People

Brevard College (N.C.): Appointed Jeanne Plowden Hall, executive director of the South Carolina Council for Conflict Resolution (Columbia), to be director of gift planning, and Brett L. Woods, a development officer at Spring Hill College (Mobile, Ala.), to be a resource-development officer.

California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco): Appointed Frederick Peck, vice president for development and marketing at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (Portland), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America (St. Peter, Minn.): Appointed Barbara E. Arnold, a manager of community relations at Motorola (Schaumburg, Ill.), to be vice president of public affairs and communications.

Conservation International (Washington): Appointed Karen Ziffer, vice president of development and communications, to be senior vice president for resources and communications.

Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed George W. Kessinger, president and chief executive officer of Goodwill Industries of Orange County (Santa Ana, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer, effective June 1.

Haverford College (Pa.): Appointed Kevin F. Quinn, major-gift officer at St. Joseph’s U. (Philadelphia), to be director of major gifts.

Holden Arboretum (Kirtland, Ohio): Appointed Elaine A. Price, quality manager for human resources at GE Lighting (Cleveland), to be executive director.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Stephen Sagner, director of development at Good Shepherd Services (New York), to be director of development.

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago): Appointed Jean M. Franczyk, manager of faculty training at Unext.com (Deerfield, Ill.), to be vice president of education.

Netaid.org Foundation (New York): Appointed Emma Oxford, director of the David Rockefeller Fellows Program at the New York City Partnership, to be vice president for partnership development. Netaid.org offers Internet users ways to volunteer or donate money to help alleviate global poverty.

North Harris Montgomery Community College District Foundation (Houston): Appointed Deborah B. Lackey, development manager for the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion of the Center for the Performing Arts (Woodlands, Tex.), to be executive director.

ONE/Northwest (Seattle): Appointed Gideon Rosenblatt, product-unit manager for the small-business division at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Wash.), to be executive director. This group provides technology assistance to environmental groups in the Pacific Northwest.

Partnership for the Homeless (New York): Appointed Jonathan Hafetz, a clerk for Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Boston), to be a staff attorney; Karla Momberger, a May graduate from the School of Law at Columbia U. (New York), to be a staff attorney; and Daniel Nagin, a staff attorney for the HIV Advocacy Project of the Queens Legal Services Corporation (New York), to be director of the Positive Step program.

Project HOPE (Millwood, Va.): Appointed John P. Howe III, president of the U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, to be president and chief executive officer.

Roger Williams U. (Bristol, R.I.): Appointed Michael R. Franco, chief development officer at the New Bedford Oceanarium (Mass.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Safari Club International Foundation (Tucson): Appointed Peter F. Hunter, a consultant based in Kula, Hawaii, to be director of development at this hunter-advocate organization that also engages in conservation and humanitarian activities.

Sharp HealthCare Foundation (San Diego): Appointed Jeanne Hunsaker, development officer for event planning and donor relations, to be director of development, and Marsha Lubick, director of campaigns and communications, to be vice president of gift planning and major gifts.

U. of the Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed Rona Sebastian, head of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles), to be vice president of strategic initiatives.

U. of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth: Appointed Mark Slaughter, former director of development for the School of Medicine at U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

UJAFederation of New York: Appointed Louise B. Greilsheimer, director of development at the Dalton School (New York), to be vice president for agency and external relations. Ms. Greilsheimer also served in the volunteer position of president for the UJAFederation from 1994 to 1998.

GRANT MAKERS

Benton Foundation (Washington): Announced the resignation of Larry Kirkman, president, effective July 1, when he joins American U. (Washington) as dean of the School of Communication.

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee): Announced the retirement of Michael S. Joyce, chief executive officer, effective on July 5.

Broad Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Melissa Bonney Ratcliff, former deputy communications director for Vice President Al Gore (Washington), to be director of communications.

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Sylvia Castillo, research adviser for the Los Angeles Urban Funders Fellowship of the James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco), to be a program officer for community-based organizations, based in the Los Angeles office; Alicia Dixon, director of the Laurel Consulting Group (Los Angeles), to be a program officer for community-based organizations, based in the Los Angeles office; and Patricia Lozada-Santone, a faculty member in the College of Education and the College of Health and Human Services at San Diego State U., to be a program officer for community-based organizations, based in the San Diego office.

Central Minnesota Community Foundation (St. Cloud): Appointed Barbara Carlson, vice president of institutional advancement at the College of Saint Benedict (St. Joseph, Minn.), to be development officer, and Paulette Huddle, director of finance at the Initiative Foundation (Little Falls, Minn.), to be financial officer.

Chicago Foundation for Women: Appointed Olga Delgado, grants and special-events manager at the Girl Scouts of Chicago, to be program officer for the Sophia Fund.

Community Foundation of Southern Arizona (Tucson): Appointed Steve Alley, director of the Community Foundations Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U.Purdue U. at Indianapolis, to be executive director, effective May 21.

Health Foundation of South Florida (Miami): Appointed Peter N. Wood, a management consultant at the Institute for Public Policy and Management at the U. of Washington (Seattle), to be director of grants management.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Melanie Beene, program officer for the performing arts at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.), to be program director in the arts, effective June 1.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Appointed Terrence R. Meersman, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle), to be executive vice president and director of programs.

Louis and Harold Price Foundation (New York): Appointed Timothy A. Jones, vice president and treasurer, to be president.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Doris Perez, president of Nonprofit Consulting Associates (St. Paul), to be program manager of the Children, Families, and Community Initiative.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Kari Schlachtenhaufen, interim president and former executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president. She succeeds William J. Beckham, who died in April 2000.

Southern Education Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Lynn Walker Huntley, executive vice president, to be president, effective January 1, 2002. She will succeed Elridge W. McMillan, who will retire after 33 years with the foundation.

Woods Fund of Chicago: Appointed Ricardo Millett, director of evaluation at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.), to be president. He succeeds Jean Rudd, who resigned at the end of last year.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association of America’s Public Television Stations (Washington): Elected Mary Bitterman, president and chief executive officer at KQED (San Francisco), to be chairman of the board.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Elected Allan Rosenfield, dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia U. (New York), to be a trustee.

United Nations Foundation (Washington): Elected Nafis Sadik, special adviser to the United Nations Secretary General (New York) and former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (New York), to be a member of the Board of Directors.