People

American Farmland Trust (Washington): Appointed Kevin Schmidt, a research assistant at the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (Queenstown, Md.), to be field representative in its new Ohio office, based in Columbus.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Jacqueline D’Alessio, senior science analyst at the Health Services Quality and Public Health division of the U.S. General Accounting Office (Washington), to be director of government relations.

American Society of Association Executives (Washington): Appointed George E. Moffat, advertising director and associate publisher, to be vice-president of publishing and publisher of Association Management magazine.

Appalachian State U. (Boone, N.C.): Appointed Donald S. Keel, director of the capital campaign at the U. of Texas at El Paso, to be associate vice-chancellor for development.

Averett College (Danville, Va.): Appointed Andrew T. Doss, a recent graduate of the graphic-design program at Guilford Technical Community College (Jamestown, N.C.), to be coordinator of publication services; Stewart W. Edwards, admissions counselor, to be development officer and coordinator of phone and mail programs; S. Lindsay Hutchins, a recent graduate of the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be development officer and coordinator of development services; and Jeffrey M. Lamie, planned-giving and major-gifts officer at the College of New Jersey (Trenton), to be director of special and planned giving.

Baltimore Museum of Art: Appointed Doreen Bolger, director of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), to be director. She succeeds Arnold L. Lehman, who was appointed director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (N.Y.) in March.

Camp Fire Boys and Girls (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Stewart J. Smith, interim national executive director, to be national executive director.

Campbellsville U. (Ky.): Appointed Emma Revis, gifted-education and school-to-work coordinator at Taylor County High School (Campbellsville), to be a grants writer and prospect researcher.

Christian Church Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Jim Cullumber, copy-desk supervisor at the Quincy Herald-Whig (Ill.), to be director of communications; Kirby Hughes Gould, regional development director for the National Benevolent Association, a general unit of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), to be vice-president for the Northcentral zone; Gary Kidwell, vice-president for field services with the Board of Church Extension, a general unit of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), to be vice-president for the Midwest zone; Deborrah Knerr, executive director of special services, to be assistant vice-president for the Midwest zone; and Beverly Lawson, assistant vice-president for the Northcentral zone, to be assistant vice-president for the Southcentral zone. C.C.F. supports the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Christian Church Homes of Kentucky (Louisville): Appointed Michael A. Gatton, former pastor at First Christian Church (Somerset, Ky.), to be director of development and church relations.

CJ Foundation for SIDS (Hackensack, N.J.): Appointed Barry A. Bornstein, former president and chief executive officer of New York Special Olympics (New York and Schenectady), to be national executive director.

Communities In Schools (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Janet Longmore, founding national director of Communities In Schools-Canada (Ottawa), to be national executive director. She succeeds Jonathan G. Powers, who has been elected to the national board and who will serve as interim financial officer.

Community Resources for the Developmentally Disabled (Staten Island, N.Y.): Appointed Dana T. Magee, associate executive director, to be executive director, and Barbara C. Mercado, program director, to be associate executive director. C.R.D.D. also appointed Barbara Devaney, director of development at the Center for Family Life (Brooklyn, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Dean College (Franklin, Mass.): Appointed Jeffrey J. LaValley, publicity assistant at Keene State College (N.H.), to be director of alumni programs and the annual fund.

Detroit Institute of Arts: Joseph P. Bianco, Jr., executive vice-president, has announced that he is stepping down to take a position with a public-affairs and fund-raising consulting firm.

Fairleigh Dickinson U. (Teaneck, N.J.): Appointed Gerry Bellotti, director of development at Paramus Catholic High School (N.J.), to be director of alumni affairs, and Nicole Pride, a case manager at the Essex County Department of Citizen Services (Newark, N.J.), to be assistant director of alumni affairs.

Fitchburg State College (Mass.): Appointed Donald Lightfoot, former director of the annual fund and alumni activities at Daniel Webster College (Nashua, N.H.), to be director of development.

