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American Ballet Theatre (New York): Elizabeth Kehler, interim executive director, has resigned.

American Cancer Society (Atlanta): Appointed Robert D. Mitchell, national vice president for income development, to be chief development officer and president of the American Cancer Society Foundation.

Americans for the Arts (Washington): Appointed Nora Halpern, director, to be vice president for leadership advancement.

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.): Appointed Scott A. Meiklejon, associate vice president for development and alumni relations, to be vice president for planning and institutional advancement and assistant to the president; Elizabeth D. Orlic, senior capital-gifts officer, to be associate vice president and director of capital giving; and Randolph H. Shaw, director of alumni and development operations, to be associate vice president and director of development operations.

Capital U. (Columbus, Ohio): Appointed Betty M. Lovelace, director of multicultural affairs at Denison U. (Granville, Ohio), to be vice president and dean of student services.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis: Appointed Constance M. Baker, a professor of nursing administration at the Indiana U. School of Nursing (Indianapolis), to be dean of graduate studies.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association: Appointed Deborah R. Card, executive director of the Seattle Symphony, to be president, effective September 1.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra: Announced the retirement of Jeanette Kreston, president for 18 years.

Community Health Charities (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Paul C. Clendening, founder and president of First Commercial Bank (Kansas City, Mo.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Congress for the New Urbanism (San Francisco): Appointed John Norquist, mayor of Milwaukee, to be president and chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2004. This organization supports real-estate development that takes into account such issues as urban sprawl and low-cost housing.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Appointed Ross Binnie, director of patron services, to be vice president for sales and services; Dan Ginis, campaign director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, to be vice president for development and major gifts; Linda Makris, director of finance and administration at the Phoenix Symphony, to be vice president for accounting and finance; Donna Saul, director of hall operations, to be vice president for Max M. Fisher Music Center operations; Scott T. Smith, director of gift and estate planning at Hillsdale College (Mich.), to be director of planned giving; Patricia Walker, director of human resources, to be vice president for human resources; and Kendra K. Whitlock, general manager of the Phoenix Symphony, to be director of pops and specials.

Erie Neighborhood House (Chicago): Appointed Ricardo Estrada, associate executive director, to be executive director.

Georgetown U. Public Policy Institute, Center for the Study of Voluntary Organizations and Service (Washington): Announced the resignation of Virginia Hodgkinson, director. She will continue to conduct research and write at the center and at the university’s Center for Democracy and the Third Sector.

International Fund for Animal Welfare (Yarmouth Port, Mass.): Appointed Rosemarie Resnik, director of alumni activities and geographic programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), to be director of development.

In Trust (Washington): Appointed Christa R. Klein, dean of the Center for Continuing Formation at St. Mary’s Seminary and U. (Baltimore), to be president and chief executive officer. In Trust provides services to the leaders of graduate theological schools in the United States and Canada.

Learning Leaders (New York): Appointed Digna Sánchez, vice president for educational services at the United Way of New York City, to be president.

National Caucus and Center on Black Aged (Washington): Lawrence Crecy, executive vice president, died June 27.

National Hospice Foundation (Alexandria, Va.): Appointed J. Donald Schumacher, president and chief executive officer of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (Alexandria), to be president.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington): Appointed Nancy E. Perkins, principal at Perkins and Associates (Washington), to be vice president of development.

Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.): Richard H. Pough, an ornithologist and founding president, died on June 24. He was 99.

New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (New York): Appointed Michael Seltzer, director of Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel at the Conference Board (New York) and founding executive director of Funders Concerned About AIDS (New York), to be president. He succeeds Barbara Bryan, who has retired after 18 years.

Orchestras Canada (Toronto): Appointed Daniel S. Donaldson, general manager of Centre in the Square (Kitchener, Ontario), to be executive director.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York): Appointed Ronnie Bauch, artistic coordinator, to be managing director; Kathleen Heins, director of development at Theatre for a New Audience (New York), to be director of development; and Graham Parker, general manager at the Brooklyn Philharmonic, to be general director.

Point Foundation (San Francisco): Appointed Timothy B. Wilmot, chief knowledge and evaluation officer at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.), to be executive director. The Point Foundation provides scholarships to students who are marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identification.

Public Agenda (New York): Appointed Ruth Wooden, executive vice president and senior counselor at Porter Novelli (New York) and former president of both the Advertising Council (New York) and the National Parenting Association (New York), to be president. She succeeds Deborah Wadsworth, who is retiring. Public Agenda is a nonpartisan organization that conducts public-opinion surveys and provides education on major social issues.

Saint Francis U. (Loretto, Pa.): Appointed Valerie Cheeseman, director of corporate and foundation relations at the U. of North Carolina at Pembroke, to be director of grants and foundations.

Saint Leo U. (Fla.): Appointed James M. Barrens, executive director of Congregations United for Community Action (St. Petersburg, Fla.), to be executive director of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, and Susan Peirce, associate vice president for advancement and capital-campaign director at Florida Atlantic U. (Boca Raton), to be vice president for university advancement.

Save the Children (Westport, Conn.): Appointed William Stacy Rhodes, vice president of the Center for Global Development at the United States Agency for International Development (Washington), to be director of the Office of HIV/AIDS.

SOS Children’s Villages-USA (Washington): Appointed Christopher Zappia, interim executive director, to be executive director.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago): Appointed David Hawkanson, managing director of the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), to be executive director.

United Way Community Services (Detroit): Appointed Richard Collister, executive vice president of corporate staff at Comerica (Detroit), to be interim president.

United Way of Central Carolinas (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Ed John, vice president of major and planned gifts at the United Way of the Great Salt Lake Area (Salt Lake City), to be vice president of planned giving.

