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May/June 2010

Linda McGrath was named marketing director of The Terraces at Harris Ranch, a life care community in Boise, Idaho …
Pulte Homes, Inc., has changed its name to PulteGroup …
Paul Dolan has become Cybex International’s new director of sales education, while Stephen Alvezi is the new director of sales for CYBEX Golf …
Joyce J. Cammilleri, owner of World Gym International, has given $2 million to support the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California …
Terri S. Cunliffe has been appointed executive vice president for operations at Chicago, Illinois-based Covenant Retirement Communities, Inc. …
Stephen Hopkins was promoted to the position of executive director of LifeChoice Solutions, a new service line and wholly owned subsidiary of Evangelical Homes of Michigan …
SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders) recently opened an office in Washington, DC, while its New York City team welcomed Robert Espinoza as senior director for policy and communications …
US Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue is the 2010 recipient of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Humanitarian Award …
Tom Becker, president and CEO of Medford, Oregon-based Pacific Retirement Services (PRS), has announced his pending retirement; Brian McLemore, PRS’s executive vice president of development and marketing, will take over as president …
the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy was named recipient of the National Council on Aging’s 2010 Ollie Randal Award, which recognizes an individual for “singular and outstanding contributions toward advancing the cause of aging” …
the American Medical Directors Association named Robert Schreiber, MD, CMD, physician-in-chief at Hebrew SeniorLife in Roslindale, Massachusetts, as its 2010 Medical Director of the Year …
and Craig Williams has acquired Body Bar, Inc., and joined the company as president.

March/April 2010

Tad Cook has joined Evanston, Illinois-based Mather LifeWays as director of sales …
the National Osteoporosis Foundation named Amy McGuire Porter executive director and CEO …
Pulte Homes founder William J. Pulte retired effective March 31 …
new members joining RetirementJobs.com’s corporate advisory board are Sherry Lansing, former chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures; Deborah Russell, director of Workforce Issues at AARP; Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service; and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, PhD, director of the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College …
Murphys Senior Center in Murphys, California, hired Steve Shetzline as executive director …
Wesley Enhanced Living has appointed Lorrie Klaric as director of enhanced living program development for the Southampton, Pennsylvania, company …
Robert E. Smyth has joined the Cybex board of directors …
Jane Pauley is joining AARP as its new Ambassador of Your Life Calling …
the John Mackey Award for Excellence in Dementia Care was recently presented to Arnold Eppel, former director of the Baltimore County Department of Aging and currently executive director of Atrium Village in Owings Mill, Maryland …
Luxury Pools magazine bestowed its Pinnacle Award on Roger Soares II and his wife, Sheri, owners of pool designing firm HydroScapes, in Fountain Hills, Arizona …
the 50+ Housing Council of the Building Industry Association of Southern California recently announced winners of the 15th annual SAGE awards including, among others, Person of the Year Manny Gonzalez, AIA, a principal with KTGY Group, Inc., for his longtime professional contributions …
and ICAA Advisory Board Member Terry Ferebee Eckmann, PhD, is now a full professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Human Performance at Minot State University, North Dakota.

Jan/Feb 2010

Cathy Ellis, PT, will serve a second one-year term as board chair of the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) …
Immanuel Senior Living, of Omaha, Nebraska, has named Dan Friedlund to the post of chief financial officer and Mark Carlson as executive director of its Lakeside Village community …
Kim Lehman has joined Varsity, a Pennsylvania-based mature marketing agency …
International Council on Active Aging® advisor Rita Lopienski, a community life manager at Pathway Senior Living’s Victory Centre of Bartlett, Illinois, recently won a 2009 Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award from the Illinois Humanities Council …
architect Victor Yue has been named managing partner of the Washington, DC, office of Dorsky Hodgson Parrish Yue …
Wendy Gainan was appointed director of sales and marketing at Mirador, a Senior Quality Lifestyles community in Corpus Christi, Texas …
the Illinois Department on Aging hosted an awards ceremony during the annual Governor’s Conference on Aging in December to honor more than a dozen individuals and organizations providing best services to assist older adults; honorees included Jane Angelis, PhD, director of the Intergenerational Initiative, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, who received the Governor’s Award for Excellence (a full list of honorees is posted at www.state.il.us/aging/1news_pubs/news/2009-1211.htm) …
Calvin Johnson (“C. J.”) has succeeded Dick Desrochers as president of Sodexo Inc.’s Hospitals division, the company’s largest operating unit; Desrochers has moved into a new senior leadership position with Sodexo …
Rich Armentrout is now vice president of finance and chief financial officer of Sunnyside Communities, Virginia
Niall Galloway, MD, founder and director of Emory University’s Continence Center in Atlanta, Georgia, has been elected as board chairman of the National Association for Continence.

