People

American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay (Boston): Appointed Mary T. Tiernan, director of research and donor relations at the Archdiocese of Boston, to be director of leadership giving.

Art Institute of Chicago: Announced the resignation of James N. Wood, director and president since 1980.

BoardSource (Washington): Appointed Deborah S. Hechinger, executive vice president of the WWF (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Judith O’Connor, who died September 1 of cancer. She was 57, and had served as BoardSource’s president from 1997 to 2002. Märianne Eby, general counsel and chief knowledge officer, served as acting chief executive officer in the interim.

Boys Town (Omaha): Msgr. Robert Hupp, former executive director, died on August 29. He was 88, and had served as executive director from 1973 to 1985.

Carrfour Supportive Housing (Miami): Appointed Berne Teeple, director of development at the Food for Life Network (Miami), to be director of fund development and communications.

Childreach (Warwick, R.I.): Appointed Bruce Rutter, a managing director at Mindfull, a marketing and communications company (Boston), to be managing director of marketing and communications.

Cincinnati Opera: Appointed Janet Burns, vice president of development and community relations at Clovernook Center for the Blind (Cincinnati), to be director of development.

Dallas Opera: Appointed Karen Stone, general manager of the Theaters of Graz (Austria), to be general director.

Environmental Defense (New York): Appointed Peter C. Goldmark Jr., chair and chief executive officer of the International Herald Tribune (Paris), and a former president of the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), to be director of the global and regional air program.

Gallaudet U. (Washington): Appointed Lynne Murray, assistant executive director of development, to be director of development, and Catherine Sweet-Windham, executive director of development, to be executive director of institutional advancement.

Grace U. (Omaha): Appointed Lou Cartier, founder of Cartier Outreach Associates (Omaha), a consulting firm that provides public-relations and fund-raising advice to nonprofit groups, to be director of the annual fund.

Groves Academy (St. Louis Park, Minn.): Appointed Laura Littleford, director of institutional giving at the Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), to be director of development.

Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed J. Michael Smiles, director of development at the Mystic Seaport Museum (Conn.), to be director of development. The camp provides services to children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases, and to their families.

International Women’s Media Foundation (Washington): Appointed Lisa N. Woll, co-founder of Suited for Change (Washington) and a Maryland-based consultant to Plan Netherlands (Amsterdam), to be executive director.

Iowa State U. Foundation (Ames): Appointed Alsatia Mellecker, director of development for the university’s College of Pharmacy, to be senior director of development for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh: Appointed Adam Baron, summer-program director at the center’s Emma Kaufmann Camp (Morgantown, W.Va.), to be director of the Family and Children’s Services Department; Eileen Dusch, division director of program services at the center’s South Hills location (Pittsburgh), to be assistant director of health, physical education, and recreation at the center’s Squirrel Hill location (Pittsburgh); and Dan Stern, assistant director at the Emma Kaufmann Camp, to be division director of program services at the South Hills location.

Kingsley House (New Orleans): Appointed Keith H. Liederman, associate director of administration, to be executive director. Kingsley House provides programs for underprivileged children, youths, and adults.

KUSC (Los Angeles): Appointed Eric DeWeese, founder and general manager of WRKF (Baton Rouge, La.), to be general manager.

Leader to Leader Institute (New York): Appointed Daniel A. Rabuzzi, chief executive officer of the Kentucky Virtual U. (Frankfort), to be president and chief executive officer. The institute offers leadership training for nonprofit executives and others.

Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana, Calif.): Appointed Jonathan Tufo, associate director of development at the Anaheim Memorial Medical Center Foundation (Calif.), to be director of development.

Meridian International Center (Washington): Appointed Patrick W. Youngblood, director of development at American Rivers (Washington), to be director of development. Meridian organizes international exchange programs and seminars on cultural programs, global issues, and other topics.

Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul): Appointed Susan Edberg, vice president of reservations sales and service at Northwest Airlines (St. Paul), to be vice president for marketing, and Tim Roesler, vice president for underwriting, to be senior vice president for underwriting and sales for MPR and its parent company, American Public Media Group (St. Paul).

