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October 17, 2002 | Read Time: 10 minutes
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (Chicago): Appointed Charles L. Katzenmeyer, associate director
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for development and public affairs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (Washington), to be vice president for external affairs.
Advertising Council (New York): Appointed Kathy Crosby, vice president and director of strategic planning at Arnold Worldwide (Boston), to be a senior vice president and group campaign director.
AIDS Project Los Angeles: Appointed Patrick Hebert, art director at the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, to be associate director for education, and Antony Stately, program director at United American Indian Involvement (Los Angeles), to be associate director for client services.
American Architectural Foundation/Octagon (Washington): Appointed Ronald E. Bogle, vice president of external affairs at U. of Central Oklahoma (Edmond), to be president and chief executive officer.
American Council on Education (Washington): Appointed Ellen R. Babby, director of advancement, to be vice president for advancement, membership, and planning.
American Psychological Association (Washington): Appointed Norman B. Anderson, a professor at Harvard U. School of Public Health (Boston), to be chief executive officer.
American Red Cross (Washington): Appointed Alan McCurry, military legislative assistant to Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas (Washington), to be chief operating officer.
The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore: Appointed Marc B. Terrill, executive vice president, to be president-elect. He will succeed Darrell D. Friedman, who plans to resign in July 2003.
Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.): Appointed Brian MacGregor, vice president for resource development at Lutheran Social Service of Iowa (Des Moines), to be vice president for college advancement.
Brehm Preparatory School (Carbondale, Ill.): Appointed Samuel W. Cox, chief operating officer at Goodwill Industries International (Bethesda, Md.), to be chief operating officer.
Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College: Appointed Cheryl Schaffer, deputy executive director of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (Boston), to be associate director.
Children International (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Brian L. Anderson, associate vice president for strategic services and donor development at Save the Children (Westport, Conn.), to be vice president of development and marketing.
Children’s Therapeutic Learning Center (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Victoria McVicker, executive director of the East Bay Agency for Children (Oakland, Calif.), to be executive director.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies (Boston): Appointed Fred Levine, assistant director for major gifts for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be principal gifts officer, and Rebecca Schnitzer, associate in the business-development department of APCO Worldwide (Washington), to be development officer for the annual fund.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Washington): Appointed Steven J. Altman, assistant general counsel, to be vice president for business affairs.
D.C. Central Kitchen: Appointed Cynthia Rowland, general manager, to be acting executive director. She is filling in for Robert Egger, who is the interim chief executive officer of the United Way of the National Capital Area (Washington).
Elgin Community College Foundation (Ill.): Appointed Alice Eakin, vice president for resource development at the Association for Individual Development (Aurora, Ill.), to be director of resource development for the college and executive director of the foundation.
Federation of Independent Credit Counseling Organizations (Washington): Appointed Robert H. Wiorski, chief legal officer at America’s Community Bankers (Washington), to be executive director.
Foundation Incubator (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Eleanor Clement Glass, special adviser in philanthropy to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.), to be vice president.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville): Appointed Theresa Cloys Carl, secretary and director of corporate communications at Elcot Golf (Nashville), to be director of development.
Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships (Deerfield, Ill.): Appointed Liese Kant, executive director of the United Hospitals Medical Center Foundation (Newark, N.J.), to be vice president of development.
Grantmakers in Health (Washington): Appointed Angela Saunders, a senior account executive at Hyde Park Communications (Washington), to be communications manager.
Greyston Foundation (Yonkers, N.Y.): Appointed David Hernandez, a consultant and an adjunct professor at New York U. School of Social Work, to be outcomes/government grant manager, and Kenneth Sussman, comptroller at Eyebeam Atelier (New York), to be director of financial planning and analysis.
Hoag Hospital Foundation (Newport Beach, Calif.): Appointed Sharon B. Thornton, director of gift planning at U. of California at Irvine, to be vice president of gift planning.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: Appointed Lisa G. Feingold, a travel consultant at Acorn Travel (River Forest, Ill.), to be manager of corporate relations, and Wendy L. Irvine, development director at Windows to the World/Channel 11 (Chicago), to be director of development.
Humane Society of Indianapolis: Appointed Martha M. Boden, founder of the hamster-rescue operation Hambulance (Indianapolis), to be director.
Jacksonville U. (Fla.): Appointed Carl Meirose, executive vice president for planning, marketing, and communications, to be vice president for institutional advancement.
Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation (New York): Jonathan J. Greenberg, executive director, died September 14 following a traffic accident. He was 37.
Junior Chamber Family AIDS Network (Burlington, Mass.): Appointed Jeanne M. Black, former manager of corporations and foundations at the Greater Boston Foodbank, to be director of development, and Rebecca L. Cherney, assistant to the materials manager at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center (Johnstown, Pa.), to be development associate.
KETC (St. Louis): Appointed Dean Orton, interim president and chief executive officer of Lehigh Valley PBS, WLVT-TV (Bethlehem, Pa.), to be senior vice president of development and community partnerships.
Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly (Chicago): Appointed Alysha Cryer, a recent graduate of Loyola U. (Chicago), to be marketing/communications coordinator.
Miriam’s Kitchen (Washington): Appointed Scott Schenkelberg, development director at Bread for the City (Washington), to be executive director.
National Hemophilia Foundation (New York): Appointed Richard T. Hellner, president and chief executive officer at Prevent Blindness America (Chicago), to be executive director and chief executive officer.
National Student Partnerships (Washington): Appointed C. Patton Hash, development director, to be director of operations, and Jamila Larson, program consultant, to be regional director.
Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (Los Angeles): Appointed Magaly de Oliviera Marques, country director in Brazil for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be executive director, effective January 2003.
