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Allen Pavilion (New York): Appointed Michael Fosina, director of integration and accreditation, to be executive director. This hospital is part of the New York–Presbyterian Hospitals.

Alliance for Education (Seattle): Appointed Rodney Wheeler, vice president of community campaigns at the United Way of King County (Seattle), to be senior vice president for development and community relations.

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Indianapolis): Appointed Kathy Finley, executive director of the Roller Skating Association International (Indianapolis), to be executive director. She succeeds Sabina Calhoun, who has served as interim director since March.

Austin College (Sherman, Tex.): Appointed Kathleen Gigl, former vice president for institutional advancement at Texas Woman’s U. (Denton), to be director of major gifts.

Belmont Abbey College (N.C.): Appointed Geralynn Trellue, youth minister at St. John Newmann Catholic Church (Matthews, N.C.), to director of alumni and parent relations.

Canisius College (Buffalo, N.Y.): Appointed Michael Marrone, former director of leadership giving at Cushing Academy (Ashburnham, Mass.), to be director of development.

Cleveland State U.: Appointed Sheila N. Samuels, former associate director at MetroHealth Foundation (Cleveland), to be director of development at the College of Urban Affairs.

Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.): Appointed Jim Roberts, director of communications for alumni affairs and development, to be editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine.

Council of Independent Colleges (Washington): Appointed Richard Ekman, vice president for programs at the Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company (New York) and former secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York), to be president.

Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.): Appointed Robert J. Massa, vice president for enrollment management and college relations, to be vice president for enrollment, student life, and college relations.

Elmhurst College (Ill.): Appointed Jessica Ashley, graduate student at Oregon State U. (Corvallis), to be assistant director of corporate and foundation relations.

George Washington U. (Washington): Appointed Michael Freedman, general manager of CBS Radio Network News (New York), to be vice president for communications.

Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Jay DeFranco, controller for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Alexandria, Va.), to be chief financial officer.

Goshen College (Ind.): Appointed Ryan Miller, a former reporter at The Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, Ind.), to be assistant director of public relations and director of the news bureau.

Heritage Foundation (Washington): Appointed Ana Eiras, research assistant, to be a trade analyst at the Center for International Trade and Economics, and Scott Rayder, a staff member on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, to be senior technology policy analyst.

Hood College (Frederick, Md.): Appointed Eleanor Chisholm, former head of the annual fund at the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association (Annapolis, Md.), to be director of the Hood College Fund, and Bonnie Lightcap, director of advancement services at Gettysburg College (Pa.), to be director of advancement services and donor relations.

Jewish Community Center on the Upper West Side (New York): Appointed Joyce C. Kitey, senior vice president and director of development at the Center for Jewish History (New York), to be associate executive director and director of development.

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington): Appointed William A. Allen, former executive vice president for national programs at the United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.), to be vice president for development.

Los Angeles Opera: Appointed Elizabeth J. Kennedy, vice president and corporate-affiliations manager at City National Bank (Beverly Hills, Calif.), to be development director.

Meeting Street Center (East Providence, R.I.): Appointed Andrea B. Joseph, director of institutional advancement at Providence Country Day School (East Providence), to be director of development. The center provides educational and therapeutic services to children and adults with disabilities.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Baltimore): Earl T. Shinhoster, director of voter empowerment and former acting executive director, died in a car accident in Alabama on June 11.

New England Conservatory (Boston): Appointed Daniel Steiner, acting president, to be president.

Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, Ore.): Appointed Joe Wedding, former president of Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland), to be executive vice president for institutional advancement.

Robert Morris College (Chicago): Appointed Vincent E. Norton, vice president for enrollment management, to be senior vice president for advancement.

Social Entrepreneurs Alliance for Change (San Francisco): Appointed Jim Pitofsky, acting president of the Echoing Green Foundation (New York), to be chief executive officer. (This corrects an item from the June 15 issue.)

Springfield College (Mass.): Appointed Ronald S. Ziemba, director of corporate communications at Hexcel Corporation (Stamford, Conn.), to be director of marketing and communications.

Springfield College in Illinois: Appointed Robert J. Buccino, vice president for advancement at Oglethorpe U. (Atlanta), to be president, effective August 1.

State U. of New York College at Geneseo: Appointed Thomas S. Doupe, former residence-hall director at State U. of New York College at Cortland, to be assistant director of annual giving.

Sweet Briar College (Va.): Appointed E. Deal Tompkins, director of planned giving at Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Va.), to be director of capital and planned giving.

U. of Colorado at Boulder: Appointed Del Brinkman, director of journalism programs at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami), to be dean of the school of journalism and mass communication, effective January 1.

U. of Georgia (Athens): Appointed Steve Wrigley, former chief of staff to the governor of Georgia, to be vice president for government relations.

U. of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): Announced the retirement of Ernest E. Rydell, vice president for university advancement at East Stroudsburg U. of Pennsylvania, effective July 31.

