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American Radio Relay League (Newington, Conn.): Appointed Mary

Hobart, vice president for development at Connecticut Public Television and Radio (Hartford), to be chief development officer.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Harold Decker, general counsel, to be interim chief executive officer. He succeeds Bernadine Healy, who will continue as president until the end of the year.

Bay Path College (Longmeadow, Mass.): Appointed Katharine A. Urner, director of the capital campaign at Lasell College (Newton, Mass.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Birmingham-Southern College (Ala.): Appointed Diane Duquette, a financial adviser in Birmingham, to be director of planned giving.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: Appointed Kristine Laping, assistant dean for development in the School of Public Health at Harvard U. (Boston), to be vice president of development.

Case Western Reserve U. (Cleveland): Appointed Susan Lajoie Eagan, executive vice president of the Cleveland Foundation, to be executive director of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

Cazenovia College (N.Y.): Appointed Brenda Dow, former director of public relations at Utica College of Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be director of marketing and media relations.

Center for Health Care Strategies (Lawrenceville, N.J.): Appointed Anna Fallieras, deputy chief of staff for Medicaid for the State of Maryland (Annapolis), to be senior program officer.

Chapman U. (Orange, Calif.): Appointed René Matz, director of community resources at Orangewood Children’s Foundation (Orange), to be director of development for the School of Business and Economics.

City Connect Detroit: Appointed Geneva J. Williams, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the United Way Community Services (Detroit), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in December. City Connect is a new organization created to help local nonprofit groups and the City of Detroit find federal and other national grant opportunities.

Clark County Public Education Foundation (Las Vegas): Appointed Judi Steele, executive director, to be president.

The Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Janet Camarena, interim director of the organization’s San Francisco office, to be director of that office.

George Washington U. (Washington): Appointed Beverly K. Bond, vice chancellor for alumni and development at Vanderbilt U. (Nashville), to be vice president for advancement.

International Rescue Committee (New York): Announced the resignation of Reynold Levy, president, effective July 2002.

Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Lynn Feldhouse, interim president, to be president. She succeeds Tom Dewar, who now serves as senior vice president of resource generation at the national office in Colorado Springs.

Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly (Chicago): Appointed Carol Levenberg, a consultant in Chicago, to be director of development and public relations, and Leslie Villasenor, director of development, to be deputy director.

Marygrove College (Detroit): Appointed Jacqueline A. Wetherholt, senior consultant for philanthropic services at Ascension Health (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

National Hemophilia Foundation (New York): Appointed Glenn Mones, director of media relations at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York), to be director of communications, effective December 3.

National Museum of American Jewish History (Philadelphia): Appointed Wesley A. Fisher, director of external affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), to be executive director and chief executive officer.

New England Aquarium (Boston): Appointed Edmund Toomey, chief operating officer, to be interim president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Jerry R. Schubel, who will retire on December 31.

North Shore Community College (Danvers, Mass.): Appointed Sandra Edwards Dean, director of institutional advancement, to be dean of institutional advancement.

Parks Council (New York): Appointed Dick Dadey, managing director of M&R Strategic Services (New York), to be executive director. He succeeds Elizabeth Cooke, who resigned.

Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (Indianapolis): Appointed Shawn M. Collinsworth, director of leadership development, to be executive director.

Plymouth State College (N.H.): Appointed Retha Lindsey Fielding, director of public relations and advancement, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

San Diego State U.: Appointed Steven C. Collins, manager of government and community relations at San Diego County Water Authority, to be manager of government and community relations.

Scripps Foundation for Medicine and Science (La Jolla, Calif.): Appointed Cary W. Colwell, executive director of the Memorial Medical Center Foundation (Springfield, Ill.), to be president of this fund-raising arm of both the Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Health.

Smithsonian Institution (Washington): Appointed Loretta Faye Cooper, associate director and development director at the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno), to be development chief and campaign director for the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington).

Specialty Coffee Institute of America (Long Beach, Calif.): Appointed Marie J. Mahermoore, chief executive officer of the Austin Children’s Shelter (Tex.), to be president and chief executive officer.

