People

American Federation of Arts (New York): Appointed Julia Brown, curator of special exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), to be director. She succeeds Serena Rattazzi, who retired.

Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Ky.): Appointed Michael Krupa, ministry associate at King’s Way Assembly (Versailles, Ky.), to be director of development.

CDC Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Melody Travis, a research manager at Coxe Curry and Associates (Atlanta), to be a research specialist who will take part in fund-raising and cultivation activities.

Center for Community Change (Washington): Appointed Muriel A. Evans, development manager at the Close-Up Foundation (Alexandria, Va.), to be associate director of development, and Diane Schwartz, development director at the Economic Policy Institute (Washington), to be director of development.

City U. of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College: Appointed Lou Anne Bulik, manager of corporate publications and projects at the College Board (New York), to be director of public relations, and Edna Medina Harpaul, alumna of the college, to be director of development and alumni affairs.

Claflin U. (Orangeburg, S.C.): Appointed Sheila Williams, director of grants and sponsored research at Southern U. at New Orleans, to be associate vice president for major gifts.

College of Mount Saint Joseph (Cincinnati): Appointed John Plante, director of advanced giving for the capital campaign at U. of Cincinnati, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.): Appointed John S. Bacon, general legal counsel, to be vice president, secretary, and general counsel.

Committee to End Elder Homelessness (Boston): Appointed Elisabeth D. Babcock, vice president of network development and planning at Northeast Health Systems (Beverly, Mass.), to be executive director.

Community College of Baltimore County: Appointed Ernest J. Notar, director of development for university libraries at U. of Maryland at College Park, to be vice chancellor for institutional advancement.

Denison U. (Granville, Ohio): Appointed Julia Beyer Houpt, development director at Friends’ Central School (Philadelphia), to be vice president for university resources and public affairs.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Charley Henderson, associate director of public relations, to be director of public relations, and Hope Wagner, admissions coordinator for the Women’s College at U. of Denver, to be associate director of public relations.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. (Daytona Beach, Fla.): Appointed Robert G. Erb, director of corporate and community relations at the Arizona Humane Society (Phoenix), to be director of development and alumni relations at the Prescott, Ariz., campus, and Lee Hampton, vice chancellor for university advancement at Winston-Salem State U. (N.C.), to be executive director of corporate and foundation development.

Ferris State U. (Big Rapids, Mich.): Appointed Carla B. Miller, executive director of development at Utah Valley State College (Orem), to be assistant vice president for development.

Foundation for Fighting Blindness (Hunt Valley, Md.): Appointed Susan Abderholden, a consultant based in Libertyville, Ill., to be executive director of the metropolitan Chicago office; Lucrecia Briceno, administrative assistant in the New York office, to be events coordinator in that office; Christina Bubb, administrative assistant, to be development-database coordinator; Harvey W. Cohen, national director of development, to be chief development officer; Dennis Dickerson, exec-utive director of the American Diabetes AssociationUtah Chapter (Salt Lake City), to be Western region executive director, based in Salt Lake City; Victoria Donahue, development secretary, to be prospect-research coordinator; Nancy Yeldezian Dufau, supervisor of the grants-management section at the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department, to be foundation- and corporate-relations manager; Linda Gorsuch, sales manager and events consultant at Maximum Impact (San Diego), to be national events coordinator; Donna Rich, foundation- and corporate-relations manager, to be development-operations manager; and Jim Struthers, events coordinator at the Korshack Agency (Chicago), to be national events director.

Girl ScoutsColumbia River Council (Lake Oswego, Ore.): Appointed Betty Tonsing, chief executive officer of the Fort Wayne Women’s Bureau (Ind.), to be executive director.

Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vt.): Appointed Amanda Mason, development officer at Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (Chicago): Appointed Anthony E. Spahr, vice president of human resources and research at Morton College (Cicero, Ill.), to be vice president for human resources and administration.

Heritage Foundation (Washington): Appointed Angela Franco, a recent graduate of the U. of Utah (Salt Lake City), to be intern coordinator; Mollie Murphy, a staff assistant in the Jackson, Miss., district office of U.S. Representative Ronnie Shows (D-Miss.), to be legislative assistant; Michael Spiller, director of information services, to be vice president of technology and chief information officer; Leslie Stone, assistant to the chief of staff of the late Senator Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.), to be special assistant; Stephanie Strategos, deputy director of House relations, to be deputy director of Senate relations; and Liz Williams, legislative assistant, to be deputy director of House relations.

I Am Your Child Foundation (New York): Appointed Michael H. Levine, deputy chair and senior program officer for the education division at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to be executive director. He succeeds Chad H. Griffin, who resigned to start a consulting business.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Kathleen Hider, associate director of development for the School of Nursing, to be director of development at the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education; Michael J. Morsberger, senior associate director of development for the oncology center, to be director of development at the center; Carl M. Moyer, director of development for the oncology center, to be director of the university’s Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine for Priority Projects; and Debora Perrone, director of development at the School of Public Health, to be director of foundation relations.

Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro): Appointed Michelle Harris, programs manager at Owensboro-Davies County Chamber of Commerce (Ky.), to be director of advancement services.