U. of San Francisco: Appointed Michael Cortes, an assistant research professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the U. of Colorado at Denver, to be director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. He succeeds founding director Michael O’Neill, who will continue at the university as a professor in the College of Professional Studies.

United Way of the Bay Area (San Francisco): Appointed Anne Wilson, executive vice president and director of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society (San Francisco), to be chief executive officer. She succeeds Thomas A. Ruppanner, who is retiring.

WNYC (New York): Appointed Betsy Gardella, vice president of development and marketing, to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A. (New York): Appointed Margaret A. Tyndall, chief operating officer, to be interim chief executive officer. She succeeds Prema Mathai-Davis, who resigned June 30 to spend more time with her family.

GRANT MAKERS

The Boston Foundation: Appointed Angel H. Bermudez, a program officer, to be director of grant making, and Kate Radtke Guedj, director of programs and services at the Massachusetts Bar Association (Boston), to be director of philanthropic services.

Community Foundation of Greater New Haven (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed William W. Ginsberg, managing director and chief operating officer of the Federal Housing Finance Board (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer, effective in September.

The Denver Foundation: Appointed Sara Knowles, associate director of development at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Aspen, Colo.), to be advancement officer.

Flinn Foundation (Phoenix): Appointed Saundra E. Johnson, president and chief executive officer of the Arizona Healthcare Foundation (Phoenix), to be associate director.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Deborah Gribbon, deputy director and chief curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum, to be museum director and vice president of the trust, effective October 1. She succeeds John Walsh, who will retire.

The Joyce Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Sydney R. Sidwell, senior information specialist at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be research analyst.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.): Appointed Steve Rabin, president of Nelson Public Relations (New York), to be senior vice president for media and public education.

Luzerne Foundation (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.): Appointed Charles M. Barber, vice president and director of the charitable-funds services group in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office of First Union National Bank (Charlotte, N.C.), to be executive director.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Scottsdale, Ariz.): Appointed Judy Jolley Mohraz, president of Goucher College (Towson, Md.), to be president of this new organization.

Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina (Columbia): Appointed Patrick Patterson, former research assistant at the Institute for Families in Society at the U. of South Carolina at Columbia, to be program associate.

D. Michael Warner Foundation (Chapel Hill, N.C.): Appointed Tony Pipa, director of philanthropic services at the Triangle Community Foundation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), to be executive director, effective September 18.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

America’s Second Harvest (Chicago): Elected Glen Crawford, vice president of engineering at Pillsbury (Minneapolis), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected James B. Hunt, the governor of North Carolina, to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

The Colorado Trust (Denver): Elected to be members of the Board of Trustees: Stephen B. Clark, a managing director and public-finance regional manager in the Denver office of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray (Minneapolis); William N. Maniatis, a urologist based in Denver; and Kathryn A. Paul, who recently retired as president of group operations west in the Denver office of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.).

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Elected to be members of the Board of Trustees: Frederick M. Adams Jr., president of Northern Trust Bank (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.); Tarik S. Daoud, owner and president of Al Long Ford (Warren, Mich.); David Hecker, secretary-treasurer of the Michigan Federation of Teachers and School Related Personnel (Detroit); David B. Hermelin, co-owner of the Palace Sports and Entertainment Centers (Southfield, Mich.); Ben C. Maibach III, president of Barton Malow (Southfield); Jack Martin, managing director of Jack Martin & Company (Bloomfield Hills); and Martin B. Zimmerman, vice president of governmental affairs at Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Mich.).

Ducks Unlimited (Memphis): Elected L. J. Mayeux, a physician based in Marksville, La., to be president. He succeeds Julius F. Wall, a partner at the firm of Poague, Wall, Cox & Adams (Clinton, Mo.), who will now serve as chairman of the board.

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York): Elected William T. Comfort Jr., chairman of Citicorp Venture Capital (New York), to be a member of the Board of Trustees.

Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Elected James F. Orr III, president and chief executive officer of the United Asset Management Corporation (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

The Trust for Jewish Philanthropy (New York): Elected Charles H. Goodman, a principal of Henry Crown and Company (Chicago), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

United Arts Organization of Greater Washington: Elected Glen S. Howard, senior vice president and general counsel at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be president of the Board of Directors.

United Way of the Bay Area (San Francisco): Elected Michael J. Murray, who recently announced that he will retire as president of Global and Investment Banking (San Francisco), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Newport Creative Communications (Duxbury, Mass.): Appointed Corinne Biggs, senior account director at Epsilon (Burlington, Mass.), to be vice president.

Renaissance (Indianapolis): Appointed Antonio Avellana, vice president, to be chief information officer; Steve Ko, chief financial officer, to be senior vice president; Jim Rusine, vice president, to be chief marketing officer; and Doreen Tyburski, vice president of human resources, to be senior vice president and chief operating officer of this manager of charitable remainder trusts.

Semple Bixel Associates (Nutley, N.J.): Appointed Catherine W. Swan, senior consultant, to be vice president at this fund-raising firm.