U. of Nevada at Reno: Sandra Rogers, director of the office of communications, has announced her resignation, effective in January.

U. of Texas at Arlington: Appointed Cheryl Kimberling, director of external relations in the School of Law at Texas Wesleyan U. (Fort Worth), and David Wolf, former director of enrollment management at U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, to be directors of development.

United Way of America (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Brian A. Gallagher, president of the United Way of Central Ohio (Columbus), to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 7, 2002. He succeeds Betty Stanley Beene, who resigned in last January, and Chris Amundsen, who served as interim president and will resume his position as chief administrative officer.

Whittier College (Calif.): Appointed Rachel Beal, development officer at the Rio Hondo Chapter of the American Red Cross (Whittier), to be director of the annual fund; Rebecca Coleman, director of corporate relations at Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, Calif.), to be director of development; and Jim Ehlers, director of planned giving at Harvey Mudd College, to be director of gift planning.

Worcester State College (Mass.): Appointed Camilla Caffrey, a consultant based in Worcester, to be director of alumni relations, and Thomas McNamara, director of development, to be executive director of development and external relations.

World Federalist Association (Washington): Appointed Mark Epstein, senior vice president and director of the environmental practice at Porter Novelli (Washington), to be executive director. He succeeds John B. Anderson, who will continue to serve as president of this association that promotes worldwide laws and enforcement bodies for global issues.

GRANT MAKERS

Berks County Community Foundation (Reading, Pa.): Appointed Heidi Williamson, manager of global communications in the Reading office of Exide Corporation (Princeton, N.J.), to be director of communications.

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Bernadine R. Joselyn, a recent graduate of the master’s program at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the U. of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and a former regional director at the Eurasia Foundation (Moscow), to be program director.

Boston Foundation: Appointed Travis McCready, director of community affairs in the office of government, community, and public affairs at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be chief of staff and board secretary.

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Alicia Lara, director of responsive grant making, to be vice president of program, and Barbara Masters, director of intergovernmental relations at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, to be health-policy adviser.

Casey Family Programs (Seattle): Appointed Luz A. Vega Marquis, executive director of the Community Technology Foundation of California (San Francisco), to be president of the Casey Family Grants Program.

William T. Grant Foundation (New York): Appointed Lawrence D. Moreland, chief financial officer at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York), to be vice president of finance and administration.

Initiative Foundation (Little Falls, Minn.): Appointed Jennifer Boeckman, administrative assistant to the vice president of marketing at PrimeVest Financial Services (St. Cloud, Minn.), to be business-finance specialist, and Dan Frank, director of community education at the Pequot Lakes School District (Minn.), to be community-development specialist.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Lawrence N. Hansen, vice president, to be acting president. He succeeds Paula DiPerna, who resigned.

Lumina Foundation for Education (Indianapolis): Appointed Samuel D. Cargile, program officer at the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds (New York), to be senior program director.

John and Mary R. Markle Foundation (New York): Appointed Peter Kerr, vice president of communications at Phoenix House (New York), to be chief communications officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (Falls Church, Va.): Elected Milton J. Smith, president of the John Muir Medical Center Foundation (Walnut Creek, Calif.), to be chair of the board.

Mobility Unlimited (Medford, Ore.): Elected Bruce Hough, president and chief executive officer of ComNet Marketing (Medford), to be president of the Board of Directors. Mr. Hough founded this organization that assists people with physical disabilities.

National Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area (Washington): Elected Glenn H. Bock, co-director of the Pediatric Kidney Center at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children (Annandale, Va.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Carol O’Brien Associates (Ithaca, N.Y.): Appointed Kathy Cole, director of the Cornell Fund at Cornell U. (Ithaca), to be an associate at this fund-raising consultancy.

Demont & Associates (Portland, Me.): Appointed Sarah C. Robinson, human-resource associate at the Execu/Search Group (New York), to be capital-campaign associate.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Mike Morris, account supervisor in the Los Angeles office, to be vice president of that office.