People

Alliance for Children and Families (Milwaukee): Appointed Karl Robe, media-relations coordinator of media relations, to be director of public relations.

Audubon Expedition Institute (Belfast, Me.): Appointed Mia Purcell, programs-abroad coordinator at the Springfield, Mass., office of American Field Service (New York), to be development director.

Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland): Appointed Karen L. Thompson, a program officer at the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, to be assistant director of corporate and foundation relations at the School of Medicine.

Chelsea School (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Margeau Gilbert, director of development at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Washington), to be director of development.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Appointed Thomas L. Stephenson, deputy director at the National Tropical Botanical Garden (Kalaheo, Hawaii), to be vice president of strategic development.

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.): Appointed Thomas W. Cullinan, vice president of planned-giving services at the university’s National Planned Giving Institute, to be director of the institute.

Elderhostel (Boston): Appointed Patricia McGovern, director of human resources, to be vice president of human resources.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Tom Foote, a global account manager at Federal Express (Memphis), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Environmental Defense (New York): Appointed Jacqueline Hamilton, senior project attorney in the public-health program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (New York), to be director of the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project.

Foundation Fighting Blindness (Hunt Valley, Md.): Appointed Patricia Dodd, a field director for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (New York), to be national director of field operations.

Graphic Artists Guild (New York): Appointed Steven R. Schubert, executive director of the greater New York region in the New York office of the National Conference for Community and Justice (Washington), to be executive director.

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, Calif.): Appointed Steven S. Koblik, president of Reed College (Portland, Ore.), to be president, effective September 1. He succeeds Robert Allen Skotheim, who retires in August.

Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Harry Nadler, chief executive officer at the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, to be executive vice president.

John Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Laurette L. Hankins, director of development and alumni relations for the Peabody Institute, the university’s music conservatory, to be its associate dean for development and alumni relations.

KPCC (Pasadena, Calif.): Appointed Thomas W. (Bill) Davis, senior vice president for programming at National Public Radio (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (White Plains, N.Y.): Appointed Bruce Arbit, director of development at the Beth Israel Medical CenterKings Highway Division (New York), to be national senior director for donor development.

MGH Institute of Health Professions (Boston): Appointed Christopher Hartley, director of development operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston), to be director of external relations at this graduate school affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Steven J. McCormick, former executive director of the Nature Conservancy of California (San Francisco), to be president and chief executive officer.

Nature Conservancy of California (San Francisco): Appointed Graham Chisolm, executive director of the Nature Conservancy of Nevada (Reno), to be executive director.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed John P. Easley, director of development and external affairs at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, to be director of external affairs.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (N.J.): Appointed Holly W. Gauthier, vice president of development and communications at Chicago Youth Centers, to be vice president of development and director of the Beth Healthcare Foundation.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust: Appointed Lorene D. Vinski, assistant to the president for corporate affairs at the Carnegie Museums and Carnegie Library (Pittsburgh), to be vice president of institutional development.

Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed John Biggs, director of development and planned-giving officer at the Y.M.C.A. of Greater Kansas City (Mo.), to be major-gifts and planned-giving manager; Jennifer Mulsow, corporate-giving coordinator at Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Mo.), to be volunteer-program manager; and Louisa Ramirez, director of outpatient services in the Lenexa, Kan., office of Quintiles Transnational Corporation (Durham, N.C.), to be program director.

Prevent Blindness America (Schaumburg, Ill.): Appointed Carolyn Cronin, chief executive officer of the Illinois division, to be vice president of development, and Daniel D. Garrett, principal of Garrett & Associates (Chicago), to be vice president of marketing and public affairs.

Rutgers U. at Camden: Appointed Kristin R. Walker, executive director of the Cadbury Foundation (Cherry Hill, N.J.), to be director of development for the School of Business.

St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed Angela Wambugu, development coordinator at the National Hemophilia Foundation (New York), to be director of foundation relations.

U. of Maryland at Baltimore: Appointed to the School of Nursing Patricia Adams, former coordinator of public relations at the Catonsville, Md., campus of the Community College of Baltimore College, to be assistant director for media relations and publications; Cheryl Barto, former director of development for annual giving and advancement services at Gallaudet U. (Washington), to be director of development and alumni relations; and Julie Griesemer, former grants manager at the Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore), to be assistant director of development and alumni relations.

