People

Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Anna Teitelbaum, director

of corporate development, to be vice president of corporate development.

American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Rita K. Wasmuth, senior vice president at Netzel Associates (Phoenix), to be senior major-gifts officer for national initiatives.

Association for Advancement of Mental Health (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Steven Nagel, executive director of the northern district at Junior Achievement of New Jersey (Mountainside), to be director of development.

Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington): Appointed Michael S. Bassis, former dean of the New College of the U. of South Florida (Sarasota) and former president of Olivet College (Mich.), to be senior development adviser.

Boise State U. (Idaho): Appointed Lee Denker, communications consultant at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (Lincoln), to be executive director of the alumni association.

Boston Lyric Opera: Appointed Janet M. Miner, senior vice president of institutional advancement at Dimock Community Health Center (Roxbury, Mass.), to be director of development.

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington): Appointed Refiloe Serote, Gauteng provincial director in the Pretoria office of the Cancer Association of South Africa (Bedfordview), to be country director for South Africa, based in Pretoria.

College of New Jersey (Ewing): Appointed David M. Tiffany, vice president for university advancement at California U. of Pennsylvania, to be vice president for development and alumni affairs.

College of St. Catherine (St. Paul): Appointed Patricia A. Perell, executive director of the Minnesota Foundation (St. Paul), to be director of major and planned gifts.

Cunningham Dance Foundation (New York): Appointed Jeffrey H. James, vice president for advancement and external affairs at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), to be executive director of this organization that oversees the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.

Education Commission of the States (Denver): Appointed Esther Rodriguez, associate executive director of State Higher Education Executive Officers (Denver), to be senior development officer.

Georgetown College (Ky.): Appointed Mike Calhoun, executive director of the Georgetown College Partners, to be director of alumni affairs.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Martha P. Bond, executive director of Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency (Rochester, N.Y.), to be director of grants.

Lifespire (New York): Appointed Mark vanVoorst, associate executive director of the Lexington Center (Johnstown, N.Y.), to be executive director. Lifespire provides services to people with developmental disabilities.

Louisiana State U. at Shreveport: Appointed Stuart Parkerson, director of media and public relations, to be director of annual support, and Gregg Trusty, education and crime reporter and editorial-page editor at the Bossier Press-Tribune (Bossier City, La.), to be director of media and public relations.

Louisville Institute (Ky.): Appointed the Rev. William F. Brosend II, senior minister at the First Baptist Church of Rochester (N.Y.), to be associate director. The institute, based at the Louisville Seminary, is a program of the Lilly Endowment devoted to the study of American religion.

Museum Trustee Association (Washington): Appointed Amanda A. Ohlke, acting director, to be executive director.

National Hemophilia Foundation (New York): Appointed Ingrid Montecino, deputy director, to be acting executive director. She succeeds Stephen E. Bajardi, chief executive officer, who resigned.

National Philanthropic Trust (Jenkintown, Pa.): Appointed Andrew W. Hastings, president and chief executive officer of the Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies (Wilmington), to be vice president, effective January 3.

National Tree Trust (Washington): Appointed Richard W. Keefe, president of R.W. Keefe and Associates (Columbus, Ohio), to be president.

New York U.: Appointed Adrienne Hines, executive director of the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation (Richmond), to be assistant dean of external affairs at the Tisch School of the Arts.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital: Appointed Eileen Willner, deputy vice president for development in the health-sciences division at Columbia U. (New York), an affiliated institution, to be executive director of development for Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

North Georgia College & State U. (Dahlonega): Appointed Annette Hannon Lee, director of public information at Georgia Southwestern State U. (Americus), to be director of university relations.

Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (Boston): Appointed Hillel Korin, associate vice president of development and alumni relations at Brandeis U. (Waltham, Mass.), to be director of resource development.

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Mass.): Appointed Frances K. Moseley, principal and managing director at State Street Corporation (Boston), to be vice president of resource development. Pathfinder supports reproductive-health services in developing nations.

Rosemont College (Pa.): Appointed Madonna Hazzouri Marion-Landais, associate director of alumni affairs at Villanova U. (Pa.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Sam Ross, vice president for marketing and development at Jane Addams Hull House Association and executive director of the Jane Addams Hull House Foundation (Chicago), to be vice president for advancement.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Sara Mortimer, former media-relations associate at Halstead Communications/College Communications (New York), to be associate director of communications for national-media relations.

Tourette Syndrome Association (Bayside, N.Y.): Appointed Jeremy Scott, a legislative associate at Kinghorn & Associates (Washington), to be government-relations specialist, based in the group’s new Washington office.

