People

American Associates–Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev (New York): Appointed Deborah Spector Victor, a non-profit consultant in Atlanta, to be director of the new Atlanta regional office, which will serve Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (New York): Appointed Elaine Hyman, manager of planned gifts and research at the New York City Opera, to be director of prospect research, and Margot Steinberg, adviser to the director for fund development at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (New York), to be director of national programs.

American Near East Refugee Aid (Washington): Announced the resignation of Paula Stinson, vice-president.

American Red Cross Bay Area (San Francisco): Appointed Harold W. Brooks, executive director of the American Red Cross Metropolitan New Jersey Chapter (East Orange), to be chief executive officer.

American Red Cross of Central Florida (Orlando): Appointed Sumner Hutcheson III, regional executive officer for the American Red Cross Mid-Atlantic Region (Burtonsville, Md.), to be chief executive officer. He succeeds Hugh J. Quinn, who left in mid-June to become American Red Cross deputy regional manager in Birmingham, Ala.

Anti-Defamation League–New England Region (Boston, Mass.): Appointed Christy Jackowitz, associate development director, to be director of development.

Baltimore Opera Company: Appointed Patrick Rath, member-services manager at the Milwaukee Public Museum, to be director of annual giving, and Helen Stevens, director of development at OperaDelaware (Wilmington), to be education coordinator.

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit): Appointed Charles M. Hammond, executive director of the Detroit Zoological Society (Royal Oak, Mich.), to be chief development officer.

Barry U. (Miami Shores, Fla.): Appointed William E. Fenton, Jr., manager of the American Red Cross-Palm Beach County Chapter (West Palm Beach, Fla.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation (Dallas): Gordon M. Caswell, president, is stepping down to serve as senior adviser.

Boston Ballet: Appointed Anna-Marie Holmes, associate artistic director, to be artistic director.

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.): Appointed Robert J. Kallin, director of capital support, to be director of development.

Bradford College (Haverhill, Mass.): Appointed Michael L. Galloway, director of development, to be vice-president for institutional advancement, effective January 1. He will succeed Robert W. Leberman, who is retiring.

Bryn Mawr College (Pa.): Appointed Leslie Sokolov Bluestone, former assistant director of alumni relations and annual giving in the School of Nursing at U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be major-gifts officer; Emily C. Espenshade, a recent recipient of a master’s degree from Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be assistant director of annual giving; and Crystal Laws, a graduate student at U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to be assistant director of foundation and corporate programs.

Butler U. (Indianapolis): Appointed Richard Skooglund, a consultant in Indianapolis, to be vice-president for university advancement.

California State U.-Dominguez Hills (Carson): Appointed Amer El-Ahraf, executive vice-president, to be vice-president for university advancement.

California State U. at Los Angeles: Appointed Collette Rocha, executive director of university development at California State U. at San Bernardino, to be assistant vice-president for university development.

Campbellsville U. (Ky.): Appointed Marc C. Whitt, assistant to the president for public relations and marketing, to be vice-president for advancement.

Cardinal Hill Healthcare System (Lexington, Ky.): Appointed Julie Schmidt, special-events coordinator at Egleston Children’s Hospital (Atlanta), to be corporate-development officer.

Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Appointed Jeanne Lynch, director of internal audit for the Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation (New York and London), to be manager of internal audit.

Clemson U. (S.C.): Gary A. Ransdell, vice-president for administration and advancement, has been appointed president of Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green).

Columbia College (Mo.): Appointed Bryan Van Deun, assistant vice-chancellor for student affairs at the U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, to be director of development and alumni services.

Discovery Place (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Gene Ridenhour, former treasurer at Overcash Gravel and Grading Company (Concord, N.C.), to be controller, and Tifferney White, a presenter and coordinator for the science-clubs program, to be director of outreach. Discovery Place is a science museum.

Drake U. (Des Moines): Appointed Forrest Meyer, acting vice-president for advancement and director of public relations and communication at Augsburg College (Minneapolis), to be associate vice-president for institutional advancement and director of marketing and communications.

