People

American Heart Association, Houston/Gulf Coast District: Appointed Deborah Ortiz, national director of agency-fund development at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Texas (Houston), to be executive director.

Art & Creativity for Healing (Laguna Niguel, Calif.): Appointed Michelle Ray, director of resource development at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest County (Temecula, Calif.), to be director of development.

Asian Art Museum (San Francisco): Appointed Christopher Hest, director of philanthropy at the Nature Conservancy-California Chapter (San Francisco), to be deputy director and director of external affairs.

Boy Scouts of America, Boston Minutemen Council: Appointed Matthew K. Thornton, chief executive officer of the Boy Scouts of America, Monmouth Council (Morganville, N.J.), to be chief executive officer.

Brenau U. (Gainesville, Ga.): Appointed Mary Melissa Gardner, lead staff and event-marketing representative at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis), to be development officer, and Jack Matthew Thomas, associate director of major gifts at Ohio Wesleyan U. (Delaware, Ohio), to be director of development.

Camp Nejeda Foundation (Stillwater, N.J.): Appointed Philip E. De Rea, program director for the Weis Ecology Center at the New Jersey Audubon Society (Bernardsville), to be executive director. The foundation operates a residential summer camp for children with diabetes.

Catalog for Giving of New York City: Appointed Susan Wyant, senior vice president for development and marketing at the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, to be executive director. The Catalog raises money to support other organizations’ programs for at-risk youth.

Chatham College (Pittsburgh): Appointed Samantha M. Swift, executive director of individual giving, to be director of development and planned giving.

Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center: Appointed Lynn Davis, executive director of Dallas Challenge, to be chief executive officer.

Family Pathways of Colorado (Wheat Ridge): Appointed Dana Rinderknecht, director of development at Work Options for Women (Denver), to be executive director.

Florida Atlantic U. (Boca Raton): Appointed E.R. (Jay) Browning, director of development at the Central Florida Speech and Hearing Center (Lakeland), to be director of development for the College of Business.

Gemological Institute of America (Carlsbad, Calif.): Appointed Angelo Turner, associate director of development at the Scripps Health Foundation (La Jolla, Calif.), to be director of endowment for research and education.

Harvard U., Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Meredith Pierce Hunter, manager of principal gifts at the Center for Women & Enterprise (Boston), to be director of advancement outreach and the office of alumnae services.

Houston Grand Opera: Appointed Anthony Freud, general director of the Welsh National Opera (Cardiff, Wales), to be general director and chief executive officer, effective March 6, 2006. He will succeed David Gockley, who is resigning to become general director of the San Francisco Opera.

Institute for Medical Technology Innovation (Washington): Appointed Michael Infurnari, vice president and manager of the Washington office at Community Counselling Service, to be vice president for development.

The Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Joshua Else, director of major gifts at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be assistant dean for development for the Sheridan Libraries.

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit): Appointed Mary Alice Bankert, major-gifts director at the Hospice of Michigan (Detroit), to be director of major gifts.

KCET/Community Television of Southern California (Los Angeles): Appointed Maral Chalian, special programs manager at the United Armenian Fund (Glendale, Calif.), to be director of development.

Lake Erie College (Painesville, Ohio): Appointed Debra Blanchard Remington, director of communications at the Painesville City Local School District, to be director of development.

Metro Meals on Wheels (Minneapolis): Appointed Carolyn H. Tonneson, president of the Professional Resource Corporation (Minneapolis), to be executive director.

NetAid (New York): Appointed Kimberly A. Hamilton, director of program planning and external relations at the Migration Policy Institute (Washington), to be president. She succeeds David Morrison, who has resigned to become the communications director at the United Nations Development Programme (New York). NetAid encourages young people to work for social justice.

New England Foundation for the Arts (Boston): Appointed Jane Forde, executive director of Arts Rochester (Gonic, N.H.), to be manager of the National Dance Project.

New Hampshire Public Radio (Concord): Appointed Elizabeth Gardella, project director at American Public Media (St. Paul), to be president and general manager. She will succeed Mark D. Handley, who is retiring.

92nd Street Y (New York): Appointed Lynne Gugenheim Gregory, acting director of development and former associate director of development, to be director of development.

Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (Washington): Appointed Michael Lebby, director of corporate and technical strategy at Bookham Technology (San Jose, Calif.), to be executive director.

Partners in Public Education (Memphis): Appointed Joanna E. Curtis, director of development and communications at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis, to be development director.

Partnerships With Industry (Mission Valley, Calif.): Appointed Mark I. Berger, principal of Mark I. Berger & Associates (San Diego), to be president and chief executive officer.

Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pa.): Appointed Jennifer M. Schlener, interim director and former administrative director of development and alumni relations at the medical center, to be director of development and alumni relations for health affairs.

Radio Free Asia (Washington): Announced the retirement of Richard Richter, founding president. Libby Liu, vice president for administration and finance, will serve as acting president. This public-radio station broadcasts news in several different languages to listeners in East Asia.

Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation (Rochester, Minn.): Appointed Monica J. Herman, director of institutional advancement at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary (Winona, Minn.), to be director of development.

Roswell Park Alliance Foundation (Buffalo, N.Y.): Appointed Jeffrey L. Yates, vice president at the Niagara Lutheran Health Foundation (Buffalo), to be director of individual giving.

Rotary International (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar, former owner of Gust. F. Bratt AB (Göteborg, Sweden), to be president.

Scholarship America (Minneapolis): Appointed Dawn M. Fish, director of development at the Minnesota Medical Foundation at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis), to be vice president of advancement and communications.

