People

Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia): Appointed D. James Baker, undersecretary for oceans

and atmosphere and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Washington): Appointed Russell Bodoff, senior vice president and chief operating officer of BBBonline (Arlington, Va.), to be vice president of business development.

American ORT (New York): Appointed Roni R. Wallace, director of the Cleveland chapter, to be Midwest regional director. American ORT supports technical and technological training courses worldwide.

Amity Institute (San Diego): Appointed Tiffany Bettencourt, public-relations account executive at Richartz, Fliss, Clark & Pope (Denville, N.J.), to be program coordinator for the international teachers program.

Arthritis Foundation-South Texas Chapter (Houston): Appointed James A. Peniston, group vice president of field system support in the national office (Atlanta), to be president.

Avance (San Antonio): Appointed Daniel R. Zorn, development and communications director at the Center for AIDS (Houston), to be director of development for the Houston office. Avance provides support and education services to low-income families.

Boston Ballet: Appointed Valerie Wilder, executive director of the National Ballet of Canada (Ontario), to be executive director.

Brave Kids (San Francisco): Appointed Angelika Geiger, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Entango (San Francisco), to be chief operating officer. Brave Kids is an online resource for children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses and their families.

Brooklyn College (New York): Appointed Janet Edwards Scott, director of development at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (Washington), to be vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the Brooklyn College Foundation.

Cabrini College (Radnor, Pa.): Appointed James R. Bastis, director of development at the Benjamin School (North Palm Beach, Fla.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

California Institute of the Arts (Valencia): Appointed Mark A. Thoreson, acting director of development at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington), to be vice president of advancement and external affairs.

California Shakespeare Festival (Berkeley): Appointed Mark Roberts, major-gifts officer and planned-giving coordinator at Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga), to be director of development.

Camden County College (N.J.): Appointed Gary D. Rodwell, executive director of Alliance Organizing Project for Education Reform (Philadelphia), to be director of public affairs.

CARE USA (Atlanta): Appointed Lurma Rackley, director of public affairs and social responsibility at Eddie Bauer (Redmond, Wash.), to be public-relations director.

Catholic Charities USA (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Lynette Engelhardt Stott, a senior domestic-policy analyst at Bread for the World (Washington), to be legislative liaison for housing issues.

Center for Women Policy Studies (Washington): Appointed Brenda Rommey Martin, director of programs and policy at the National Black Women’s Health Project (Washington), to be senior policy associate for reproductive rights and health, and Claudia A. Withers, former deputy general counsel in the U.S. Department of Education, to be director of public policy.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Appointed Kristin Robinson, vice president of development at the National Women’s Law Center (Washington), to be director of development.

City Year (Boston): Appointed Andrew Munoz, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Search Institute (Minneapolis), to be vice president of research and program development.

Columbia U. Biosphere 2 Center (Tucson): Appointed John S. Engen, director of the development and alumni office at the U. of Arizona’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Tucson), to be vice president and director of development.

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (New York): Appointed Rodger L. DeRose, retired partner and chief operating officer of the tax-software division of Arthur Andersen (Chicago), to be president and chief executive officer.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Chandler Cudlipp, former director of artistic planning and head of the marketing and communications department at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (Monaco), to be director of artistic planning, and Brian Lauterbach, director of development at the Florida Grand Opera (Miami), to be director of annual-fund and individual giving.

Easter Seals of Greater Dallas: Appointed Elizabeth A. Hart, vice president of development and marketing, to be president and chief executive officer.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U. (Daytona Beach, Fla.): Appointed Jim Hampton, director of publicity and public relations at Universal Studios Orlando (Fla.), to be director of public relations.

Environmental Defense (New York): Appointed Deborah McGinn, chief financial officer and treasurer of E + Co (Bloomfield, N.J.), to be deputy director for finance, strategy, and operations.

