The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, has named MAUREEN H. SMYTH as senior vice president for programs and communications (a new position at the foundation), LOIS R. DeBACKER as associate vice president of civil society and environment, and KEVIN F. WALKER as associate vice president of the foundation's Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty programs. Smyth, who has served as the foundation's vice president for programs for fourteen years, is also chair of the Trust for Civil Society in Central & Eastern Europe and recently was reappointed by Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to the Great Lakes Protection Fund Board of Trustees. DeBacker, who joined Mott in 1991 and was formerly program director for the Environment program, serves on the board of the Environmental Support Center, is co-chair of the Michigan Land Use Funders Group, and is a member of the Standards and Practices Program Design Steering Committee for the Land Trust Alliance. Walker, who has been with the foundation since 1996 and had been program director for the Poverty program, serves on the boards of the Afterschool Alliance, Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families, Michigan's Children, and the Flint Institute of Music.

The Woodland Hills-based California Endowment has named ALONZO PLOUGH as vice president. Plough, director of Public Health-Seattle and King County (the tenth-largest public health agency in the United States) for ten years, held a similar position in Boston for eight years. He will be replaced at Public Health-Seattle and King County by Dorothy Teeter, chief of operations for the agency.

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington, D.C., has named DON I. THARPE as president and CEO. Tharpe, former executive vice president and COO of the Council on Foundations, also served as executive director of the Association of School Business Officials International and held a range of senior positions at the American Vocational Association. He is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and a former vice chair of its board.

The Dallas-based Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation has named DICK DAVIS as executive director. Davis, director of the Texas-Oklahoma regional office for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, previously had a career in outdoors journalism.

The Miller-Dwan Foundation in Duluth, Minnesota, has named DIANE LINK and CAMERON FRYER to its board. Link, an accountant for the Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority for twelve years, is also founder and owner of the Edge Pilates Studio in Duluth. Fryer is a retired vice president and senior financial consultant at Merrill Lynch.

The University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland has named BRIAN HALL, JAMES L. HAMBRICK, JERRY SUE THORNTON, and SCOTT A. WOLSTEIN to its board. Hall is chairman and CEO of Industrial Inventory Solutions. Hambrick is board chair and CEO of the Lubrizol Corporation. Thornton, president of Cuyahoga Community College, serves on the boards of the Cleveland Foundation, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, and the Urban League of Greater Cleveland. Wolstein, CEO of Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, serves on the boards of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, and the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross.

In other news, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore has named MICHAEL J. KLAG as dean and DAVID HOLTGRAVE as chair of its new department of health, behavior, and society. Klag, an expert on heart and kidney disease, is a professor and vice dean for clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Holtgrave, a nationally recognized leader in HIV prevention and social science, is a professor and vice chair of behavioral sciences and health education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.