State U. of New York College of Technology at Alfred: Appointed Colleen Brade, director of donor relations and stewardship at the State U. of New York at Buffalo, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Staten Island Academy (N.Y.): Appointed June-Marie Colasuonno, director of annual giving at the Berkeley Carroll School (New York), to be director of annual giving; Alice N. Doyle, senior account supervisor at LVM Group (New York), to be director of special events; and Maureen McShane, director of communications, to be director of institutional advancement.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Jenifer Breyer, project manager for the university’s Renee Crown University Honors Program, to be associate director of development for the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science; Lisa Moore, vice president for development and marketing at the Central New York Community Foundation (Syracuse), to be director of gift planning in the Office of Gift Planning; Stephen Savage, senior associate in university advancement at Texas Christian U. (Fort Worth), to be director of development for the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science; and Jake Tanksley, strategic staffing manager in human resources and the Distribution Americas aftermarket division at Carrier Corporation (Farmington, Conn.), to be director of human resources for the Division of Institutional Advancement.

Tacoma Art Museum (Wash.): Appointed Stephanie A. Stebich, assistant director at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, to be director.

TB Alliance (New York): Appointed Nina Schwalbe, director of international public-health programs at the Open Society Institute (New York), to be director of policy.

Third Sector New England (Boston): Appointed Andrew Cox-Stavros, director of finance at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Cambridge, Mass.), to be chief financial officer.

U. of Richmond (Va.): Appointed Srinivas Pulavarti, director and global head of investment strategy at Citigroup (New York), to be chief investment officer for the endowment.

United States Institute of Peace (Washington): Appointed Patricia Powers Thomson, partner in charge of the justice and courts account at IBM Business Consulting (Washington), to be executive vice president.

Wichita State U. Foundation (Kansas): Appointed Terre Johnson, chief development officer and vice president at the Via Christi Foundation (Wichita), to be associate vice president for development.

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (New York): Appointed Gretchen Dykstra, commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Yale-New Haven Hospital (Conn.): Appointed Susan St. Onge, executive director of development for the Taussig Cancer Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, to be chief development officer.

Young Audiences New York: Appointed Gretchen Wagner Liga, director of institutional support at the American Ballet Theatre (New York), to be director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Alvertha Penny, interim vice president of programs, to be vice president of programs.

Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Eugene Chan, senior program officer, to be director of technology, and Gloria Rubio-Cortes, vice president and chief operating officer, to be vice president and director for external relations and communication.

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund (Boston): Appointed David L. Giunta, senior vice president at Fidelity Personal Investments (Boston), to be president.

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Yolanda Knight, assistant director of the department of postsecondary education at Chicago Public Schools, to be a program officer for education grant making, and Sydney R. Sidwell, a program officer for culture grant making at the Joyce Foundation (Chicago), to be a program officer for arts and culture grant making.

Roy A. Hunt Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Beatrice C. Carter, program officer, to be executive director. She succeeds Torrence M. Hunt Jr., who has retired.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York): Appointed Don Michael Randel, president of the U. of Chicago, to be president, effective July 1, 2006. He will succeed William G. Bowen, who is retiring.

Osteopathic Heritage Foundations (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Lisa Eible, director of Heritage at Home at Wexner Heritage Village (Columbus), to be a program officer for community-health grant making.

Public Relations Society of America Foundation (New York): Appointed Ival Grant-Williams, senior project manager of loans and grants at the Empire State Development Corporation (New York), to be grants-development manager.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Rowzat M. Shipchandler, a fund-distribution manager and community-building strategies program manager at the Greater Twin Cities United Way (Minneapolis), to be manager of the Facing Race program.

Skoll Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Richard Fahey, controller, to be chief operating officer.

Triangle Community Foundation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Appointed Andrea Bazan-Manson, executive director of El Pueblo (Raleigh, N.C.), to be president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Marketing Association Foundation (Chicago): Elected Michelle Elster, vice president at Rabin Research Company (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Clowes Fund (Indianapolis): Elected Jonathan J. Clowes, an artist and founder of Clowes Sculpture (Acworth, N.H.), and Lynn L. Clowes, director of the cultural-competency group at the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition (Concord), to the Board of Directors.

Goodwill Industries International (Rockville, Md.): Elected Gerald L. Davis, president of Goodwill Industries of Central Texas (Austin), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

MaleSurvivor: National Organization Against Male Sexual Victimization (Washington): Elected Murray David Schane, a psychiatrist in New York, to be president of the Board of Directors.

North Carolina Poetry Society (Hope Mills): Elected Pat Riviere-Seel, first vice president for programs, to be president.

Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services (Los Angeles): Elected Paul Scott Williams, a lawyer in Long Beach, Calif., to be president of the Board of Directors.

Outward Bound (Atlanta): Elected Arthur M. Blank, co-founder of Home Depot (Atlanta), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Resources for Child Caring (St. Paul): Elected Karen L. Lee, human-relations manager at Deluxe Corporation (St. Paul), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Rotary International (Evanston, Ill.): Elected Frank J. Devlyn, president of the Rotary Club of Anáhuac (Mexico City), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Seattle Foundation: Elected Stewart Landefeld, a lawyer at Perkins Coie (Seattle), to be chair of the Board of Trustees. Also elected to the board: Steve Davis, president and chief executive officer of Corbis (Seattle); Gary S. Kaplan, president and chief executive officer of Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle); Donna Lou, grants administrator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle); Mary Pugh, president and chief executive officer of Pugh Capital Management (Seattle); and Bradford L. Smith, senior vice president of general counsel at Microsoft (Redmond, Wash.).

Toy Industry Foundation (New York): Elected Ellen Block, a community volunteer, to the Board of Trustees.