Ferris State U. (Big Rapids, Mich.): Appointed Shelly Armstrong-Flock, a member of the institutional-advancement staff at Eastern Illinois U. (Charleston), to be associate vice president for university advancement and marketing.

Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington): Appointed Julian Raby, an art historian and a professor of Islamic art at the U. of Oxford (England), to be director of both museums, which function as the nation’s museum of Asian art and are part of the Smithsonian Institution.

Heifer International (Little Rock, Ark.): Appointed Hans J. Hoyer, European regional director for the American Soybean Association (St. Louis), based in Brussels, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Hospice of Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Greg Grabowski, vice president for community relations and chief communications officer, to be senior vice president of community relations.

Hospital for Special Surgery (New York): Appointed Jennifer Ott, director of capital campaigns at the YMCA of Greater New York, to be director of development.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Karina D. Anderson, associate director for constituency programs at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore), to be director of development for the department of orthopaedic surgery; Joyce R. Ritchie, director of development at the Peabody Institute, to be associate dean of development and alumni relations; and Michael Westfall, director of annual giving at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg), to be director of annual giving.

Helen Keller Worldwide (New York): Appointed W. Jeff Waller, director of eye health, to be vice president of international programs.

Methodist Hospital Foundation (Arcadia, Calif.): Appointed Michael E. Foxworth, director of development at the Riverside Community Health Foundation (Calif.), to be director of development.

Museum of Modern Art (New York): Appointed Deborah Schwartz, an independent consultant based in New York, to be deputy director of education.

National Academy of Social Insurance (Washington): Appointed Kathleen M. King, vice president at the Washington Business Group on Health, to be director of health-security policy.

National Association for Biomedical Research (Washington): Appointed Mary F. Hanley, communications director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (Washington), to be executive vice president.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Joni Henderson, director of capital-region advancement and corporate relations at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington), to be chief development officer.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Washington): Appointed Sloan C. Wiesen, communications director at the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund (Washington), to be communications director.

National School Boards Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Robin D. Thurman, senior manager of public and community relations at TRW (Reston, Va.), to be director.

Opera America (Washington): Appointed Lance Tucker, marketing director at the Washington Opera, to be director of public affairs, and Rebecca Hull, a former intern at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), to be resource development associate.

Orthodox Union (New York): Appointed Rabbi Roy I. Rosenbaum, vice president of development at the American Friends of the Hebrew U. (New York), to be director of planning and development.

Pennsylvania State U. (University Park): Appointed Christine Faust, director of development at the Second Mile (State College, Pa.), to be assistant director of development at the libraries development office.

Regional Performing Arts Center (Philadelphia): Appointed Kathleen M. Watson, vice president for development at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to be vice president of development.

Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (Washington): Appointed Sherry Levy-Reiner, a consultant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be director of development.

Saint Norbert College (De Pere, Wis.): Appointed Rose Adler, development coordinator at Central Catholic High School (Marinette, Wis.), to be associate director of gift planning; Kristin Carlson, a staff member at the International Engineering Consortium (Chicago), to be senior advancement officer; Susan Eick, a consultant based in Denver, to be senior advancement officer; Kara Mikulich, a program officer at the Joyce Foundation (Chicago), to be associate director of foundations and government relations; and Jeremy Miner, a staff member at Children’s Health Systems (Milwaukee), to be director of government relations and sponsored programs.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Neal Benezra, deputy director and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago, to be director.

University Hospitals of Cleveland: Appointed Gary W. Weimer, acting senior vice president for development, to be senior vice president for development.

San Francisco State U. Foundation: Appointed Karen V. Clopton, chief of operations at the Port of San Francisco for the City and County of San Francisco, to be chief of operations and corporate counsel.

Sisters of Saint Benedict (Madison, Wis.): Appointed Paul Harrison, development consultant for Wegner CPA (Madison), to be director of development for the Benedictine Life Foundation.

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (Boston): Appointed Nancy Van Zant, senior vice president for development at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston), to be vice president for development.

