People

Albright College (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Patricia M. Clark, a member of the development staff at the Ephrata Hospital (Pa.), to be director of alumni relations.

American Cancer Society-Essex County Unit (West Orange, N.J.): Appointed Dana Anselmo, assistant manager for media relations at the Direct Marketing Association (New York), to be director of income development.

American Thoracic Society (New York): Appointed Carl Booberg, acting executive director and former assistant director, to be executive director. The A.T.S. is the medical section of the American Lung Association.

ASCAP Foundation (New York): Appointed Karen Sherry, vice-president and director of communications at ASCAP, to be executive director and vice-president. The ASCAP Foundation supports the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

The Aspen Institute (Washington): Appointed Norman E. Bowie, a professor of corporate responsibility at the U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Carlson School of Management (Minneapolis) and a professor in the university’s philosophy department, to be executive vice-president for seminar programs.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: Appointed Mallory King, director of corporate and foundation relations at the Y.M.C.A. of Greater Boston, to be director of development.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada (Markham, Ontario): Appointed Heather Sproule, national executive director of Kids Help Phone (Toronto), to be national executive director.

Bridgewater State College (Mass.): Appointed Eva T. Gaffney, former managing editor of the Taunton Daily Gazette (Mass.), to be director of public affairs.

California State U. at Northridge: Appointed Michael Hammerschmidt, director of development, to be associate vice-president for development, and William L. Outhouse, interim vice-chancellor for university advancement at the U. of Arkansas (Fayetteville), to be vice-president for university relations.

Center for Victims of Torture (Minneapolis): Appointed Paula Beck, communications manager at the American Red Cross-Greater Minneapolis Area Chapter, to be communications manager; Melinda Czaia, director and trainer at Entrena Inc. (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), to be director of training services; and Ruth Barrett Rendler, coalition field organizer at the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks (San Francisco), to be director of volunteer services.

Children’s Hospital (Boston): Appointed Mark Kostegan, vice-president for development and public affairs at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston), to be vice-president for development.

City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute (Los Angeles): Appointed Stephen Tanenbaum, an associate in the law firm of McDonough and Strickland (Santa Ana, Cal.), to be senior planned-giving officer.

College of Aeronautics (Flushing, N.Y.): Appointed Sharon B. DeVivo, special assistant to the president for college relations, to be dean of college relations.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Elizabeth Flanagan, former grants manager and development coordinator at Youth on Board (Boston), to be manager of station development.

Dance Heritage Coalition (Washington): Appointed Michelle Forner, project manager for the coalition’s Access to Dance Research Resources Project, to be director.

Delaware Valley College (Doylestown, Pa.): Appointed Constance Post, project specialist at the College of New Jersey (Trenton), to be director of grants and institutional research.

Entrepreneurs’ Foundation (Menlo Park, Cal.): Appointed Patty Burness, executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation (San Rafael, Cal.), to be executive director.

Family and Children’s Association (Mineola, N.Y.): Appointed Richard P. Dina, president and chief executive officer of Children’s House Inc. (Mineola), to be president and chief executive officer. F.C.A. is a new organization formed from the merger of Children’s House Inc. and the Family Service Association of Nassau County.

Freeport West (Minneapolis): Appointed Antonia Wilcoxon, executive director of the Model Cities Family Development Center (St. Paul), to be director of programs. Freeport West provides family-reunification and other support services to low-income people in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.): Appointed Philip Best, former director of development at Vision New England (Burlington, Mass.), to be director of gift planning.

Hillel: the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life (Washington): Appointed Jay L. Rubin, executive director of the Jewish Federation of New Haven (Conn.), to be executive vice-president.

Jewish National Fund (New York): Appointed Joel L. Leibowitz, executive vice-president of the American Society of the U. of Haifa (New York), to be director of major gifts and board development. The J.N.F. is a fund-raising arm of the Jewish National Fund of Israel, that nation’s official land-reclamation and conservation agency.

The Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Bernard J. Davisson II, former associate vice-president for development and director of planned giving at Hood College (Frederick, Md.), to be planned-giving adviser for the Johns Hopkins Institutions; Julian S. Jones, vice-president for institutional advancement at the U. of Maryland University College (College Park), to be director of development for the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth; and Jerome D. Schnydman, executive director of alumni relations, to be executive assistant to the president.

Lake Erie College (Painesville, Ohio): Appointed Dario Muzina, district director of development at Cuyahoga Community College and executive director of the foundation at the Cuyahoga Community College District (Cleveland), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Lewis U. (Romeoville, Ill.): Appointed Randy A. Varju, director of corporate relations and associate director of marketing, to be associate vice-president for institutional advancement.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York): Appointed Janice Price, senior manager of marketing and communications at the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts (Toronto), to be vice-president of marketing and communications, and Arlene Shuler, vice-president of planning and development, to be senior vice-president of planning and external affairs.

George Lucas Educational Foundation (San Rafael, Cal.): Appointed Milton Chen, founding director of the KQED Center for Education and Lifelong Learning (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Announced the retirement of William H. Luers, president, effective in spring 1999. Philippe de Montebello, director, will serve as chief executive officer, responsible for the overall leadership of the museum.

National Alliance for Nonprofit Management (Washington): Appointed Roni Posner, executive director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance (Washington), to be executive director. This new organization was recently formed from the merger of the Nonprofit Management Association and the Support Centers of America.

National Aquarium in Baltimore: Appointed Ann E. Peebles, former senior director of development at the Maryland Science Center (Baltimore), to be senior director of development.

New York and Presbyterian Hospitals Healthcare System: Appointed Diane M. Iorfida, senior vice-president for human resources and organizational effectiveness at the Johns Hopkins Health System and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), to be senior vice-president for human resources; Fred Macri, vice-president for general services at the New York Hospital, to be vice-president of technical and general services; Howard Samborn, director of telecommunications at the New York Hospital, to be director of telecommunications; and Martha Wolfgang, director of planning and network development at the Presbyterian Hospital (New York), to be associate vice-president for planning.

Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation (Gaithersburg, Md.): Appointed Heller An Shapiro, associate director of affiliate management at Christmas in April USA (Washington), to be executive director.

Outward Bound USA (Garrison, N.Y.): Appointed Jack Bierwirth, superintendent of the Portland, Ore., public-school system, to be chief executive officer, and Rolf Linder, consulting director at Luther and Company (Westport, Conn.), a marketing firm, to be vice-president for marketing.

Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati): Announced the resignation of Barbara Rinto, chief executive officer. She is leaving to administer the Women’s Health Program at the U. of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Points of Light Foundation (Washington): Announced the resignation of Barbara Lohman, vice-president for media relations and special events, effective March 31. She is leaving to work as a consultant in media planning and marketing.

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Fla.): Appointed Walter E. Eisele, Jr., senior vice-president of financial services at Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth of America (Delphos, Ohio), to be assistant director for finance and administration.

Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.): Announced the retirement of Warren Johnson, vice-president for development and college relations, effective this spring.

Roosevelt U. (Chicago): Appointed Kathy Williams Dames, former assistant to the president at Harold Washington College of the City Colleges of Chicago, to be director of annual giving and alumni relations.

Thirteen/WNET (New York): Appointed William R. Grant, executive producer, to be director of science, natural-history, and features programs.

Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, N.J.): Appointed Janet Lee Eickhoff, acting director of alumni affairs, to be director of alumni affairs.

United States Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point, N.Y.): Appointed Virgil R. Allen, former assistant director for personnel policy on the staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, to be president of the alumni organizations.

United Way of Central Indiana (Indianapolis): Appointed Ellen K. Annala, interim president and former vice-president for agency relations, to be president and chief professional officer.

United Way of Middle Tennessee (Nashville): Appointed Mark H. Desmond, acting president and former executive vice-president, to be president and chief executive director.

Vista Maria (Dearborn Heights, Mich.): Appointed Cameron D. Hosner, senior vice-president of operations at Arcadia Services (Southfield, Mich.), to be executive director. Vista Maria provides residential and community-based treatment services to at-risk girls.

