People

American Liver Foundation (New York): Appointed Sandra Miller, executive director of the American London Symphony Orchestra (New York), to be senior manager of corporate relations.

American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (New York): Appointed Christine M. Loomis, senior vice president at the U.S. Russia Investment Fund (Moscow) and its affiliate, Delta Capital Management, to be executive director.

Apollo Theater Foundation (New York): Announced the resignation of Derek Q. Johnson, president and chief executive, effective September 30.

Asia Society (New York): Appointed Michael Levine, executive director of the I Am Your Child Foundation (New York and Beverly Hills, Calif.), to be executive director of the National Campaign for International Education in the Schools.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation (Dallas): Appointed Albert J. Alvarez, executive director of the Swedish Medical Center Foundations (Seattle), to be president.

Bible League (Chicago): Announced the resignation of the Rev. Dennis Mulder, president, effective December 31.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago: Appointed Susan McGee, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer.

Charlotte Country Day School (N.C.): Appointed Becky Rizzo, managing director of the North Carolina Dance Theatre (Charlotte), to be interim director of advancement.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Va.): Appointed Carl C. Beard, associate vice president of development and campaign director at the U. of Richmond (Va.), to be executive director of development.

A Commitment to Our Roots Comic Fund (Los Angeles): Appointed Janine Bielski, manager of communications at the Starbright Foundation (Los Angeles), to be director of development of this nonprofit organization that supports comic-book creators.

Continuum Health Partners (New York): Appointed Susan Kind, vice president for development at Montefiore Medical Center (New York), to be corporate vice president for development.

Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation (New York): Appointed Xenia Boone, director of government relations and legal counsel at the National Newspaper Association (Vienna, Va.), to be executive director.

Edmonds Community College Foundation (Lynnwood, Wash.): Appointed Angelique Leone, director of development at Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara (Calif.), to be director of development and executive director.

European Foundation Centre (Brussels): Announced the resignation of Jacques J. Bouché, chief operating officer.

Friends of the Children (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Catherine Milton, vice president and executive director of U.S. programs at Save the Children (Westport, Conn.), to be president.

High/Scope Educational Research Foundation (Ypsilanti, Mich.): Appointed Andrea De Bruin-Parecki, an associate professor of educational psychology at the U. of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls), and Lea M. McGee, a professor of literacy education at the U. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), to be co-directors of the High/Scope Reading Institute.

Houston Grand Opera: Appointed Laura Bodenheimer, director of development at the Houston Music Hall Foundation, to be executive director of development.

I Have a Dream Foundation (New York): Appointed Marina Winton, assistant national executive director for development at the YWCA of the USA (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford (Conn.): Appointed Rabbi Daniel Allen, president of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel (New York), to be executive vice president.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (Rockville, Md.): Appointed Jodi Kurtis, senior campaign associate, to be senior endowment associate for the United Jewish Endowment Fund.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Gabrielle Bennett, development director for Downing College, Cambridge U. (England), to be director of development for Europe, based in London; B.J. Davisson, director of gift planning, to be senior director of gift planning in the office of planned giving; Kate Erda, director of annual giving at the Harvard College Fund (Cambridge, Mass.), to be director of the office of annual giving; Laurette Hankins, associate dean for development and alumni relations at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins, to be director of development for the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Scott Rembold, director of development for the graduate school of education at George Washington U. (Washington), to be director of development at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Washington).

Lawrence U. (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed Robb Waugus, director of communications and financial development at the American Red Cross (Rockford, Ill.), to be associate director of annual giving.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York): Appointed Elizabeth L. Pugh, senior vice president for finance and administration at the Central Park Conservancy (New York), to be chief financial officer.

Los Angeles Educational Partnership: Appointed Carol Solis, director of education at the Grammy Foundation (Santa Monica, Calif.), to be director of leadership and training programs.

Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation: Appointed Robin Reiter-Faragalli, vice president of human resources at the Miami Herald Publishing Company, to be president.

NAACP (Baltimore): Appointed the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III, chief of branch and field services, to be chief operating officer, and Paula Brown Edme, Northeast region director (New York), to be chief of branch and field services.

North Carolina Dance Theatre (Charlotte): Appointed Gerald G. Fox, former county manager of Mecklenburg County (N.C.), to be interim executive director.

Public/Private Ventures (New York): Appointed Fred Davie Jr., vice president for national faith-based programs, to be vice president of public policy and community partnerships.

Saint Joseph College (West Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Richard Tuchman, executive director of development at Quinnipiac U. (Hamden, Conn.), to be director of institutional advancement.

San Jose State U. (Calif.): Appointed Patricia A. McNeill, director of development at California State U.-Dominguez Hills (Carson), to be planned-giving officer, and Johnetta Stevens, senior director of regional major gifts at the U. of Chicago, to be associate vice president for development.

