People

America’s Second Harvest (Chicago): Announced the resignation of Deborah Leff, president and chief executive officer, effective in mid-2001.

American Society of Association Executives (Washington): Appointed Michelle Mason, director of research programs, to be vice president of research programs.

Barry U. (Miami Shores, Fla.): Appointed Eric DuBois, a lawyer based in Miami, to be director of institutional advancement for the School of Law.

Benedictine U. (Lisle, Ill.): Appointed Betty DeRenzo, director of sponsored programs and research at Saint Xavier U. (Chicago), to be director of development communications and grants, and Juliana Nelligan, capital-campaign director, to be director of alumni relations and the annual fund.

California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco): Appointed Susan M. Avila, director of development at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to be vice president for advancement.

Council for Basic Education (Washington): Appointed Diana Rigden, director of the Standards-based Teacher Education Project, to be vice president, and Carol Stoel, director of the Schools Around the World program, to be vice president.

Dillard U. (New Orleans): Appointed John Donohue, executive director of development at U. of Texas at San Antonio, to be vice president for development.

Friends of the Earth (Washington): David Brower, founder of this organization and the John Muir Institute of the Environment (Davis, Calif.) and former executive director and board member of the Sierra Club (San Francisco), died on November 5 at his home in Berkeley, Calif., at age 88.

Gallaudet U. (Washington): Appointed Cathy Sweet-Windham, director of individual giving, to be executive director of development.

Georgetown U. (Washington): Appointed Julie Green Bataille, former press secretary to the U.S. Secretary of Education, to be assistant vice president for communications.

Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation (Pa.): Appointed Robert C. Wilburn, former president and chief executive officer of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.), to be president.

Girl Scouts of the USA (New York): Appointed Jackie Barnes, senior U.S. military representative for the committee on women in the military of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Brussels) and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, to be deputy national executive director and chief operating officer.

Goucher College (Baltimore): Appointed Kristine Nelson Howland, director of major and planned gifts, to be acting vice president for advancement.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York): Appointed Bruce Lineker, executive director of the Light Factory (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of institutional development.

House Ear Institute (Los Angeles): Appointed Stuart P. Goldstein, vice president of administration and finance at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (San Diego), to be executive vice president and chief financial officer.

InterAction (Washington): Appointed Mary McClymont, senior director of the peace and social-justice program at the Ford Foundation (New York), to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 5.

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit): Appointed Matthew J. Wawro, director of university corporate relations at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be chief development officer.

Maryville U. of Saint Louis: Appointed Mike Mason, former director of admissions at Culver-Stockton College (Canton, Mo.), to be director of the annual fund.

Minneapolis Heart Institute: Appointed Blaine Thrasher, director of development in behalf of the department of surgery of the U. of Minnesota Medical School at the Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis), to be vice president of development.

Mount Marty College (Yankton, S.D.): Appointed Jerry Miller, athletics director at Spearfish High School (S.D.), to be director of corporate relations.

Mount Union College (Alliance, Ohio): Appointed James Piatt, development officer in the School of Law at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be vice president for advancement.

National Lekotek Center (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Madelyn James, program manager of the HIPPY program at Childserv (Chicago), to be director of training and dissemination; Susan Oliver, director of development, to be director of external affairs; Lillian Shen-Lieberman, chief financial officer, secretary, and treasurer at Jeremy’s Hot Delicious (Skokie, Ill.), to be controller; and Nancy Trueblood, development director at the Chicago Waldorf School, to be director of development.

Nazareth College of Rochester (N.Y.): Appointed Kelly E. Gagan, senior associate director for major gifts at the Carter Center (Atlanta), to be assistant director of development for major gifts and planned giving, and Lisa M. Mercadel, gift-processing coordinator, to be research analyst in the development office.

92nd Street Y (New York): Appointed Miriam E. Katowitz, finance-division managing director at HSBC Bank USA (New York), to be chief financial officer and director of operations and strategic planning.

Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Bruce Layton, manager of special projects at the New York State Science and Technology Foundation (Albany), to be director of government and community relations.

Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Fla.): Appointed Glenn Tomlinson, director of museum education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), to be curator of education, effective January 2.

San Francisco Art Institute: Appointed Ed Patuto, acting director of development at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), to be vice president for advancement and director of development.

School of American Ballet (New York): Appointed Suzanne Schwartz Davidson, former producing director at Second Stage Theatre (New York), to be president. She succeeds Larry Alan Smith, who has returned to a professorship at the Hartt School of Music at the U. of Hartford (West Hartford, Conn.).

Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHH) (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Brenda Battat, deputy executive director, to be acting executive director.

Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, N.J.): Appointed Patricia Memminger, acting director of alumni affairs, to be director of alumni affairs.

Tulsa Community College (Okla.): Appointed Lauren Brookey, former vice president of Schnake, Turnbo, Brookey, & Associates (Tulsa), to be vice president for external affairs.

U. of California at Davis: Gina Kelsch, associate vice chancellor for university relations, has announced her resignation, effective November 15.

U. of Illinois at Chicago: Appointed Roger W. (Whit) Shepard, associate dean for external affairs in the Graduate School of Business at U. of Chicago, to be associate vice chancellor for development.

U. of Judaism (Los Angeles): Appointed Jeremy Broekman, marketing coordinator at Universal Studios’ Television & Networks Group (Los Angeles), to be director of alumni affairs.

U. of Kentucky Community College System (Lexington): Appointed Timothy R. Burcham, senior executive assistant to the president for institutional advancement, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.): Appointed Josie Romano Brown, a consultant based in Miami, to be executive director of corporate relations.

U. of Michigan at Dearborn: Appointed Casey Granton, development director of the Detroit Zoological Society, to be director of development for the Henry Ford Estate, which is located on the university’s campus.

Union Rescue Mission (Los Angeles): The Rev. Michael Teague, president and chief executive, died on November 1.

United Theological Seminary (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed Thomas Melzoni, president of the nonprofit section at Keystone Solutions (Atlanta), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Vanguard U. of Southern California (Costa Mesa): Appointed Michael Bower, director of public information and community relations at Walnut Valley Unified School District (Calif.), to be director of publications and media relations.

Walsh U. (Canton, Ohio): Appointed Richard Russell, vice president for college relations at Saint Mary´s College (Notre Dame, Ind.), to be vice president for development and university relations.

WTTW/Window to the World Communications (Chicago): Appointed Jerry Glover, associate general counsel, to be vice president and associate general counsel of legal and business affairs, and Caroline Gonzales, a clerk for the tape library, to be assistant librarian for WTTW Channel 11.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed Diane Elenbaas, manager of public services at the Massachusetts Bar Association (Boston), to be the director of donor services.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Jeffrey L. French, director of long-term investments at the Duke Energy Corporation (Charlotte), to be director of public investments; Charles E. Merritt, investment director for private investments at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be director of private investments; and Phillip H. Redmond Jr., executive director of the Children´s Law Center (Charlotte), to be assistant director of the child-care division.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Shelley Davis, program associate at the Ford Foundation (New York), to be associate program officer, and Jennifer Phillips, a program officer for income-security issues at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to be a program officer for employment.

J.M. Kaplan Fund (New York): Appointed Conn Nugent, executive director of the Citizens Union of the City of New York and the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, to be executive director.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Tyrone A. Bumpus, former network systems manager at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Washington), to be information-technology specialist; Beatriz G. Clossick, controller, to be vice president of accounting and treasurer; Timothy J. Crowe, vice president and chief financial officer, to be vice president and chief investment officer; and Lisa B. Sarote, a help-desk analyst and technical writer at Kottmann (Dunn Loring, Va.), to be communications assistant.

Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.): Appointed Ellen Clear, senior program officer, to be director of programs; Joseph A. Cronin Jr., a consultant based in San Francisco, to be manager of professional services; Marjorie Fujiki, a program officer for the organizational-effectiveness and philanthropy program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.), to be senior program officer; Jennifer Kim, deputy director of development at the San Francisco office of the Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.), to be development officer; Frank Lalle, an attorney for Senior Advocates, Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County (Calif.), to be program officer; Jennifer McDonald, national program coordinator for Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (Beaverton, Ore.), to be manager of the Raising a Reader program; Marilyn Merz, director of the Children, Youth and Family Services program at the San Mateo County Office of Education (Redwood City, Calif.), to be special assistant to the president; Margot Mailliard Rawlins, the former director of marketing communications at Scripps College (La Jolla, Calif.) and a community volunteer, to be program manager for the Center for Venture Philanthropy; and Srija Srinivasan, the director of member and information services at Gateway Purchasers for Health (St. Louis), to be program officer.

San Francisco Foundation: Appointed Ronald M. Rowell, executive director of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (Oakland, Calif.), to be program officer for social justice; Christine Searson, controller, to be chief financial officer; and Geol Leonard Weirs, senior program officer for arts and culture at the Dayton Hudson Foundation (Minneapolis), to be program officer for arts and culture.

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York): Archibald L. Gillies, president and chief executive officer, announced his resignation, effective June 30, 2001.