People

American U. (Washington): Appointed Albert Checcio, vice president for development and alumni/ae affairs at Temple U. (Philadelphia), to be vice president for development.

Cedars-Sinai Health System (Los Angeles): Appointed Gary Leo, vice president for the Western region in the Los Angeles office of the American Technion Society (New York), to be senior vice president for development.

The Child Care Group (Dallas): Announced the retirement of Madeline Mandell, president and chief executive officer, effective October 31.

Christmas in April USA (Washington): Appointed Randi Nordeen, executive director of Good Shepherd Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers (Shepherdstown, W.Va.), to be director of development.

Communities for a Better Environment (San Francisco): Appointed Carlos J. Porras, southern California director, based in the Huntington Park office, to be executive director.

Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.): Appointed Cameron C. Dubes, assistant vice president at Community Counselling Service Company (New York), to be director of development for the New York Weill Cornell Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College, in New York.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Appointed Ellen Dadisman, vice president at Manning, Selvage & Lee Public Relations (Washington), to be vice president of government and media relations.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Charley Henderson, a former member of the public-relations staff for the Cincinnati Reds, to be associate director of public relations.

Fetzer Institute (Kalamazoo, Mich.): Appointed Thomas S. Inui, a professor at Harvard U. Medical School (Boston), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Robert F. Lehman, who will remain as a board member and become president emeritus. The institute conducts research and offers programs exploring the relationship between mind, body, and spirit.

The Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Anita H. Plotinsky, executive director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Indianapolis), to be director of the organization’s Washington office.

International Rescue Committee (New York): Appointed George Biddle, vice president of the International Crisis Group (Washington), to be senior vice president.

Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore): Appointed Julie Ellsworth Cox, acting director of development at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, to be director of development for the center; Stephanie Rice Davis, deputy executive director and director of programs at Family Tree (Baltimore), to be head of development for the Bioethics Institute; Amy Helsel, former director of development, alumni, and public relations for the School of Law at U. of California at Davis, to be director of development for the Department of Surgery; and Debora Jackson Perrone, director of program development in the School of Public Health, to be director of development for the school.

Maine College of Art (Portland): Appointed Amy Dondero, assistant director of the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be communications director.

Medical Education for South African Blacks (New Brunswick, N.J.): Appointed James W. Scott, vice president for campaigns at the International Youth Foundation (Baltimore), to be president and chief executive officer.

National Association for College Admission Counseling (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Andrew J. Garfinkel, former legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, to be director of government relations.

National U. (La Jolla, Calif.): Appointed Edith Glassey, director of development at Mama’s Kitchen (San Diego), to be director of development.

Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (Portland): Appointed Frederick Peck, president and chief executive officer of the Good Samaritan Foundation (Portland, Ore.), to be vice president for development and marketing.

Peace College (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Meredith L. Larson, retirement-studies coordinator in the alumni association at U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be director of alumnae affairs.

Power of Attorney (New York): Appointed Shari Dunn Buron, a senior attorney at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (Washington), to be vice president. Power of Attorney helps business lawyers provide pro bono legal services to non-profit groups.

Public Allies (Washington): Appointed Paul Schmitz, vice president and chief strategist, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Chuck J. Supple, who resigned from this organization, which helps young adults find jobs at non-profit groups and government agencies.

Regent U. (Virginia Beach): Appointed Baxter Ennis, director of public relations, to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Rhode Island Hospital (Providence): Appointed David E. Garamella, associate director of development at Stonehill College (Easton, Mass.), to be major-gifts officer.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Milia Bell, former account executive at Paul Kaza Associates (Burlington, Vt.), to be assistant director of development for donor relations.

San Antonio Symphony: Appointed Lawrence J. Fried, orchestra manager and artistic administrator of the Little Orchestra Society (New York), to be general manager and artistic administrator.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Benjamin Weil, director of new media at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), to be curator of media arts.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Paul D. Moore, planned-giving officer at the American Cancer Society-Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, Fla.), to be director of planned giving.

St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Announced the retirement of Rosalie J. Tutino, vice president for development and college relations.

U. of Nevada at Las Vegas: Appointed John Gallagher, executive director of the university foundation, also to be vice president for development.

U. of North Carolina at Charlotte: Appointed R. Edward Kizer Jr., vice chancellor for development and university relations, to be executive assistant to the chancellor for constituent affairs.

U. of Texas at El Paso: Appointed Frank Fletcher, former executive director of development at Husson College (Bangor, Me.), to be assistant vice president for institutional advancement, and Beatrice Navarette Maestas, former program manager for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, to be assistant director of gift development.

United Service Organizations (USO) (Washington): Appointed retired Army General John H. Tilelli Jr., former commander in chief of the United Nations Command and the Republic of Korea/United States Combined Forces Command and the commander of United States Forces Korea, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds retired Marine Corps General Carl E. Mundy Jr., who is retiring.

VSA Arts (Washington): Appointed Barbara Kennedy Witten, president and chief executive officer of the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association (Landover, Md.), to be vice president of communications and development.

WGBH (Boston): Appointed Susan Harrison, a consultant based in Washington, to be senior publicist for community outreach and fund raising.

GRANT MAKERS

The ASM International Foundation (Materials Park, Ohio): Appointed Charles R. Hayes, development director at Lake Ridge Academy (North Ridgeville, Ohio), to be executive director.

