People

Abilities of Florida (Clearwater): Appointed Richard E. Barnard, executive analyst at Profit Counselors (Sarasota, Fla.), to be vice-president and chief operating officer. Abilities of Florida provides employment and housing services for disabled people.

Alaska Public Radio Network (Anchorage): Appointed Julianna Guy, interim president and former president and general manager of Northern Radio and Television (Anchorage), to be president.

America’s Promise — the Alliance for Youth (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed E. Renee Ingram, vice-president and treasurer at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington), to be chief financial officer.

American Friends of the British Museum (New York): Appointed Sue Devine, senior consultant at Campbell & Company (Chicago), to be executive director.

American Indian College Fund (Denver): Appointed Richard B. Williams, director of the Student Academic Services Center and the American Indian Upward Bound Program at the U. of Colorado at Boulder, to be executive director.

Arena Stage (Washington): Appointed Molly D. Smith, founder and artistic director of Perseverance Theater (Juneau, Alaska), to be artistic director, effective July 1. She will succeed Douglas C. Wager, who announced his resignation in October 1996.

Catholic Health Association of the United States (St. Louis): Appointed the Rev. Michael D. Place, consul for policy development at the Archdiocese of Chicago, to be president and chief executive officer.

Center for Preventive Psychiatry (White Plains, N.Y.): Appointed Harvey I. Newman, executive director of agency relations at United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, to be executive director.

Country Music Foundation (Nashville): William Ivey, executive director, has been nominated by President Clinton to serve as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington).

Eos Ensemble (New York): Appointed Stephen R. Vann, executive director of the Nashville Symphony, to be executive director.

Esperanca (Phoenix): Appointed Raul Espericueta, director of programs at the Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix), to be president and chief executive officer. Esperanca conducts health and educational programs abroad.

Grantmakers In Health (Washington): Appointed Lauren LeRoy, executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

Greater Philadelphia Food Bank: Appointed Jo Ann Connelly, associate executive director of operations at Tabor Services (Doylestown, Pa.), an organization that provides child-welfare, day-care, and mental-health services, to be president and chief executive officer.

Hudson Institute (Indianapolis): Appointed Herbert I. London, a professor in the humanities department at New York U. and founder of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Education and Employment Policy, to be president.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Peter Shiras, vice-president and director of the Public Policy Initiative, to be senior vice-president for programs.

The Lighthouse (New York): Appointed Elaine Chapnick, deputy managing director of communications at the American Lung Association (New York), to be vice-president for communications and marketing. The Lighthouse conducts research and provides rehabilitation services for vision-impaired people.

Lund Family Center (Burlington, Vt.): Appointed Barbara Rachelson, program-development director at Spectrum Youth and Family Services (Burlington), to be executive director.

Making the Grade: State and Local Partnerships to Establish School-Based Health Centers (Washington): Appointed Jane Koppelman, director of the “Children at Risk” program at the National Health Policy Forum (Washington), to be deputy director. This new resource center also appointed Nancy Eichner, research associate at the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (Washington), to be research associate.

Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged: Appointed Joel Dalva, interim hospital chief financial officer and senior financial specialist at Quorum Health Resources (Nashville), to be chief financial officer.

Montana State U. (Bozeman): Appointed J. Thomas Gelder, development counsel at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena), to be president and executive director of its foundation.

National Brain Tumor Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Janis C. Brewer, marketing director at the Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank (Portland, Ore.), to be executive director; Jenifer Sugars Gorton, manager of administration and finance, to be director of administration; and Mats Wallin, executive director of the American Heart Association-Alameda County Chapter (Oakland, Cal.), to be development director.

National Center for Genome Resources (Santa Fe, N.M.): Appointed George J. Lukac, executive director of the Rockford Memorial Development Foundation at the Rockford Health System (Ill.), to be director of development.

National Council of Negro Women (Washington): Appointed Jane E. Smith, director of the Carter Center’s Atlanta Project (Atlanta), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Dorothy I. Height, who will become president emerita and chair of the board.

National Hospice Organization (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Karen A. Davie, executive vice-president and chief operating officer at United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.), to be president.

National Peace Garden Monument (Washington): Appointed John F. Raynolds III, chairman and chief executive officer of Ward Howell International (New York) and former president of Outward Bound U.S.A. (Garrison, N.Y.), to be president and chief executive officer.

National Society of Fund Raising Executives (Alexandria, Va.): Patricia F. Lewis, president and chief executive officer, has announced her resignation, effective March 31.

