People

Asian Neighborhood Design (San Francisco): Appointed Augusta Catalina Del Zotto, a researcher and planner for the National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington),

to be executive director.

Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (Washington): Appointed Edie H. Semler, former corporate-relations manager at the Brookings Institution (Washington), to be executive director.

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena): Appointed June Thames Poust, director of major gifts at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago), to be director of principal and major gifts.

Center for Designing Work Wisely (Washington): Appointed Eileen Appelbaum, labor economist and researcher at the Economic Policy Institute (Washington), and Kimetha W. Firpo, vice president of account management at the Oak Park, Ill., office of Ceridian, to be co-presidents. This research organization works to improve organizational design and work processes.

City Year (Boston): Appointed Julia Van, an officer for the Community Partners Program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami), to be director of foundation relations. City Year directs young people who are devoting a year to full-time community service.

Columbia U. (New York): Appointed Michael Rodin, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at Rutgers U. Foundation (New Brunswick, N.J.), to be director of foundation relations, and Carolyn S. Sanzone, assistant vice chancellor and director of the office of strategic technology alliances and corporate relations at U. of Massachusetts at Amherst, to be executive director of corporate and foundation relations.

HealthPartners (Minneapolis): Appointed Mary K. Brainerd, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer.

International Center for Journalists (Washington): Thomas Winship, co-founder and chairman of the center and former editor of The Boston Globe, died March 14 at age 81.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (London): Appointed Steven B. Sinding, a professor of clinical public health at Columbia U.’s Mailman School of Public Health (New York) and former director of the population-services program at the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), to be director general, effective September 1.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed George C. Halvorson, president and chief executive officer of HealthPartners (Minneapolis), to be chairman and chief executive officer, effective May 1. He succeeds David M. Lawrence, who is retiring at year’s end.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed William M. Stovall, a graduate assistant for the U. of Missouri at Columbia’s offices of development and alumni relations, to be development officer for multicultural programs and associate director of alumni programs for the K-State Alumni Association.

Lynn U. (Boca Raton, Fla.): Appointed Lansing G. Baker, senior vice president for university relations at Syracuse U. (N.Y.), to be senior vice president for institutional advancement.

Museum of Modern Art (New York): Appointed Kim Mitchell, assistant director of communications, to be director of communications.

National Conference for Community and Justice–Greater Boston Region: Appointed Robert Lewis Jr., senior vice president at City Year (Boston), to be president and executive director.

National Wildlife Federation (Reston, Va.): Appointed Guy O. Williams, urban-ecosystems manager, to be director of the Great Lakes Natural Resource Center, based in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Penny Lane (North Hills, Calif.): Appointed Delia Isabel Soto, road manager for the opera star Luciano Pavarotti (London), to be director of fund development. This organization provides services to abused and neglected children and youths in the Los Angeles area.

Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.): Appointed Craig Arteaga-Johnson, director of exhibitions and programs at Side Street Projects (Pasadena, Calif.), to be assistant director of annual giving; Susan Dollar, director of foundation and corporate relations, to be director of development; Donald Pattison, associate director of major gifts, to be director of foundation and corporate relations; David Scott, associate director of donor communications at Butler U. (Indianapolis), to be director of stewardship and memorial funds; Tam T. Vuong, associate director of annual giving, to be director of annual giving; and Richard Watkins, director of annual giving, to be senior development officer.

Ray Graham Association for People with Disabilities (Downers Grove, Ill.): Appointed Cathy Ficker Terrill, vice president at the National Brain Injury Association (Alexandria, Va.), to be president and chief executive officer. The group also appointed Lee Stein, director of corporate relations at the American Academy of Pediatrics (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), to be director of development and community relations.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Diane Brigham, head of education at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), to be executive director. This nonprofit group provides educational and artistic support to promising young artists.

St. Barnabas Charitable Foundation (Gibsonia, Pa.): Appointed Sharron Sherrill Kaczynski, director of annual giving and alumni affairs at the Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation (Pittsburgh), to be director of development.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Ruth C. Benedict, vice president for communications at the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit), to be director of development and major gifts for the School of Education, and Ed Gorham, account executive at WIXT-TV Channel 9 (Syracuse), to be director of development and major gifts for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding (New York): Appointed Joyce Dubensky, deputy executive director for the greater New York region at the National Conference for Community and Justice (New York), to be executive director.

Theatre Development Fund (New York): Appointed Joy Cooper, former director of development at the Theatre Communications Group (New York) and the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (N.Y.), to be director of development.

U. of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (Albuquerque): Appointed Susan Crow, director of development for the humanities division of the U. of California at Los Angeles, to be director of development.

Washington Ballet: Appointed Keri Benell, associate director of marketing at the Washington Performing Arts Society, to be director of marketing and public relations.

Wheat Ridge Ministries (Itasca, Ill.): Appointed Richard Herman, vice president, to be vice president and chief operating officer.

GRANT MAKERS

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): William H. McLean, senior managing director for asset and investment management, has been appointed vice president and chief investment officer at Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.).

Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Ellery July, technology lead, to be director of community activities and learning.

Venice Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Teri A. Hansen, vice president for gift planning and donor relations at the Cleveland Foundation, to be president and chief executive officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Elected Michael F. Morrissey, retired managing partner of Ernst & Young (Kansas City), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

International Orthodox Christian Charities (Baltimore): Elected Bert Moyar, president of MEI Hotels (Cleveland), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Rose Community Foundation (Denver): Elected Steven W. Farber, managing partner and president of Brownstein Hyatt & Farber (Denver), to be chair of the Board of Directors, and Phillip Figa, a lawyer at Burns, Figa & Will (Englewood, Colo.), and Stephanie Foote, deputy mayor and manager of public works for the City of Denver, to be board members.