People

Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Kelly Apostolidis, manager

for national media outreach, to be director of national media outreach, and Debra D’Angelo, director of print production, to be senior director of print production.

All Saints’ Episcopal School of Fort Worth: Appointed Shelly Frank, director of law-school advancement and director of annual giving at Texas Wesleyan U. (Fort Worth), to be director of development.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (New York): Appointed Matthew S. Holmon, New York director for the Development Corporation for Israel, to be senior development officer for planned giving. This organization provides funds for relief and development efforts to Jewish causes worldwide.

Arena Stage (Washington): Appointed Desiree Urquhart, a National Urban Fellow with the City of Beverly Hills (Calif.) and a former executive-director fellow at Arena Stage, to be associate executive director.

Art Institute of Chicago: Appointed Patricia A. Woodworth, vice president and chief financial officer at the U. of Chicago, to be executive vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer.

Catholics for a Free Choice (Washington): Appointed Eileen Barthelmy, manager for business operations at AARP (Washington), to be chief operating officer.

Continuum (San Francisco): Appointed Mark Cloutier, vice president for health policy at the Health Priorities Group (Berkeley, Calif.) and a former member of Continuum’s board, to be executive director. This organization provides health services to people living with HIV/AIDS.

Eliza Jennings Group (Lakewood, Ohio): Appointed Suzanne Nixon, director of development, to be vice president of advancement at this group that manages several long-term health-care facilities in Ohio.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Wendy Shure, circulation and audit analyst at OAG (Oak Brook, Ill.), to be director of the annual fund.

Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation (Washington): Appointed Antonio Tijerino, director of public relations at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be executive director.

Howard U. (Washington): Appointed Raoul Dennis, former managing editor at the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (Washington), to be media-relations manager.

Jackie Robinson Foundation (New York): Appointed Charles R. Dees Jr., executive director of the Institute for Global Commerce at Fairleigh Dickinson U. (Teaneck, N.J.), to be vice president of development and public relations. This group offers higher-education scholarships to minority students with financial need.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-Long Island (Hauppauge, N.Y.): Appointed Barbara Gill Rogus, chief fund-raising executive at Guide Dogs for the Blind-Smithtown (N.Y.), to be executive director.

Le Moyne College (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Scott A. Barrett, director of annual giving, to be vice president for institutional advancement; Joe Della Posta, senior account executive at Mark Russell & Associates (Syracuse), to be director of communications; and Gregory J. Victory, former associate director of alumni relations at Ithaca College (N.Y.), to be director of annual giving.

Malvern Preparatory School (Pa.): Appointed Martin F. Farrell, assistant vice president for development at St. Joseph’s U. (Philadelphia), to be executive director of development.

Meals on Wheels and More (Austin, Tex.): Appointed Michael H. Goldstein, director of communications, to be vice president for communications and special projects.

Museum Institute for Teaching Science (Boston): Appointed Neal L. Trubowitz, a visiting research curator in North American archaeology for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be executive director.

Museum of Modern Art (New York): Appointed Ruth Kaplan, a senior vice president at Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselors (New York), to be deputy director for marketing and communications.

NASW Foundation (Washington): Appointed Robert Carter Arnold, vice president of the Sheridan Group (Alexandria, Va.), to be director of development at this fund-raising arm of the National Association of Social Workers.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (Indianapolis): Announced the retirement of Cedric Dempsey, president since 1994, at the end of his contract on January 1, 2003.

Neighborhood Funders Group (Washington): Appointed Bettye Brentley, director of affinity-group services and inclusive practices at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be the assistant director for membership services.

Oakton Community College (Des Plaines, Ill.): Appointed Carlee Drummer, a vice president at Lipman Hearne (Chicago), to be director of college relations and marketing.

Partnership with Children (New York): Appointed Michelle Sidrane, founder and president of Michelle Sidrane Associates (New York), to be executive director.

Pennsylvania State U. (University Park): Appointed David J. Lieb, director of university development, to be executive director of university development.

Sacred Heart League (Walls, Miss.): Announced the resignation of Roger Courts, director, who will continue as president and chief executive officer of Gregory Productions, the League’s film production company, which produced The Spitfire Grill.

Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission: Appointed Larry Joslin, chaplain of the men’s shelter, to be director of the organization’s Riverton Place, a substance-abuse treatment facility, and Vicki Vorhes, senior executive of donor relations, to be director of donor relations.

Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa): Appointed John Kellogg, vice president for institutional advancement and director of admissions, to be vice president for marketing.

St. Paul’s Community Development Corporation (Paterson, N.J.): Appointed Clifford Schneider, director of the mid-Hudson region of the Volunteers of America of Greater New York, based in Hawthorne, to be executive director.

U. of Delaware (Newark): Appointed Daniel C. Bailey, director of corporate and foundation relations at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (Baltimore), to be director of development for corporate and foundation relations.

U. of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Kim Isaac, senior campaign associate at the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, to be director of development for the School of Social Work.

U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee: Appointed Dana LaFontsee, former marketing strategist at Wipfli (Milwaukee), to be director of marketing services for university outreach.

United Methodist Youthville (Wichita, Kan.): Appointed John R. Francis, vice president for residential and education programs at Children’s Home Association of Illinois (Peoria), to be chief executive officer.

West Virginia Independent Colleges & Universities (Charleston): Appointed Paul C. Chewning, vice president for professional development at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington), to be president.

GRANT MAKERS

Children’s Fund of Connecticut (Farmington): Appointed Judith Meyers, president and chief executive officer of the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut (Farmington), to be president and chief executive officer.

George Gund Foundation (Cleveland): Announced the retirement of David Bergholz, executive director since 1989, effective in January 2003.

Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Ellen Alberding, culture program officer and director of portfolio investments, to be president. She succeeds Paula DiPerna, who resigned, and acting president Lawrence N. Hansen, who will resume his position as vice president.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Shelley Shreffler, natural-resources program manager at the St. Paul Neighborhood Energy Consortium, to be a program officer for the environment program.

Minnesota Foundation: Appointed Doug Stasek, director of planned giving at the Blake School (Minneapolis), to be director of gift planning.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Russell T. Ally, project manager in the Johannesburg office of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (New York), to be a program officer for the civil-society program, based in Johannesburg; Heather A. Lane, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in Pacific international affairs at the U. of California-San Diego (La Jolla), to be an environment program assistant in reform of international trade; Samuel B. Passmore, land-use program director at the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League (Charleston), to be a program officer for the environment program; and George A. Trone, assistant to the president, to be grants-database manager and associate program officer.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Appointed Darren Walker, chief operating officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation (New York), to be director of the Working Communities division.

San Francisco Foundation: Appointed Carol Lamont, a community builder at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Washington), based in San Francisco and East Palo Alto, Calif., to be program officer for neighborhood and community development, and Anthony A. Tansimore, vice president of communications at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be chief operating officer.

West Central Initiative (Fergus Falls, Minn.): Appointed Natalie Greenlaw, a recent recipient of a master’s degree in social work from the U. of Denver and the founder and former executive director of the Anishinaabe Center (Detroit Lakes, Minn.), to be coordinator of the career-advancement program.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation (Denver): Elected Marguerite Salazar, president and chief executive officer of Valley-Wide Health Services (Alamosa, Colo.), to be a trustee.

Community Foundation of Louisville (Ky.): Elected to the Board of Directors: Paranita S. Bratton, a practicing physician in Louisville; Ronald Greenberg, senior vice president of business development at Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services (Louisville); and Jon Mapp, a principal business consultant at Chameleon Consulting (Louisville).

Delta Dental Fund (Okemos, Mich.): Elected Laura O. Stearns, vice president of the Michigan Catholic Conference (Lansing), to be chairperson of the Board of Trustees for this philanthropic arm of Delta Dental Plans of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Elected to the Board of Directors Pat Cloherty, pro-bono chairman of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund (New York), and Richard C. Green Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of UtiliCorp United (Kansas City, Mo.).

Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Fla.): Elected Anne Smith, a community volunteer, to be president of the Board of Trustees.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

DRG (New York): Appointed Ellen Bodow, senior search consultant, to be vice president at this executive-search firm.

Gonser Gerber Tinker Stuhr (Naperville, Ill.): Appointed Mark A. Gambaiana, director of development at Iowa State U. Foundation (Ames), to be an associate at this fund-raising firm.

Lipman Hearne (Chicago): Appointed Tim Westerbeck, president of Westerbeck Communications (Chicago), to be executive vice president and principal.