People

Access Living (Chicago): Appointed Carrie Spitler, development associate, to be director of development. Access Living provides educational, social, and advocacy services to disabled people.

American ORT Federation (New York): Appointed Brian J. Strum, professor of real-estate finances at New York U. and former chief executive officer of the Prudential Realty Group and the Prudential Realty Trust (Newark, N.J.), to be executive vice-president.

Amherst College (Mass.): Appointed Bhamati Viswanathan, a lawyer in Pittsfield, Mass., to be associate director of major gifts.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta): Appointed Jack Reinholt, vice-president of training and professional development, to be vice-president for organizational and executive development. B.& G.C.A. also appointed Romero Brown, center director at Chicago Youth Centers, to be director of teen services for the Midwest and Pacific regions; Anne Cunic, program coordinator at the Georgia Society of C.P.A.s (Atlanta), to be training coordinator in the training and professional-development department; Fred Polka, executive director of Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club (Champaign, Ill.), to be Midwest regional service director; and Lelita Thomas, accounting clerk, to be program assistant for the AmeriCorps program.

Brown U. (Providence, R.I.): Ann W. Caldwell, vice-president for development, has been appointed interim president of the MGH Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston).

California State U.-Stanislaus (Turlock): Appointed S. Elizabeth Fernandez, alumni and public-information officer at Rio Hondo College (Whittier, Cal.), to be director of alumni relations.

Christian Churches United of the Tri-County Area (Harrisburg, Pa.): Appointed Jacqueline Pace Rucker, acting executive director and program director at HELP Ministries (Harrisburg), to be executive director.

Civicus (Washington): Miklos Marschall, executive director, has announced that he will step down next year to return to his native Hungary. He will remain until a successor is named.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Robert T. Coonrod, executive vice-president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer. He has served as acting president since April 7.

Detroit Zoological Society (Royal Oak, Mich.): Appointed Randall A. Stubbs, development director at the Denver Zoological Foundation, to be president.

Donors Forum of Chicago: Appointed Leah Gauler, program coordinator for the Arts-in-Education Residency Program at the Illinois Arts Council (Chicago), to be program coordinator.

Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives (Clearwater, Fla.): Appointed Peter J. Rood, assistant dean for law development and alumni relations at U. of Miami School of Law, to be vice-president for fund development.

Elderhostel (Boston): Appointed Stephen H. Richards, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the International Rescue Committee (New York), to be president. Elderhostel provides learning and cultural experiences worldwide for adults aged 55 and older.

Endicott College (Beverly, Mass.): Appointed Mitchell A. Gordon, director of development at North Shore ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens) (Danvers, Mass.), to be director of institutional advancement.

Fairmount Park Commission (Philadelphia): Appointed Nancy A. Goldenberg, director of public information at Center City District (Philadelphia), to be administrator of the Fairmount Park Natural Lands Restoration and Education Program.

Fort Hays State U. (Hays, Kan.): Announced the retirement of Bob Lowen, director of university relations, effective in June 1998. He will be succeeded by Kent Steward, manager of corporate communications at Sunflower Electric Power Corporation (Hays, Kan.). The university also appointed Debra Prideaux, communications director at the Kansas Bar Association (Topeka), to be executive director of alumni and governmental relations.

Greenville Hospital System Foundation (S.C.): Appointed Jane Earle Pressly, executive director, to be president and chief executive officer. G.H.S.F. also appointed Anthony J. Meyer, Jr., director of major gifts and planned giving, to be vice-president of development and estate planning.

The Hole in the Wall Gang Fund (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Francine Harcourt Caplan, former director of public relations and development at the Creative Arts Workshop (New Haven), to be director of communications and grant writing. The fund runs the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Conn., which provides camping experiences for children and adolescents with cancer and serious blood diseases.

Honeywell Foundation (Wabash, Ind.): Appointed Vicki Draper, director of member services and development at the Development Exchange (Minneapolis), a national association for public-radio stations, to be director of development. The organization operates the Honeywell Center, which provides arts and arts-education programs in Wabash.

Houghton College (N.Y.): Appointed Tom McCarty, a consultant in Cleveland, to be director of major gifts.

INSP-the Inspirational Network (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Sheila Stephens, development manager at Chosen People Ministries (Charlotte), to be development specialist.

Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta): Appointed the Rev. Terry F. Walker, Sr., associate director of development at Martin U. (Indianapolis), to be coordinator of alumni affairs and planned giving.

Meredith College (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Anita Gunn Shirley, vice-president of Capital Consortium Inc. (Raleigh), to be director of grants and program development.

Miami City Ballet (Miami Beach): Appointed Lois Hoffman, director of development at the U. of Miami School of Music, to be director of development.

Michigan Fitness Foundation (Lansing): Appointed S. Mark Terman, executive director of the Library of Michigan Foundation (Lansing), to be executive director.

