People

American Lung Association (New York): John R. Garrison, chief executive officer, has announced his resignation, effective when his contract expires on July 15, 2001.

American Red CrossHawaii State Chapter (Honolulu): Appointed Roger Dickson, vice president of volunteers, youth, and nursing at the American Red Cross national office (Washington), to be chief executive officer.

The Anti-Cruelty Society (Chicago): Appointed Peggy Froh Asseo, vice president for external affairs at the Chicago Children’s Museum, to be vice president for external affairs.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington): Appointed Rose Gottemoeller, acting deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington), to be a senior associate jointly in the Russian and Eurasian program and the global-policy program.

Catholic Education Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Richard M. Ferry, founder and chairman of Korn/Ferry International (Los Angeles), to be president.

The Chautauqua Institution (N.Y.): Appointed Scott McVay, founding executive director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.), to be president. He succeeds Daniel L. Bratton, who will retire December 31. The Chautauqua Institution offers educational and recreational activities to its community.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution (New York): Appointed Paul Warwick Thompson, director of the Design Museum (London), to be director, effective in January.

Coro National (Berkeley, Calif.): Appointed Erin Huff, development writer at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund (Los Angeles), to be director of development. Coro offers postgraduate training in leadership and public affairs and policy.

Direct Relief International (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Appointed Thomas Tighe, chief of staff and chief operating officer at the Peace Corps (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. This group ships medical supplies and equipment worldwide for people suffering from civil unrest, natural disasters, and poverty.

Institute for Democracy Studies (New York): Appointed Kathy St. John, a consultant based in New York, to be external-relations and development director.

Institute for Student Achievement (Lake Success, N.Y.): Appointed Jeanne Baker Driscoll, associate director of development at the EastWest Institute (New York), to be director of major gifts; Jennifer Regan Haight, director of communications, development, and volunteers at Lighthouse International (New York), to be associate director of development; and Susan Karp, vice president of development at the EastWest Institute, to be national director of development.

Johnson & Wales U. (Providence, R.I.): Appointed Thomas Wright, vice president of culinary education, to be senior vice president for development.

Laubach Literacy International (Syracuse, N.Y.): Appointed Robert Wedgeworth, vice chairperson of the Board of Directors and retired university librarian and professor at the U. of Illinois (Urbana), to be interim president. He succeeds Richard La Pointe, who resigned.

Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati: Appointed Anita Cory Weimer, director of development at Fernside: A Center for Grieving Children (Cincinnati), to be director of development.

Maine Humanities Council (Portland): Appointed Susan DeWitt Wilder, director of development at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (Sullivan, N.H.), to be director of development.

Massachusetts Bay Community College (Wellesley): Appointed Robert M. Turcotte, former director of the campaign for the convocation center at U. of Rhode Island (Kingston), to be assistant vice president for institutional development and executive director of the college foundation.

McAuley Institute (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Jeffrey N. Stinehelfer, capital-campaign director at the United Methodist Building (Washington), to be development director. The institute was founded by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and works with local groups nationwide to provide affordable housing, particularly for women and children.

Mount St. Mary’s College (Los Angeles): Appointed Joseph M. Zanetta, vice president for advancement at Whittier College (Calif.), to be vice president for institutional advancement.

National Arts Stabilization (Baltimore): Appointed Russell Willis Taylor, executive director of the English National Opera (London), to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 15. She succeeds Nancy Stasser, who resigned August 31, from this organization that offers consulting services to arts groups.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Baltimore): Appointed Jeffrey I. Johnson, national assistant director of programs, to be national director of the youth and college division.

National Foundation for Women Business Owners (Washington): Appointed Julie Wolf-Rodda, director of corporate and foundation relations at the American Digestive Health Foundation (Bethesda, Md.), to be director of development.

Northern Kentucky U. (Highland Heights): Appointed Don Gorbandt, associate vice president for institutional advancement at Thomas More College (Crestview Hills, Ky.), to be assistant vice president for university development.

Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation: Appointed Lisa Jensen Farrimond, a marketing assistant at Ideal Homes of Norman (Okla.), to be communications coordinator.

Owens Community College (Toledo, Ohio): Appointed Beth Church, public-relations specialist, to be director of public relations and marketing.

Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.): Appointed Michael T. Casey, director of development at Wesleyan U. (Middletown, Conn.), to be vice president for advancement.

State U. of New York at Buffalo: Appointed Bob Davies, director of the alumni association at Boise State U. (Idaho), to be assistant vice president for institutional advancement.

Swarthmore College (Pa.): Appointed Lisa Lee, director of recruiting and admissions for the executive M.B.A. program at Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), to be director of alumni relations, and Edward H. Mills Jr., former planned-giving adviser at Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be director of planned giving.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed John D. Sellars, senior vice president of advancement and marketing at Michigan Technological U. (Houghton), to be senior vice president for institutional advancement, effective January 1.