Gettysburg College (Pa.): Appointed Kristen R. Anderson, student-phonathon supervisor, to be assistant director of the annual fund, and William Deptula, assistant director of alumni and parent relations and annual funds at Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio), to be associate director of annual giving.

Grant/Riverside Memorial Hospitals Foundation (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Molly McArdle, executive director of the Deaconess Hospital Foundation (Evansville, Ind.), to be president.

Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.): Appointed Sandra S. Byrd, vice-president of communications and development, to be senior vice-president of communications and development.

Heifer Project International (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Ellen Moorehead Fennell, development officer at Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (Morrilton, Ark.), to be director of grants. H.P.I. works to alleviate hunger and poverty by providing livestock and training to poor families in developing countries.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion/Emergency Tenants Council (Boston): Appointed Reyes Rodriguez, a research associate in the Community Fellows Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), to be interim chief executive officer. IBA/ETC is a community-development, housing, and social-services organization that serves the Villa Victoria community of Boston’s South End.

Institute of International Education (New York): Appointed David D. Arnold, Ford Foundation representative for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, based in New Delhi, to be executive vice-president; James Lapple, manager for grants administration and operations at the Ford Foundation (New York), to be vice-president for finance and administration; and Patti McGill Peterson, senior fellow at the Institute for Public Affairs at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.) and president emerita of Wells College (Aurora, N.Y.) and St. Lawrence U. (Canton, N.Y.), to be vice-president and executive director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Jarvis Christian College (Hawkins, Tex.): Appointed Chuck Smith, a consultant in Phoenix, to be director of development and institutional advancement.

Kent State U. (Ohio): Appointed William J. Spiker, director of college advancement and campaign director at Mount Union College (Alliance, Ohio), to be associate vice-president of university relations and development.

Lesley College (Cambridge, Mass.): Appointed Margaret McNamara, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations at Princeton U. (N.J.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations, and Grant Whitney, a lawyer in Cambridge, to be planned-giving officer.

Lewis U. (Romeoville, Ill.): Appointed Angela Newberry, a graduate intern in the development office at Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.), to be associate director of the annual fund.

Maine College of Art (Portland): Appointed Timothy Kane, former associate director of major gifts at Bates College (Lewiston, Me.), to be associate vice-president for advancement.

Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (Mashantucket, Conn.): Appointed Steve Dennin, director of development at the Whitney Museum of Art (New York), to be director of marketing and development; Cheryl A. Metoyer, senior staff researcher at the U. of California at Los Angeles, American Indian Studies Research Center, to be director of information resources; and Elizabeth Theobald, a freelance theater director in New York, to be director of public programs.

Meharry Medical College (Nashville): Appointed Alan L. Hermesch, director of university communications at Howard U. (Washington), to be vice-president for marketing and communications.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association (Washington): Appointed Lora L. Pollari-Welbes, executive director of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Washington), to be development and membership director.

National Wildflower Research Center (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Andy Berner, grants writer, to be manager of grants and underwriting, and Jennifer Sharpe, assistant manager at Talbot’s (Austin), to be assistant products manager.

NIMA International (Washington): Appointed Elissa Matulis Myers, vice-president and publisher at the American Society of Association Executives (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. NIMA is an international trade association in the field of electronic commerce.

Peirce College (Philadelphia): Appointed Joseph G. Morelli, former president of Lackawanna Junior College (Scranton, Pa.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Linda M. Taira, senior managing director at Hill & Knowlton (Washington), to be vice-president of station relations.

Seattle Children’s Theatre: Appointed Molly Reed, vice-president and manager for community relations at U.S. Bank of Washington (Seattle), to be development director.

Seneca Zoo Society (Rochester, N.Y.): Appointed Tracy Schleyer, director of annual giving at Boston U., to be development director. The society, which supports the Seneca Park Zoo, also appointed Douglas Kane, former stage manager for the 25th-anniversary tour of the musical Hair, to be events manager, and Karen Panosian, former development-systems coordinator at Hillside Children’s Center (Rochester) and a recent graduate of the biology program at the State U. of New York at Brockport, to be annual-support manager.