Middlebury College (Vt.): Appointed Sarah Ray, former manager of public relations at Bruegger’s Corporation (Burlington, Vt.), to be associate director of public affairs.

Montclair State U. (Upper Montclair, N.J.): Gregory L. Waters, deputy provost and vice-president for institutional advancement, has been named interim president.

Monterey Institute of International Studies (Cal.): Richard Krasno, president and chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education (New York), has been named president.

Museum of Science (Boston): Appointed Cynthia Mackey, deputy director of operations-airline and destination marketing at Massport (Boston) and former director of aquarium operations and chief operating officer at the New England Aquarium (Boston), to be vice-president of marketing.

National Association of Secondary School Principals (Reston, Va.): Appointed Lyman Carter, acting assistant of grounds maintenance at Earth Shuttle (Reston), to be assistant to the associate director of direct-mail fund raising.

National Endowment for the Arts (Washington): Jane Alexander, chairman, will step down this month after completing her four-year term. Scott Shanklin-Peterson, deputy chairman for grants and partnership, will oversee the agency’s daily operations until President Clinton nominates, and the Senate confirms, a new chairman.

National Foundation for Biomedical Research (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Anne Alexander, a consultant on corporate philanthropy and community affairs and former vice-president for education at the AT&T Foundation (New York), to be executive director. This new organization will raise private funds for the National Institutes of Health.

Pasadena Symphony (Cal.): Appointed Geoffrey Fontaine, director of operations, to be executive director.

Playhouse Square Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Daniel M. Ducoff, associate director of corporate and foundation relations, to be director of major gifts.

Porter Hills Retirement Village (Grand Rapids, Mich.): Appointed William J. Weitzel, director of institutional advancement at GMI Engineering and Management Institute (Flint, Mich.), to be vice-president of development.

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence): Appointed Deborah Tobey, programs coordinator at the Yale U. Art Gallery’s Department of Exhibitions and Programs (New Haven, Conn.), to be director of annual giving for the RISD Museum.

Rockford College (Ill.): Appointed Ann Marie Woods-Walker, director of communications at Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Services of Illinois (Freeport), to be associate director of college relations.

Rural Advocates for Independent Living (Kirksville, Mo.): Appointed Jack Lambrecht, site coordinator at Northeast Missouri Caring Communities (Queen City), to be executive director.

Saint Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Glenn D. Tyson, coordinator of psychiatric services at Bradford Recovery Systems of Bradford Regional Medical Center (Pa.), to be associate director of annual giving.

Saint Mary’s Health Network (Reno): Appointed Virginia Ayala, former president and chief executive officer of Saint Luke’s Healthcare Center (San Francisco), to be vice-president and administrator at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center.

Salvation Army Eastern Territorial Headquarters (West Nyack, N.Y.): Appointed John R. Cheydleur, program development officer at the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers Command (West Nyack), to be territorial social-services secretary.

Save the Children (Westport, Conn.): Appointed Rudolph von Bernuth, executive director of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (Geneva), to be associate vice-president of the Division of Humanitarian Response.

St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed John L. Kahl, director of corporation and foundation relations, to be executive director of development.

Stetson U. (Deland, Fla.): Appointed Jeffrey T. Spoeri, interim executive director of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity (Tulsa, Okla.), to be director of alumni relations for the College of Law.

Summit Education Initiative (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Barbara Greene, president and chief executive officer of the Direction Center (Grand Rapids, Mich.), which provides management-support services to non-profit groups in western Michigan, to be executive director. S.E.I. is a partnership of educators, parents, business leaders, and others working to improve education in Summit County, Ohio.

Susquehanna U. (Selinsgrove, Pa.): Appointed Karen Bell, development officer at Cabrini College (Radnor, Pa.), to be director of annual giving.

Texas A&M U. at Corpus Christi: Appointed Trent Hill, former director of development at Stephen F. Austin State U. (Nacogdoches, Tex.), to be director of development.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minneapolis): Appointed Chuck Peterson, executive director of Grace House of Minneapolis, a foster-care home for people with AIDS, to be development director.

U. of California at Davis: Appointed Gilbert L. White, associate director of development at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., to be director of major gifts.

U. of Florida (Gainesville): Appointed Donald P. Ryan, residential manager at Covenant House (New York), to be associate director for corporate relations in the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

U. of Iowa (Iowa City): Appointed Selden W. Smith, associate director of library development and external affairs at U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be director of development for the libraries.

U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.): Appointed Karen G. Dudley, senior major-gifts officer and director of development for the Schools of Architecture, Engineering, and Nursing, to be director of regional development.

U. of Oregon (Eugene): Appointed Kathryn Owen, director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences at U. of Colorado at Boulder, to be associate vice-president for development.

