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Agnes Scott College (Atlanta): Appointed Jim Abbot, a part-time assistant classics professor, also to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

American Society of Association Executives Foundation (Washington): Appointed Michelle Mason, manager of research programs, to be director of research programs.

Art Resources in Teaching (Chicago): Appointed Jeanne F. Becker, interim executive director, to be executive director. She succeeds Barbara Carney, who resigned.

Bacone College (Muskogee, Okla.): Appointed Donald D. Scott, coordinator of development projects at Kendall College (Evanston, Ill.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

Brandeis-Bardin Institute (Brandeis, Calif.): Appointed Rabbi Lee T. Bycel, senior rabbi at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Cleveland), to be president. The title of president was previously held by the head of the board, Helen Zukin, who will now be known as chairperson of the board. The institute is a center for Jewish learning and culture.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (Washington): Appointed William V. Corr, chief counsel and policy director for U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, to be executive vice president.

Carnegie Mellon U. (Pittsburgh): Appointed Robbee Baker Kosak, vice president for advancement at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.), to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.): Appointed James M. Unglaube, associate vice president for advancement and senior planned-giving officer, to be vice president for college relations.

Cazenovia College (N.Y.): Appointed Margaret Messenger, a staff member at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Boston), to be director of alumni relations.

Chestnut Hill HealthCare (Philadelphia): Appointed Maureen Alexander, vice president of advancement at Melmark Inc. (Berwyn, Pa.), to be vice president of development and community relations.

Children’s Memorial Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Alice DuBose, director of development at the U. of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, to be vice president of development.

Concordia College at Moorhead (Minn.): Appointed Roger Degerman, director of the news bureau, to be director of communications.

Davis and Elkins College (Elkins, W.Va.): Appointed Deborah K. Hayes, corporate legal counsel at Willis Corroon (Nashville), to be director of alumni relations.

Eastern Michigan U. (Ypsilanti): Appointed A. Reginald Best, associate director for major gifts at the U. of Chicago, and Jill Hunsberger, major-gifts officer at Oakwood Health Care System Foundation (Dearborn, Mich.), to be development directors.

Family and Child Services of Washington, D.C.: Appointed Charlotte L. McConnell, deputy director, to be executive director.

Franklin College (Ind.): Appointed Steve Richards, dean of admissions and financial aid, to be executive director of corporate and foundation relations.

Franklin-Wright Settlements (Detroit): Appointed Risarg Huff, interim executive director, to be executive director. He succeeds Judith Jackson, who resigned.

Girls Incorporated of New York City: Appointed the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson, chief operating officer and executive vice president at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration (Brooklyn, N.Y.), to be executive director.

Historic Philadelphia: Appointed Amy R. Masterman, a principal and preservation consultant at Quatrefoil Consulting (Savannah, Ga.), to be development manager.

The Hospice Foundation (Torrance, Calif.): Appointed Paulene Reynolds, vice president, to be president. The foundation supports the TrinityCare Hospice.

LaGrange College (Ga.): Appointed the Rev. David Rowe, former director of advancement and planning at Emory U.’s Oxford College (Atlanta), to be vice president for advancement.

Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pa.): Appointed Anne M. Berry, a consultant based in South Burlington, Vt., to be vice president for advancement.

Lincoln U. (Pa.): Appointed Samuel W. Pressley, a consultant based in Philadelphia, to be director of communications and marketing.

Long Island U. (Brookville, N.Y.): Appointed Kathryn (Kitty) Rockett, assistant vice provost and director of research services at the State U. of New York at Stony Brook, to be university director of government grants.

Los Angeles Educational Partnership: Appointed Susan Way-Smith, director of business development at Teledyne Electronic Technologies (Los Angeles), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds founding president Peggy Funkhouser, who retired.

Malone College (Canton, Ohio): Appointed Terrilyn Kaczmarsky, director of alumni services, to be director of annual giving.

Maryland League of Conservation Voters (Annapolis): Appointed Susan Brown, communications and grassroots-outreach manager at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Annapolis), to be executive director.

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (Washington): Appointed G. Clark Smith, a recent recipient of a doctorate in adaptive systems and structures from Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be chief technology officer.

National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole, Wyo.): Appointed Francine Carraro, a professor of art history at Southwest Texas State U. (San Marcos), to be director, effective in June. She succeeds Leslie Greene Bowman, who resigned last July.

