People

Abilene Christian U. (Tex.): Appointed Dan Garrett, vice-chancellor, to be president and executive director of the ACU Foundation.

Albright College (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Jessica L. Shue, assistant director of the annual fund at Elizabethtown College (Pa.), to be assistant director of alumni relations, and Heidi S. Zver, development assistant at the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (Perkaskie, Pa.), to be assistant director of annual giving.

American Battle Monuments Commission (Arlington, Va.): Appointed J. Marsh McLawhorn, director of special events and programs at the Hecht Company (Arlington), to be assistant director for special events for the World War II Memorial Campaign, and Angela C. Welsh, development director at the Council for Court Excellence (Washington), to be assistant director for donor programs for the campaign.

California State Polytechnic U. at Pomona: Appointed Esteban Soriano, former director of development at U. of California at Riverside, to be vice-president for university advancement.

Children’s Defense Fund (Washington): Appointed Pat Owens, executive director of the Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council (Valley Forge, Pa.), to be chief operating officer.

Children’s Home of Reading (Pa.): Appointed Laurel A. Shaffer, director of development at United Methodist Home for Children and Family Services (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), to be director of development.

Citizens League of Greater Cleveland: Appointed J. Lee Bailey, former manager of corporate communications at Centerior Energy and the Illuminating Company (Cleveland), to be executive director.

City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute (Los Angeles): Appointed Steve Solton, senior vice-president and chief development officer, to be executive vice-president and chief development officer.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Appointed Lawrence M. Berman, acting curator of ancient art, to be curator of Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern art.

Colorado Episcopal Foundation (Denver): Appointed Douglass Ray, former president of Douglas M. Lawson Associates (New York) and former executive director of AmeriCares (New Canaan, Conn.), to be president.

Conner Prairie (Fishers, Ind.): Appointed John A. Herbst, executive director of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), to be president. Conner Prairie is a living-history museum based on a 19th-century rural settlement.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Charles B. Fancher, Jr., vice-president of communications and public affairs at Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., to be vice-president for communications.

Detroit Institute of Arts: Appointed David W. Penney, curator of Native American art, to be chief curator.

Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Holly J. Stagmer, former vice-president and controller for commercial and office development at the Rouse Company (Columbia), to be chief financial officer of the Enterprise Social Investment Corporation.

Fenway Community Health Center (Boston): Appointed Glenn H. Kaufhold, former director of development at Boston U.’s Goldman School of Dental Medicine, to be director of development.

Furman U. (Greenville, S.C.): Appointed Gregory Carroll, executive director of university communications at Wichita State U. (Kan.), to be vice-president for marketing and public relations.

Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind (Smithtown, N.Y.): Appointed Steven A. Humphrey, director of major gifts at the American Red Cross of Westchester County (White Plains, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.): Appointed N. Stewart Saltonstall, director of institutional advancement at the Baylor School (Chattanooga, Tenn.), to be director of development, effective July 1.

Indiana State U. (Terre Haute): Appointed John P. Newton, director of major gifts, to be executive director of alumni affairs, and David Zaun, former director of community relations and marketing at Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis), to be assistant vice-president for university relations.

Indiana U. (Bloomington): Appointed Kathy Smith, executive assistant for education to the Governor of Indiana, to be associate director of state and federal relations.

International Center for Research on Women (Washington): Appointed Cheryl Morden, associate director for development policy at Church World Service and Lutheran World Relief’s Office on Development Policy (Washington), to be policy communications analyst.

International Rescue Committee (New York): Appointed Susan Khozouri, manager of the Public Policy Task Force for the Former Yugoslavia at the Open Society Institute (New York), to be director of international development.

Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro): Appointed Carolyn Denton, former corporate archivist and records manager in the legal department at Republic Industries (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), to be director of alumni relations.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Appointed Marshall J. Wong, assistant director for programs at the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Education (Washington), to be director of the Arts Education Initiative.

Mental Health Association in Delaware (Wilmington): Appointed Kathryn R. Vogel, marketing consultant and principal of Vogel Marketing (East Amherst, N.Y.), to be coordinator of communications and marketing.

Methodist Theological School in Ohio (Delaware): Appointed John Swartz, development officer at U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be director of development.

Minnesota Age & Opportunity (Minneapolis): Appointed Jeanette Taylor Jones, a health-care consultant based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, to be executive director.