Nov/Dec 2010

Sharyn Sutton, PhD, recently joined the AARP Foundation as vice president of strategy and communications …
David Eskenazy is now chief financial officer of Áegis Living, headquartered in Redmond, Washington …
Council on Aging Executive Director Judith H. White retires in January after 11 years at the helm of the Senior Center in Monson, Massachusetts …
Rainer Martins, founder and president of Human Kinetics, was inducted into the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame …
Healthy aging consultant William F. Benson received a Partners in Public Health Improvement Award from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The National Council on Aging (NCOA) recently welcomed Sheela Mirmira, director for corporate partnerships and development …
Nancy A. Whitelaw, PhD, senior vice president and director of NCOA’s Center for Healthy Aging, was awarded the 2009 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award …
PANPHA, an association of nonprofit senior services in Pennsylvania, selected Barbara E. Hudson, chief learning officer and dean of ACTS Corporate University (ACTS Retirement-Life Communities’ training school), as its Facilitator of the Year …
AARP recently promoted Marilyn Milloy from features editor to deputy editor of AARP The Magazine, which reaches 24 million American homes …
Stan Pantowich was named chairman of the System Board of Trustees of Jewish Home Lifecare in New York …
Brad Wilkins, director of fitness management and development for Cooper Fitness Center in Dallas, received the John McCarthy Institute Merit Scholarship from the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) in July …
Seattle-based Emeritus Senior Living recently promoted Chris Hyatt to senior vice president of operations …

Corporate Fitness Works, Inc., presented its annual Rachel House Hudson Customer Care Award to Susan Richie, wellness coordinator at Kendal Crosslands Community in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania …
Michael Munter, COO of CRL Senior Living Communities, was appointed to serve on the Wisconsin Assisted Living Association’s Board of Directors…
Sharon S. Butterworth replaced Terry Wilkinson as presiding officer of the Texas Aging and Disability Services Council, which recommends policies to the state’s Health and Human Services Commission …
Mary Jones recently joined Redmond, Washington-based Áegis Living as corporate vice president of sales and marketing …
Hebrew SeniorLife appointed Louis Jay Woolf as president, a new position created to better support the organization’s recent expansion.

