People

Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries (Hollidaysburg, Pa.): Appointed Barbara R. Taylor, division director for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (Duncansville, Pa.), to be director of development.

American Refugee Committee (Minneapolis): Appointed Hugh Q. Parmer, former assistant administrator in the Bureau for Humanitarian Response at the U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington), to be president.

American U. of Beirut (Lebanon): Appointed W. Stephen Jeffrey, vice president for external relations at the U. of Hartford (West Hartford, Conn.), to be vice president for development and external relations, based in the New York office.

Americans for National Parks (Washington): Appointed Jennifer Coken, president of the Coken Consulting Company (Washington), to be national campaign director.

Assumption College (Worcester, Mass.): Appointed Troy Watkins, director of public relations at Regis College (Weston, Mass.), to be development writer.

Brain Trauma Foundation (New York): Appointed Pamela Drexel, senior program director, to be executive director.

Center for Arts and Culture (Washington): Appointed Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, director of the Veterans History Project at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress (Washington) and the former director of the White House Millennium Council, also to be president and chief executive officer.

Center for Women’s Business Research (Washington): Appointed Stephanie Peacock, marketing executive at Fenton Communications (Washington), to be director of communications and marketing.

Colorado Alliance for Arts Education (Denver): Appointed Kim Hargraves, director of marketing and partnership development at Bridge by Bridge Productions (New York), to be executive director.

Columbia U. (New York): Appointed Susan K. Feagin, vice president for development at the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be vice president for development and alumni relations, effective July 1.

Easter Seals-Eastern Pennsylvania (Allentown): Appointed Michael J. Lobb, principal consultant at MJLWrites (Shawnee on Delaware, Pa.), to be marketing and communications director.

Episcopal Charities (San Francisco): Appointed Sally Coates, executive director of the San Francisco office of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (Dallas), to be chief executive officer.

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco: Appointed Kenneth J. Reggio, director of services and administration at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland (Calif.), to be executive director.

Greensboro College (N.C.): Appointed Chalise Mullis, children’s therapist at Children and Youth Services of Alamance County (Burlington, N.C.), to be assistant director of alumni development.

Hispanic College Fund (Washington): Appointed J. Fernando Barrueta, senior vice president based in the Washington office of Transwestern Commercial Services (Houston), to be president and chief executive officer.

Historic New Orleans Collection: Appointed Jack Pruitt Jr., director of special projects at the Ochsnersic Clinic Foundation (New Orleans), to be director of development.

Hospice of the Valley (Decatur, Ala.): Appointed Diane Scanland, development director at Girls Inc. of Central Alabama (Birmingham), to be fund-development and marketing coordinator.

Izaak Walton League of America (Gaithersburg, Md.): Appointed Tom Sadler, director of the Outdoor America campaign, to be associate conservation director. This conservation organization works to protect fish and wildlife and their habitats.

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.

MacPhail Center for the Arts (Minneapolis): Appointed David O’Fallon, executive director of the Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, Minn.), to be president.

Northwestern Memorial Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Kathleen Murray, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, to be president and chief executive officer. The foundation is the fund-raising arm of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.

Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (Hawthorne, N.Y.): Appointed Reina Schiffrin, chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer.

Prison Fellowship Ministries (Merrifield, Va.): Appointed Mark Earley, a former Virginia Attorney General (Richmond) and gubernatorial candidate, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds founder Charles W. Colson, who will remain as chairman.

San Jose State U. (Calif.): Appointed Byron A. Kamp, director of the student union and student activities at Idaho State U. (Pocatello), to be executive assistant to the vice president for university advancement and director of governmental relations.

Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.): Appointed Suzanne M. Murphy, vice president of external affairs at Marymount Manhattan College (New York), to be vice president for college resources.

United Jewish Communities (New York): Appointed Ron B. Meier, executive vice president of the UJA Federation of Bergen County & North Hudson (River Edge, N.J.), to be senior vice president for human-resource development, and Nachman Shai, chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (Jerusalem), to be senior vice president and director general of the Israel office in Jerusalem.

