People

Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries (Hollidaysburg, Pa.): Appointed Diane Octavio, director of advancement at South Kent School (Conn.), to be director of annual giving.

Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association (Chicago): Appointed Daniel Williams, vice president for finance and chief financial officer at Holy Cross Hospital (Chicago), to be vice president of finance and technology.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (Washington): Appointed Robert J. Rosseter, former marketing director at the Northern Virginia Center of the U. of Virginia (Charlottesville), to be director of public affairs.

American Red CrossOrange County Chapter (Santa Ana, Calif.): Appointed Mark Costello, a marketing and public-relations consultant at El Prado Sales and Marketing (Yorba Linda, Calif.), to be assistant director of financial development.

Arthritis Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Tino J. Mantella, president of the Y.M.C.A. of Metropolitan Chicago, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Don L. Riggin, who retired after 36 years with the organization.

Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Herman Art Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (Philadelphia), to be chief executive officer of this group formed last year by the merger of the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ Foundation and the National Charities Information Bureau. (See related article)

Bucknell U. (Lewisburg, Pa.): Appointed Robert J. Kallin, director of development at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.), to be vice president for development and university relations.

Cancer Research Foundation of America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Farrand McDonald O’Donoghue, director of leadership advancement at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington), to be director of development.

Center for the Visually Impaired (Atlanta): Appointed Susan B. (Subie) Green, vice president of development at the CDC Foundation (Atlanta), to be executive director.

Concordia U. (Irvine, Calif.): Appointed Stephen D. Christensen, vice president and special assistant to the president at Chapman U. (Orange, Calif.), to be executive vice president for university advancement and senior adviser to the president.

Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (Hartford): Appointed Teresa Younger, senior director for fund raising and philanthropy at Changing Our World (New York), to be executive director.

Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, Wash.): Appointed Mary Jane Knecht, editor and marketing director of Van West and Company, Publishers (Seattle) and former managing editor of this poetry publisher, to be associate publisher.

Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Paul Nebenzahl, vice president for advancement at Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago), to be director of advancement.

Episcopal Community Services (Philadelphia): Appointed the Rev. Peter W. Sipple, interim rector at the Church of the Redeemer (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), to be director of development.

Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.): Appointed Linda Whipple, associate director of college relations, to be director of marketing management.

Generation Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Robert Miller, president of Robert Miller Associates (Cleveland), to be executive director. This group supports efforts to create a technology-based economy in northeastern Ohio.

Hanover College (Ind.): Appointed James R. Wood, co-founder of JRW Partners (Orlando, Fla.) and former president of STI Capital Management (Orlando), to be senior vice president for external affairs.

Jewish Funders Network (New York): Appointed Mark Charendoff, vice president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies (New York), to be executive director. He succeeds Evan Mendelson, who resigned.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed William P. Kotti, director of development for the College of Liberal Arts at U. of South Carolina at Columbia, to be director of development for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Alisa Pettey-Torres, director of development for the biomedical sciences at the U. of California at Riverside, to be director of development for neurosurgery.

Junior Achievement of Chicago: Appointed Kris Gunderson, senior vice president of development, to be executive vice president, and Cheri Tatar, director of special events, to be vice president of suburban operations.

Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyPalm Beach County Chapter (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.): Appointed Meghan Charlton, campaign coordinator, to be campaign manager; Tracey Heidelmeier, a campaign assistant, to be campaign coordinator; Patty Radford, deputy clerk of court for J.K. Barton, Clerk of Court Indian River County (Vero Beach, Fla.), to be campaign manager; and Joelle Theubet, a public-relations intern for the Florida Panthers (Sunrise), to be campaign coordinator.

Liberty Education Forum (Washington) Appointed Erick L. Swenson, director of development at Episcopal Community Services (San Francisco), to be vice president for institutional management at this nonpartisan organization that conducts research on issues of concern to gay men and lesbians.

Loyola U. New Orleans: Appointed Dana E. Land, director of new markets at World Resources Institute (Washington), to be executive director of development in the division of institutional advancement.

Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation (Las Vegas): Appointed Judith Hantin, director of development, to be vice president for foundation and fund development.

National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington): Appointed Ellen D. Reeder, deputy director for art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), to be director. She succeeds Nancy Risque Rohrbach, who resigned but will continue to serve as a member of the museum council.

National Organization for Women (Washington): Appointed Kim Gandy, executive vice president, to be president. She succeeds Patricia Ireland, who will retire August 1 because of term limits.