United Way of Delaware (Wilmington): Appointed Michelle A. Taylor, vice president of operations, to be interim president.

United Way of King County (Seattle): Appointed Jon Doll, director of major gifts and donor relations, to be vice president of community campaigns.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Boston): Appointed Jeff Bellows, a marketing and public-relations manager at Omgeo (Boston), to be vice president for marketing communications and public relations, and Danny Levy, senior manager of media relations at FleetBoston Financial Corporation, to be director of community marketing.

United Way of Passaic County (Paterson, N.J.): Appointed Julie Sadowski, director of public relations and marketing at the Hudson Valley Children’s Museum (Nanuet, N.Y.), to be director of marketing and development.

Webb Schools (Claremont, Calif.): Appointed Susanne Faulstich, associate vice president of college advancement at Pitzer College (Claremont), to be director of development and campaign manager.

Widener U. (Chester, Pa.): Appointed Linda S. Durant, vice president for institutional advancement at Dean College (Franklin, Mass.), to be vice president for university advancement.

Wolfsonian-Florida International U. (Miami Beach): Appointed Glenn Kaufhold, vice president of development and marketing at the Medical Foundation (Boston), to be associate director for development.

GRANT MAKERS

Bank of America Foundation (Charlotte, N.C.): Appointed Andrew Plepler, senior vice president of housing and community initiatives at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be president.

Community Foundation of North Florida (Tallahassee): Appointed Alyce Lee Stansbury, fund-development coordinator at Big Bend Hospice (Tallahassee), to be director of development.

Denver Foundation: Appointed Jeffrey Hirota, director of brand development at KMGH-TV (Denver), to be a program officer.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle): Appointed David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (Washington), and Thomas Brewer, senior program officer at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.), to be senior program officers in the infectious-diseases division of the Global Health program.

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York): Appointed James F. O’Sullivan, grants manager, to be grants and projects officer.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): Appointed Valerie Chang, chief of staff for the Neighborhood Business Development Group at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York), to be a program officer for the foundation’s program on human and community development.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.): Appointed Jill E. Cortis, a senior consultant at IRI Consultants (Detroit), to be director of human resources; Ann F. Richards, associate program officer, to be a program officer focusing on education and the arts in the Flint area; and Kimberly S. Robinson, associate program officer, to be a program officer focusing on race relations in Genesee County, Mich.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.): Richard T. Schlosberg III, president and chief executive officer, has announced his retirement, effective in January 2004. He has served as the foundation’s head since May 1999.

Peach Foundation (Seattle): Priscilla (Patsy) Bullitt Collins, founder, died June 25. She was 82.

William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia): Appointed Louise M. Foster, controller, to be chief financial officer.

Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Amy K. Crawford, executive director of the Sheltering Arms Foundation (Minneapolis), to be executive director, effective September 1. She will succeed Patricia A. Cummings, who is retiring.

Charles H. Revson Foundation (New York): Appointed Lisa E. Goldberg, executive vice president, to be president. She succeeds Eli N. Evans, president, who is retiring.

Ventura County Community Foundation (Camarillo, Calif.): Appointed Hugh Ralston, executive director of the Catholic Education Foundation (Los Angeles), to be president.

York Foundation (Pa.): Appointed Susan A. Barry, director of development at the Rhode Island Foundation (Providence), to be executive director.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Alliance Healthcare Foundation (San Diego): Elected Elizabeth McPhail, senior vice president of new-business strategies at Primary Provider Management Company (Riverside, Calif.), and Marc T. Serrio, vice president and chief financial officer at TriTech Software Systems (San Diego), to the Board of Trustees.

Association of Art Museum Directors (New York): Elected Peter Morrin, director of the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Ky.), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco): Elected Ward B. Watt, a professor of biology at Stanford U. (Palo Alto, Calif.), to be president of the Board of Trustees.

Center on Philanthropy at Indiana U.-Purdue U. Indianapolis: Elected Alexis E. Rovzar, executive partner at the Mexico City office of White & Case, to be chairman of the Board of Governors.

Community Foundation Sonoma County (Santa Rosa, Calif.): Elected Herb Dwight, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Optical Coating Laboratories (Santa Rosa), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. Demaris Brinton, a lawyer at Lanahan and Reilley (Santa Rosa); Paul Elliott, an engineer at Cisco Systems (San Jose, Calif.); and Harry Richardson, medical director at the Blood Bank of the Redwoods (Santa Rosa), were also elected to the Board of Directors.

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Washington): Elected Kent Rollins, president of the U. of Arizona Medical Center Foundation (Tucson), to be chair of the Board of Trustees, and Rita Bornstein, president of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), to be chair-elect.

Council on Foundations (Washington): Elected Steve Alley, president and chief executive officer of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (Tucson); David Hatfield, a member of the Board of Trustees at the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (Mich.); and Bruce Lang, president of the Board of Trustees at the North Valley Community Foundation (Chico, Calif.), to the Community Foundations Leadership Team.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Fundraisinginfo.com (Atlanta): Appointed John A. Camino, a franchise owner of Executrain (Chicago), to be mid-Florida regional director, and Missy Ryan, an account executive, to be Georgia regional director. Fundraisinginfo.com is an Internet-based fund-raising consulting company for nonprofit organizations.

Hyde Park Communications (Washington): Appointed Denise Hawkins, an assistant vice president of the science and health-practice group at Widmeyer Communications (Washington), to be vice president, and Scott Kaplan, special assistant to the vice president at Columbia Telecommunications Corporation (Columbia, Md.), to be account coordinator. Hyde Park Communications is a public-affairs firm that works with nonprofit groups.