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Cheryl Phillips, MD, AGSF, CMD, became president of the American Geriatrics Society in April …
ICAA Visioning Board MemberJim Evans was the sole inductee into the US Natural (Drug-Free) Bodybuilding Hall of Fame in June …
The National Council on Aging welcomed John C. Erickson, executive chairman and founder of Erickson Retirement Communities, to its board of directors …
Jack LaLanne will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry’s Fitness Business Pro magazine at the Club Industry show in October …
Emily Haymes, PhD, FACSM, coeditor of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, was honored with the Rathbone award at the annual American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) meeting …
ACSM recently elected Thomas Best, MD, PhD, FACSM, a professor of family medicine and codirector of the sports medicine program at the Ohio State University, as president (June 2010) …
Mount Vernon At Home, a new service organization for older adults in Fairfax County, Virginia, hired former AARP executive Jeff Reed as its executive director …
Recipients of the 2009 President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Lifetime Achievement Award included Asahel “Ash” E. Hayes, EdD, the Council’s former executive director and healthy lifestyles advocate; 94-year-old George P. Nissen, inventor of the trampoline; and Betty Perkins-Carpenter, PhD, founder and president of Senior Fitness Productions, Inc. …
Kathryn Kelly was appointed wellness coach for the new Center for Healthy Living at Orchard Grove, a Hebrew SeniorLife community in Canton, Massachusetts …
Frank Iszak, founder of the Silver Age Yoga Community Outreach program in San Diego, California, was named Community Champion gold honoree in the 2009 MetLife Foundation Older Volunteers Enrich America Awards, administered by n4a.
Paul Kleyman, former editor of Aging Today, the American Society on Aging’s bimonthly newspaper, recently joined New America Media as associate director of a newly established ethnic elders newsbeat; Alison Hood is the new editor of Aging Today …
John C. Erickson, founder and chairman of Erickson Retirement Communities, was presented with the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ (AFP) top philanthropy honor, the Paschal Murray Award for Outstanding Philanthropist …
Ellen Renner has been named executive director of Rosewood Retirement Community, an American Baptist Homes of the West community …
Mary Mittelman, DPH, Department of Psychiatry research professor at New York University Langone Medical Center and director of the Psychosocial Research and Support Program at its Center of Excellence for Brain Aging and Dementia, received the first global award for psychosocial research in Alzheimer’s and dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease International and the Fondation Mederic Alzheimer …
Martha DiTaranto was appointed regional sales director for Senior Living Communities …
Victor Yue has become managing partner of the Washington, DC, office of architectural firm Dorsky Hodgson Parrish Yue … Chicago-based Senior Lifestyle Corporation has tapped former Senior Vice President of Operations Keven J. Bennema to move into its chief operating officer position …
Beth Barber, program director at the Senior Center Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been appointed by the Senate Committee on rules in conformance to the Commonwealth Council on Aging …

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Teresa Beshwate has joined Masterpiece Living, LLC, as operations and data specialist …
Jim Pusateri is now senior vice president of sales and marketing at Horizon Bay Retirement Communities.
AARP appointed A. Barry Rand to succeed Bill Novelli as CEO, starting in April. Rand will be the first African-American to lead the organization…
Kane Realty Corporation announced that Martha Grove Hipskind, director of senior living at a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Raleigh, North Carolina, will serve on the 2009 Brain Fitness Advisory Board for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, a business news magazine covering institutional long-term care …
Independent Living Systems, LLC, named the Honorable Josefina G. Carbonell, former US assistant secretary for aging, to the post of senior vice president, Long Term Care and Nutrition…
Tedi Markham has joined the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as codirector of fitness…