U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock): Appointed Betty Heron, director of Arkansans for Drug Free Youth (Little Rock), to be a development officer for the department of psychiatry, and Meg Rains, account executive at Stone & Ward Advertising Agency (Little Rock), to be development coordinator for the department of psychiatry.

U. of Detroit Mercy: Appointed Adrian V. Kerrigan, vice president for institutional research at Le Moyne College (Syracuse, N.Y.), to be vice president for university advancement.

U. of Southern California (Los Angeles): Appointed Martha Harris, vice president for university public relations, to be senior vice president for external relations.

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg): Appointed Susan Sink, director of development for the College of Engineering, to be assistant vice president for colleges and constituent groups, and Connie Talbott, director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences, to be associate vice president for capital support.

Winston-Salem State U. (N.C.): Appointed Arthur C. Affleck III, interim vice chancellor for university advancement, to be vice chancellor for university advancement.

Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library (Del.): Appointed Alex A. Sydnor, executive director of development at the U. of California at Santa Cruz, to be deputy director for development.

Yosemite Community College District (Modesto, Calif.): Appointed Douglas K. Lau, public-information officer at the Columbia College campus (Sonora, Calif.), to be director of marketing and public relations at that campus.

GRANT MAKERS

Boston Foundation: Appointed Mary Jo Meisner, editor and vice chairman of the Community Newspaper Company (Needham, Mass.), to be vice president for communications and external affairs.

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee): Appointed Michael W. Grebe, chief executive officer of Foley & Lardner (Milwaukee) and a member of the foundation’s board, to be president, effective in July 2002. He will succeed Daniel Schmidt, acting chief executive officer, who will resume his duties as executive vice president.

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Steve Eldred, health planning and program specialist at the office of AIDS coordination of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, to be a program officer, based in the San Diego office; Gregory Hall, a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.), to be a program officer, based in the San Diego office; and Karen Kurasaki, a research associate at the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health (Davis, Calif.), to be a program officer, based in the Sacramento office.

Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Appointed Karen L. Bond, a finance manager at the Girl Scout Council of Licking Valley (Erlanger, Ky.), to be grants manager; Helen J. Mattheis, a consultant for the Evaluation Services Center at the U. of Cincinnati, to be program officer; and Erica L. Vidmer, assistant to the director of the Cincinnati Preservation Association, to be grants administrator.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Yves Colon, Caribbean correspondent at the Miami Herald, to be journalism program officer; Beth J. Kaiser, a performance manager at Montgomery Asset Management (San Francisco), to be manager of investment reporting and analysis; Maurice G. Perry, a senior investment analyst at Ronald Blue & Company (Atlanta) and a former financial assistant at the foundation, to be director of public investments; and Heidi Rettig, a research associate at the Urban Institute (Washington), to be a content program officer.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed Christopher C. DeCardy, executive director of Environmental Media Services (Washington), to be director of communications, effective in February 2002.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Appointed Courtenay Wilson, manager in the programs and services division of the Southern Arts Federation (Atlanta), to be a program officer for arts and culture.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Camp Fire USA (Kansas City, Mo.): Elected Judith O’Connor, president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Nonprofit Boards (Washington), to be national board president.

Chimes/Delaware (Newark): Elected Stanley Sack, a psychologist in private practice in Baltimore and a former vice chairman of the board of Chimes/Maryland (Baltimore), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Chimes offers support services to people with developmental and physical disabilities.

Marin Community Foundation (Larkspur, Calif.): Elected Charles Curley, retired chairman and chief executive officer of the Conifer Crent Company (Salinas, Calif.) and a former mayor of Larkspur, to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape: Elected Karen Block Johnese, director of community affairs at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Elected Marla Salmon, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory U. (Atlanta), to be a trustee.

Sara Lee Foundation (Chicago): Elected Robin S. Tryloff, executive director of the foundation and executive director of community relations for the Sara Lee Corporation, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Turtle Island Restoration Network (Forest Knolls, Calif.): Elected Steven Katz, director of development at Earthjustice (San Francisco), to be president of the Board of Directors for this group that administers the Sea Turtle Restoration Project and the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Demont & Associates (Portland, Me.): Appointed Teresa Gade, paraprofessional and office manager at Peter Sweeney, CPA, and Jeffery Small, CPA (Burlington, Vt.), to be capital-campaign associate in the South Burlington, Vt., office, and Kate L. White, canvass director for the Fund for Public Interest (Saco, Me.), to be capital-campaign associate, based in the Portland office.

Hartsook and Associates (Wichita, Kan.): Appointed Matthew J. Beem, senior director of leadership gifts at the U. of Missouri at Kansas City, to be executive vice president, based in the Kansas City, Mo., office.