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ACT Incorporated (Iowa City): Appointed Carol Erenberger, manager of cardiac services at the U. of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Iowa City), to be director of recognition-program services at this educational-testing group.

Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Dori Friedman, manager of special events, to be director of special events.

Aid to Artisans (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Keith Recker, vice president of merchandising at Gump´s by Mail (San Francisco), to be executive director.

AIDS Service Center (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Yvonne Benson, executive director of the Hospice of Pasadena, to be executive director.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed J. Logan (Skip) Seitz, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Group-Serve (Rosslyn, Va.), to be senior vice president for growth and integrated development, and Gregory L. Smith, director of disaster services at the Greater Columbus Chapter (Ohio), to be vice president for volunteers, youth, and nursing.

American Society of Association Executives (Washington): Appointed Linda Wernick Cassell, president of Executive Management Services (Washington), to be director of development.

CARE (Atlanta): Appointed Elizabeth Huttman, associate director at the Northwest Burn Foundation (Seattle), to be senior development director for the Northwest region, based in Seattle.

Connemara Conservancy Foundation (Dallas): Appointed David Behm, executive director of the Legacy Land Trust (Houston), to be its first executive director.

Council of Independent Colleges (Washington): Appointed Laura Wilcox, assistant director for public affairs at the American Council on Education (Washington), to be director of communications.

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation (Ypsilanti, Mich.): Appointed Arthur Stellar, superintendent of schools in Kingston, N.Y., to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds David P. Weikart, who retired on December 30.

Intiman Theatre (Seattle): Appointed Gaynor Hills, executive in charge of major gifts at KCTS Television (Seattle), to be director of institutional advancement.

Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: Appointed Beth Cherner, campaign director for the JUF, to be vice president of campaign for the fund, and Pamela Seubert, associate vice president for resettlement services and government programs, to be vice president for community services, grants, and government relations.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Rachael Blackburn, executive director and chief curator at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation (Los Angeles), to be director, effective in April.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Vincent O´Donnell, director of development at the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (Boston), to be vice president of preservation initiatives, based in Boston, effective March 1.

National Center for Nonprofit Boards (Washington): Appointed Märianne P. Eby, corporate secretary at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be general counsel and chief knowledge officer; Sharon C. Fay, director of research and product development at the American Red Cross, to be group director of products; and Gigi Ledkovsky, director of corporate development at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington), to be director of development.

National Center for Victims of Crime (Arlington, Va.): Appointed John Cooper, director of development at the National Center for Nonprofit Boards (Washington), to be development director; Michael Kaiser, associate director of development and external affairs at Safe Horizons (New York), to be program director; and Mary Gleason Rappaport, communications director at the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Arlington, Va.), to be director of communications.

National Mental Health Association (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Gordon Raley, president and chief executive officer of the National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations (Washington), to be vice president of federal partnerships.

New Passages (Pontiac, Mich.): Appointed Robert M. Sprague, program chief for the managed-care division at Genesee County Community Mental Heath (Flint, Mich.), to be chief operating officer.

The Newseum (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Margaret Engel, executive director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation (Washington), to be managing editor at this museum on the news media.

Trickle Up Program (New York): Appointed Richenda Van Leeuwen, deputy executive director for program design and operations at the Private Industry Council of New York City, to be executive director. This group provides training and financing to help low-income people around the world start small businesses.

Trust for Public Land (San Francisco): Appointed John W. Corwin, executive director of the Glaucoma Foundation (New York), to be director of development and public affairs for the mid-Atlantic region, based in New York.

U. of Judaism (Bel Air, Calif.): Appointed Norman R. Fishman, senior vice president of development at the City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte, Calif.), to be vice president of development.

Vanderbilt U. (Nashville): Appointed Nicholas Zeppos, a professor of law and associate provost for academic affairs, also to be vice chancellor for institutional planning and advancement, effective March 15.

Washington Ballet: Announced the resignation of Martin Cohen, executive director.

Wolf Trap Foundation (Vienna, Va.): Appointed Danette A. Wills, a consultant based in Centerville, Va., to be director of media relations.