Palm Beach Community College Foundation (Fla.): Appointed Richard Schuster, associate executive director of the Broward College Foundation (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), to be executive director.
Pan American Health Organization (Washington): Appointed Mirta Roses, assistant director, to be director.
Parents as Teachers National Center (St. Louis): Appointed Lynn H. Tiede, senior policy associate at the Missouri Family and Community Trust (Jefferson City), to be public-policy manager.
RAND (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed William Overholt, joint senior fellow with the Center for Business and Government and the Asia Center at Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.), to be policy-research chair at the Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
Recording Academy (Santa Monica, Calif.): Appointed Neil Portnow, senior vice president of West Coast operations at the Zomba Group of Companies (Los Angeles), to be president.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation (Dearborn, Mich.): Appointed Juliana Brown, executive director of the annual-giving program and advancement services at U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor), to be director.
Stern Grove Festival Association (San Francisco): Appointed Rachel Fine, a fellow at the Vilar Institute of Arts Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (Washington), to be director of development.
Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Orrie T. Covert, co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of GT Manufacturing (Kansas City, Mo.), to be director of development for special projects in the Office of Giving Programs.
Technology Works (Washington): Announced the resignation of Trabian Shorters, president. Julie Chapman, chief operating officer at 86.com (Washington), will serve as acting president.
Touchstones (Annapolis, Md.): Appointed Betsy Brown Ruzzi, director of national affairs and development at the National Center on Education and the Economy (Washington), to be a director with the Touchstones Discussion Group.
Tourette Syndrome Association (Bayside, N.Y.): Appointed Susan Conners, a French teacher at Mill Middle School (Williamsville, N.Y.), to be education specialist.
U. of California at Irvine: Appointed Michael L. House, assistant vice president of the U. of Florida Foundation (Gainesville), to be associate vice chancellor for university advancement, and Brian Kish, director of annual giving programs at the Iowa State U. Foundation (Ames), to be senior director of development for university advancement.
U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.): Appointed Victoria Rogers, executive director of development for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, to be assistant vice president for central development.
U. of Washington School of Nursing (Seattle): Appointed Tracy Ostrem, executive vice president at the Hope Heart Institute Foundation (Seattle), to be assistant dean for development.
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Cathleen A. Campbell, director of the office of internal policy and programs in the Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington), to be vice president for programs.
WEDU (Tampa, Fla.): Appointed Larry Jopek, managing director at Currie Jennings (Tampa), to be director of corporate support.
Westminster School (Simsbury, Conn.): Appointed Joseph C. Noyes IV, principal in the Charitable Asset Management Group at State Street Global Advisors (Boston), to be director of planned giving.
World Federation for Mental Health (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed Preston J. Garrison, executive director of the National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families (Washington), to be secretary general and chief executive officer.
GRANT MAKERS
Annenberg Foundation (St. Davids, Pa.): Founder Walter H. Annenberg, 94, died October 1.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Stephen Downs, director of the Technology Opportunities Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce (Washington), to be senior program officer in the health and health-care groups; Lori Melichar, social-science analyst at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be program officer in the research and evaluation unit; and Chinwe Onyekere, research assistant on projects associated with Weill Medical College of Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Harvard Medical School (Boston), to be program associate in the health-care group.
Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation (New York): Appointed Harvey Weinstein, associate director of the Human Rights Center at the U. of California at Berkeley, to be director.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Appointed Jim Leape, deputy director of the foundation’s conservation program, to lead the consolidation of its conservation and science programs and to be director of the combined program in 2003.
Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio: Appointed Leah Gary Shaikh, senior program officer, to be vice president of program and evaluation.
September 11th Fund (New York): Appointed Carol Kellermann, president of Learning Leaders (New York), to be chief executive officer.
J. Marion Sims Foundation (Lancaster, S.C.): Appointed E. Brown Crenshaw Jr., staff accountant at Thompson and Davis, CPAs (Lancaster, S.C.), to be vice president for finance and administration, and Sabrina G. Jones, executive director of Teen Health (Statesville, N.C.), to be grants officer.
BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS
Deafness Research Foundation and the National Campaign for Hearing Health (Washington): Elected to the Board of Directors: Jean Nicholas Laperle, founder, president, and chief operating officer of Sonomax Hearing Healthcare (Montreal); Gail Lim, vice president and national director of the Newborn Hearing Screen Program at Pediatrix Medical Group (Sunrise, Fla.); and Michael Scholin, North American sales director at Grason-Stadler (Madison, Wis.).
Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: Elected Lester J. Rosenberg, executive vice president at Superior Street Capital Advisors (Chicago), to be chair of the Board of Directors.
Partnership for Prevention (Washington): Elected Jonathan E. Fielding, director of public health and health officer for Los Angeles County, to be chair of the Board of Directors.
CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS
Commonfund (Wilton, Conn.): Appointed Lyn Hutton, former vice president and chief financial officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be chief investment officer.
Educational Management Network/Witt/Kieffer (Oak Brook, Ill.): Appointed Dennis M. Barden, consultant, to be partner; Jean A. Dowdall, a consultant at A.T. Kearney (Philadelphia), to be partner; and Laurie A. Pohl, associate provost for institutional advancement at the U. of Virginia (Charlottesville), to be consultant.
Fenton Communications (Washington): Appointed Kalee Kreider, director of global warming and energy programs at the National Environmental Trust (Washington), to be managing director for the Washington office, and Lisa Witter, senior vice president, to be managing director for the San Francisco office.
Heidrick & Struggles (New York): Nancy S. Nichols, managing partner of the education and nonprofit practice, died October 2 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She was 57.