Opportunity International (Oak Brook, Ill.): Appointed Charles L. Dokmo, field director for Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova at World Vision (Monrovia, Cal.), based in Bucharest, Romania, to be president and chief executive officer. Opportunity International makes small-business loans to people in developing countries.

The Phillips Collection (Washington): Charles S. Moffett, director, has announced that he will leave in April to become co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art for Sotheby’s.

Pioneer Human Services (Seattle): Appointed Larry M. Fehr, executive director of the Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency (Seattle), to be vice-president and chief program officer.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey (Montclair): Appointed Evelyn Task, income-development director at the American Cancer Society-Essex Unit (West Orange, N.J.), to be major-gifts administrator.

Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Sherry Ipema, account manager at Resource Development Group (Lenexa, Kan.), to be development associate.

Public Counsel Law Center (Los Angeles): Appointed Daniel Grunfeld, a partner in the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery (Los Angeles), to be chief executive officer and general counsel.

Public Radio International (Minneapolis): Appointed Jennifer Fling, senior administrative assistant at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (Minneapolis), to be senior manager of corporate affairs.

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (Lynchburg, Va.): Appointed Heidi Hansen McCrory, director of development for academic programs at the U. of North Carolina at Greensboro, to be director of development.

Rhythm and Blues Foundation (Washington): Appointed Janis D. Hazel, field coordinator and lobbyist at America’s Public Television Stations (Washington), to be executive director.

Roland Park Place (Baltimore): Appointed Melinda J. Burdette, senior development officer and campaign administrator at Goucher College (Towson, Md.), to be director of development and community relations. Roland Park Place is a non-profit retirement community.

San Francisco Opera: Appointed Monica M. Mackey, vice-president for institutional advancement at the Boston Lyric Opera, to be director of development.

U. of California at Los Angeles: Appointed Roger A. Meyer, associate director of university development and director of principal gifts, to be director of medical-sciences development.

U. of Kentucky (Lexington): Appointed Lloyd E. Axelrod, former director of public relations at Royal Caribbean Cruises (Miami), to be director of public relations.

U. of Massachusetts at Lowell: Appointed Brian Andriolo, a research assistant at the university’s Center for Industrial Competitiveness, to be assistant director of annual giving; Liliana Ayala, director of special events at American Red Cross of Greater Miami and the Keys (Miami), to be assistant director of alumni affairs; Susan Balestraci, associate director of annual giving at Northeastern U. (Boston), to be director of annual giving; John Davis, director of alumni relations and alumni giving at Worcester State College (Mass.), to be a constituent director of development; James N. Drawbridge, Jr., senior account executive at Advanced Data-Comm Inc. (Dubuque, Iowa), to be director of development; Jeanne de Brun Duffy, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.), to be director of corporate and foundation giving; Matthew Eynon, president of the Pyrenees Group (Acton, Mass.), to be a constituent director of development; Patricia Kelleher, development officer for prospect research at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be director of prospect research; Patricia MacCarthy, vice-president for development at VNA Care Network (Newton, Mass.), to be a constituent director of development; and Carl Pitruzzello, senior programmer and analyst at Bentley College (Waltham, Mass.), to be director of advancement services.

U. of Oxford-North American Offices (New York): Appointed Darryl C. Brown, director of corporate and foundation relations, to be director; T. Paige Betz, manager of the Garden Patrons Program at the New York Botanical Garden, to be development executive for individual giving; and Wendy L. Longwood, senior development officer at INFORM (New York), to be development executive for corporate and foundation relations.

U. of Southern California (Los Angeles): Appointed Martha Harris, associate vice-president for public relations, to be vice-president for public relations.

United Cerebral Palsy Association of King and Snohomish Counties (Shoreline, Wash.): Appointed O. R. Elofson, a psychologist specializing in vocational rehabilitation based in Issaquah, Wash., to be executive director.

United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York: Irving Bernstein, executive vice-chairman from 1971 to 1984, died December 10 of cancer. He was 76.

Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education (Chicago): Appointed Libby Lai-Bun Chiu, vice-president of institutional advancement at the Boston Conservatory, to be executive director.

Volunteer Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Va.): Appointed Elizabeth B. Lloyd, acting director, to be executive director.

Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles): Lillian Bounds Disney, widow of Walt Disney, died December 16 at the age of 98. Mrs. Disney began the drive to build the concert hall with a $50-million gift in May 1987.

Washington Works (Seattle): Appointed Rosella L. Stern, former director of the Women’s Center at Lake Washington Technical College (Kirkland), to be executive director. Washington Works provides employment and vocational services to low-income people.