New Hampshire Community Loan Fund (Concord): Appointed Alan Cantor, vice president at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (Concord), to be vice president for philanthropy.

Northern California Grantmakers (San Francisco): Appointed Lynn D.W. Luckow, president and chief executive officer of Jossey-Bass (San Francisco), to be president and chief executive officer of this association of local foundations and corporate grant makers.

Rebuilding Together with Christmas in AprilTucson: Appointed Elaine Hughes, editor of the Southern Arizona Home Builder (Tucson), to be development coordinator, and Jocelyn Rechichar, a Promise Fellow serving in the AmeriCorps in Coolidge, Ariz., to be project assistant.

Springfield College (Mass.): Appointed David J. Fraboni II, vice president for institutional advancement at Utica College of Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Steven Klappholz, executive director for development at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation (North Hollywood, Calif.), to be vice president for development.

U. of Colorado (Boulder): Appointed Enid Ablowitz, assistant dean for advancement and director of development at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at U. of Colorado at Boulder, to be vice president for advancement for the university system’s Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.

Washington Ballet: Appointed George Allan Thompson, executive vice president and general manager of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (Tampa, Fla.), to be executive director. He succeeds Karen Thomas, who has served as acting executive director since Martin Cohen announced his resignation in February. The ballet also appointed Mary Carll Kopper, director of development at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington), to be director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Chicago Community Trust: Appointed John Chalmers, archives assistant, to be director of library services; Mark Finke, manager of accounting and information systems at Zierk’s Home Furnishings (Naperville, Ill.), to be director of administrative accounting; Roderick Hawkins, public-relations director at the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge (La.), to be a communications associate; Brenda Hull, associate director of community affairs at LaSalle Bank (Chicago), to be an associate program officer; Deneen Jackson, controller at the Chicago office of Aramark Uniform Services (Burbank, Calif.), to be director of endowment accounting for the Chicago Community Foundation and supporting organizations; and Terry Mazany, associate superintendent for planning and data systems at Southfield Public Schools (Mich.), to be a senior program officer in education.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Tiffany Cooley, director of communications at Gray Line Worldwide (Denver), to be communications officer.

Kettering Foundation (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed Brian T. Cobb, treasurer, also to be vice president.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Belinda Turner Lawrence, director of administration, to be vice president and chief administrative officer.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Andrea A. Brancato, director of communications for the House Democratic Caucus of the Michigan State legislature (Lansing), to be a communications officer; Mitchell W. Hurst, a vice president of the community-development banking division in the Chicago office of Bank of America (San Francisco), to be a communications officer for new media; and Maggie I. Jaruzel, a freelance writer for the foundation, to be a communications officer.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed James P. Leape, executive vice president at the World Wildlife Fund (Washington), to be deputy director of the conservation program.

Stupski Family Foundation (Mill Valley, Calif.): Appointed Rudolph F. Crew, executive director of the Institute for K-12 Leadership at the U. of Washington (Seattle), to be director of district reform initiatives at this fund that seeks to improve public education.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

HarborUCLA Research & Education Institute (Torrance, Calif.): Elected Delbert A. Fisher, vice president of science and innovation at Quest Diagnostics (Teterboro, N.J.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (Rockville, Md.): Elected Michael C. Gelman, president of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman (Bethesda, Md.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Koret Foundation (San Francisco): Elected Richard C. Atkinson, president of the U. of California system (Oakland), and Abraham D. Sofaer, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution (Palo Alto, Calif.) and a former U.S. District judge, to be members of the Board of Directors.

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (White Plains, N.Y.): Elected Gary D. Forsee, vice chairman of the BellSouth Corporation and president of BellSouth International (Atlanta), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Population Council (New York): Elected Rodney B. Wagner, retired vice chairman of J.P. Morgan & Company (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Seattle Opera: Elected William P. Gerberding, president emeritus of the U. of Washington (Seattle), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Support Center of Washington: Elected Pete Smith, president and chief executive officer of the Private Sector Council (Washington) and former president and chief executive officer of Watson Wyatt Worldwide (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Winrock International (Morrilton, Ark.): Elected Sandra S. Batie, professor of food and agricultural policy at Michigan State U. (East Lansing), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Y.M.C.A. of the USA (Chicago): Elected Tom Beerntsen, president of Beerntsen Confectionary (Manitowoc, Wis.), to be chairman of the national Board of Directors.