People

Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales (Center Valley, Pa.): Appointed Lina M. Striglia, former director of college communications at Muhlenberg College (Allentown), to be director of public relations.

American Baptist Homes Foundation of the West (Oakland, Cal.): Appointed Marilyn D. Fravel, president and chief executive officer of the Easter Seal Society of the San Francisco Bay Area, to be vice-president and chief operations officer.

American Osteopathic Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Leda Hanin, executive director of the Leukemia Society of America-Illinois Chapter (Chicago), to be executive director.

American Sephardi Federation (New York): Appointed Jayne Rosengarten, former national director of organization at Women’s American ORT (New York), to be national executive director.

Arthritis Foundation (Atlanta): Appointed Kevin Brennan, legislative director to Representative Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, to be vice-president of public policy and federal affairs, based in Washington.

The Aspen Music Festival and School (Colo.): Appointed NancyBell Coe, general manager of the Cleveland Orchestra, to be artistic administrator, effective in January. She succeeds Ara Guzelimian, who is now artistic adviser at Carnegie Hall (New York).

The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore: Appointed Rachel Garbow Monroe, director of marketing services at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chicago), to be director of marketing.

Bluffton College (Ohio): Appointed Stanley Clemens, chair of the mathematics department, to be vice-president for advancement.

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.): Appointed L. Mercedes Wesel, a reporter at The Portland Press Herald (Me.), to be assistant director of public affairs.

Brookings Institution (Washington): Appointed Bates Gill, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Cal.), to be director of the new Brookings Northeast Asia Center, and Nancy E. Perkins, director of development at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to be vice-president of external affairs.

Catholic Health Association of the United States (St. Louis): Announced the resignation of William J. Cox, executive vice-president.

Center for Policy Alternatives (Washington): Appointed Anne Mosle, director of women’s policy and programs, to be vice-president for women’s policy and programs.

Colorado State U. (Fort Collins): Appointed John Scully, vice-president for Colorado and vice-president for external affairs at US West Communications (Denver), to be vice-president for university advancement.

Community Y.M.C.A. (Red Bank, N.J.): Appointed Timothy P. Zeiss, corporate-communications director at the New Jersey Press (Neptune), to be vice-president of marketing and development.

Council on Quality and Leadership in Supports for People with Disabilities (Towson, Md.): Appointed Shelly Hall, manager of creative-marketing services at the Johns Hopkins Health Care/Employer Health Programs (Baltimore), to be marketing coordinator, and Nila A. Vehar, director of foundation relations at the American Lung Association (Washington), to be vice-president for the Foundation for Quality and Leadership.

Donors Forum of Chicago: Appointed Kristin R. Anderson, associate director at the Gateway Foundation (Chicago), to be director of external relations, and Doris Salomon, director of member services, to be vice-president.

Five Colleges (Amherst, Mass.): Appointed Renee Fall, coordinator of the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Mass.), to be assistant coordinator for program planning and development. Five Colleges oversees agreements and programs among the U. of Massachusetts at Amherst and Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness (Hunt Valley, Md.): Appointed D. Lee Dueringer, director of development at the J. Kyle Braid Leadership Foundation (Villa Grove, Colo.), to be director of development for the new Western regional office, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Friends School of Baltimore: Appointed Rebecca Rosier, director of annual-fund programs at U. of South Carolina (Columbia), to be annual-fund director.

Goodwill Rehabilitation Center (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Tammy Savage, a loaned executive at United Way of Franklin County (Columbus), to be development coordinator.

Goucher College (Baltimore): Appointed Tamara C. Bigler, director of reunion programs, to be director of annual giving; Laura Elliott, an administrative assistant at Legg Mason (Baltimore), to be records coordinator for advancement services; Gail E. Finn, operations-systems manager, to be director of advancement services; Michele Hoffman, assistant women’s-soccer coach and an intern to the vice-president for development at West Virginia U. (Morgantown), to be assistant director of annual giving; Patty Reed, development secretary, to be estate and trust specialist and development coordinator; and Beth Snyder, secretary at the Maryland State Bar Association (Baltimore), to be secretary for alumnae and alumni.

