annual giving at St. Mary’s College of Maryland (St. Mary’s City), to be assistant director of annual giving.

Gifts In Kind International (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Douglas McAllister, director of marketing and member communications at the Sleep Products Association (Alexandria), to be director of association and network partnerships; Judy Mercadal, director of resources development and Gifts In Kind coordinator at the United Way California Capital Region (Sacramento), to be senior manager for network services; Elizabeth Miller, executive director of Greater DC Cares (Washington), to be director of network and in-kind service development; and Patrick J. Taitano, account executive at the Washington office of Mutual of America (New York), to be senior manager for development and external relations.

The Holden Arboretum (Kirtland, Ohio): Appointed Susan E. Murray, director of college advancement for the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State U., to be director of development.

Iliff School of Theology (Denver): Appointed Lynda Wright, vice-president of the Colorado Episcopal Foundation (Denver), to be director of gift and estate planning.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Charles D. Brown, Jr., director of external affairs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), to be executive director of development for divisional programs; Pamela Buell, former director of leadership and regional gifts at Pennsylvania State U. (University Park), to be executive director of leadership and principal gifts; and Marc Cutright, former director of university relations at U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to be director of communications for the Center for Social Organization of Schools.

Lawrence U. (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed Jim Bennetts, manager of prospect research in the development office at the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.), to be director of advancement operations.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Steven Bradley, a program officer at Little Rock LISC (Ark.), to be program director in the Little Rock office, and Ray Breaux, a program officer at New Orleans LISC, to be program director in the New Orleans office.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Boston: Appointed Charlotte Beattie, executive director at the Japan Society of Boston, to be executive director.

Miss America Organization (Atlantic City): Announced the departure of Robert L. Beck, president and chief executive officer.

Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Peter Battistini, development officer at Consumer Credit Counseling Service (Indianapolis), to be national development director.

National Audubon Society (New York): Appointed Kevin Smith, business manager for the education and communications division, to be director of foundations and corporate relations.

National Catholic Development Conference (Hempstead, N.Y.): Appointed Henry A. Fernandez, a managing director at the Atlanta office of KPMG, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds George T. Holloway, who will retire at the end of the year.

National Children’s Cancer Society (St. Louis): Appointed Craig Doane, chief development officer at the National Kidney Foundation (New York), to be vice-president of development.

National-Louis U. (Chicago): Appointed Christian Anderson, director of communications at the Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Chicago), to be director of public relations; Susan J. Burnell, a development associate at the Alliance of Logan Square (Chicago), to be grant writer; and Robin Plotnick, executive director of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (Northbrook, Ill.), to be director of alumni relations. All three will be located at the university’s new Chicago campus.

The Neurosciences Institute (San Diego): Appointed David L. Mitchell, vice-president for development at the Oregon Health Sciences U. (Portland), to be director of institute relations.

Northampton County Area Community College (Pa.): Appointed Brian R. Leidy, senior director of development at Boy Scouts of America-Minsi Trails Council (Bethlehem, Pa.), to be director of alumni affairs and the annual fund.

Northeastern U. (Boston): Appointed Cornell L. Stinson, associate director of gift planning for the School of Law at Boston College, to be director of development and alumni/ae relations for the School of Law.

Orange County Performing Arts Center (Costa Mesa, Cal.): Appointed Michael L. Halpern, Western-states regional director at the Los Angeles office of American Friends of the Hebrew U. (New York), to be associate vice-president of development.

Pearl S. Buck International (Perkasie, Pa.): Appointed Ginger Leah Jones, director of annual giving at World Learning (Brattleboro, Vt.), to be director of development; Mark Parkison, chief of party for the Democracy Network program in Romania of World Learning (Brattleboro), to be international-program director; and Juliane Stookey, a recent graduate of the School of Social Work at Washington U. (St. Louis), to be sponsorship manager. PSBI is a development- and humanitarian-assistance organization that focuses on women and children.

Pierce College (Tacoma, Wash.): Appointed Dale Stowell, interim associate dean of college relations, to be director of college relations at Pierce College District 11.