United Service Organizations (USO) (Washington): Appointed Edward A. Powell Jr., former U.S. Deputy Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds retired Army General John H. Tilelli Jr., who resigned.

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg): Appointed Terry Bolt, athletic-development manager, to be director of development for special gifts and the Virginia Tech Athletic Fund; Lauren Ehrlich, senior development officer at the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (Philadelphia), to be assistant director of development for the College of Engineering; Jeffrey D. Janosko, graduate assistant at Newman Library, to be major-gifts officer for the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Kathleen Pantaleo, assistant director of annual giving, to be acting director of annual giving; and Mary Grace Theodore, director of special events, to be regional director of major gifts.

Waubonsee Community College (Sugar Grove, Ill.): Appointed Wayne G. Stone, dean for the division of social sciences and business at Oakton Community College (Des Plaines, Ill.), to be vice president of institutional effectiveness, planning, and external affairs.

GRANT MAKERS

Blandin Foundation (Grand Rapids, Minn.): Appointed Gordon Curphy, vice president and general manager at Personnel Decisions International (Minneapolis), to be vice president of institutional leadership.

Catholic Community Foundation, Diocese of Phoenix: Appointed Thomas L. Thieken, planned-giving officer at the American Cancer Society-Central Indiana (Indianapolis), to be senior field representative.

Frist Foundation (Nashville): Appointed Pete Bird, senior program officer, to be executive director and chief executive officer. He succeeds Kenneth L. Roberts, who will remain as president.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Carl J. Schramm, chairman and founder of Greenspring Advisors (Baltimore), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in April. He succeeds Louis W. Smith, who announced his retirement in late 2000.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Joe Ervin, state-network director at the Center for Policy Alternatives (Washington), to be director of the new Communities Partners program, and Julie E. Tarr, associate director of the Center for Elderly Education Research at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers U. (New Brunswick, N.J.), to be community-liaison officer for the Philadelphia, State College, Pa., and Wichita, Kan., regions.

Rhode Island Foundation (Providence): Appointed Karen Voci, vice president for evaluation and special projects, to be senior vice president for program.

Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds (New York): Appointed Nancy Devine, senior vice president of program and nonprofit investment at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (New York), to be director of communities programs.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Joseph Drown Foundation (Los Angeles): Elected Wendy Wachtell Schine, vice president and program director, to the Board of Directors.

Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.): Elected Jean G. Spaulding, a psychiatrist in private practice in Durham, N.C., to be a trustee.

Grand Rapids Community Foundation (Mich.): Elected Juan R. Olivarez, president of Grand Rapids Community College, to be a trustee.

International Women’s Media Foundation (Washington): Elected Lynn Povich, a media consultant based in New York, to be co-chair of the board.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Elected Mario J. Molina, a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) and a Nobel laureate, to the Board of Directors.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Elected A. Marshall Acuff Jr., who recently retired as senior vice president and managing director at Salomon Smith Barney (Richmond, Va.), to be a trustee.

Special Olympics North Carolina (Raleigh): Elected Leslie O’Toole, a lawyer at Ellis & Winters (Cary, N.C.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn (New York): Appointed Ronald D. Spencer, a lawyer at De Forest & Duer (New York), to be counsel, primarily representing artists and arts groups.

DHR-StratfordGroup (Chicago): Appointed James Abruzzo, managing director of the nonprofit practice at StratfordGroup (New York), to be executive vice president and managing editor of the nonprofit practice, based in the New York and Short Hills, N.J., offices. This consulting and executive-search firm was created in a recent merger.

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Temple Elliott, director of membership at the United States Tennis Association (White Plains, N.Y.), to be vice president of direct-response strategy.

Kintera (San Diego): Appointed Jim Rotherham, vice president and chief financial officer at CopiersNow.com (Englewood, Colo.), to be chief financial officer at this Internet marketing company.