Emory and Henry College (Emory, Va.): Appointed George Hayward, vice-president and senior campaign director at J. Donovan Associates (Richmond, Va.), to be director of development.

Enterprise Foundation (Columbia, Md.): Appointed Bennett L. Hecht, director of housing services, to be vice-president for program services.

Family Services Woodfield (Bridgeport, Conn.): Appointed Timothy K. Rogers, director of development at the Institute for EastWest Studies (New York), to be vice-president of development.

Francis Marion U. (Florence, S.C.): Appointed Garry L. Ballard, director of alumni affairs at U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, to be executive director of university relations.

Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.): Appointed Patricia Browning, admissions assistant, to be assistant director of major gifts, alumni programs, and development; D. Richard Delgiorno, assistant director of major gifts, to be associate director of alumni programs and annual giving; and Stefanie Valar, major-gifts officer, to be assistant director of major gifts.

Georgian Court College (Lakewood, N.J.): Appointed Patricia Clyne Lindberg, vice-president for strategic development at Central State Healthcare System (Freehold, N.J.), to be vice-president for college advancement.

Henderson State U. (Arkadelphia, Ark.): Appointed Charlotte Tullos, vice-president for student services, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Indiana U. of Pennsylvania: Appointed Barbara M. Ender, director of corporate and foundation relations, to be executive director of the university foundation and senior development officer.

Institute for International Economics (Washington): Appointed Peter R. Weitz, director of programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (Washington), to be deputy director.

La Alianza Hispana (Roxbury, Mass.): Appointed Carlos Martinez, interim executive director and former director of operations, to be executive director. He succeeds Nestor Rios, who left to become executive director of the National Puerto Rican Coalition (Washington).

Lawrence U. (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed Nancy Hershfield, a consultant at the Meyer Fund-Raising Partnership (Appleton), to be director of annual giving.

Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pa.): Appointed Deborah Ann Weekley Read, director of university development at U. of Maryland (Adelphi), to be vice-president for advancement.

Lehigh U. (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Ken Smith, former mayor of Bethlehem, to be vice-president for public affairs.

Literacy Volunteers of America (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Marsha L. Tait, interim president of L.V.A. and former senior vice-president at the CIS Corporation (Syracuse), to be president.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Stephanie Mathews O’Keefe, former director of state and local policy, to be senior vice-president for external affairs.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles): Appointed Keith McKeown, communications director at the Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia), to be assistant vice-president of communications and marketing.

Los Angeles Philharmonic: Appointed Willem Wijnbergen, managing director of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), to be managing director.

Lutheran World Relief (New York): Announced the retirement of Ken Killen, director for material resources.

National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole, Wyo.): Appointed Leslie Greene Bowman, assistant director of exhibition programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), to be director.

New York and Presbyterian Hospitals (New York): Appointed Michael A. Berman, professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the U. of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore), to be the hospitals’ chief medical officer.

Orange County Performing Arts Center (Costa Mesa, Cal.): Appointed J. Terry Jones, vice-president for college advancement at Pitzer College (Claremont, Cal.), to be vice-president for development.

Pitzer College (Claremont, Cal.): Appointed Patrick Lee, a former reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times, to be director of public information.

Pomona College (Claremont, Cal.): Appointed Lynn Sarf, senior development officer at St. Lawrence U. (Canton, N.Y.), to be director of major gifts; Nancy Treser-Osgood, director of alumni relations at Claremont Graduate U., to be director of alumni relations; and Richard Watkins, associate director of annual giving at St. Lawrence U. (Canton, N.Y.), to be director of annual giving.

Ravenscroft School (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Ann Marie DiSerafino, director of public relations at Independence National Historic Park (Philadelphia), to be publications coordinator.

