People

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (Minneapolis): Appointed Franklin Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of Samaritan’s Purse (Boone, N.C.), also to be chief executive officer. He succeeds his father, Billy Graham, who will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Communities In Schools (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Marilyn W. Smith, director of the department of service learning and of Learn & Serve America at the Corporation for National and Community Service (Washington), to be executive director.

Development Exchange (Minneapolis): Appointed Bheesham Sethi, director of institutional support at WAMU-FM (Washington), to be station-based consultant for major giving, aiding member stations in finding major gifts.

Interlochen Center for the Arts (Mich.): Appointed Beth Stoner, interim director of development, to be vice president of development.

Metropolitan Association for Philanthropy (St. Louis): Appointed Kathleen Doellefeld-Clancy, foundation executive of the Joseph H. & Florence A. Roblee Foundation (St. Louis), to be president.

Mystic Seaport (Conn.): Appointed Douglas H. Teeson, superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London, Conn.), to be president and director of this maritime museum.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (Washington): Appointed Charles Buki, manager of training development and delivery, to be director of the training institute. He succeeds Tracy Taft, who is retiring January 12.

New Harmony Project (Indianapolis): Appointed Jennie Greer, artistic assistant at Signature Theatre Company (New York), to be executive director. This organization works with writers to develop emotionally uplifting scripts for stage and screen.

ORBIS International (New York): Appointed Kathy Spahn, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and executive director at this group working to eliminate preventable and curable blindness worldwide.

Ruth Lilly Health Education Center (Indianapolis): Appointed J. Anita Ray, director of development at Prevent Child Abuse Indiana (Indianapolis), to be director of development.

San Francisco Ballet: Appointed Donna Blakemore, former vice president for institutional advancement at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), to be director of development.

Swedish Medical Center (Seattle): Appointed Celia Y. Weisman, a consultant based in Seattle, to be a senior major-gifts officer.

U. of Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Ronda J. Johnson, vice chancellor for institutional advancement at Texas Tech U. (Lubbock), to be foundation executive director and vice president for development at the university. The foundation also appointed Harry Durkin, assistant director of the annual fund at U. of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.), to be direct-marketing manager; Stacy Gray, a senior corporate writer and communication strategist at UnumProvident (Chattanooga, Tenn.), to be promotional writer; Hallie Grove, a medical social worker at University Hospital (Cincinnati), to be area development officer; and Janet Ransom, special-projects coordinator at Area 12 Council on Aging and Community Services (Dillsboro, Ind.), to be assistant development officer for the College of Engineering.

United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (New York): Appointed Richard J. Wood, dean of Yale U. Divinity School (New Haven, Conn.), to be president, effective January 1.

The Wellness Community (Newton Centre, Mass.): Appointed Cherry Muse, director of development at YouthBuild USA (Somerville, Mass.), to be executive director. The Wellness Community offers emotional support and educational workshops to cancer patients and their families.

YWCA of the USA (New York): Appointed Margaret A. Tyndall, chief operating officer and interim chief executive officer, to be chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Appointed Narciso Matos, senior program officer, to be chair of the international-development program, and Patricia L. Rosenfield, chair of the international-development program, to be chair of the Carnegie Scholars program, special adviser to the vice president, and director for strategic planning and program coordination.

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Bridget Tuohey, first vice president at Bank One and First Chicago/NBD, to be director of donor relations.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Babatunde Ahonsi, a program officer, to be senior program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Connie Buchanan, a program officer, to be senior program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program; Jeffrey Y. Campbell, program officer in the Jakarta, Indonesia, office, to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Elizabeth B. Coleman, a consultant based in New York, to be associate editor in the office of communications; Michael Conroy, a program officer, to be senior program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Larry Cox, a program officer, to be senior program officer for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program; Joan R. Dassin, an education-policy consultant based in Washington, to be director of the human-achievement fellowship program in the office of the vice president of the education, media, arts, and culture program; Cynthia M. Duncan, chair and associate professor in the department of sociology at the U. of New Hampshire (Durham), to be director for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Rekha Mehra, vice president at the International Center for Research on Women (Washington), to be program officer for the economic-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program in the New Delhi office; Vernice Miller-Travis, executive director of the Partnership for Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment (Bowie, Md.), to be program officer for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Jeffrey T. Olson, acting director and acting deputy director, to be deputy director for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Chukwudi Onwuachi-Saunders, a lecturer on epidemiology for the graduate public-health program at Morgan State U. (Baltimore), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Katherine T. Sadowski, executive secretary, to be project coordinator for the office of the vice president of the asset-building and community-development program; Nancy S. Sconyers, vice president at the National Association of Child Advocates (Washington), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; Suzanne E. Siskel, representative to the Philippines, to be representative to Indonesia; Gigi B. Sohn, consultant based in New York, to be project specialist for the media, arts, and culture unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program; and L. Steven Zwerling, senior director, to be senior program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program.

The foundation also appointed Tammie L. Alzona, science librarian at the State U. of New York at Albany, to be project manager of research and information access for information services in the office of administrative services; Christopher J. Crouch, a purchasing assistant, to be purchasing agent for purchasing services in the office of administrative services; and Angela M. James, a senior auditor at Watson Rice (New York), to be internal auditor in the office of internal audit.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Appointed Peter J. Bruns, a professor of geriatrics at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be vice president for grants and special programs. He will divide his time between Cornell and Howard Hughes until the academic year ends in spring 2001, and then work full time for the institute.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Announced the resignation of Louis W. Smith, president and chief executive officer, effective September 2002. The foundation also appointed Mike Helmer, senior director of program and administrative services, to be vice president of those services.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Pierre DeRagon, founder and president of Revisions (Philadelphia), to be director of grant-making services.

J. Marion Sims Foundation (Lancaster, S.C.): Appointed James T. Morton, director of college advancement at Presbyterian College (Clinton, S.C.), to be president.

Taub Foundation (Teaneck, N.J.): Appointed Saul Andron, associate executive vice president of the Jewish Education Service of North America (New York), to be its first executive director.

Thompson-McCully Foundation (Plymouth, Mich.): Appointed John Ziraldo, a senior program officer at the Skillman Foundation (Detroit), to be its first executive director.

USA Group Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Susan O. Conner, senior vice president for corporate communications at the USA Group (Indianapolis), to be chief operating officer at this grant maker formed with the profits from the sale of the former student-loan guarantor to Sallie Mae (Reston, Va.).

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Zoo and Aquarium Association (Silver Spring, Md.): Elected Ted Beattie, president and chief executive officer of the Shedd Aquarium (Chicago), to be president.

J.M. Kaplan Fund (New York): Elected Peter Davidson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lumina Americas (New York) and a grandson of the fund’s founder, Jacob Merrill Kaplan, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected John Seely Brown, chief innovation officer at 12 Entrepreneuring (San Francisco) and chief scientist at Xerox (Stamford, Conn.), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Creative Leadership Solutions (Denver): Appointed Patricia Prevost, vice president for development at Colorado Public Radio (Denver), to be a vice president.

LipmanHearne (Chicago): Appointed Lisa Grider, assistant vice president for alumni and university relations at Seton Hall U. (South Orange, N.J.), to be a senior consultant based in the Washington office.