The Arizona Region of Jewish National Fund has elected the following officers for 2007: Simon Eisenberg, president; Leatrice Nach, Steve Freidkin and Dr. Carol Ford, vice presidents; Sandi Fuller, secretary; Nelson Lerner, treasurer; Mark Kelman, immediate past president. Kelman is also the new president of the Western Zone of JNF.
R&R Partners in Phoenix has added Tara La Bouff, David Weissman and Emily Hanson in its public relations department. Weissman and La Bouff are account executives and Hanson is account coordinator.
Weissman will be working with Cox Communications and Arizona Business and Education Coalition. A former journalist, he previously worked at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, where he served as the communications leader handling community relations.
La Bouff, also a former journalist, will be working with Valley Metro and TriWest Healthcare Alliance. She previously worked at TriWest Healthcare where she worked as a senior communications specialist.
Hanson will have dual responsibility on Cox Communications and Arizona Department of Health Services. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she held a variety of leadership roles in both community and campus organizations. She previously worked at Knupp & Watson Advertising in Madison, Wis.
Jim Small, chief executive officer of Parker Finch Management, a community-association management firm based in Phoenix, has been appointed to serve on the Business Advisory Council by the National Republican Congressional Committee. Small will serve the state of Arizona and is expected to play a crucial role in the process of government reform, particularly in debt reduction and tax reform. Small and Parker Finch also were recently named franchising "Young Guns" by Entrepreneur magazine after becoming the first community management firm in the country to franchise its services nationwide. Parker Finch was also recently honored as one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Phoenix Business Journal.
Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is among the women who will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame this year. The other inductees are master chef Julia Child; philanthropist Catherine Filene Shouse; end-of-life activist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross; suffragist Martha Coffin Wright; engineer Eleanor K. Baum; social reformer Swanee Hunt; environmental advocate Winona LaDuke; and astronomer Judith Pipher. Induction ceremonies will take place Oct. 6-7 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the hall's hometown and the birthplace of the American women's movement. The hall was founded in 1969.