Reinhardt College, (Waleska, Ga.): Appointed Angie Bennett, assistant director of alumni and community relations, to be director of alumni and parent relations; Gayle Popham, director of development at the Adaptive Learning Center (Atlanta), to be director of development; Marsha White, director of public relations, to be assistant vice-president for marketing and communications; and Jo Ellen Wilson, director of alumni and community relations, to be special assistant to the president.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (Washington): Appointed the Rev. Carlton W. Veazey, deputy director and leader of the coalition’s Black Church Initiative, to be executive director.

Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.): Appointed Diane H. Barbour, director of information systems and planning at the David Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton, N.J.), to be chief information officer.

San Jose State U. (Cal.): Appointed Kathleen Quinn, director of development for the School of Law and the Children’s Advocacy Institute at U. of San Diego, to be associate vice-president for development.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Dearborn, Mich.): Appointed Helen Baca Dorsey, director of state and institutional relations at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be director of development.

St. John Fisher College (Rochester, N.Y.): Appointed Joseph Carney, former director of development at State U. of New York College at Geneseo, to be associate director of development, and Karen Higman, director of the annual fund at U. of Rochester Medical Center, to be director of development.

St. John’s U. (Jamaica, N.Y.): Appointed David C. Wegrzyn, associate athletic director for external affairs, to be assistant vice-president for institutional advancement.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy: Appointed James G. Salmo, director of development at the Whitfield School (St. Louis), to be vice-president for advancement.

St. Vincent Hospital Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Jason A. Randolph, manager of government relations at Anthem Inc. (Indianapolis), to be director of major gifts.

Texas A&M U. (College Station): Appointed James P. Palincsar, vice-president for development, to be senior vice-president for development.

U. of California at San Diego: Appointed James M. Langley, vice-president for external affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), to be vice-chancellor for development and university relations.

U. of Chicago Medical Center: Appointed Jefferson Porter, director of development at the Illinois Facilities Fund (Chicago), to be director of corporate relations.

U. of Massachusetts at Boston: Appointed Michael F. Luck, vice-chancellor for development, to be vice-chancellor for institutional advancement. The university also appointed Christine Buccella, head of development at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (London), to be senior major-gifts officer, and Sheryl F. Savage, development coordinator at the Massachusetts Easter Seal Society (Worcester), to be assistant director of the annual fund.

U. of Texas at Austin: Appointed Larry J. Lollar, vice-president for development, to be special assistant to the president.

U.S. Catholic Conference Office of Migration and Refugee Services (Washington): Appointed Mark Franken, director of refugee programs, to be interim executive director. He succeeds John Swenson, who resigned on September 19.

Union County College (Cranford, N.J.): Appointed Ann Poskocil, development director at the Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children (Bridgewater, N.J.), to be director of development.

Wake Forest U. (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed R. Kriss Dinkins, former director of corporate and foundation relations at the university’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine, to be assistant director of development, and L. Wade Stokes, Jr., senior account representative at Graphic Packaging Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.), to be director of development for the new divinity school.

Wesley College (Dover, Del.): Appointed Debbie Hoff, director of development, to be director of development and alumni affairs.

Western Maryland College (Westminster): Appointed Mark Lancaster, coordinator of religious life, to also be director of annual giving.

WFUV (Bronx, N.Y.): Appointed John Platt, director of marketing and communications at WNYC (New York), to be development and marketing director, and Mary Thomas, acting director of the alumni office at Union Theological Seminary (New York), to be membership associate. WFUV is a public-radio station based at Fordham U.

Women of the West Museum (Boulder, Colo.): Appointed Marsha L. Semmel, president and chief executive officer of Conner Prairie (Fishers, Ind.), a museum on pioneer living and Indiana history, to be director and chief executive officer of this new museum.

Women’s Legal Defense Fund (Washington): Appointed Alicia M. Alexion, a Democratic fund raiser and director of the compliance program at Perkins Coie (Washington), to be development director.

Worcester State College (Mass.): Appointed Kenneth P. Heekin, vice-president for public affairs at Saint Vincent Hospital (Worcester), to be vice-president for development and external relations, and Kaine Thompson, director of public relations at Franklin Pierce College (Rindge, N.H.), to be director of communications and publications.