Mobile Opera (Ala.): Appointed Michele Kitson, development officer at Wake Forest U.’s Babcock Graduate School of Management (Winston-Salem, N.C.), to be executive director.

Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, Fla.): Appointed Laura Breeze, a fund-raising consultant based in Sarasota, to be director of development.

National Book Foundation (New York): Announced the resignation of Neil Baldwin, executive director, effective December 31.

National Catholic Bioethics Center (Boston): Appointed Chad D. McEachern, director of development, to be vice president for operations and development.

National Public Radio (Washington): Appointed Alexandra McCarty, station project manager in the member and program services division, to be government-relations manager.

Next Act Theatre (Milwaukee): Appointed Susan M. Zellner, a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon U.’s School of Public Policy and Management (Pittsburgh), to be director of development and marketing.

Opera America (Washington): Appointed Debra Harrison, a fellow at the Vilar Institute for Arts Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), to be director of finance and operations.

Opera Columbus (Ohio): Appointed Catherine A.J. Peila, co-founder and international director of the Annual International Contemporary Dance Festival (Bytom, Poland), to be director of development.

L’Opéra de Montréal: Appointed David Moss, executive director of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montreal), to be general director.

Parkland College (Champaign, Ill.): Appointed Douglas A. Benson, grant-activities manager at the Minnesota State College and U. System (St. Paul), to be director of the office of college development.

Portland Center Stage (Ore.): Appointed Edith Love, managing director of the Dallas Theatre Center, to be managing director.

Portland Opera (Ore.): Appointed Christopher Mattaliano, artistic director of the Pine Mountain Music Festival (Hancock, Mich.), to be general director.

Rebuilding Together San Francisco: Appointed Ruth Ann Binder, former development officer at Senior PharmAssist (Durham, N.C.) and a recent graduate of the master’s program in urban planning at U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be executive director. Rebuilding Together works with businesses, labor unions, and others to repair homes and revitalize neighborhood facilities.

Roger Williams U. (Bristol, R.I.): Appointed Robert H. Avery, vice president, general counsel, and secretary to the Board of Trustees at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark), to be vice president for human resources and general counsel.

Seedco (New York): Appointed Diane Baillargeon, executive vice president, to be president; Robin Barnes, vice president for capacity-building initiatives, to be senior vice president for program operations and capacity building; and Grady B. Hedgespeth, president and executive director of the ICA Group (Brookline, Mass.), to be senior vice president and chief financial officer. Seedco provides financial and technical assistance to nonprofit groups and small businesses engaged in community-development work.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation (New York): Appointed Cynthia Joyce, director of the American Academy of Neurology Foundation (St. Paul), to be executive director.

Texas Wesleyan U. (Fort Worth): Appointed Joan S. Canty, director of development, to be associate vice president of university advancement; Gary W. Cumbie, former vice president of community relations at Lone Star Gas Company (Fort Worth), to be vice president of university advancement; and Gina Phillips, admissions counselor, to be director of the Wesleyan Fund.

U. of Northern Colorado Foundation (Greeley): Appointed James H. Moore Jr., director of advancement for the College of Business and Public Administration at the U. of Arizona (Tucson), to be president.

United Way of Illinois (Oak Brook): Appointed Ronald R. Melka, executive director of Youth in Crisis (Berwyn, Ill.), to be president.

United Way of New York City: Appointed Lawrence Mandell, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 1.

Utah Symphony and Opera (Salt Lake City): Appointed David Green, director of operations, to be chief operating officer.

Yale U., School of Management (New Haven, Conn.): Appointed Kathleen Brown-Dorato, acting director of development, to be director of major gifts; Robert L. Henry, assistant vice president for special and annual giving at the U. of Connecticut Foundation (Storrs), to be director of individual giving; and Nevin E. Kessler, vice president for development at the U. of Connecticut Foundation, to be associate dean of development.

GRANT MAKERS

Columbus Foundation (Ohio): Appointed Lisa S. Courtice, principal of the program for young children at the Columbus School for Girls, to be vice president for community research and grants management, and Dona Lyn Watterson, senior community-research and grants-management officer, to be associate vice president of community research and grants management.

