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Alley Theatre (Houston): Appointed Terrence Dwyer, managing director at the La Jolla Playhouse (Calif.), to be managing director.

American Association of Poison Control Centers (Washington): Appointed Anne Flanagan, president of Flanagan Healthcare Consulting (Chicago), to be executive director.

American Pain Foundation (Baltimore): Appointed Susan Dawn McLean, vice president of media at Cone (Boston), to be director of communications and public relations.

Aquinas Institute of Theology (St. Louis): Appointed Kevin J. Lee, associate director of admissions, to be director of institutional advancement.

Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation (Mountain Home, Ark.): Appointed Heather Knight, director of the Children’s Miracle Network at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock), to be director of development.

Bible League (Chicago): Appointed Israel Vega, global director for Latin America at Promise Keepers (Denver), to be West Coast regional director, based in Los Angeles.

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco): Appointed Jeremy G. Fair, president of the Northern California region at U.S. Bank (San Francisco), to be chief operating officer.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (D.C.): Appointed Debra L. Kraft, managing director at the Olney Theatre Center (Md.), to be executive director.

Colorado State U. (Fort Collins): Appointed Tim McCune, director of international marketing at 2MS (Fort Collins), to be assistant director of development for the College of Business.

Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts (Napa, Calif.): Appointed Christopher Clinton Conway, director of development at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to be vice president for external relations.

Daniel Webster College (Nashua, N.H.): Appointed Chris Lucier, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations at the U. of Oregon (Eugene), to be director of the annual fund.

Development Training Institute (Baltimore): Appointed Jeff Nugent, executive vice president, to be acting president. David Cortiella, president, resigned in August.

Emory U. (Atlanta): Appointed Allison K. Dykes, associate vice president, to be senior associate vice president for the Association of Emory Alumni; Alicia A. Franck, associate vice president for university development, to be senior associate vice president for principal gifts; Philippe G. Hills, senior associate vice president for development for the health-sciences center, to be vice president for development; Daniel A. Macaluso, associate vice president of resource development at the U. of Texas at Austin, to be vice president for development and university programs; and Jane DiFolco Parker, senior associate vice president of institutional advancement, to be vice president for development and university-relations operations.

The Food Bank (Memphis): Appointed Russell Johnson, fund-raising manager at United Way of the Mid-South (Memphis), to be development director, and Alisha Tillery, an intern at the Commercial Appeal (Memphis), to be communications manager.

Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.): Appointed Lisa Fortin, director of conference services at the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (Rockville, Md.), to be assistant director of alumni programs; Tia Guinivan, director of prospect research at Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pa.), to be associate director of development information; Sam Houser, an assistant professor of classics, to be director of corporate and foundation relations; Matthew Weaver, assistant director of residential programs, to be assistant director of annual giving; and Becky Wile, manager of the Advance C/S database conversion project at Pennsylvania State U. (State College), to be director of advancement services.

Friends of Saint Dominic’s (Blauvelt, N.Y.): Appointed Sandy Randell, senior consultant for special events at the City U. of New York, to be development director.

Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation (Asheville, N.C.): Appointed Ruth T. Summers, executive director of the Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville), to be executive director.

Handi-Crafters (Thorndale, Pa.): Appointed Tom Hammer, a grant writer at the Alliance for Better Housing (Kennett Square, Pa.), to be director of rehabilitation services.

Hebrew College (Newton Centre, Mass.): Appointed Albert G. Effrat, Southern regional director for the American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (New York), to be national vice president for development, and Harriet J. Winer, principal consultant at H.J. Winer & Associates (Boston), to be vice president for leadership gifts.

Independent Sector (Washington): Appointed Claire S. Wellington, vice president and general counsel at the American Association of Exporters and Importers (Washington), to be vice president of emerging issues and strategic initiatives.

Indiana U. of Pennsylvania: Appointed Jennifer Boughner, founder and principal at Axon Development Consulting (Pittsburgh), to be director of corporate and foundation relations; Earl L. Cunningham, president of Highpoint Consulting (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), to be major-gifts officer; and Lorry Dinsel, director of development at the Blackburn Center (Greensburg, Pa.), to be assistant director of annual giving.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York): Appointed Francine E. Lynch, vice president for social responsibility at Guardsmark (New York), to be director of the corporate fund.

Mercantile Library of New York: Appointed Noreen Tomassi, president of Arts International (New York), to be executive director.

