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American Symphony Orchestra League (New York): Appointed Michael Lawrence, manager of artists and programs at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Newark), to be program manager.

Anti-Defamation League (New York): Appointed Marshall S. Levin, executive director of financial-resource development at UJA-Federation of New York, to be director of development and senior associate national director.

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (Little Rock): Appointed Jeff Hunsinger, a recording manager at WWOZ (New Orleans), to be operations and production manager.

Aspen Institute (Washington): Appointed Keith Berwick, executive director of the institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program (Santa Barbara,Calif.), also to be executive vice president of seminars, and Susan S. Sherwin, associate dean for development and public affairs at Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge, Mass.), to be vice president of development.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum (N.Y.): Appointed Gregory Zuroski, director of development at Friends Academy (Locust Valley, N.Y.), to be vice president of development and marketing.

Catholic Medical Mission Board (New York): Appointed Claudia Hite, program manager of the summer-internship program at World Studio Foundation (New York), to be senior communications manager.

Christian Children’s Fund (Richmond, Va.): Appointed Brian Gale, general manager at Schulberg MediaWorks (San Francisco), to be manager for advertising and acquisitions.

Church World Service (New York): Appointed Ann Walle, director of marketing and communications at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), to be director of marketing and communications.

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (New York): Appointed Adam C. Stern, vice president for business development at Care2.com, which hosts a Web site that offers information and news on the environment (Menlo Park, Calif.), to be executive director, based in San Francisco.

Community College of Baltimore County (Baltimore): Appointed Bruce G. Berman, executive director of the Seneca College Foundation (Toronto), to be vice chancellor for institutional advancement.

Concord Community Music School (N.H.): Appointed Christine Siena, foundation officer at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (Concord), to be associate director of development.

Episcopal Charities of the Diocese of New York (New York): Appointed Juliet Lowe, client-relations manager and events planner at the Creative Arts Team at New York U., to be development associate.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville): Appointed Jennifer Mason, development director at the Land Trust for Tennessee (Nashville), to be program-services manager.

Kansas State U. Foundation (Manhattan): Appointed Nancy DeWeese, director of development for the College of Education, to be director of development for the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design.

Latin American Association (Atlanta): Appointed Maritza Pichon, interim executive director, to be executive director.

Lawyers Alliance for New York: Appointed Patricia GoPaul, senior attorney at Winston & Strawn (New York), to be senior staff attorney.

Los Angeles Free Clinic: Appointed Jeff Bujer, chief financial officer, and Abbe Land, chief development and external-affairs officer, to be co-chief executive officers. The clinic provides free medical and dental care to poor, uninsured, and homeless Los Angeles residents.

Manatee Community College (Bradenton, Fla.): Appointed Carol Probstfeld, vice president for finance and administration at Notre Dame College (South Euclid, Ohio), to be vice president for business and administration.

Memphis Symphony Orchestra: Martha Ellen Maxwell, executive director, has announced her resignation, effective June 30.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Announced the death of William H. Forsyth, a curator emeritus of medieval arts, on May 14. He was 96, and had worked at the museum for 37 years.

Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Announced the retirement of David L. Kuehn, president, effective June 30, 2004.

National Health Council (Washington): Appointed Marc Boutin, vice president of government relations and advocacy at the New England Division of the American Cancer Society (Boston), to be vice president of policy development and advocacy, and Delba Riddick, executive vice president at Eureka Communities (Washington), to be vice president of operations and member services.

National Philanthropic Trust (Jenkintown, Pa.): Appointed Howard Sitron, assistant vice president at MossRehab (Philadelphia), to be vice president and chief operating officer of NPT 3-Day LLC. This new division will produce a series of three-day walks to raise money for breast-cancer research, in conjunction with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (Dallas).

New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark): Appointed Charles R. Dees Jr., vice president for development and public relations at the Jackie Robinson Foundation (New York), to be vice president for university advancement.

Oregon Historical Society (Portland): Appointed John C. Pierce, a professor of public affairs at Washington State U. at Vancouver, to be executive director.

Parents as Teachers National Center (St. Louis): Appointed Maggie Probert, vice president of development and external affairs at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Rehabilitation Center (Creve Coeur, Mo.), to be resource-development manager.

Phoenix Symphony: Appointed Mark Hoover, controller at the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix, to be director of finance and administration; Joel Levin, personnel manager, to be general manager; Bernie Pleskoff, assistant director of development, to be vice president of development; and Eric Sellen, communications manager at the Philadelphia Orchestra, to be director of marketing and public relations.