General Mills Foundation (Minneapolis): James Patrick Shannon, former president and executive director, died August 27 of a stroke. He was 82, and had served as president from 1980 to 1988.

Global Fund for Women (San Francisco): Appointed Rachel Humphrey, grants manager at the Yosemite National Institutes (Sausalito, Calif.), to be a development officer.

JEHT Foundation (New York): Appointed Steven Hawkins, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Washington), to be a senior program manager.

Maine Community Foundation (Portland): Appointed Jennifer Southard, a partner at Ed Suslovic Real Estate (Portland), to be director of donor relations for southern Maine.

Nebraska Community Foundation (Lincoln): Appointed Jeffrey G. Yost, executive vice president, to be president and chief executive officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

The California Endowment (Woodland Hills): Elected Arthur Chen, medical director of the Alameda Alliance for Health (Calif.) and a family physician at Asian Health Services (Oakland, Calif.), to the Board of Directors.

Daniels Fund (Denver): Announced the retirement of Jack Daniels, founding chairman, and the election of John Saeman, owner of Medallion Enterprises (Chatsworth, Calif.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Also elected to the board were Linda Childears, president and chief executive officer of Young Americans Bank (Denver) and the Young Americans Center for Financial Education (Denver); Brian Deevy, chairman and chief executive officer of Daniels & Associates (Denver); and Stephen M. Schuck, chairman of the board of the Schuck Corporation (Colorado Springs).

Hudson-Webber Foundation (Detroit): Elected Matthew Cullen, general manager of the economic-development and enterprise-services group of General Motors (Detroit); Stephen D’Arcy, global leader for the automotive-industry group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Detroit); and Reginald M. Turner Jr., a member of the executive committee at Clark Hill, a law firm (Detroit), to the Board of Trustees.

Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation (Owings Mills): Elected Richard J. Norman, a retired senior vice president at the Morgan Stanley Company (New York), to be president of the Board of Directors.

McGregor Fund (Detroit): Elected Ira J. Jaffe, chairman of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss (Detroit), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees; and C. David Campbell, president of the fund, to be a trustee.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation (Quincy, Mass.): Elected Henry Bourgeois, president of the Maine Development Foundation (Augusta), and Jeanne Shaheen, former governor of New Hampshire (Concord) and a senior fellow at Tufts U.’s College of Citizenship and Public Service (Malden, Mass.), to the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Demont & Associates (Portland, Me.): Appointed Mary Alice Bird, of Spruce Head, Me.; Porter D. Caesar, of Wolfeboro, N.H.; and Donald B. Johnson, of Damariscotta, Me. — all counselors in the company — to be senior associates. Demont & Associates is a fund-raising consulting company that serves nonprofit organizations.

Goettler Associates (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Lowell D. Wood, a fund-raising consultant at the Lowell D. Wood Group (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), to be senior consultant of this fund-raising consulting group.

Hartsook Companies (Wichita, Kan.): Appointed Chad Linzy, executive director of development at the Kansas City Art Institute (Mo.), to be vice president, and Leslie Linzy, executive director of the Olathe Public Schools Foundation (Kan.), to be senior consultant. Hartsook Companies is a fund-raising consulting firm.

Hyde Park Communications (Washington): Appointed James Briggs, an account executive at Grainger Terry Public Relations (Chicago), to be associate account executive in the New York office; Heather M. Mullen, senior director of federal-government relations at Pfizer (Washington), to be senior counselor and account supervisor in the Washington office; and Michael T. Waterman, former press secretary for the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, to be account supervisor in the New York office. Hyde Park is a communications consulting company that provides services to foundations and to advocacy and membership organizations.

Kaspick & Company (Palo Alto, Calif.): Appointed Craig C. Wruck, vice president of philanthropic and charitable services at U.S. Trust (Minneapolis), to be director of client development at this financial firm that manages planned gifts for charitable organizations.

RuffaloCody (Cedar Rapids, Iowa): Appointed Timothy D. Logan, senior director of development at the National Osteoporosis Foundation (Washington), to be vice president and senior consultant in the division of planned-giving services in the Washington office. RuffaloCody provides fund-raising, enrollment-management, and software services to nonprofit groups.