GRANT MAKERS

A. H. Belo Corporation Foundation (Dallas): Appointed Judith Garrett Segura, vice-president and executive director, to be president and executive director.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Steven J. Cobb, chief financial officer at the Milken Family Foundation (Santa Monica, Cal.), to be chief financial officer, and John Williams II, manager of the community-development division at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, to be a program officer.

Columbus Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Karen E. Frees, associate director of development at Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus), to be gift-planning officer.

Community Foundation Silicon Valley (San Jose, Cal.): Appointed Greg Lassonde, development director at the Rainforest Action Network (San Francisco), to be director of gift-planning services.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York): Appointed Olga Garay, director of cultural affairs at the Miami-Dade Community College-Wolfson Campus, to be senior program officer for the arts.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Mark D. Fitzsimmons, senior program officer for the MacArthur Fellows Program, to be associate director of the program; Susan S. King, a research associate at the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (Cal.), to be associate director of the foundation’s Moscow office; Karen S. Seabury, director of finance at the Illinois Facilities Fund (Chicago), to be a program officer for the Program on Human and Community Development, responsible for program-related investments; and John W. Slocum, an assistant professor in the political-science department at the U. of Oklahoma (Norman), to be a program officer for the Program on Global Security and Sustainability, responsible for grant making in the former Soviet Union and for the program’s Research and Writing Grants Competition.

Ms. Foundation for Women (New York): Appointed Sara K. Gould, vice-president for program, to be executive vice-president. The foundation also appointed Elizabeth H. Coit, director of planning and development at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York), to be director of development and communications, and Evelyn Mendez, former manager general for grant accounting at Cornell Medical College (New York), to be chief financial officer.

Piton Foundation (Denver): Judith M. Kaufmann, program officer, died December 24 in an automobile accident in southern California. She was 47 and had worked at the foundation since 1982.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., former president, has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of the International Herald Tribune (Paris). Mr. Goldmark, who announced his resignation last year, has been succeeded at the foundation by Gordon Conway.

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed David M. Mattocks, program director at the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (Morrilton, Ark.), to be senior program officer for education.

Whirlpool Foundation (Benton Harbor, Mich.): Colleen D. Keast, president, is leaving to join the Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor) as launch leader for the KitchenAid brand.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Alliance for Building Communities (Allentown, Pa.): Elected Karen McCray, assistant vice-president of community development at Summit Bank (Allentown), to be president of the Board of Directors.

American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel (New York): Elected Jimmie R. Alford, president and chief executive officer of the Alford Group (Skokie, Ill.), to be chair.

Commonwealth Fund (New York): Elected Samuel O. Thier, president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System (Boston) and a professor of medicine and health-care policy at Harvard Medical School (Boston), to the Board of Directors.

Communities Foundation of Texas (Dallas): Elected Jody Grant, chief financial officer at EDS (Plano, Tex.), and Jere Thompson, president and chief executive officer of the Williamsburg Corporation (Dallas), to the Board of Trustees.

Denver Foundation: Elected Albert C. Gonzales, president of Gonzales Consulting Services (Denver), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington): Elected Floyd Flake, former U.S. Representative from New York; Colleen Hernandez, executive director of the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance (Mo.); and John Sasso, president of Advanced Strategies (Framingham, Mass.), to the Board of Directors.

Indiana State Symphony Society (Indianapolis): Elected Chris J. Christy, retired general manager at International Business Machines Indiana (Indianapolis), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago): Elected Judy Keller, a volunteer in the Chicago area, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Westchester Land Trust (Bedford Hills, N.Y.): Elected Samuel F. Pryor III, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York) and chairman of the World Rehabilitation Fund (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.): Elected James E. Kielley, a management consultant and retired chairman of Towers Perrin (Arlington, Va.), to the Governing Committee.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Rena Jones, former vice-president of Inter Direct (Houston), a direct-marketing company, to be senior vice-president and director of the company’s new Philadelphia office.

L. W. Robbins Associates (Franklin, Mass.): Appointed Pat Farley, president of Farley Creative (Lynn, Mass.), to be senior copy writer, and Kent Rohrbach, account executive at the Domain Group (Seattle), to be account supervisor.