Forum - June/July 2009

ABOVE&BEYOND

Promotions and Changes

Jacqueline M. Kocinski, MPP, has joined Association Management Center as director of health policy and government relations for the American

Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, which AMC manages. Kocinski most recently was senior manager of advocacy for the North American Spine Society, prior to which she served as a policy analyst for The Council of State Governments.

The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau has named Joe Terzi its interim president and CEO. A former senior vice president at Star-

wood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Terzi retired on Jan. 1, but previously served for 12 years on the bureau’s board of directors, of which he was chairman in 2004.

Goldes Armstrong Hoops

As part of a strategic reorganization, the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau has promoted Dan Goldes, previously executive vice president of strategy and development, to executive vice president and chief stakeholder officer; Laurie Armstrong, previously vice president of public relations, to vice president of public affairs; and Leonard Hoops, previously executive vice president of sales and marketing, to executive vice president and chief customer officer. The bureau has also made several new appointments: Jennifer Thomson, previously of West Coast Green, is communications manager and Matt Stiker, formerly of Hewlett-Packard, is executive vice president and chief marketing officer.

The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association has hired Amy Calvert

as its new vice president of convention sales and services. Calvert previously spent nine years with the InterContinental Hotels

Group in its Washington, D.C., office, most recently as director of groups and incentive sales for IHG’s mid-Atlantic and Southeast region.

S&L Hospitality, manager of the new Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Chicago — West O’Hare in Hillside, Ill., has named

Rheannon Reese its new director of sales and marketing. Reese previously was the senior sales and catering manager for Hyatt Place in Schaumburg, Ill.

The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has hired Shawn Torrey as its new event coordinator in charge of event planning,

preparation and set-up. Torrey served in the convention center’s exhibit services department from 1993 until 1997, at which time she relocated to Chicago to help develop the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority’s FOCUS One department. Prior to returning to New Orleans, she worked for the Sands Expo in Las Vegas.

Paul M. Doetsch, CPA, CMA, has joined CPA firm Legacy Professionals LLP as a partner in its Chicago office. A frequent speaker

on nonprofit management and accounting issues, Doetsch has more than 18 years of experience in the audits of labor organizations, employee benefit plans, nonprofits and local government.

Obituary

Judith Krug, director of the office for intellectual freedom at the American Library Association and executive director of the

Freedom to Read Founda-
tion, died April 11 after
a long illness. Krug was
known for her tenacious bat-
tle against censorship and
was founder of ALA’s Banned Books Week.

“For more than four decades, Judith Krug inspired librarians and educated government officials and others about everyone’s inviolable right to read,” said Jim Rettig, ALA president, and Keith Michael Fiels, ALA executive director. “Her leadership in defense of the First Amendment was always principled and unwavering. Judith’s courage, intelligence, humor and passion will be much missed — but her spirit will inspire us always.”