Zoological Society of San Diego: Appointed Amelia Brazell, public-relations director, to be marketing director.

GRANT MAKERS

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Anne Bergman, a senior editor at the Hollywood Reporter (Cal.), to be publications officer, and Allan Parachini, public-affairs director at the A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California (Los Angeles), to be vice-president for communications.

Girl’s Best Friend Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Morenike Cheatom Basurto, former nutrition-education coordinator at the Illinois Hunger Coalition (Springfield), to be director of the Girls’ Advisory Group. The foundation makes grants for programs that serve girls, including in the areas of reproductive health and sexuality, gender and racial equity, sports, civil and human rights, and the arts.

Jerome Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Robert Byrd, senior producer in the community-affairs unit at Twin Cities Public Television (St. Paul), to be program associate.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.): Appointed Cynthia Koch, a former consultant to the School of Business Administration at the U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to be program associate for higher-education programming, and Velma Monteiro-Tribble, vice-president at the National Association for Community Leadership (Indianapolis), to be program associate for leadership programming.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association of Academic Health Centers (Washington): Elected Louis W. Sullivan, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta) and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Bush Administration, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Elected Diane D. Blair, vice-chair of the C.P.B. Board of Directors and a professor of political science at U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville, to be chairman of the board.

Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community (N.C.): Elected Donald Bernstein, retired executive vice-president of the Hanes Companies (Winston-Salem, N.C.), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees of this new supporting organization of the Foundation for the Carolinas (Charlotte, N.C.).

Global Green USA (Venice, Cal.): Elected Pat Mitchell, president of Time Inc.-Turner Original Productions (Atlanta), to be president of the Board of Directors. Global Green USA is the American affiliate of Green Cross International, a worldwide conservation organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Houston Grand Opera: Elected Dennis H. Carlyle, chief of radiology at Tenet Park Plaza Hospital (Houston), and Susan H. Carlyle, an anesthesiologist and partner in Anesthesia Specialists of Houston, to be co-presidents of the Board of Trustees.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust (Battle Creek, Mich.): Elected Arnold Langbo, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Kellogg Company (Battle Creek), and Jonathan Walton, retired executive vice-president of NBD Bank and the NBD Bancorp (Detroit), to be co-trustees, effective January 30. The trust provides income for the foundation’s grant making.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (Des Plaines): Elected Tracy L. Sunderlage, president of Sunderlage Resource Group (Woodstock, Ill.), an insurance agency, to be chairperson of the Cornerstone Foundation, which serves as a repository for planned gifts held in endowment for L.S.S.I. programs and services.

Metropolitan Family Services (New York): Elected Eileen P. Scudder, partner in charge of litigation and business-insurance consulting at Deloitte & Touche (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

PGE-Enron Foundation (Portland, Ore.): Elected Gwyneth Gamble Booth, a television producer and reporter and vice-president of the Portland Art Museum, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

San Francisco Zoological Society: Elected Paul Jansen, director of McKinsey and Company (San Francisco), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

The Sycamores (Pasadena, Cal.): Elected Ron Grover, Los Angeles bureau chief for Business Week magazine, to be president of the Board of Directors. The Sycamores provides various services for troubled children and families.

U. of Illinois Foundation (Urbana): Elected George M.C. Fisher, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N.Y.), to be chairman.

Westchester Community Foundation (White Plains, N.Y.): Elected Jennifer Rutledge, vice-president and partner at the Delphi Consulting Group (White Plains), to be a member of the Board of Advisors.

Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.): Elected William R. Brody, president of the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be a member of the Governing Committee.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Brick Mill Studios (Andover, Mass.): Appointed Brian J. Renda, vice-president, to be president. B.M.S. creates data bases for regional and national non-profit mailers.

Marketing General (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Debra Middleton Emory, senior account executive, to be account group supervisor.