People

American Lung Association of the City of New York: Appointed Louise A. Vetter, vice president of communications and advocacy, to be chief executive officer.

American Montessori Society (New York): Appointed Richard A. Ungerer, a consultant in Westport, Conn., to be executive director.

America’s Second Harvest-the Nation’s Food Bank Network (Chicago): Appointed Alice G. Archabal, senior director of field management at Alsac/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis), to be vice president of philanthropy.

Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Watertown, Mass.): Appointed Terence F. McGowan, associate director of corporate and foundation relations at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston), to be director of institutional advancement.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Atlanta): Appointed Anthony DiSpigno, senior vice president of development at Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), to be national vice president of resource development, a newly created position.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (D.C.): Appointed William C. Eacho III, chief executive officer of the Carlton Capital Group (Washington), to be interim chief executive officer. He succeeds Patricia G. Shannon, who recently retired.

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco): Appointed Chris Andrews, executive director of the South Carolina Aquarium (Charleston), to be director of the Steinhart Aquarium.

Center for the Visually Impaired (Atlanta): Appointed Thomas Reuter, former executive director and founder of Samaritan House of Atlanta, to be assistant executive director for program administration.

DePaul U. (Chicago): Appointed Mary C. Finger, vice president for planning and institutional advancement at Mount Mary College (Milwaukee), to be senior vice president for advancement.

ETS (Princeton, N.J.): Appointed Charles Cascio, vice president of the national-accounts and special-projects division, to be vice president for government relations. ETS administers standardized tests to students at locations around the world.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.): Appointed Mara O’Laughlin, director of admissions, to be assistant vice president for the capital campaign.

Institute for Global Ethics (Camden, Me.): Appointed Wes Todd, development and marketing director at Episcopal Church Publishing Company (Rockport, Me.), to be director of development.

Keystone Center (Colo.): Appointed Douglas Thompson, chief of water enforcement for the New England office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Boston), to be a senior associate in the science and public-policy program.

Leakey Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Roccie Hill, director of the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County (San Jose, Calif.), to be executive director.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Appointed Nina Diefenbach, deputy vice president for external affairs and chief development officer, to be vice president for development and membership.

Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul): Appointed Pat Cook, manager of special and planned gifts, to be director of charitable-gift planning; Kay Gudmestad, executive director of Meld (Minneapolis), to be senior development officer for regional institutions; Melinda Hoke, director of individual gifts, to be senior director of individual major gifts and director of the capital campaign; Susan Oswald, major-gifts officer at the U. of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development (Minneapolis), to be senior gift officer for individual major gifts and the capital campaign; Susan Seltzer, major-gifts consultant at Greater Twin Cities United Way (Minneapolis), to be senior gift officer for major gifts and the capital campaign; and Jeremiah Whitten, corporate director for media relations at Park Nicollet Health Services (St. Louis Park, Minn.), to be senior director of communications.

National Endowment for Financial Education (Greenwood Village, Colo.): Appointed John Parfrey, a manager and assistant director at Ernst & Young (Los Angeles), to be director of the High School Financial Planning Program.

National Park Foundation (Washington): Appointed Vin Cipolla, president and chief executive officer of Veritude (Boston) and a former executive vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer, effective April 1.

Nurse-Family Partnership (Denver): Appointed Clay R. Yeager, director of community partnerships at Purdue Pharma (Stamford, Conn.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Washington): Appointed Jody Michael Huckaby, executive director of the Washington Humane Society (D.C.), to be executive director.

Partnership for Public Service (Washington): Appointed Marc Porter Magee, director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Civic Enterprise (Washington), to be research director.

South Nassau Communities Hospital (Oceanside, N.Y.): Appointed Nan Rokaw Gerson, vice president of development and external relations at the National Center for Disability Services (Albertson, N.Y.), to be vice president of development and external affairs.

St. Edmund’s Retreat (Mystic, Conn.): Appointed Chad McEachern, vice president for operations and development at the National Catholic Bioethics Center (Philadelphia), to be deputy executive director and chief operating officer.

Temple U., School of Medicine (Philadelphia): Appointed Beth Galinsky, senior consultant and grant writer at EHL Consulting Group (Willow Grove, Pa.), to be director of corporate and foundation relations, and Laura Wortman, special-events manager at the Wellness Community of Philadelphia, to be major-gifts officer.

Textile Museum (Washington): Appointed Daniel Walker, curator in charge of the department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), to be director, effective May 1.

United Nations Foundation (Washington): Appointed Debra DeShong, senior communications adviser for the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign (Washington), to be director of communications and public affairs.

United Way of Central Carolinas (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Mona Lita Carr, executive director of the CityWest Community Development Corporation (Charlotte), to be vice president of the Mooresville-Lake Norman division.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (Bethlehem, Pa.): Appointed Philip N. Hayne, chief professional officer at United Way of Jackson County (Mich.), to be senior vice president.