St. Anne’s (Los Angeles): Appointed Patricia Lepe, chief executive officer of Pine Grove Psychiatric Hospital (Canoga Park, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer. St. Anne’s provides temporary housing to pregnant teenagers and teenage parents and their babies.

Syracuse U. (New York): Appointed Tricia Hopkins, owner of Tricia Griffith Design (Liverpool, N.Y.), to be coordinator of marketing, communications, and alumni services.

U. of Connecticut Foundation (Storrs): Appointed Terry L. Gellin, associate director of development for the school of business, to be director of development for the school of business, and Anna Turbett, director of regional campaigns, to be director of campaigns.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Deborah Hernandez, assistant director of the university’s Wang Center for International Business, to be director of corporate and foundation grants.

United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.): Appointed Derrick Payne, youth-intervention specialist at SER-Jobs for Progress (Irving, Tex.), to be assistant area-development director of the Dallas office.

United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington): Announced the resignation of Norman O. Taylor, chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Rhian Evans, state director of Libraries of the Future (Phoenix), to be donor-services advancement director; Suzanne Quigley, human-services manager at the Maricopa Association of Governments (Arizona), to be a program officer; and Lynn Tuttle, general manager of the Phoenix Boys Choir, to be a program officer.

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Dennis A. Hunt, chief operating officer and deputy campaign manager for the 2002 Riordan for Governor campaign (Los Angeles), to be vice president of communications.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Appointed Rookaya Bawa, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Library Service (South Africa), to be a program officer in the international development program, where she will direct the African library project.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Rebecca Arno, communications officer, to be vice president of communications.

Girl’s Best Friend Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Alice Cottingham, executive director of the Fund for Immigrants and Refugees at the Donors Forum of Chicago, to be executive director. This foundation supports empowerment programs for girls in Illinois.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (New York): Appointed Edward Hirsch, a prize-winning poet and an English professor at the U. of Houston, to be president, effective in January. He will succeed Joel Conarroe, who has served as president for 17 years.

Edward W. Hazen Foundation (New York): Appointed Nat Chioke Williams, program officer at the New York Foundation, to be program officer for youth development.

International Youth Foundation (Baltimore): Announced the resignation of Rick Little, founder and president.

John and Mary R. Markle Foundation (New York): Appointed Joanna McIntosh, vice president of international affairs at AT&T (Washington), to be director of the Policy for a Networked Society program.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Mary A. Gailbreath, small-business service manager and accountant at Arthur Andersen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be manager of grants administration.

Rockefeller Family Fund (New York): Appointed Lisa A. Guide, former deputy assistant secretary of the interior for policy and international affairs in the Clinton administration (Washington), to be associate director.

An Uncommon Legacy Foundation (Washington): Appointed Deborah Bonsack, executive director of America’s Athletes with Disabilities (Silver Spring, Md.), to be executive director of this organization, which awards scholarships and grants to benefit lesbians.

United Nations Foundation (Washington): Appointed Johanna Mendelson Forman, senior fellow at the Association of the United States Army’s project on the Role of the American Military Power in the 21st Century (Arlington, Va.), to be senior program officer for peace, security, and human rights.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

American Institute of Graphic Arts, Minnesota Chapter (Minneapolis): Elected Scott Geiger, co-owner and creative director of GeigerBevolo (Minneapolis), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Arena Stage (Washington): Elected James J. Rouse, a vice president at Exxon Mobil Corporation (Washington), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Beldon Fund (New York): Elected Ruth Hennig, executive director of the John Merck Fund (Boston), to the Board of Trustees.

California Endowment (Woodland HIlls): Elected Laura S. Wiltz, former chief executive officer of the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation and Family Medicine Center: Elected Michael Welch, medical director at the El Pomar Community Health Center (Colorado Springs), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Edward W. Hazen Foundation (New York): Elected Daniel HoSang, training and organizing director at the Center for Third World Organizing (Oakland, Calif.), to the Board of Trustees.

Henry Luce Foundation (New York): Elected Margaret Boles Fitzgerald, executive vice president and director of community relations at Hill/Holliday (Boston), to be chairwoman of the Board of Directors.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.): Elected Joseph L. Goldstein, chairman of the department of molecular genetics at the U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, to the Board of Trustees.

John and Mary R. Markle Foundation (New York): Elected Joel L. Fleishman, a professor of law and public policy and director of the Sam and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Executive Service Corps (New York): Elected Nathaniel J. Sutton, practice managing partner of Heidrick & Struggles, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (New York): Elected Steven A. Falci, senior vice president at Mellon Equity Associates (Pittsburgh), to the Board of Directors.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Elected Vo-Tong Xuan, rector of Angiang U. (Longxuyen, Vietnam), to the Board of Directors.

U. of Wyoming Foundation (Laramie): Elected Frank Mendicino, former Wyoming attorney general, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

West Central Initiative (Fergus Falls, Minn.): Elected Tom Sparrow, president of the Rapat Corporation (Hawley, Minn.), to the Board of Directors.