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Washington): Appointed Marcia E. Weston, manager of education-outreach programs at the Finance Authority of Maine (Augusta), to be director of operations for the association’s College Goal Sunday program.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lone Star Chapter (San Antonio): Appointed Pat Bodet, director of diversity and outreach at Clear Channel Television (San Antonio), to be vice president.

NorthWay Community Trust (Minneapolis): Appointed Wesley Walker, a program officer at Local Initiative Support Corporation’s Chicago office, to be executive director.

Olney Theatre Center (Md.): Appointed Leslie Rehbein Marqua, chief development officer, to be managing director, and Brad Watkins, associate producing director, to be producing director.

Performance Space 122 (New York): Appointed Vallejo Gantner, director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, to be artistic director.

Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami: Appointed Michael C. Hardy, chief financial officer at Ruth Eckerd Hall (Clearwater, Fla.), to be chief financial officer.

Performing Arts Center Foundation of Greater Miami: Appointed Albert Milano, president of Milano, Ruff, & Associates (Los Angeles), to be executive director.

Planned Parenthood, Cincinnati Region: Appointed Barbara H. Rabkin, director of development at Yavneh Day School (Cincinnati), to be chief development officer.

Primary Care Development Corporation (New York): Appointed Betsy Fuchs, a recent graduate of the master’s-degree program in nonfiction writing at the U. of New Hampshire (Durham), to be development associate.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (San Francisco): Appointed Andrea Cousins, development director at the Mission Housing Development Corporation (San Francisco), to be development director, and Lisa Kirvin, development director, to be director of administrative operations.

Salzburg Seminar (Austria): Announced the retirement of Olin Robison, president, effective next year.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed W. John Mullineaux, director of resource development at the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), to be director of development, and Nancy Price, director of the London Price Group (San Francisco), to be director of marketing and communications.

State U. of New York at Fredonia: Appointed Heather Mansfield, unit director at the Boys & Girls Club of Springville (N.Y.), to be assistant director of development.

Syracuse U. (N.Y.): Appointed Michael Degenhart, associate director of the office of trusts, estates, and gift planning at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be executive director of development in the office of giving programs, and Margaret Howe, director of campaign and community relations at the United Way of Cortland County (Cortland, N.Y.), to be a coordinator in the office of giving programs.

TreePeople (Los Angeles): Appointed Tom Hansen, director of operations at St. Anne’s Home (Los Angeles), to be executive director. This organization encourages urban residents to plant and maintain trees in their neighborhoods.

U. of Colorado Foundation (Boulder): Appointed Howard Landesman, dean of the U. of Colorado School of Dentistry (Denver), to be vice president of development for the U. of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

Woods Services Foundation (Langhorne, Pa.): Appointed Stan H. Retif, director of development and secretary for external affairs for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, to be vice president of development.

Young Audiences New York: Appointed Janet L. Rassweiler, director of programs and collections at the New Jersey Historical Society (Newark), to be a program director.

GRANT MAKERS

Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Viva Yang, assistant language teacher at the Kitakyushu City Board of Education (Japan), to be communications associate.

DuPage Community Foundation (Wheaton, Ill.): Appointed Michael Sitrick, development associate, to be manager of development.

General Mills Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Ellen Goldberg Luger, director of community action, to be vice president. She succeeds David Nasby, who recently retired.

Grand Circle Foundation (Boston): Appointed Gina Perille, a consultant at Wolf, Keens & Company (Cambridge, Mass.), to be manager. The foundation is the corporate-giving arm of Grand Circle Travel, and supports community-development, environmental, and other projects around the world.

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Conn.): Appointed Mary-Ellen Powell, president of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (Conn.), to be a program officer, and Lori Rabb, director of the Northeast region at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York), to be senior philanthropic-services officer.

Inasmuch Foundation and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation (Oklahoma City): Appointed Richard A. Davis, a shareholder at Hogan & Slovacek (Oklahoma City), to be chief financial officer.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Veronica Agustus-Appleby, a legal assistant in Miami, to be an assistant for the community-partners program; Julie K. Kohler, a program officer, to be a program officer for the national-venture fund; Katherine T. Loflin, a program officer, to be program officer for technical assistance and community foundations; Gloria M. Lopez, audit partner at Sanson, Kline, Jacomino & Co. (Miami), to be controller; and Lizabeth Sklaroff, a program officer, to be special assistant to the president for evaluation.

McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): Announced the death of James H. Binger, a former board member, on November 3. He was 88.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation (Quincy, Mass.): Appointed Michael A. Carey, general accounting manager, to be director of finance, and Reno R. James, lead program officer for the adult-literacy initiative, also to be vice president.

Peace Development Fund (Amherst, Mass.): Appointed Paul Haible, development director at the Vanguard Public Foundation (San Francisco), to be executive director.

Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners: Appointed Terry Beggy, program manager of the Boards-by-Design program at Duquesne U.’s Nonprofit Leadership Institute (Pittsburgh), to be executive director.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Elbert Sampson, a financial adviser and certified financial manager at Merrill Lynch (Wayne, Pa.), to be interim vice president for grant making.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

AIDS Project Los Angeles: Elected James M. Murphy, vice president of finance at Clear Channel Broadcasting Los Angeles Radio, and Randall T. Rotondo, managing director of worldwide human resources and international labor relations at United Airlines (Chicago), to be co-chairs of the Board of Directors.

Blues Foundation (Memphis): Elected Kevin Kane, president of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Children’s Aid Society (New York): Elected Angela Diaz, professor of pediatrics and director of the Adolescent Health Center at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Hadassah Foundation (New York): Elected to the Board of Directors: Froma Barron Benerofe, a social worker at Westchester Jewish Community Service (White Plains, N.Y.); Sherri Ades Falchuk, former vice president of the New England region at Hadassah (Brookline, Mass.); and Rebekah M. Farber, co-founder of the New Community Jewish High School (Los Angeles).

Hitachi Foundation (Washington): Elected Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard, a professor of public-sector management at Harvard U.’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School (Cambridge, Mass.), to the Board of Directors.

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston): Elected Paul Buttenwieser, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Family-to-Family Project (Boston), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

JBI International: (New York): Elected Judy E. Tenney, former vice president at the Eldridge Street Project (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Keshet Dance Company (Albuquerque): Elected Maria Montoya-Chavez, a lawyer at Sutin, Thayer, and Brown (Albuquerque), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis): Elected Beth H. Erickson, president of Beth Anderson & Associates (Minneapolis), to be chair of the Board of Trustees.

National Association of College Auxiliary Services (Charlottesville, Va.): Elected Jeffrey Pittman, vice president for student services at Regent U. (Virginia Beach), to be president.

Peace Development Fund (Amherst, Mass.): Elected Teresa Juarez, founding director of the Teh-Lu-Lah Learning and Healing Center (Chimayo, N.M.), to be chair of the Board of Directors.

Refugees International (New York): Elected Farooq Kathwari, president and chief executive officer of Ethan Allen Interiors (Danbury, Conn.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

U. of Colorado Foundation (Boulder): Elected George A. Sissel, former chairman of the Ball Corporation (Broomfield, Colo.), to be chair of the Board of Directors and Trustees.

Work Training Programs (Santa Barbara, Calif.): Elected Bob Voorhees, senior vice president of the Small Business Lending Group at Pacific Capital Bank/Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, to be president of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

AllTogetherNow Consulting (San Francisco): Appointed Peter S. Crosby, chief executive officer and president of SeniorNet (San Francisco), to be managing director of Africa for the Anglican Malaria Project. AllTogetherNow is a social-enterprise consulting company.

Coxe Curry & Associates (Atlanta): Appointed Marci Bozeman and Marian Fragola, senior campaign managers, to be associate campaign directors.

Holmes, Radford & Avalon (Tulsa, Okla.): Appointed David M. Zemel, senior program officer at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (Tulsa), to be vice president of this fund-raising consulting company.

Korn/Ferry International (Washington): Appointed Kristin Mannion, principal at Aura Associates (Washington), to be a senior client partner at this executive-search firm, specializing in the placement of senior-level executives at nonprofit groups.

O’Neill & Associates (Atlanta): Appointed Betsy Thompson, development associate at the Atlanta Opera, to be a campaign assistant.

Phillips & Associates (Los Angeles): Appointed Jennifer Warwick, assistant vice president for university relations at Loyola Marymount U. (Los Angeles), to be senior counsel for advancement services at this nonprofit-management consulting firm.

Wachovia Wealth Management (Winston-Salem, N.C.): Appointed Robin Ganzert, managing director at the Wachovia National Center for Planned Giving, to be senior vice president.

Wilmington Trust (Del.): Appointed Peter W. Atwater, managing director and chief financial officer at Juniper Financial Corporation (Wilmington), to be senior vice president and head of relationship management in its wealth-advisory division.