Vision New America (San Jose, Calif.): Appointed Iris Wang, former human-resources director at Broadmedia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), to be executive director. Vision New America promotes civic involvement among minorities.

Volunteers of America-Greater New York: Appointed Richard Motta, president and chief executive officer of Help USA (New York), to be president and chief executive officer.

World Learning (Brattleboro, Vt.): Appointed Carol Bellamy, executive director of Unicef (New York), to be president and chief executive officer. Ms. Bellamy will also serve as president of the School for International Training.

World Wildlife Fund (Washington): Announced the resignation of Kathryn Fuller, president and chief executive officer.

GRANT MAKERS

Foundation for Appalachian Ohio (Nelsonville): Appointed Ann Day, special-projects coordinator at the Muskingum County Community Foundation (Zanesville, Ohio), to be program director, and Anna Oertel, newspapers-in-education and literacy coordinator at The Times Recorder (Zanesville) and The Coshocton Tribune (Ohio), to be communications officer.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Announced the retirement of Hodding Carter III, president and chief executive officer, effective February 1, 2006.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Kevin Drucker, a manager of investment analysis at Richards & Tierney (Chicago), to be senior quantitative analyst in the investment department, and Craig Wacker, program examiner in the education branch of the White House Office of Management and Budget (Washington), to be program officer in the program on human and community development.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Appointed Feather O’Connor Houstoun, regional president of AmeriChoice (Philadelphia), to be president.

Saint Paul Foundation: Appointed Marcia E. Murray, senior director of account services at the Kydd Group (Minneapolis), to be vice president-executive office.

Skillman Foundation (Detroit): Appointed William Hanson, executive director of the Washtenaw Land Trust (Ann Arbor, Mich.), to be director of communications and administration.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pa.): Elected to the Board of Trustees: Harold E. Doley Jr., founder and chief executive officer of Doley Securities (New Orleans); Andre V. Duggin, chairman and chief executive officer of AV International (Wayne, Pa.); Joseph Neubauer, chairman and chief executive officer of Aramark (Philadelphia); Aileen Kennedy Roberts, president of the Aileen K. and Brian L. Roberts Foundation (Philadelphia); and Neil L. Rudenstine, former president of Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.).

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (Chicago): Elected Iris Krieg, president of Iris Krieg & Associates (Chicago), to be president of the Board of Directors.

California Community Foundation (Los Angeles): Elected Dorothy Avila Courtney, former executive director of the Richstone Family Center (Hawthorne, Calif.), to be chair of the Board of Governors. The foundation also elected to the board: Dennis Gertmenian, founder of Ready Pac Produce (Irwindale, Calif.); Carolina Reyes, executive director of the Los Angeles Best Babies Collaborative and an assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the U. of California at Los Angeles; Thomas Schumacher, president of the Buena Vista Theatrical Group (Los Angeles); and William E.B. Siart, founder and board chair of Excellent Education Development (Santa Monica, Calif.).

Denver Foundation: Elected Michelle Sie Whitten, president and chief executive officer of Encore International (Denver), to the Board of Trustees.

Florida Association of Museums (Tallahassee): Elected Sara Van Arsdel, executive director of the Orange County Regional History Center (Orlando), to be president.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York): Announced the resignation of Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Marin Community Foundation (Novato, Calif.): Elected Sara Barnes, an artist and vice chair of the Board of Trustees, to be chair of the board.

MDC (Chapel Hill, N.C.): Elected James A. Joseph, a former ambassador to South Africa and a former president of the Council on Foundations (Washington), to be chairman of the Board of Directors.

Metropolitan Opera (New York): Announced the resignation of Beverly Sills, chairman of the Board of Directors.

National Center for Youth Law (Oakland, Calif.): Elected Peter Edelman, a professor of law at Georgetown U. (Washington) and a frequent writer on child-welfare, poverty, and social issues, to be president of the Board of Directors.

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (New York): Elected Heather Findlay, president and co-founder of HAF Enterprises (San Francisco), to be chairperson of the Board of Directors. Ms. Findlay is the great-granddaughter of Charles F. Noyes, who established the foundation.

Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, N.Y.): Elected Alvin Chereskin, former president and creative director of AC&R Advertising Agency (New York), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (Minneapolis): Elected Bruce Nicholson, president and chief executive officer, to be chairman of the Board of Trustees, effective July 31.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

DMW Worldwide (Plymouth, Mass.): Appointed Hillary Hunt, senior associate of marketing operations at Digitas (Boston), to be an account executive in the nonprofit division, and Jodi Scheib, membership manager at KUAT Television and Radio (Tucson), to be vice president of fund raising in the nonprofit division.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York): Appointed Dale Mitchell, chief executive officer of Delaware Valley Grantmakers (Philadelphia), to be a senior adviser based in Philadelphia.

Wilmington Trust (Del.): Appointed William T. LaFond, a senior financial planner at U.S. Trust (New York), to be vice president and private client adviser.