League of Women Voters (Washington): Appointed Nancy E. Tate, chief operating officer at the National Academy of Public Administration (Washington), to be executive director.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Announced that its first executive director, Mitchell Sviridoff, died of kidney failure. Mr. Sviridoff, 81, also served as vice president of the Ford Foundation.

Loyola U. New Orleans: Appointed Malcolm W. Woodall, associate vice chancellor for institutional advancement at East Carolina U. (Greenville, N.C.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Metropolitan State U. (St. Paul): Appointed Nancy McKillips, director of grants and development, to be director of university advancement and executive director of the university’s foundation.

Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.): Appointed Colleen J. Magliari, deputy district director for U.S. Representative Nita D. Lowey, to be director of government and community relations.

Midwestern U. (Downers Grove, Ill.): Appointed Karen Johnson, associate professor of marketing and communications for the Downers Grove and Glendale, Ariz., campuses, to be the system vice president for university relations.

Mount Marty College (Yankton, S.D.): Appointed Sr. Aidan Bourke, volunteer coordinator at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital (Lincoln, Neb.), to be alumni director.

National Neurofibromatosis Foundation (New York): Appointed Stuart J. Rogoff, director of development at City of Hope (Los Angeles), to be vice president of the California region, based in the Los Angeles office.

Northwest Folklife (Seattle): Appointed Deborah Edison, director of major gifts at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (New York), to be director of development.

Oregon Trout (Portland): Appointed Joe S. Whitworth, director of operations at Pacific Crest Outward Bound (Portland), to be executive director of this conservation organization.

Pima County Community College District (Tucson): Appointed Kathleen Assar, vice president of the West Campus, to be district executive director of institutional advancement.

Population Reference Bureau (Washington): Appointed Marcia Brown, senior program associate for development at Management Sciences for Health (Boston), to be development director.

QueensCare (Los Angeles): Appointed Patricia Boucher, president of Boucher & Associates (Los Angeles), to be chief financial officer at this health-care charity.

San Francisco Symphony: Appointed Greg Lassonde, gift-planning director at the Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.), to be gift-planning officer.

San Jose Museum of Art (Calif.): Appointed Daniel T. Keegan, executive director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Mo.), to be executive director.

Santa Clara U. (Calif.): Appointed Susan C. Shea, principal of Susan Shea Associates (Sausalito, Calif.), to be director of marketing.

Seacrest Country Day School (Naples, Fla.): Appointed Branon A. Edwards, marketing and resource development coordinator at Communities In Schools of Greater Greensboro (N.C.), to be assistant director of development.

St. Camillus Health and Rehabilitation Center Foundation (Syr-acuse, N.Y.): Appointed Katherine F. Maganerilli, event coordinator and development assistant at the National Kidney Foundation of Central New York (Syracuse), to be development associate.

St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Appointed Mary Jo Burke Chiara, an alumna of the college, to be director of alumni relations.

State U. of New York College at New Paltz: Appointed James R. Doran, executive assistant to the president and director of institutional advancement at U. of Maine at Augusta, to be vice president for advancement.

State U. of New York College at Plattsburgh: Appointed Larry Cowan, assistant vice president for student affairs and enrollment management, to be director of corporate and athletics development.

U. of South Carolina at Beaufort: Appointed Gail A. Quick, vice president for student and college development at the Technical College of the Lowcountry (Beaufort), to be assistant dean of university relations.

Willamette U. (Salem, Ore.): Appointed Edward R. Kramer, a consultant based in Salem, to be associate vice president for marketing and communications.

GRANT MAKERS

Alliance Healthcare Foundation (San Diego): Appointed Lynda Heaney, planned-giving officer, to be interim development director.

Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Richard C. Mappin, president of the Dekko Foundation (Kendallville, Ind.), to be director of grant making.

Pittsburgh Foundation: Appointed Kimberley Hammer, interim vice president of development, to be director of development and donor relations.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York): Appointed Annette U. Rickel, clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be program officer for the education program.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Elected Cesar Alvarez, president and chief executive of Greenberg Traurig (Miami), and Paul Grogan, vice president for government, community, and public affairs at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.) and former president and chief executive officer of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York), to be members of the Board of Trustees.

Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Elected Maria S. Gomez, executive director of Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care (Washington), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

National Gallery of Art (Washington): Elected Robert F. Erburu, retired chairman and chief executive officer of the Times Mirror Company (Los Angeles), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

VNA (Visiting Nurse Association) Foundation (Chicago): Elected Katherine H. Miller, director of development at the Cancer Wellness Center (Northbrook, Ill.), to be chair.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

LipmanHearne (Chicago): Appointed Sarah Holt, associate director of children’s programming at the Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.), to be vice president for public relations in the group’s Washington office.

Rainbow Media Holdings (New York): Appointed Matthew Strauss, director of finance and strategic planning, to be vice president of new business development.

StratfordGroup (Cleveland): Appointed Emily Sterling Hall, director of executive search at the Management Center (San Francisco), to be director of the nonprofit, education, and e-philanthropy practice in the Toledo office.