Progressive Technology Project (St. Paul): Appointed Mark Sherman, president of Sherman Media Technology Group (St. Paul), to be executive director. The organization also appointed Arif Mamdani, a “circuit rider” for the Welfare Law Center’s Low-Income Networking and Communications Project (New York) who helped small groups nationwide better use technology, to be capacity-building program officer. PTP, which provides technical support to grass-roots organizations seeking to effect social change, recently moved its headquarters from Washington to St. Paul.

Rehabilitation International (New York): Fenmore Seton, former president, died on May 26. He was 85.

San Francisco General Hospital Foundation: Appointed Lori Gremel, a senior adviser in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco regional office of planning and public affairs, to be executive director.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center: Appointed Jean de St. Aubin, cultural-arts manager at the Chicago Park District, to be executive director.

Stockton Symphony (Calif.): Appointed Philip D. West, executive director of the Santa Cruz County Symphony (Santa Cruz, Calif.), to be executive director.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (N.Y.): Appointed Linda L. Henley, director of development at the Syracuse Neighborhood Initiative, to be director of development.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Lil Breul O’Rourke, associate vice president for alumni relations, to be associate vice president for giving programs in the office of institutional advancement, and to be associate dean for advancement in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Syracuse U., Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (N.Y.): Appointed Mitchel Wallerstein, vice president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), to be dean, effective July 28.

Tennessee Wesleyan College (Athens): Appointed Winford Gordon, vice president for development at Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.), to be dean of institutional advancement.

Tougaloo College (Jackson, Miss.): Appointed Les Range, executive director of the college’s Tougaloo Economic Development Initiative, to be vice president for institutional advancement.

U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville: Appointed Jamie B. Banks, a campaign fund raiser for U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas, to be director of development for the College of Education and Health Professions.

United Way Community Services (Detroit): Virgil Carr, president and chief executive officer since 1993, died on May 30, following a stroke. He was 63.

United Way of the Mid-Ohio Valley (Parkersburg): Beth Bullock, president, has announced her resignation, effective June 30.

Virginia Symphony (Norfolk): Appointed Virginia Thumm, executive director of the Governor’s School for the Arts Foundation (Norfolk), to be director of development.

Visual Communications (Los Angeles): Linda Mabalot, executive director, died May 19 following a brief battle with cancer. She was 49, and had served since 1985 as director of this group that promotes Asian-American film and video production.

World Relief (Baltimore): Appointed Connie Fairchild, director of marketing at Opportunity International (Oak Brook, Ill.), to be major-gifts officer, based in Norwich, Conn.

GRANT MAKERS

Baltimore Community Foundation: Appointed Mark B. Hansen, vice president for finance at the Community Foundation of Greater Flint (Mich.), to be chief financial officer.

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York): Appointed Jamie McAuliffe, manager of the Rio de Janeiro office of On the Frontier (Boston), to be a portfolio manager.

Dyson Foundation (Millbrook, N.Y.): Appointed Michell Speight, program officer, to be senior program officer.

Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, Ore.): Appointed Tom Gallagher, a professor of natural resources and a leadership trainer at Oregon State U. (Corvallis), to be director of the foundation’s Institute for Community Building.

Edwin Gould Foundation for Children (New York): Appointed Helen Dorado Alessi, program officer, to be senior program officer.

F.B. Heron Foundation (New York): Appointed Shelley M. Curnow, grants and data administrator, to be senior grants and information-technology administrator; Stacy L. Spann, social-investments analyst, to be social-investment officer; and John C. Weiler, program officer, to be senior program officer.

James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Marty Campbell, director of evaluation, to be director of program development and evaluation; Colette Clark, financial-accounting manager at Basic American Foods (Brownsdale, Minn.), to be accounting manager; Jason Hancock, development director at Make-A-Circus (San Francisco), to be a program associate; and Susan Redfern, founder of Idea Wave Systems (San Francisco), to be information-technology and Web specialist.

Missouri Foundation for Health (St. Louis): Appointed Kathryn E. DeForest, project director at the Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation; Andrea K. Smith, practice manager at Metro Heart Group of St. Louis; Amy M. Stringer, director of community economic development at the United Way of Greater St. Louis; and Dawn Marie Williams, program officer at the St. Louis Community Foundation, to be program officers.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Kim Heyman, executive director of Ellison Youth (New York), to be director of grant-making services.

Spencer Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Mary J. Cahillane, operational risk-management executive and managing director in the risk-management division of Bank of America (Charlotte, N.C.), to be chief financial officer.