Siena College (Loudonville, N.Y.): Appointed Edward F. Smith, a staff member at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (Albany), to be director of alumni relations.

Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center (Allston, Mass.): Appointed Virginia (Ginger) Ferlisi-Wilson, program-development community-relations specialist at V.N.A. of Eastern Massachusetts (Somerville), to be director of development and public affairs.

Southern Methodist U. (Dallas): Appointed Susan V. Metcalfe, marketing manager at Narrowcasting (Dallas), to be executive director of alumni relations and the alumni association.

Special Olympics International (Washington): Appointed Richard F. O’Brien, vice-chairman and director of worldwide client services at Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (New York), to be executive vice-president.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Suzanne Wilcox English, a reporter and correspondent coordinator at The Bradford Era (Pa.), to be assistant director of public affairs for media relations.

U. of Texas at El Paso: Appointed Martha Salda!#*tila, executive director of UNITE El Paso, to be coordinator of alumni affairs.

UJA Federation of Greater Washington (D.C.).: Appointed Jack F. Budman, director of finance, to be chief financial officer, and Rochelle Zeidman, director of the major-donors’ division at the American Red Cross (Washington), to be general manager for financial-resource development.

Wake Forest U. (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Robert D. Mills, assistant vice-president for university relations, to be associate vice-president of university advancement.

GRANT MAKERS

AOL Foundation (Vienna, Va.): James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online (Vienna), has resigned from the company’s board to run this new corporate foundation.

Columbus Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Lou Briggs, former associate director of the Children’s Hospital Foundation (Columbus), to be senior advancement officer.

Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Announced the resignation of Deidra Lyngard, communications manager. She is leaving to become director of non-credit programs for the center-city campus of Temple U. (Philadelphia).

Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento, Cal.): Appointed Nicole Caffo, controller, to be chief financial officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Exploratorium (San Francisco): Elected William K. Bowes, Jr., founding partner of U.S. Venture Partners (Menlo Park, Cal.), to be chairman of the board, effective January 1. He succeeds F. Van Kasper, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Van Kasper & Company (San Francisco), who becomes chairman emeri

Metropolitan Family Services (Chicago): 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. (This corrects an item that appeared in the October 30 issue.)

Wildlife Habitat Council (Silver Spring, Md.): Elected Charles G. Carson III, vice-president for environmental affairs at the U.S. Steel Group (Pittsburgh), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Campbell & Company (Chicago): Appointed Nanette T. Garrison, an independent fund-raising consultant, to be a senior consultant, based in the Western regional office in Seattle, and Suzanne Mink, former vice-president of advancement at the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Washington), to be a senior consultant, based in the Eastern regional office in Washington.

Dodd Smith Dann (Larkspur, Cal.): Appointed Cindy Germain and Marc Sloop, campaign planners, to be account managers in the firm’s public-broadcasting and non-profit practice.

JEADCO Enterprises (Birmingham, Ala.): Appointed James E. A. Dobbin, former managing partner of First Counsel (Charlotte, N.C.), to be president and chief executive officer. JEADCO Enterprises is a fund-raising consulting firm that serves non-profit groups primarily in the Southeast.

National Association for Home Care (Washington): Appointed Stephen M. Delfin, managing director of public relations and marketing, to be director of Delfin & Associates, a new in-house consulting agency that will provide communications, public-education, fund-raising, and related services to N.A.H.C. members.

O’Neill & Associates (Atlanta): Appointed Stirling Clarke, campaign assistant, and Laura H. Hawley, a recent graduate of the theological-studies master’s program at Vanderbilt U. (Nashville), to be campaign managers.

Partners in Philanthropy (Topeka, Kan.): Appointed Bill Myers, planned-giving officer at the Nature Conservancy-Kansas Chapter (Topeka), to be development counsel.

Thomas D. Wilson & Associates (Portland, Ore.): Appointed L. Victor Atchison, vice-president for college relations at Lewis and Clark College (Portland), to be senior counsel.