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Lakeview Village, a CCRC in Lenexa, Kansas, has selected James K. Frazier as its new chief executive officer…
Pam Curtis is now executive director of Senior Resources of West Michigan, an Area Agency on Aging in Tanglewood Park…
The Public Health Accreditation Board has appointed Kaye Bender as president and chief executive officer…
Steve Eichen joins Pacific Retirement Services as chief information officer …
Jan Busby-Whitehead, a professor in the department of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine, has been elected chair of the board of the American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Health in Aging…
Redstone, California PEO Home’s newest planned senior living community, has hired the following associates: Stephanie Rees, director of sales; Becky Happach and Lindsay Rees, senior living counselors; and Kendra Sanchez, marketing assistant.
John Erickson, of Maryland-based Erickson Retirement Communities, stepped down as CEO in November and Bruce R. “Rick” Grindrod took over the helm; Erickson continues with the company as chairman…
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Experience Corps in Washington, DC, has appointed Lester F. Strong as its CEO…
SpaFinder Inc. presented its sixth annual Visionary Award to Deborah Szekely, owner/founder of the Golden Door and Rancho La Puerta spa resorts…
SearStone, a continuing care retirement community in Cary, North Carolina, has appointed Morgan Lamphere as director of community outreach and promoted Laura Lowe to director of sales and marketing…
Dee Scott, executive director of Senior Resources of West Michigan, retired after 25 years on the job…
Karen Riddle is the new director of healthcare marketing at Watersong, a retirement community in Viera, Florida…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently appointed Lilliam Barrios-Paoli as commissioner of the New York City Department for the Aging…
Jon Harder, founder and CEO of Oregon-based Sunwest Management, has filed a personal voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, as part of a larger effort to address the financial challenges facing the senior living provider…
Linda Haley, senior resource manager for Arapahoe County, Colorado, will serve as president of the Arapahoe County Council on Aging in 2009…
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Terry Bazzarre, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton, New Jersey, has announced his retirement, according to Active for Life, aprogram he once managed for RWJF ...
Kimberly Acquaviva, PhD, DSW, transitions in January to chair of the Friends of the National Institute on Aging Coalition ...
Jim Kinsey has been named community life leader at Messiah Village in Mechanicsburg, New Jersey ...
Patrick Baldwin joined Retirement Living TV as general manager ...
Becky Snyder, executive director of community services at Pacific Retirement Services, was appointed to the Oregon Voluntary Action and Service Commission by Governor Ted Kulongoski
Marc K. Drezner, MD, has begun his term as president of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research ...
Lynne Starling takes up the mantle of wellness coordinator at Osprey Village at Amelia Island Plantation ...
Chuck Leve has departed the International, Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to launch an association that will serve active, healthy lifestyle consumers ...
Loretta Taylor was named to the post of director of spa operations for the Oneida Nation’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino ...
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Janet Hamburg, director of senior wellness and exercise for the Center for Movement Education and Research in Los Angeles and a senior research associate for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, was interviewed for the Kansas City Star about her program Motivating Moves for People with Parkinson’s ...
Paola Timiras, founder and codirector of the Center for Research and Education on Aging at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor emerita of molecular and cell biology, died in September at age 85. ...
Stephen Eggles joined ACTS Retirement-Life Communities in the new position of regional vice president, Mid-South ...
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, announced he will step down as director of the US National Institutes on Health (NIH) at the end of October, while geriatrician and educator Marie A. Bernard, MD, took on the mantle of deputy director of NIH’s National Institute on Aging ...
TR Mann Consulting added the following new mature market experts: geriatrician Gary Applebaum, MD; Marks, Thomas Architects; David Weilgelt of Immersion Active, and Anirban Basu of Associated Builders and Contractors ...
Sunrise Senior Living Founder and CEO Paul Klaasen transitions to non-executive chairman of the board in November, and Mark Ordan becomes CEO ...
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Shirley Archer was recently named 2008 IDEA Health and Fitness Association Fitness Instructor of the Year, Nicki Anderson was IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year, and P. J. O’Clair, master instructor trainer for STOTT PILATES, was IDEA Program Director of the Year
Mitchell W. Warren assumed the post of president of the LaSalle Group and Chad J. Anderson, the role of president of Constant Care Management Company, now an independently run entity
Senior Living Communities welcomed Kelly Stranburg in the newly created position of wellness director ...
Alvaro Fernandez, CEO and cofounder of SharpBrains, accepted an invitation to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Challenges of Gerontology ...
Dwayne Clark, founder of Aegis Living, received Senior Services’ Lifetime Achievement Award ...
Martin M. Yadrick, director of nutrition information at Computrition Inc., in Los Angeles, recently began a one-year term as the 2008–2009 president of the American Dietetic Association ...
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Linda Hollinger-Smith, formerly of Life Services Network in Hinsdale, Illinois, is now vice president of Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging in nearby Evanston ...
Karie MacDonald is the new resident services director at Edgewater Pointe Estates, an ACTS Retirement-Life Community located in Boca Raton, Florida ...
John Hink and Tom Gale recently joined Lancaster Pollard in Columbus, Ohio, as regional healthcare investment bankers ...
Nancy Dunn is now executive director of the Elizabeth McGown Training Institute at Morningside Ministries in San Antonio, Texas ...
Patty W. Scotten, formerly of Twin Lakes Community in Burlington, North Carolina, has been hired as the marketing director of Glenaire, a continuing care retirement community in Cary ...
Mark Blazer was recently named executive director of Splendido, a CCRC in southern Arizona, while Karen Kovacs was hired as director of sales ...
Dave Zachry has joined equipment manufacturer Octane Fitness in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, as a sales manager for commercial national accounts in the western United States ...
Nancy Gordon, formerly director of growth opportunities at Friendship Village of Schaumburg, Illinois, has become director of the California Lutheran Homes Center for Spirituality and Aging, located in Anaheim, following Donald Koepke’s recent retirement from the position. Koepke is continuing his association with the center as director emeritus. ...

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