Y.M.C.A. of Greater Providence (R.I.): Appointed Don Keel, associate vice chancellor for development at Appalachian State U. (Boone, N.C.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

GRANT MAKERS

American Legacy Foundation (Washington): Appointed Bernadette A. Toomey, a consultant directing the Agenda Project at the U.S. Department of Education (Washington), to be vice president for strategic partnerships.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Martín Abregú, executive director of the Center for Legal and Social Justice (Buenos Aires), to be program officer, based in the Santiago, Chile, office; Omotade A. Aina, program officer, based in the Nairobi, Kenya, office, to be deputy representative in that office; Alice L. Brown, program officer based in the Johannesburg office, to be deputy representative in that office; Daria B. Caliguire, research consultant in the office of the vice president of the peace and social-justice program and a search consultant in the office of human resources, to be project specialist in the office of the vice president of the peace and social-justice program; A. Doris N. Capistrano, program officer based in the New Delhi office, to be deputy representative in that office; David Chiel, assistant representative and program officer based in the Windhoek, Namibia, office, to be representative, based in the Manila office; Denise D. Dora, founder and executive director of the THEMIS Centre of Judicial Studies (Porto Alegre, Brazil), to be program officer for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in the Rio de Janeiro office; Gertrude J. Fraser, director of the undergraduate program in anthropology and associate professor in anthropology of the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African American and African Studies at the U. of Virginia (Charlottesville), to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts and culture program; Ashok K. Gurung, program director of the capacity-development initiative at the Trace Foundation (New York), to be program officer for the international-fellowships program of the education, media, arts and culture program; Alan Jenkins, program officer in the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program, to be deputy director of that unit; Lisa D. Jordan, executive director of the Bank Information Center (Washington), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; Marian S. Krauskopf, a consultant to the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program, to be project specialist in the office of the vice president of the asset-building and community-development program; Wendy Malina, a consultant based in New York, to be project specialist in the office of the president of the human-development and reproductive-health unit of asset-building and community-development program and of the education, media, arts and culture program; Christopher Martin, education and information manager at the British Council Mexico (Mexico City), to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts and culture program, based in Mexico City; George W. McCarthy Jr., a senior research associate at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be program officer for the economic-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Aubrey McCutcheon, a consultant to the Ford Foundation and other nongovernmental organizations, based in South Africa, to be program officer for the human-rights and international cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in the New Delhi office; David J. Myhre, executive director of the Latin American studies program at Princeton U. (N.J.), to be program officer for the economic development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Mexico City office; Maria Amelia Palacios Vallejo, president of the board at Foro Educativo (Peru), to be program officer for the education, knowledge and religion unit of the education, media, and arts and culture program, based in the Santiago, Chile, office; Jonathan Sandville, special assistant at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood (New York), to be grants administrator for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit and the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; and Brigid C. Sheehan, development director at the Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation (New York), to be grants administrator for the education, knowledge and religion unit of the education, media, and arts and culture program.

The foundation also appointed Meagen S. Baldwin, a consultant based in New York, to be search coordinator in the office of human resources; Hugo W. Cervantes, a consultant based in Mexico City, to be manager of global infrastructure services for information technology in the office of administrative services; Mario A. Martinez, an equity trader and analyst for the investment division, to be security analyst for the investment division; and Theresa H. Smith, a consultant based in New York, to be assistant staffing manager in the office of human resources.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Announced the resignation of Dennis A. Collins, president and chief executive officer, effective early in 2002.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Marchita R. Stanton, manager of training consultation, to be director of organization development and training.

James S. McDonnell Foundation (St. Louis): Appointed Susan Fitzpatrick, program director, to be vice president.

Triangle Community Foundation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.): Appointed B. Keith Burwell, executive director of the Environmental Federation of North Carolina (Durham), to be executive vice president.

Turner Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Michael Finley, former superintendent of Yellowstone National Park (Wyo.), to be president. He succeeds William M. Shaw, vice president of Turner Enterprises (Atlanta), who served as acting director since the December resignation of Peter Bahouth.

USA Group Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Derek V. Price, assistant professor of sociology and director of the Center for Educational Research and Leadership at Morehead State U. (Ky.), to be director of higher-education research.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Baylor Health Care System Foundation (Dallas): Elected Robert F. Sanford, retired president and chairman of the board of Gilbert X-Ray Company of Texas (Dallas), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Elected Ronald W. Burkle, founder and managing partner of the Yucaipa Companies (Los Angeles), to be a trustee.

John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected Lloyd Axworthy, director of the Centre for the Study of Global Issues at the U. of British Columbia (Vancouver) and former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Robert Denham, a lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson (Los Angeles), to be members of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Clifton Gunderson (Peoria, Ill.): Appointed Michelle (Mickey) Scheffki, a former partner at Desmond and Ahern (Chicago),to be director of technology consulting, based in the Oakbrook, Ill., office of this accounting firm.

DRG (New York): Appointed Ellen Bodow, search consultant, to be senior search consultant; Joyce Lapenn, vice president at Isaacson, Miller (Boston), to be vice president; and Daniel Ripps, director of agency services and community relations at Food for Survival Food Bank (New York), to be search consultant at this executive-search firm.

Gary Kaplan & Associates (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Stacey W. Meyer, a principal, to be vice president at this executive-search organization.