Points of Light Foundation (Washington): Appointed Walter A. Smith III, director of sports marketing at Communities In Schools (Alexandria, Va.), to be vice-president for administration.

Regent U. (Virginia Beach, Va.): Appointed Lisa G. Mosley, director of parent relations at Hillsdale College (Mich.), to be vice-president for development.

Salvation Army-Northern New England Division (Portland, Me.): Appointed Thomas A. Fodor, chief business development officer at Visiting Nurse Service (Saco, Me.), to be divisional development director.

Search Institute (Minneapolis): Appointed Judy Taccogna, executive administrator of curriculum, instruction, and restructuring at the Beaverton School District (Ore.), to be director of the education sector. The Search Institute conducts research and devises programs on youth development.

Texas A&M U. (College Station): Appointed Ellyn Perrone, director of external relations, to be vice-president for governmental affairs.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Anne LeGassick Dunsmore, president of California Capital Campaigns (Los Angeles), also to be director of development for the medical sciences.

U. of Massachusetts at Boston: Appointed Charles P. Anderson, a fund-raising consultant based in Providence, R.I., to be director of major gifts for the College of Liberal Arts and the McCormack Institute; Gary S. Messinger, director of the law-school campaign at Boston U., to be director of major gifts for the Faculty of Sciences; and Mary M. Welch, risk management analyst at the Wellesley, Mass., office of Sun Life (Toronto and Montreal), to be director of major gifts for the College of Management.

United Way of Summit County (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Michael G. Gaffney, director of public relations at Health Hill Hospital for Children (Cleveland), to be director of marketing.

Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County (San Jose, Cal.): Appointed Mitsu Kumagai, executive director of the Seniors Council Area Agency on Aging (Santa Cruz, Cal.), to be chief executive officer.

Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston): Appointed Donald C. Main, associate vice-president of development, to be vice-president of development.

GRANT MAKERS

The Chicago Community Trust: Appointed Donald M. Stewart, president and chief executive officer of the College Board (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Mr. Stewart has been on sabbatical from the College Board this year, and has been serving as senior program officer for the education division and special assistant to the president at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He succeeds Bruce L. Newman, who is retiring in December after leading the foundation for 27 years.

The Colorado Trust (Denver): Appointed Ed Guajardo Lucero, associate director for the Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation and the Center for the Improvement of Public Management at the U. of Colorado at Denver, to be a program officer.

Girl’s Best Friend Foundation (Chicago): Announced the resignation of Betsy Brill, executive director, effective December 15.

Jacksonville Community Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Judy Herrin, director of development at the Jacksonville Symphony, to be philanthropic-services associate.

Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Richard A. Behrenhausen, vice-president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer, effective November 1. He will succeed Neal Creighton, who is retiring.

Minnesota Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Lynn S. Lyng, development director at the Women’s Funding Network (St. Paul), to be a gift planner.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Lawrence White, university counsel and assistant university secretary at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be program officer for the Venture Fund.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Norman Harrington, Jr., a principal at the Carrot Company (Burnsville, Minn.), to be director of development for the diversity endowment funds.

Shell Oil Company Foundation (Houston): Appointed Albert H. Myres, manager of Texas state-government affairs for Shell Oil Company, also to be vice-president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Marketing Association Foundation (Chicago): Elected Kenneth Bernhardt, a marketing professor at Georgia State U. (Atlanta), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Goodwill Industries Rehabilitation Center (Canton, Ohio): Elected William Bryan, general manager for order fulfillment at the Timken Company (Canton), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (New York): Elected Bonnie Lipton, chair of the Hadassah Medical Organization, to be national president.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Elected Robert E. Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury, to be board chairman.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington): Appointed Thomas M. Beauchamp, chief financial officer, to be president of The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., the publisher of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He succeeds Corbin Gwaltney, who continues as chairman of the board of directors and executive editor.

First Union (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Eileen M. Wilhem, managing director of the Northeast region based in Philadelphia, to be managing director of its charitable-funds services group, also based in Philadelphia.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Maggie Haggberg, founder of her own consulting firm, to be executive creative director and senior vice-president in the Los Angeles office.