The California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Appointed Cindy Rae Hall, assistant to the executive director at the National Conference for Community and Justice (Las Vegas), to be communications assistant; Julio Marcial, communications assistant, to be communications associate; and Erika Alicia McCarden, community-relations coordinator at NBC4 (Burbank, Calif.), to be communications associate.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation (New York): Charles Halpern, president, has announced his resignation, effective in November.

Ethel & James Flinn Family Foundation (Detroit): Appointed Leonard W. Smith to be chief executive officer and manager. Mr. Smith, former chief executive officer of the Skillman Foundation (Detroit), had served as a trustee of the Flinn foundation.

Ford Foundation (New York): Appointed David C. Anderson, author and former assistant editor of the editorial page at The New York Times, to be acting director of the office of communications; Meiwita Budiharsana, director of the Frontiers Country Project at the Population Council (Jakarta, Indonesia), to be program officer for the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program, based in the Jakarta office; Michael Edwards, senior civil-society specialist at the World Bank (Washington), to be director of the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; Basma El Husseiny, a consultant, to be program officer for the media, arts, and culture unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program, based in the Cairo office; Christopher M. Harris, vice president for emerging issues and international programs at the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be program officer for the governance and civil-society unit of the peace and social-justice program; A. Dwayne Linville, program officer and grants administrator for the citizen-partnership initiative at the Foundation for a Civil Society (New York), to be grants administrator for the governance and civil-society unit, peace and social-justice program in the office of management services; Mary M. McShane, assistant director of finance at Briarcliffe College (Bethpage, N.Y.), to be grants administrator for the community- and resource-development unit of the asset-building and community-development program in the office of management services; Barbara Phillips Sullivan, associate professor at the School of Law at the U. of Mississippi (Oxford), to be a program officer for the human-rights and international-cooperation unit of the peace and social-justice program; Augusto F. Varas, program officer for democratic governance and civil society in the Santiago, Chile, office, to be representative for the Andean region and southern cone, based in the Santiago office; David J. Winters, senior program officer at the Margaret Sanger Center International of Planned Parenthood of New York City, to be program officer in the human-development and reproductive-health unit of the asset-building and community-development program; and Philip Yampolsky, a professor of ethnomusicology at the U. of North Sumatra (Medan, Indonesia) and a consultant to the foundation, to be program officer for the media, arts, and culture unit of the education, media, arts, and culture program, based in the Jakarta office.

The foundation also appointed Viera A. Crout, deputy manager of management-information systems, to be chief technology officer for information technology; Donald J. Galligan, manager of fixed-income investments, to be senior fixed-income manager for the investment division; Yolanda Mercado, executive secretary, to be private-equity associate for the investment division; Jerry L. Slater, payroll accountant, to be payroll manager in the office of financial services; and Julie Totero, a consultant and human-resources strategic partner for consumer markets at AT&T (New York), to be assistant manager for training and development in the office of human resources.

Gill Foundation (Denver): Appointed Cristina Arnal, a special-projects assistant at Christie’s Great Estates (Santa Fe, N.M.), to be grants assistant; James D. Ross, a public-information officer for Mayor Paul Helmke of Fort Wayne, Ind., to be communications officer; and Tony Tapia, senior director of cultural-participation programs at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Washington), to be director of grant making.

Charles Hayden Foundation (New York): Appointed Kenneth D. Merin, a partner at the law firm of Purcell, Ries, Shannon, Mulcahy & O’Neill (Bedminster, N.J.), to be president and chief executive officer.

The Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh): Appointed Caren E. Glotfelty, a professor of forestry and environmental-resource conservation at Penn State U. (University Park), to be director of the endowments’ environment program.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Anne S. Canfield, a senior vice president and partner at Fleishman-Hillard (Kansas City, Mo.), to be director of communications, and John E. Tyler III, a member at Lathrop & Gage (Kansas City, Mo.), to be general counsel.

Peninsula Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.): Appointed Ash McNeely, director of development at TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be director of development.

Pittsburgh Foundation: Appointed Jay T. Carson, vice president for institutional development at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, to be vice president of development and donor relations.

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton (Ohio): Appointed Theresa Wukusick, director of the management-assistance program at the United Way of Central Stark County (Canton), to be program officer.

United Hospital Fund (New York): Appointed Mark J. McGrath, director of development at the White Plains Hospital Center (N.Y.), to be director of development.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): Elected Barbara Marshall, a community volunteer and retired nurse, to be chair of the Board of Directors.

The Columbus Foundation (Ohio): Elected Abigail Wexner, a philanthropist and founder and co-chair of the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence, to be chairman of the Governing Committee. Lewis R. Smoot Sr., president and chief executive director of the Smoot Corporation (Columbus), was elected to be a member of the Governing Committee.

Jacksonville Community Foundation (Fla.): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Helen M. Lane, a community volunteer; Duane L. Ottenstroer, a venture-capital investor at his company, Eventide Investments (Jacksonville); and Richard G. Skinner Jr., a retired pediatrician.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Donald Wingate, vice president of business development at Cap Gemini Group (Paris), to be vice president of sales.

Meyer Partners (Chicago): Appointed Ed Stankard, director of marketing and communications at the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (Kansas City, Kan.), to be a senior consultant and writer, based in the Kansas City, Mo., office.