National Charities Information Bureau (New York): James Bausch, president and chief executive officer, has announced his retirement, effective this summer.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Washington): Robert O. Bothwell, executive director and president, will become president emeritus and senior fellow, effective this fall. He has served as president throughout the organization’s 22-year history; the search for a new president is under way.

Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Suzanne Ryan Curran Dalston, vice-president for the Memorial Foundation at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (Houston), to be vice-president for fund development. N.M.F. is the fund-raising arm of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching hospital of the Northwestern U. Medical School.

Pacifica Radio (Berkeley, Cal.): Pat Scott, executive director, has announced her resignation, effective later this year.

Public/Private Ventures (Philadelphia): Appointed the Rev. Harold Dean Trulear, a professor of church and society at New York Theological Seminary and a senior fellow at Public/Private Ventures’ Partnership for Research on Religion and At-Risk Youth, to be vice-president for new projects that involve churches in working with high-risk urban youths.

Public Radio International (Minneapolis): Appointed Eleanor Harris, vice-president of marketing services at the West Group (St. Paul), the legal-publishing arm of the Thomson Corporation, to be senior vice-president and director of marketing.

Quincy U. (Ill.): Appointed Bob Daly, a businessman in Quincy, to be director of development and marketing.

Resourceful Women (San Francisco): Appointed Alissa Hauser, a recent recipient of an M.B.A. degree from the U. of San Francisco, to be development and marketing associate, and Esther Torres, operations manager at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to be operations manager. Resourceful Women is a non-profit membership organization that helps women make educated choices related to spending, contributing, and investing money.

Saint Andrew’s School (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Herbert P. Soles, assistant headmaster for advancement at the St. Albans School for Boys (Washington), to be director of development, effective July 1.

The Search Institute (Minneapolis): Appointed Mary Ackerman, vice-president for external affairs at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School (Faribault, Minn.), to be associate director of the national-initiatives division; James Sipe, former executive director of Project Family (Minneapolis), to be training manager; Terri Sullivan, senior vice-president at Padilla Speer Beardsley Public Relations (Minneapolis), to be senior consultant for training and consulting services; and Cynthia Wilcox, a training and organizational-development consultant, to be director of the new training and consulting-services division. The Search Institute conducts research, develops materials, and provides training and technical assistance on child and adolescent development.

Sigma Theta Tau International (Indianapolis): Appointed Ramon Lavandero, director of external affairs and development at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (Aliso Viejo, Cal.), to be director of the International Leadership Institute. Sigma Theta Tau is a nursing honor society.

Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.): Appointed Beth Brucker-Kane, associate director of the annual fund, to be development associate in the office of the dean of special programs.

South Carolina ETV (Columbia): Appointed Paul R. Amos, vice-president of international business development at the Jones Education Company (Englewood, Colo.), and vice-president and general manager of Jones Health Network (Englewood), to be president and chief executive officer.

Southcoast Hospitals Group (Fall River, Mass.): Appointed Agatha Saint Amour, plant-services manager at Molten Metal Technology (Fall River), to be director of volunteer service.

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Boston): Appointed Seymour Smith, director of development, to be vice-president for development.

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children (Bayside, N.Y.): Appointed Barnett W. Bronfman, vice-president and chief financial officer, to be executive vice-president and chief financial officer at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children and St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Center for Children.

The Trickle Up Program (New York): Glen Leet, co-founder and co-president, died April 7 at the age of 89. He and his wife, Mildred Robbins Leet, founded Trickle Up, which supports microenterprise projects run by poor people in developing countries, in 1979. He had also served as president of Save the Children Federation (Westport, Conn.) and as chief of community development at the United Nations (New York).

U. of Arkansas (Fayetteville): Appointed G. David Gearhart, senior vice-president and managing director at Grenzebach Glier & Associates (Chicago), to be vice-chancellor for university advancement, effective July 1.

U. of Denver: Appointed Charles Bass, director of alumni relations at U. of Tulsa (Okla.), to be director of alumni and parent relations.

U. of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg): Ron Phillips, director of alumni affairs, has announced his retirement, effective June 30.

U. of Tennessee at Memphis: Appointed Boi Carpenter-Mellady, director of development at the U. of Memphis School of Law, to be director of development.

USO (United Service Organizations) (Washington): Appointed Raymond Hord, executive director of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association (Alexandria, Va.), to be vice-president for development.

Valdosta State U. (Ga.): Appointed Ray Devery, assistant to the president for institutional advancement, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Vanderbilt U. (Nashville): Appointed Robert Feldman, director of external relations at the Yale U. School of Medicine (New Haven, Conn.) and director of development at Yale-New Haven Hospital, to be associate vice-chancellor for alumni and development and executive director of development for the medical center.