West Jersey Health & Hospital Foundation (Voorhees, N.J.): Appointed T. Christian Rollins, executive director of the Southern Regional Medical Center Foundation (Riverdale, Ga.), to be executive director, and Amanda Emigh, corporate-programs manager at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to be annual-giving coordinator.

Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (Morrilton, Ark.): Announced the resignation of Robert L. Thompson, president and chief executive officer, effective in July.

Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Charles J. Pagnam, interim vice-president for development, to be vice-president for development.

York College (Neb.): Appointed Fred Alexander, former director of admissions at Harding U. (Searcy, Ark.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

GRANT MAKERS

Bread and Roses Community Fund (Philadelphia): Appointed Christie Balka, executive program officer at the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (Philadelphia), to be executive director.

Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Diane Camper, a reporter and editorial writer at The New York Times, to be manager of public affairs.

Central New York Community Foundation (Syracuse): Appointed Helen R. Dewey, a recent recipient of a master-of-public-administration degree from Syracuse U.’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (N.Y.), to be program associate.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Barclay Jones, program officer at the Hunt Alternatives Fund (Denver), to be a program officer.

The Dibner Fund (Wilton, Conn.): Appointed Marci B. Sternheim, executive director of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.), to be executive director.

Gates Library Foundation (Redmond, Wash.): Appointed Richard Akeroyd, former Connecticut state librarian, to be library-programs director.

Greater Birmingham Foundation (Ala.): Appointed Mimi Tynes, program officer, to be president. She succeeds Sheila Blair, who is retiring.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Gregory Pogue, assistant vice-president for finance and business affairs at Drew U. (Madison, N.J.), to be vice-president for administration.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Kurt Mueller, a partner at Ernst & Young (Kansas City), to be president of the foundation’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Michigan Women’s Foundation (Livonia): Appointed Louise Motoligin, president of Collaborative Management Consultants (Detroit), to be director of major gifts and fund-development coordinator; Jennifer Steiner, community-development director at the American Cancer Society- Tri-County Chapter (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be director of the Women’s Health Funding Initiative; and Kathy Tkach, assistant dean of students at Marygrove College (Detroit), to be director of programs and regional development.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Lenka Setek-Synacova, grants officer at the British Embassy in Prague for the Know How Fund, to be program assistant in the civil-society program’s regional office in Prague, and Ronald M. White, director of grant making at Share Our Strength (Washington), to be program officer for the poverty program. The foundation also appointed Sandra D. Davis, editor of the on-line Detroit Sunday Journal, and William W. Hanson, a journalist at the Detroit Sunday Journal, to be communications officers.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Julia R. Dutton, principal of Dutton Associates (Media, Pa.), a consulting firm, to be chief operating officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Foundation for the Blind (New York): Elected Lyn Comfort, president of the Lyncean Company (Newport, R.I.), to be chairperson of the Board of Trustees.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.): Elected Colin G. Campbell, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York), to be chairman-elect of the Board of Trustees.

Exploratorium (San Francisco): Elected William K. Bowles, Jr., founding partner of U. S. Venture Partners (Menlo Park, Cal.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. The Exploratorium is a science museum.

Health Volunteers Overseas (Washington): Elected Elizabeth Kay, an associate professor of physical therapy at Northern Illinois U.’s School of Allied Health (De Kalb), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Kids Voting U.S.A. (Tempe, Ariz.): Elected U.S. Air Force Lieut. Gen. Robert E. Kelley, retired, co-founder of the Wright Stuff Press Arizona (Phoenix), to be board chair.

Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis): Elected Mary K. Lisher, a partner at the law firm of Baker & Daniels (Indianapolis), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

Michigan Women’s Foundation (Livonia): Elected Tessie Baltrip Sharp, director of the liberal-arts and science doctoral program at Wayne State U. (Detroit), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

National Society of Fund Raising Executives-Massachusetts Chapter (Boston): Elected Bradford W. Voigt, director of leadership gifts at Harvard U.’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Cambridge, Mass.), to be president.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Brick Mill Studios (Andover, Mass.): Appointed Richard V. Price, Jr., vice-president of Amergent (Peabody, Mass.), to be vice-president. B.M.S. creates data bases for regional and national non-profit mailers.

Gonser Gerber Tinker Stuhr (Naperville, Ill.): Appointed Mary A. Chicoine, executive vice-president at Econometrics (Chicago), to be an associate.

InfoCision Management Corporation (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Michael Van Scyoc, director of management-information systems, to be vice-president for information technology.