Stetson U. (DeLand, Fla.): Appointed Darlene L. Kelly, associate director of alumni and public relations, to be director of development for the College of Law.

Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Yolanda Canny, marketing director at Schwab Learning (San Mateo, Calif.), to be vice president of marketing and public affairs.

Texas A&M U. System Health Science Center (College Station): Appointed Jill Dotts, executive director of the Florida Literacy Coalition (Orlando), to be director of development for the College of Medicine.

U. of Houston: Appointed Ileana Treviño, executive director of affirmative action and equal-employment opportunity, to be vice chancellor and vice president for university advancement.

United Way of New York City: Appointed Mary E. Fritz, director of employment and retention at Planned Parenthood Federation of America (New York), to be senior vice president for human resources.

United Way Silicon Valley (San Jose): Appointed Gary Rummelhoff, chief financial officer at @POS.Com (San Jose), to be chief financial officer.

Ursuline Academy (Wilmington, Del.): Appointed Paul Andreas, senior account manager at United Way of Delaware, to be director of alumnae affairs and communications, and Janet Kelleher, associate at Ruotolo Associates (Cresskill, N.J.), to be director of development.

GRANT MAKERS

California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Appointed Olga de la Cruz-Cañon, a program officer at the Alliance Healthcare Foundation (San Diego), and Dorinda Ohnstad, executive director of the Kings County Children and Families Commission (Hanford, Calif.), to be program officers.

Irene Diamond Fund (New York): Appointed Jane Silver, vice president for public policy at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (New York), to be executive director.

Freedom Forum (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Nicole F. Mandeville, treasurer and a vice president at Georgetown U. (Washington), to be senior vice president of finance and treasurer.

Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund (San Francisco): Appointed José Montaño, senior program director at Community Partners (Los Angeles), to be program officer for children and youth.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Reginald Jones, director of audience development and community outreach at the Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, Ill.), to be program officer in culture and education.

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

Open Society Institute (New York): Appointed Gara LaMarche, director of U.S. programs, also to be vice president, and Nancy Youman, deputy advocate for special projects in the office of New York City’s Public Advocate, to be associate director of U.S. programs.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed Barry D. Gold, chief of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (Flagstaff, Ariz.), to be program officer for sustainability science and conservation.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.): Appointed Jeffrey E. Hough, vice president of business development at Inkindex (Chicago), to be vice president of marketing and development.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Menlo Park, Calif.): Elected Janet L. Holmgren, president of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (Washington): Elected Barbara J. Krumsiek, president and chief executive officer of the Calvert Group (Bethesda, Md.), to the Board of Directors.

NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (Alexandria, Va.): Elected Roger A. Curtiss, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Treatment Center (Great Falls, Mont.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

North Louisiana Goodwill Industries (Shreveport): Elected Debbie Camus, a partner at Lee Hall Properties (Shreveport), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Elected Thomas M. McKenna, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy and a part-time faculty member in the school of social work and the school of government at the U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), to the Board of Directors.

The Phillips Collection (Washington): Appointed Vicki Sant, co-founder and president of the Summit Foundation and the Summit Fund (Washington), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Adams Hussey & Associates (Houston): Appointed Robert Hoagland, senior vice president at Stratmark Corporation (Houston), to be senior vice president.

Grizzard (Atlanta): Appointed Larry Bone, president of Dawson McAllister Association (Benbrook, Tex.), to be senior vice president for major gifts and capital campaigns, and Eddy Camas, assistant account executive, to be executive on the Rescue Mission Team.

Hyde Park Communications (Washington): Appointed Jennifer A. Kelley, account manager at Hill & Knowlton (Washington), to be an account supervisor; Alexis Pagoulatos, marketing assistant at Office Solutions (Washington), to be an account coordinator; and Natalie Wyeth, staff assistant at WRC-TV (Washington), to be account coordinator.