Tougaloo College (Miss.): Appointed Beverly Wade Hogan, director of the George and Ruth Owens Health and Wellness Center and executive assistant to the president, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

U. of California at Merced: Appointed James E. Grant Jr., associate vice president for public affairs and communication at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management (Glendale, Ariz.), to be director of communications.

U. of Toronto: Appointed Ann Smiley, campaign director at Ketchum Canada (Toronto), to be assistant dean for development in the school of management.

U. of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Nancy L. Wells, associate vice president and director of university development at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be vice president for development and public relations.

Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.): Appointed Frank Falso, director of major and planned gifts at Susquehanna U. (Selinsgrove, Pa.), to be associate vice president for advancement, and Sheila K. Gorgonio, associate director of development at West Virginia U. Foundation (Morgantown), to be director of corporate and foundation relations.

Wheeling Jesuit U. (W.Va.): Appointed Thomas Fox, former vice president for development and public affairs at Oregon Health Sciences U. (Portland), to be senior vice president for advancement and sponsored programs.

Winston-Salem State U. (N.C.): Appointed Arthur C. Affleck III, vice president for development and alumni affairs at Tuskegee U. (Ala.), to be director of development.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco): Appointed Marly Norris, a development officer for the Merola Opera program at the San Francisco Opera, to be development director.

GRANT MAKERS

Central Indiana Community Foundation (Indianapolis): Appointed Brian Payne, managing director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre (Indianapolis), to be president, effective November 27. He succeeds Kenneth L. Gladish, who now serves as chief executive officer at the Y.M.C.A. of the USA (Chicago).

Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (Detroit): Appointed Anne Schenk, administrative assistant, to be donor-communications associate.

Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham (Ala.): Appointed Kate Nielsen, development officer, to be president. She succeeds Mimi W. Tynes, who will remain with the organization as a special-initiative consultant.

The foundation also appointed Brenda Howell, officer and grants manager, to be donor-services officer; Sherre McMiller, administrative assistant, to be grants assistant; and Emily Jones Rushing, advertising special-sections editor at The Birmingham News, to be communications officer.

The Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.): Anne E. Dyson, president and director and daughter of founders Margaret and Charles Dyson, died on September 21, at age 52.

Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation (Iowa): Appointed Molly Cretsinger Lange, program coordinator at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (N.C.), to be director of communications, and Constance M. Richardson, executive director of alumni relations and development at Grinnell College (Iowa), to be vice president for advancement.

Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund (San Francisco): Appointed Alice Jordan, director of human resources at Project Open Hand (San Francisco), to be director of human resources and administration.

Marin Community Foundation (Larkspur, Calif.): Appointed Chantel L. Walker, chief program and administrative officer in the Scotts Valley, Calif., office of PowerUP: Bridging the Digital Divide (McLean, Va.), to be program officer for community development.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Alejandro S. Amezcua, who recently completed a fellowship at the Indiana U. Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis), to be a program assistant for the civil-society program; Glen Birdsall, a library assistant, to be associate librarian; Peggy Braham, business-communications integrator in the Flint office of General Motors (Detroit), to be assistant to the communications department’s Web master and a technical writer for the information-services department; Duane Elling, vice president of communications and development at Shelter of Flint, to be a communications officer for the “Pathways Out of Poverty” and Flint-area programs; Julie Flynn, secretary in the information-services department, to be human-resources analyst; Moira Y. Mbelu, administrative and program assistant in the Johannesburg office, to be associate program officer in that office; Sue Peters, a research assistant at Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore), to be an associate program officer for the Flint-area program; Sandra N. Smithey, a program coordinator in the international-affairs office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Washington), to be a program officer in the environment program; George Trone, assistant manager in the Information Technology Services Education program at Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.), to be assistant to the president; and J. Walter Veirs, associate program officer in the Prague office, to be program officer in that office.

Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation (Cleveland): Appointed Ann Klein Steiger, chief of staff for the president at Tulane U. (New Orleans), to be a program officer.

John M. Olin Foundation (New York): Appointed George J. Gillespie III, secretary-treasurer of the board and a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York), to be president.

Open Society Institute (New York): Appointed Raquiba LaBrie, an attorney for tax-exempt organizations at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler (New York), to be a program officer in the Program on Law & Society, and Jo-Ann Mort, director of communications at the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (New York), to be director of communications for U.S. programs.

Wyoming Community Foundation (Laramie): Appointed Pennie Hunt, endowment assistant at the Wyoming Territorial Park (Laramie), to be development and communications officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The Foundation Center (New York): Elected Barry D. Gaberman, senior vice president of the Ford Foundation (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

John M. Olin Foundation (New York): Elected Eugene F. Wiliams Jr., retired chairman of Centerre Trust (St. Louis), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Soroptimist International of the Americas (Philadelphia): Elected Yvonne Machuk, an assistant principal at Lawrence Grassi Middle School (Canmore, Canada), to be president of the board.