Stuart Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Teri Kook, director of child-welfare services for Stanislaus County (Modesto, Calif.), to be program officer for the Strengthening the Child Welfare System program.

Women’s Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Lisa Breen Strickland, executive director of the Support Network for Battered Women (Mountain View, Calif.), to be program and donor-relations officer for the Women of Silicon Valley Fund.

BOARD MEMBER AND OFFICERS

Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (New York): Elected Joel Shiff, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Atkins Nutritionals (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (Washington): Elected Alexine Clement Jackson, a former president of the YWCA of the USA (Washington), to be president. The foundation also elected to its Board of Trustees: David M. Brandt Jr., managing director of Wealth and Tax Advisory Services (McLean, Va.); Wayne K. Curry, president of the Prince George’s Community Foundation (Bowie, Md.); Charito Kruvant, president and chief executive officer of Creative Associates International (Washington); and Mark D. Rothman, president and founder of MYTA Corporation (Rockville, Md.).

Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: Elected Howard Hallam, president and chief operating officer of the Ben E. Keith Company (Dallas), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Dibner Fund (Wilton, Conn.): Elected Daniel Dibner, a consultant based in Wilton, to the Board of Trustees. He is the grandson of Bern Dibner, who established the fund in 1959.

Ford Family Foundation (Roseburg, Ore.): Elected John W. Sweet, marketing manager at Sause Bros. (Coos Bay, Ore.), to the Board of Directors.

JTA-the Global News Service of the Jewish People (New York): Elected Howard E. Friedman, managing partner at Lanx Partners (Baltimore), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Kettering Foundation (Dayton, Ohio): Elected Hank Meijer, chief executive officer and co-chairman of Meijer Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.), to the Board of Trustees.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (N.Y.): Elected Michael J. Cooney, a partner at Nixon Peabody (Rochester), to be chair of the Board of Directors. The foundation also elected to its board: Ellen H. Croog, administrator of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the U. of Rochester Medical Center; Mimi Hwang, assistant professor of chamber music at Eastman School of Music (Rochester); and Kamesh Nagarajan, second vice president for investments and a financial consultant at the Rochester office of Smith Barney.

San Francisco General Hospital Foundation: Elected Judy Guggenhime, a foundation volunteer, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York): Elected Richard E. Salomon, president of Mecox Ventures (New York), to the Board of Trustees.

United Nations Association of the USA-Westchester Chapter (White Plains, N.Y.): Elected David Stillman, senior officer in the department of economic and social affairs at the United Nations (New York) and principal at Strategies for Development (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.), to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Blackbaud (Charleston, S.C.): Appointed Becky Hershey, client-services manager at Intelitix (Atlanta), to be a fund-raising consultant in Chicago; Lindsay Kalchthaler, a development associate at Free Arts for Abused Children (New York), to be a fund-raising consultant in New York; Shannon Milmoe, a fund-raising consultant based in Chicago, to be a fund-raising consultant in Chicago; Kevin Shriner, systems consultant at Collegis (Maitland, Fla.), to be an education-administration consultant in Cape Coral, Fla.; and Pam Voorhees, interim senior financial manager at Resources Connection (Downers Grove, Ill.), to be a financial consultant in Chicago. Blackbaud provides technology services to nonprofit organizations.

Epsilon (Wakefield, Mass.): Appointed Rod Dillehay, senior global director at the Oracle Corporation (Redwood Shores, Calif.), to be vice president and general manager for client services, and Steven Roth, vice president of customer delivery at Swift Rivers (Woburn, Mass.), to be vice president for customer-relationship-management strategy and planning. Epsilon is a consulting company specializing in marketing for nonprofit groups.

Grizzard Advertising (Atlanta): Appointed Debbi Layfield, executive vice president, to be president of this direct-marketing firm.

Sheridan Group (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Maurice K. (Chip) Heartfield III, vice president at Squire & Associates (Oakton, Va.), to be a vice president and principal. The Sheridan Group provides fund-raising services to nonprofit organizations.

Skystone Ryan (Cincinnati): Appointed David H. Belkin, director of the United Jewish Endowment Fund at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, to be a managing consultant in the Washington office, and Kay Marsh Green, a consultant, to be a managing partner in the Dallas office. Skystone Ryan is a fund-raising consulting firm.

Smith, Bucklin & Associates (Chicago): Appointed Lisé Puckorius, director of global marketing and events at A.T. Kearney (Plano, Tex.), to be senior vice president for the Chicago convention and trade-show division. Smith, Bucklin & Associates is an association-management and professional-services company.