U. of Mobile (Ala.): Appointed Timothy Fitzgibbon, manager of major and planned gifts at Saint Xavier U. (Chicago), to be director of special gifts.

United Way/Capital Area (Austin, Tex.): Appointed David Balch, senior vice president of resource development at United Way of Miami-Dade, to be president and chief professional officer.

Washington Performing Arts Society: Appointed Susan P. Sandler, director of corporate and foundation gifts at the Choral Arts Society of Washington, to be manager of grants and foundation relations.

Woodstock Theological Center (Washington): Appointed Patricia M. Donnelly, associate director of admissions at Marymount U. (Arlington, Va.), to be development director.

World Vision (Tempe, Ariz.): Appointed Mike Veitenhans, program director at Brother to Brother International (Tempe), to be gifts-in-kind director.

Y.M.C.A. of Greater New York: Appointed Addy Bonet, interim vice president of operations and senior executive director of the Indian Boundary Y.M.C.A. (Downers Grove , Ill.), to be vice president of operations and executive director of the Vanderbilt Y.M.C.A., in New York; Michael Lozano, executive director of the Pilsen Y.M.C.A. (Chicago), to be executive director of camping services; and Eileen O’Connor, associate executive director of the West Side Y.M.C.A., in New York, to be executive director of the Brooklyn Central Y.M.C.A.

GRANT MAKERS

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Barbara Webster, founder of Webster Strategies (Sacramento, Calif.), to be a program officer based in the Sacramento office.

Chicago Foundation for Women: Appointed Isabel Carter Stewart, former chief executive officer of Girls Incorporated (New York), to be executive director.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed Sylvia Mathews, deputy director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (Washington), to be executive vice president.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Announced the resignation of Katherine Pease, executive director, effective later this year.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): William R. Hewlett, founder and chairman emeritus, died on January 12, at age 87.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Kathy Kim Im, a community-builder fellow in the Illinois State Office (Chicago) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to be a program officer in the general program, and Catherine H. Picard, a graduate-student instructor for the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be program associate for the program on global security and sustainabilty.

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (Tulsa, Okla.): Charles Schusterman, who started the foundation and was founder of Samson Investment (Tulsa), died on December 30, at age 65.

United Airlines (Elk Grove Village, Ill.): Appointed Celene Peurye, former executive director of the Fel-Pro/Mecklenburger Foundation (Skokie, Ill.), to be manager of civic affairs.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Cancer Society Foundation (Atlanta): Elected Irwin (Ike) Belk, president of the Belk Group (Charlotte, N.C.), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Conservation Consultants (Pittsburgh): Elected Cynthia Carrow, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (Pittsburgh), to be president of the board.

Coro National (Berkeley, Calif.): Elected Vic Fazio, managing partner at the Washington office of Clark & Weinstock (New York) and former U.S. Representative (D-Calif.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Fairfax County Public Library Foundation (Fairfax, Va.): Elected Alice M. Starr, vice president for marketing at West Group (McLean, Va.), to be board chairman.

Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education (New York): Elected Sandra Priest Rose, a trustee and reading consultant at the Reading Reform Foundation of New York, to be chairman of the board.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of America (Phoenix): Elected Anthony L. Bucci, chairman and chief executive officer of MARC USA (Pittsburgh), to be national chairman of the board.

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (Great Neck, N.Y.): Elected Jerry Callaghan, managing director of Wall Street Access (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Saint Louis Community Foundation: Elected to the Board of Directors Lester J. Buechele, president of the Innsbrook Corporation (Wright City, Mo.); Gretta Forrester, president of the Crosby Corporation (Salt Lake City) and an instructor in the nonprofit-management program at Washington U. (St. Louis); Bruce A. Olson, president of the BBI Group (St. Louis); and Leslie A. Small, a tax partner at the St. Louis office of Arthur Andersen.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Entango (San Francisco): Appointed Chad Grant, president of Skater.net (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), to be director of product development; Amma Hawks, director of development at Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, to be director of client development and services; and Robert Kusel, manager of business development at LocalVoice.com (San Francisco), to be director of business development.

Fenton Communications (Washington): Appointed Paul Bledsoe, director of communications for the White House Climate Change Task Force (Washington), to be senior vice president.

Kintera (San Diego): Appointed John Paul McNeill, chief financial officer at MusicMatch (San Diego), to be vice president of administration and acquisitions.