People

CEOs

• Luke B. Hancock Foundation (Palo Alto, CA): appointed Ruth Ramel its new interim director, succeeding Rita Sklar. Ramel served in a similar capacity from January 1994 to January 1996. 
• Winnipeg Foundation (Manitoba, Canada): Richard Frost, former chief commissioner for the City of Winnipeg, was named to succeed Dan H. Kraayeveld as executive director. Frost brings to the foundation more than 25 years of senior management experience in local government. 
• Greater Lynchburg Community Trust (VA): Stuart J. Turille succeeds William F. Quillan, Jr., as executive director. Turille recently retired after more than 30 years experience in commercial and business lending with Crestar Bank. 
• American Indian College Fund (Denver):Richard Williams succeeds Shannon Finley as executive director. Williams, an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is the former director of the Student Academic Services Center and the American Indian Upward Bound Program at the University of Colorado as well as an active faculty member of the University of Denver’s graduate program in American Indian studies. 
• Dibner Fund (Wilton, CT): Marci B. Sternheim has been named the first executive director. Sternheim was most recently executive director of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University. 
• United Nations Foundation (Washington, DC): Ted Turner has named Timothy E. Wirth to lead the organization that will allocate the $1 billion he promised to give to the United Nations over the next decade. Wirth, a former senator from Colorado, was most recently Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs.

Staff

• Arlington Health Foundation (VA): Wendy Grishman Susswein was named program officer and director of philanthropic outreach. Susswein is the former director of affinity group services at the Council on Foundations. 
• Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia): Edward F. Reidy, Jr., deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Learning Results Services for the Kentucky Department of Education, was named program officer for education. 
• Hasbro Children’s Foundation (New York City): Jason Schwartzman, former director of child and family services at the Christian Children’s Fund, joined the foundation as a program officer. Fatima Angeles, a former intern at the Commonwealth Fund and Corporate Philanthropy Programs at Pfizer, Inc., joined the foundation as a program associate. Theresa Acquaviva was promoted to the position of foundation administrator. 
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, MI): Terri D. Wright, former maternal and child health director and bureau chief in Child and Family Services at the Michigan Department of Community Health, was named a program director for health policy. Frances G. Hansford was named executive assistant to the vice president for programs. 
• Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (CT): named Richard E. Collins accounting and operations officer. Collins was most recently controller at Science Park Development Corporation. 
• Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh):Brian M. Kelley was appointed senior program officer and director of the Economic Opportunity Program. Kelley is the former president of the Arkansas Enterprise Group, which provided business assistance services to firms in low-income communities. 
• Central New York Community Foundation, Inc. (Syracuse): hired Helen R. Dewey as program associate. Dewey received her Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in June 1997. Arnold Poltenson, a successful businessman and academic, was hired as director of development. 
• Kresge Foundation (Troy, MI): William F. L. Moses, former executive director of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, joined the foundation as a program officer. Gregory M. Smith joined the foundation as an investment analyst. Smith was formerly manager of trust investments for the MCN Energy Group, Inc. 
• Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (MO): Director of Finance Yvonne J. Kean was promoted to vice president of finance. 
• Chicago Community Trust: Aida Sanchez-Romano was hired as assistant director of the Children, Youth and Families Initiative. Sanchez-Romano is the former executive director of Aspira, Inc. 
• California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills): hired Juana D. Kennedy as communications officer. Kennedy previously worked for the New York Times, Minneapolis Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and the Los Angeles Times, and was a program officer at the California Community Foundation. 
• Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore): Stanley N. Wellborn, director of public affairs at the Brookings Institution, joined the foundation as director of external affairs. Diane Camper, a reporter and editorial board member of the New York Times since 1983, was appointed manager of public affairs. 
• Duke Endowment (Charlotte, NC): Rhett N. Mabry, associate director of the Health Care Division, succeeds Robert A. Mayer II, as director of the Child Care Division. Philip B. Belcher, a partner in the Charlotte law firm of Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein L.L.P., will succeed Mabry. 
• Chicago Foundation for Women: hired Karla D. Thomas as communications director. Thomas comes to the foundation from R.J. Dale Advertising and Public Relations where she was an account supervisor. 
• Polk Brothers Foundation (Chicago): Debra Pitts-Brown joined the foundation as administrative assistant to President and CEO Sandra Guthman. Pitts-Brown previously worked with Bethel New Life community development association as administrative assistant to the president. 
• Sara Lee Foundation (Chicago): Patrick M. Sheahan was hired as deputy director. Sheahan comes to the foundation from the Spencer Foundation where he was research and administrative associate. 
• Edna McConnell Clark (New York City):Michael Mogensen joined the foundation as administrative assistant for the Program for Children. Mogensen was previously an international human rights monitor with the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project in Colombia. Deepa Purohit is the new associate for the Program for Student Achievement. She comes to the foundation from the after-school program of the Columbia School of Public health.

Trustees

• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (VA): named as chairman Colin G. Campbell, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 
• CDC Foundation (Atlanta): electedHarvey V. Fineberg, provost of Harvard University; William H. Foege, professor at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University; Julius R. Krevans, chancellor emeritus of the University of California, San Francisco; and Kent C. Nelson, retired chairman and CEO of UPS, to the board. Margaret E. Mahoney, president of MEM Associates, Inc., was elected chair.George E. Hardy, Jr., executive director of International Life Sciences Institute, was elected secretary. Bernard Marcus, chairman of the Home Depot, was elected treasurer. Philanthropist and entertainer William H. Cosby was re-elected to the board. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., honorary chairman of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, was named chairman emeritus. 
• California Endowment (Woodland Hills): elected Peter H. Pennekamp and Robert K. Ross to the board. Pennekamp is executive director of the Humboldt Area Foundation. Ross is director of the Health and Human Services Agency for San Diego County. 
• Fund for the City of New York: Martina Horner, executive vice president for human resources at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund, was elected chair. Horner succeeds Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. Victoria Foundation, Inc. (Montclair, NJ): Trustee Emeritus Corinne Alsop Chubb died on December 9. Chubb gave more than 60 years of service to the foundation during her lifetime. 
• Kalamazoo Foundation (Michigan): appointed Judy Maze to replace retiring board member Elizabeth S. Upjohn Mason. Maze, who served on the boards of First of America-Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, WMU Foundation, Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, and is active as a Kalamazoo Area Academic Achievement Program mentor. Commonwealth Fund (New York City): elected Samuel O. Thier to its board. Thier is president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System, Inc., and professor of medicine and professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.

Philanthropy Groups

• Conservation Company (Philadelphia): appointed Bettina Yaffe Hoerlin senior consultant. Hoerlin, who has an extensive background in health and human services, has served as Deputy and Acting Health Commissioner of the City of Philadelphia. 
• Grantmakers in Health (Washington, DC): Lauren LeRoy, executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, was named president and CEO. LeRoy succeeds Catherine McDermott. 
• National Society of Fund Raising Executives (Alexandria, VA): President and CEO Patricia F. Lewis will step down from her position after seven years on March 31. 
• United Way of the Saint Paul Area (Minnesota): named Bill Rodriguez, vice president of marketing. Rodriguez managed marketing efforts for Lifetouch, the country’s largest school photography company, and directed programs with the two largest public relations firms in Minnesota—Shandwick (formerly Monay Meyer McGrath & Gavin) and Padilla Speer Beardsley.