U. of Pittsburgh: Appointed Mitchell Kozikowski, a consultant in New York, to be executive director of public affairs.

Viewpoint School (Calabasas, Cal.): Appointed Gretchen Graham Lightfoot, public-relations officer at Union Bank of California (Los Angeles and San Francisco), to be a development officer.

Waynesburg College (Pa.): Appointed Charles N. Perrine, capital-campaign manager at Carlow College (Pittsburgh), to be vice-president for institutional advancement, alumni, and church relations.

WCNY (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Carol M. Satchwell, director of educational services, to be director of major giving.

WHYY (Philadelphia): Appointed Nessa R. Forman, vice-president for communications, to be vice-president for corporate communications and public affairs.

WNYC (New York): Appointed Virginia Gold, a spokesperson at AT&T Corporation (New York), to be director of public relations.

Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Linda Koch Lorimer, vice-president and secretary, to also be liaison officer to the Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale Alumni Magazine.

GRANT MAKERS

Broward Community Foundation (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.): Appointed Linda Besterda Carter, executive vice-president at the Museum of Discovery and Science (Fort Lauderdale), to be president.

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Katherine L. Saigeon, assistant vice-president for finance and assistant treasurer at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.), to be chief administrative officer.

Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington): Appointed Dennis M. Corrigan, executive assistant and counsel to Jamie Gorelick, former U.S. deputy attorney general, to be vice-president of operations.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed Babatunde A. Ahonsi, former lecturer in health sociology at the U. of Lagos (Nigeria), to be program officer for the reproductive-health and human-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in Lagos; Jorge Balan, former director of the National Commission on University Evaluation and Accreditation and professor of sociology at the U. of Buenos Aires, to be program officer for the education, knowledge, and religion unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program; Kimberli R. Brown, program officer for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Endowment for Democracy (Washington), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program, based in Mexico City; Celeste Dado, budget analyst and planner at the New York Public Library, to be grants administrator for the peace and social-justice program; Alan S. Divack, associate archivist in the information-services office, to be archivist; and James V. Federici, money manager-operations at Aperion Capital Management (New York), to be assistant treasurer in the financial-services office.

Jewish Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Simone Savlov, vice-president of finance and administration, to be senior vice-president of finance and administration.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Astrid Hendricks-Smith, research associate at the Learning Research and Development Center (Pittsburgh), and Mark A. Lelle, owner of Community Resources Group (Albion, Mich.), to be evaluation managers and internal consultants, and Clayton Leonard, senior consultant at Cambridge Technology Partners (Columbus, Ohio), to be senior business analyst for the technology department.

Kraft Foods (Northfield, Ill.): Appointed Amina J. Dickerson, vice-president for education and public programs at the Chicago Historical Society, to be director of corporate contributions.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Appointed Maureen K. Byrnes, manager of the trusts’ Venture Fund and former vice-president at the Association of American Universities (Washington), to be director of the health and human-services program.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Gordon Conway, an agricultural ecologist and the vice-chancellor of the U. of Sussex (Brighton, England), to be president, effective April 1. He will succeed Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., who announced his resignation earlier this year.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Jewish Federation-Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: Elected Barbara Hochberg, retired general-merchandise manager at Sportmart (Wheeling, Ill.) and former chair of the J.F.-J.U.F. Legacies and Endowments Committee, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

New York Public Library: Elected Marshall Rose, managing partner of the Georgetown Group (New York), a real-estate-development and financial-services company, to be chairman. He succeeds Elizabeth Rohatyn, who is moving to Paris to join her husband, Felix, the recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to France.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Elected Robert A. Bowman, president and chief operation officer of I.T.T. Corporation (New York), to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Bass and Howes (New York and Washington): Appointed Christine L. Campbell, former office-services manager at Cities In Schools (Alexandria, Va.), to be office manager in the Washington office; Carolyn W. Clark, coordinator of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce’s Partners for Leadership Program, to be program manager in the New York office; Jacqueline D. Koenig, research assistant at Princeton U.’s Office of Population Research (N.J.), to be program manager in the Washington office; and Robyn Lipner, legislative representative at the U. of California Office of the President (Oakland), to be senior program manager in the Washington office. Bass and Howes is a public-policy and public-affairs consulting firm that works with non-profit groups, foundations, and corporations.

Fund Evaluation Group (Cincinnati): Appointed Ronald T. Behymer, builder sales and design consultant at Zicka Homes (Cincinnati), to be director of business development; Bruce A. Benjamin, a managing associate at Oxford Financial Advisors (Indianapolis), to be vice-president; and Mary Beth Cadle, senior research director at the Blue Chip Venture Company (Cincinnati), to be vice-president.

InfoCision Management Corporation (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Carl Albright, director of telemarketing, to be vice-president for phone-center operations, and Steven R. Brubaker, vice-president for telemarketing, to be senior vice-president for telemarketing operations.