National Urban League (New York): Appointed Gena Davis Watkins, director of development, to be vice president for development and chief development officer.

Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.): Appointed Catherine Stembridge, deputy director of alumni relations, to be director of alumni relations and executive director of the alumni association.

Public Broadcasting Service (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Cindy Gertz, vice president of shareholder relations at Freddie Mac (McLean, Va.), to be chief financial officer and senior vice president for finance and administration.

Saint Joseph College (Hartford, Conn.): Appointed Donna J. Marino, vice president for institutional advancement at the U. of Bridgeport (Conn.), to be director of institutional advancement, and Donna Waldron, a former research associate at Indiana U. at Bloomington, to be director of corporate and foundation support.

Society of American Foresters (Bethesda, Md.): Appointed Michelle Mauthe Harvey, interim director of science and education, to be director of science and education.

St. Anthony Health Foundation (Denver): Appointed Paul Brewster, vice president, to be president and chief development officer.

State U. of New York at Albany: Appointed Eileen Pfeiffer, a lawyer in Albany, N.Y., to be director of development for athletics.

Terra State Community College (Fremont, Ohio): Appointed Cindee L. Johnson, former executive director of college relations at Owens Community College (Toledo, Ohio), to be dean of marketing and enrollment management.

U. of Maryland at Baltimore: Appointed Elizabeth Morais, assistant director of development and public relations at the Dental School, to be associate director of development and alumni relations and director of the annual fund, and Diane Stiles, director of major gifts at Landmark College (Putney, Vt.), to be director of development and alumni relations at the Dental School.

U. of Memphis: Appointed Tammy Hedges, coordinator of student activities, to be director of alumni programs.

United Way of Summit County (Akron, Ohio): Appointed Virgil L. Brown, a former manager of human resources for Goodyear Tire & Rubber (Akron), and Herbert O. Jacobsen, director of marketing and business development at Emergency Medicine Physicians (Akron), to be campaign executives.

United Way of the Bay Area (San Francisco): Thomas A. Ruppanner, chief executive officer, announced his retirement, effective by June 30.

Waterfront Historic Area League (WHALE) (New Bedford, Mass.): Appointed Lola Morris Andrade, scheduler for U.S. Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, to be director of programs and administration, and Peggi Medeiros, director of membership and public relations, to be director of membership and education.

Woodhull Institute of Ethical Leadership (New York): Appointed Jan B. Leonard, director of membership development at Girl Scouts of the USA (New York), to be executive director.

GRANT MAKERS

Baltimore Gas and Electric: Appointed Malinda (Lindy) B. Small, a principal market administrator, to be director of corporate contributions and community relations.

Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, S.C.): Appointed Philip B. Belcher, associate director of the health-care division at the Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.), to be president.

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (Mo.): Appointed Gayatri Bhatt, director of clubs and regions at Alumnae & Alumni at Goucher College (Baltimore), to be manager of affiliated services.

Michigan Women’s Foundation (Livonia): Appointed Mary Barden, executive director of the Oakland Bar-Adams Pratt Foundation (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), to be director of development.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Center for National Policy (Washington): Elected Leon E. Panetta, a director of the Panetta Institute of Public Policy at the California State U. at Monterey Bay and former chief of staff for the Clinton administration, to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

The Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation (Greensboro, N.C.): Elected Ralph K. Shelton, founder and chief executive officer of Southeast Fuels (Greensboro), to be chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Elected the following to the Board of Trustees: George S. Frazza, counsel for Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (New York); William L. Roper, dean of the School of Public Health at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Richard B. Worley, president, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer at the West Conshohocken, Pa., office of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management (New York).

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Chester County (West Chester, Pa.): Elected Sharon Small, a community volunteer, to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Newport Creative Communications (Duxbury, Mass.): Appointed Jim Dwaileebe, head of Dwaileebe Designs (Wakefield, Mass.), to be art director.

Renaissance Inc. (Indianapolis): Appointed Michael L. Wright, senior vice president and chief information officer at Lincoln National Insurance (Fort Wayne, Ind.), to be president of this charitable-trust administrator.

Slate (Redmond, Wash.): S. Ann Castle, who compiled the “Slate 60″ list of the largest philanthropic gifts each quarter and served as a consultant to the United Nations Foundation (Washington) and the White House Conference on Philanthropy, died February 22 in Utica, N.Y., at 48.