Gwynedd-Mercy College (Gwynedd Valley, Pa.): Appointed Mia McGlynn, former development officer at the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, to be director of the annual fund.

Heritage Foundation (Washington): Appointed James Hamilton, director of governmental affairs at Economic Security 2000 (Washington), to be coordinator of Social Security projects.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Rox Dexheimer, district superintendent of schools for Tompkins, Seneca, and Tioga Counties (N.Y.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

Indiana State U. (Terre Haute): Appointed David Dittman, assistant director of development for the School of Engineering at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be senior development director in university advancement, and Mark Edwards, news director at WTWO-TV (Terre Haute), to be associate director of public affairs.

Intiman Theatre (Seattle): Appointed Clydean Troner, vice-president in charge of marketing and community resources at the United Way of King County (Seattle), to be director of development and communications.

Isabella Geriatric Center (New York): Appointed Mark J. Kator, executive vice-president and chief operating officer at Village Care of New York, to be president and chief executive officer.

Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County (Fairfield, Conn.): Appointed Steven B. Kramer, chief financial officer at VNA Community Healthcare (Guilford, Conn.), to be vice-president of business and finance.

The Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Erwin M. Sekulow, executive director for institutional programs, to be executive director of alumni relations.

The Josselyn Center for Mental Health (Northfield, Ill.): Appointed John W. Shustitzky, director of the U.S. Postal Service Employee Assistance Program at Vasquez Management Consultants Behavioral Healthcare (Gurnee, Ill.), to be executive director.

Lewis U. (Romeoville, Ill.): Appointed Brian M. Russ, assistant director of development at Providence Catholic High School (New Lenox, Ill.), to be associate director of the annual fund.

Mary Washington College (Fredericksburg, Va.): Appointed Lee Ann Reaser, a 1998 graduate and student volunteer in the office of annual giving, to be assistant director of annual giving, and Jennifer Wilson Watson, sales interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg (Va.), to be assistant director of alumni relations.

Massachusetts Bar Foundation (Boston): Appointed Jennifer Jones, office manager at the Boston AIDS Consortium, to be grants administrator.

The Memphis Museum System: Appointed Koleta Thompson, state financial-development specialist at the American Red Cross-Texas Chapter (San Antonio), to be administrator of public affairs.

Mitchell College (New London, Conn.): Appointed George Dunnington, director of administrative services, to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

National Forest Foundation (Washington): Appointed William J. Possiel, Western region vice-president and regional director for the Nature Conservancy, based in Boulder, Colo., to be president.

Nebraska Wesleyan U. (Lincoln): Appointed Natalie Cummings, director of the Lincoln campus of the College of Saint Mary (Omaha), to be director of alumni and special programs, and Jacie Rezac, director of advancement services, to be assistant director of annual-fund programs and coordinator of development events.

North Park U. (Chicago): Appointed Sharon Todd Danby, director of the annual fund, to be assistant vice-president and campaign manager.

Northwestern College (St. Paul): Appointed Margaret S. Fink, fund raiser at the Minnesota Family Council (Minneapolis), to be director of the annual fund, and Michael W. Montgomery, executive vice-president of the National Family Legal Foundation (Scottsdale, Ariz.), to be director of major gifts.

Ohio Northern U. (Ada): Appointed John H. Willey, vice-president for institutional advancement at Lyon College (Batesville, Ark.), to be vice-president for development and university relations.

Social Science Research Council (New York): Kenneth Prewitt, president, has been nominated by President Clinton to direct the U.S. Census Bureau. Orville Gilbert Brim, director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Successful Midlife Development (Vero Beach, Fla.), will serve as interim president.

Sonoma State U. (Rohnert Park, Cal.): Appointed Christina Richie, director of development for the School of Natural Sciences, to be director of major gifts.

Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (San Diego): Appointed D. Rick Van Schoik, director of research at Southwest Research Associates (Carlsbad, Cal.), to be managing director.

State Ballet of Missouri (Kansas City): Appointed Jeffrey J. Bentley, managing director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet (Seattle), to be executive director.

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (New York): Appointed Michael Botwinick, director for Orange County regional studies at the U. of California at Irvine, to be president and chief executive officer.

