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April 16, 1999/30 Nisan 5759, Vol. 51, No. 29
People on the MoveJanet Arnold, producing director of the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, was elected president of the International Association for Jewish Theatre at its annual conference in Atlanta, Ga. The association is a network comprised of representatives from more than 35 Jewish theaters, as well as individual playwrights, critics and others interested in the establishment and growth of the Jewish theater movement in the United States and Canada. Arnold has been active in the organization for more than 11 years, since she founded the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, which is now one of the largest Jewish theaters in North America.IMPACT for Enterprising Women, the Phoenix affiliate of the National Association for Female Executives, has elected its 1999 Board of Directors. The new board includes President Helen Goldman, owner of Primo Promos; Vice President Doreen Pollack, professional coach, Bank One; Secretary Ruthann Clemens, owner of R/C Systems; and Treasurer Gail Allan, Liver Foundation. IMPACT, founded in 1979, is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women make a difference in their own lives, in their community and in the workplace. Heather Kleppe has joined Robert H. Nagel as a real estate paralegal. She previously worked with Snell & Wilmer, as well as with Bank One, Arizona. Robert H. Nagel focuses on commercial legal matters with an emphasis on shopping-center development and leasing. Sandy Abalos, certified public accountant, has been elected a director of Sunrise Bank of Arizona. The bank was formed when the top Small Business Administration (SBA) loan officers joined forces to form a new full-service community bank specializing in SBA 7A and 501 loans. Sunrise is an affiliate of Sun Community Bancorp Ltd., a bank holding company based in Arizona. Abalos is the president of Abalos & Associates, a full-service CPA firm. Hanson, Moser & Associates, a Phoenix-based public relations and marketing communications firm, has announced the promotion of Jennifer Kaplan to account executive. Formerly an account coordinator, Kaplan has been with the with the agency since 1997. Kaplan is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, where she received a bachelor of science degree in public relations. She is a current member of the Public Relations Society of America, Valley of the Sun Chapter and is a member of its University Relations Committee. Hanson, Moser and Associates has been serving clients in the Southwest for two decades, providing expertise in media and community relations, crisis and employee communications, issues management and special events to organizations in both the private and public sector. Sherry Siegel recently joined the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix as Incredible Classifieds manager. Siegel has an extensive background in business and general communications, and most recently worked in account services for JWT Specialized Communications, an advertising agency primarily involved with recruitment advertising. She has a bachelor of arts in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University in New York and a master of science in education from Queens College, City University of New York. Pamela Watkins, certified public accountant, has joined Abalos & Associates. Watkins, a graduate of Southern California College in Costa Mesa, has an extensive background in public and private accounting, with more than 15 years experience in California and Oregon. Abalos & Associates is nationally recognized, full-service CPA firm specializing in tax, accounting, and consulting solutions for the closely held business. The Phoenix office of American Express Tax and Business Services has promoted four of its executives. Mark Brenner and Alan English have been promoted to managing director from their previous positions of director. Elizabeth Monty and James Anderson have been promoted to director from their previous positions of senior manager. Mark Genrich, an editor, editorial writer and columnist with the Phoenix Gazette and Arizona Republic for the past two decades, has been named director of the Warne Center for Regulatory Accountability at the Goldwater Institute. The new center was founded with the purpose of studying government regulation and encouraging reforms that censure individual liberty, fortify respect for due process, and secure property rights in the marketplace. A graduate of the Mercersburg Academy and Bucknell University, Genrich was a 1985 Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He also attended both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy War Colleges. Genrich also serves on the American Bar Association's Committee on Prisons and Sentencing. Gov. Jane Dee Hull recently named Jacqueline Schafer as director of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, John Clayton as director of Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phyllis Biedess as director of Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, and Michael Anable as director of Arizona Land Department. Richard Ruskell, chef patissier (pastry chef) at The Phoenician, recently won two of the six medals awarded at the Patisfrance U.S. Pastry Competition at the New York Restaurant Show. Ruskell won most artistic plate for his chocolate daquoise cake, a dessert of disc-shaped, nut-flavored meringues stacked and filled with sweetened whipped cream. He also created a showpiece chocolate Hopi Indian sculpture, which together with the daquoise cake, won him a bronze medal award of recognition for overall excellence. The competition is one of the most prestigious pastry competitions in the United States. Recently named one of the "Top Ten Pastry Chefs" in the nation by the editors of Pastry Art & Design and Chocolatier magazines, Ruskell joined the Phoenician in 1992 and is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Arizona State University has named Jonathan Fink vice provost for research. Fink has held the position on an interim basis since July 1997 and was selected after a nationwide search. As vice provost for research, Fink is responsible for overseeing all of the university's research functions, including administering grants and checking compliance issues in relation to university research. He has been at ASU since 1980, as a geology professor. He has also served as chairman of the Department of Geology for three years and has served as a program director at the National Science Foundation. Christine Stevenson, owner of Pinnacle Peak Animal Hospital, was selected as the number one veterinarian in the recent KPHO-TV Channel 5 news poll, Vets Choosing Vets. She was selected as the top veterinarian in a poll of more than 1,600 vets when asked who they would trust when it came to caring for their own pets. Stevenson, a graduate of University of Arizona, received her doctor of veterinary medicine from Colorado State University in 1992. Debora Gallo-Capaldi, owner of Pucci Salon and Day Spa, has been selected as a distinguished member of the Top 100 Who's Who Women by Today's Arizona Woman Success Magazine. The Top 100 represents women business owners and women executives in public and private companies who have enjoyed significant business achievements. Qualification is based on gross revenues and employees. Pucci is a full service salon and day spa specializing in women and men's hair services, nail care, body services, tanning and permanent make-up. West USA Commercial has announced that Richard Epstein, a business broker, has been named top producer and top sales volume leader for 1998. He will be recognized at a banquet at the Wrigley Mansion on the evening of May 7. Jim Pfeiffer, a 15-year banker, has been named vice president and Phoenix-area manager for Wells Fargo's Business Banking Group. He will manage the commercial loan officers. Pfeiffer received his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and graduated from Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. -Compiled by Michelle Ackerman |