Wake Forest U. (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Kevin P. Cox, director of media relations, to be assistant vice-president for university advancement, and Cheryl V. Walker, assistant director of media relations, to be associate director.

Westchester Jewish Community Services (Hartsdale, N.Y.): Appointed Alan Trager, associate executive director, to be executive director and chief executive officer, effective July 1.

Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green): Appointed Fred Hensley, vice-president for institutional advancement, to be special assistant to the president for public affairs and governmental relations, and Thomas S. Hiles, director of campaigns at Rice U. (Houston), to be vice-president for development and alumni relations.

Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.): Appointed Gloria Cagigas, director of development and alumni relations, to be associate vice-president for institutional advancement.

Wheeling Jesuit U. (W.Va.): Appointed Alvin E. Hall, Sr., executive director of the Washington office of EG&G Inc., to be vice-president for advancement, university relations, and marketing.

WNYC (New York): Appointed Vincent A. Gardino, director of radio marketing at Interep Radio (New York), to be director of corporate underwriting.

Women of the West Museum (Boulder, Colo.): Appointed Joan Mason, director of annual giving at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (New York), to be director of development.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Alvin Kernan, director of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies Program, has announced his retirement, effective in June. Robert Weisbuch, president of the foundation, will succeed him as director of the program.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.): Appointed Robert G. Dietrich, director of individual giving, to be director of development.

World Resources Institute (Washington): Appointed A. Karim Ahmed, principal and director of research and assessment at Science and Policy Associates (Washington), to be deputy director of the Health, Environment, and Development Program; Frank Dexter Brown, founder and president of Culture Collective Media (Washington), to be director of media relations; Paul Faeth, senior associate, to be director of the Program in Economics and Population; Kenton Miller, director of the Biological Resources Program, to be vice-president; and Donald J. Reed, director of research at the Carson Group (New York), to be senior associate and deputy director of the Management Institute for Environment and Business. The institute also announced the resignation of Robert Repetto, vice-president of the institute and director of the Program in Economics and Population; he will continue as a part-time senior fellow, working from Boulder, Colo.

GRANT MAKERS

W. H. Brady Foundation (Maggie Valley, N.C.): Appointed Elizabeth L. Haynes, former director of technology and learning resources at Haywood Community College (Clyde, N.C.), to be program officer.

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund (London): Appointed Andrew Purkis, public-affairs secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury (England), to be chief executive.

Minneapolis Foundation: Appointed Daniel Berg, director of asset development at the Minnesota Opera (Minneapolis), to be major-gifts officer.

Nord Family Foundation (Elyria, Ohio): Appointed John J. Mullaney, executive director of SatelLife (Cambridge, Mass.), a non-profit group that uses satellite and Internet technologies to deliver medical literature to developing countries, to be executive director.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Cal.): Appointed Sarah Clark, deputy director of the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Population (Washington), to be director of the population program; Ken Ford, former chair of the physics department at the U. of California at Irvine, to be director of science programs; Jennifer Kane, program manager in corporate and marketing communications at the Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, Cal.), to be communications director; Jeanne Sedgwick, program officer, to be director of the conservation program; and George Vera, a partner at Arthur Andersen (San Jose, Cal.), to be director of finance and administration.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Grand Rapids Foundation (Mich.): Elected Casey Wondergem, senior public-affairs counsel at the Amway Corporation (Ada, Mich.), to be chairperson of the Board of Trustees, and the following to be trustees: Beverly Drake, executive director of Area Community Services Employment and Training (Grand Rapids); Earl Holton, president and director of Meijer Inc. (Walker, Mich.); and Kevin Kabat, president of Old Kent Bank (Grand Rapids).

Pittsburgh Foundation: Elected the following to the Board of Directors: Herbert Elish, board chairman of the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh and former chairman, president, and chief executive of Weirton Steel Corporation (Weirton, W.Va.); Mary Lou McLaughlin, a member of several Pittsburgh-area non-profit boards and former executive director of Family House (Pittsburgh); and Aaron Walton, senior vice-president for community affairs at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Pittsburgh).

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Jennifer White, former marketing manager at American Health Consultants (Atlanta), to be account director.

Newport Creative Communications (Duxbury, Mass.): Appointed Anthony Genovese, vice-president at L. W. Robbins Associates (Franklin, Mass.), to be vice-president.