U. of North Carolina at Greensboro: Appointed Helen Dennison, former community-affairs manager at the Miller Brewing Company (Eden, N.C.), to be assistant vice-chancellor for university relations.

U. of Tampa (Fla.): Appointed Natalie D. Preston, officer for alumni and public relations at the James Madison College of Michigan State U. (East Lansing), to be director of alumni and parent relations.

United Way of Mid Coast Maine (Bath): Appointed Ann Marie Bartoo-White, director of corporate, foundation, and government relations at Hartwick College (Oneonta, N.Y.), to be director of development.

Vellore Christian Medical College Board (New York): Appointed William Salmond, country director for World Learning, based in Kampala, Uganda, to be president.

Viewpoint School (Calabasas, Cal.): Appointed Gretchen Graham Lightfoot, development officer, to be assistant director of development and alumni relations.

Volunteer Trustees of Not-for-Profit Hospitals (Washington): Appointed Howard B. Shapiro, vice-president of public policy at the American College of Physicians (Philadelphia), based in Washington, to be executive director.

Warner Pacific College (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Bruce Kelly, president of Gardner College (Alberta), to be assistant to the president and director of alumni and church relations.

Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (D.C.): Appointed Elena M. Paul, university counsel in the Office of the President at U. of Maryland at College Park, to be executive director.

Washington Ballet (D.C.): Appointed Septime Webre, artistic director at the American Repertory Ballet (New Brunswick, N.J.), to be artistic director, effective next spring.

Wayland Baptist U. (Plainview, Tex.): Appointed Russ Gibbs, regional development officer at the Buckner Foundation (Lubbock, Tex.), to be vice-president for institutional advancement.

West Virginia U. Foundation (Morgantown): Appointed F. Duke Perry, president of the George Mason U. Foundation (Fairfax, Va.), to be president, effective January 1. The foundation also appointed Dorothy J. Dotson, managing director at NatWest Markets (New York), to be vice-president for investments.

Wheeling Jesuit U. (W.Va.): Appointed Mary E. Yancosek-Gamble, former director of marketing at the Washington Crown Center (Washington, Pa.), to be executive director of marketing and university relations.

Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.): Appointed Glenn D. Bridges, director of public information and publications at Spartanburg Methodist College, to be director of news services.

Wright State U. (Dayton, Ohio): Appointed Susan Smith, director of annual giving, to be director of alumni relations.

GRANT MAKERS

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed William P. Getty, a partner in the law firm of Meyer, Unkovic and Scott (Pittsburgh), to be president, effective January 1. He will succeed Paul R. Jenkins, who is retiring.

The Clorox Company (Oakland, Cal.): Appointed Cathy Ryan, senior director of corporate communications at Nellcor Puritan Bennett and executive director of the Nellcor Puritan Bennett Foundation (Pleasanton, Cal.), to be education- and community-programs manager.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Lauren Casteel, executive director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation (Englewood, Colo.), to be senior program director.

The George Gund Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Marcia Egbert, vice-president at the National Urban Policy Institute (Columbus, Ohio), to be a program officer, responsible for human-services grant making.

Omaha Community Foundation: Appointed Del Weber, retired chancellor of the U. of Nebraska at Omaha, to be president.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Elected Elizabeth Z. Chace, co-founder of Residential Properties Ltd. (Providence), to the Board of Directors.

Soroptomist International of the Americas (Philadelphia): Elected Donna Walker, president of Financial Architects Insurance Corporation (Tucson, Ariz.), to be president.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Alford Group (Skokie, Ill.): Appointed Mindy Berry, principal at Berry & Associates (Washington), to be senior consultant in the Bethesda, Md., office.

Mark R. Fisher & Associates (Farmington Hills, Mich.): Appointed Pamela A. Reynolds, director of development and public relations at Spaulding for Children (Southfield, Mich.), to be director of public relations.

Heidrick & Struggles (Atlanta): Appointed Leonard Pfeiffer IV, managing director at Korn/Ferry (Washington), to be a partner, based in Washington.

Softrek (Getzville, N.Y.): Appointed John Schultz, senior sales representative at KVS Information Systems (Buffalo, N.Y.), to be an account manager.