Foundation Board

Geiermann selected for foundation board Annie L. Geiermann, senior vice president of the Citizens National Bank's Business Banking Group, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Columbia Foundation. The appointment was announced by Glenn L. Wilson, president of the bank. She will serve two three-year terms on the 31-member board. Geiermann replaces Joseph E. Pipetone of Citizens National, who has served on the board for five years. Citizens National, with headquarters in Laurel since 1890, is wholly-owned by Mercantile Bank Corp.

For three straight years, John A. Hayden III was one of the top recommendations of the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Convention, and all three years he was passed over for a school board position.This year, Hayden skipped the convention and sought the position directly from the governor and county executive -- and this week he finally won a spot on the 12-member county school board.Hayden will be sworn in todaywith school board member Sanford V. Teplitzky -- who was re-appointed by Gov. Parris N. Glendening for a second five-year term -- and Towson High School student Alice L. Arcieri, who was picked for a one-year term as the student member of the board.

Gregory A. Stiverson has been appointed executive director of the London Town Foundation board of directors. He comes to the foundation after 20 years as assistant state archivist and three years as manager of public affairs and training for the state comptroller's office.Stiverson has written or edited nearly 40 books and articles on Maryland history, including a biography of Maryland's signer of the Declaration of Independence, William Paca, and a Maryland history textbook for high school students.

TCAdventure Under the Big Top' benefits children's hospitalAN ADVENTURE Under the Big Top" was the theme of this year's Black and White Ball to benefit the New Children's Hospital on Greenspring Avenue. It was a tented affair and took place in and around the hospital's Bennett Institute.Celebrations Unlimited of Owings Mills transformed those areas into an elegant casino, where guests spent as much time at the gaming tables as they did at the buffet tables.Proceeds from this year's gala will be used to buy cardiac monitoring equipment for the hospital.

A CHANCE OF RAIN was in the forecast for last Monday evening, but Connie and Bill Pitcher were not worried about a garden party planned for the Founding Benefactors of Hospice of Baltimore. The guests would be well-protected by a large white tent, which was left over from a 40th birthday party for Bill's son. It turns out there was no reason to worry. The weather was perfect, and the thank-you party turned into a real celebration for the 75 guests.Before the party, Connie, vice-chair of GBMC Foundation and chair of the Capital Campaign for Hospice of Baltimore, knew the committee had raised all but $700,000 of the $8.3 million goal -- not bad for a campaign less than 2 years old.Soon after everyone was seated for dinner, Connie greeted her guests and thanked them for their help.

George Tribett has recently joined McCrone Inc. as a project manager in the Annapolis Office.McCrone Inc. an engineering, environmental consulting, surveying and land planning firm, has seven offices serving government, private industry and individual clients throughout the mid-Atlantic region.Mr. Tribett will direct staff and oversee completion of site design projects throughout central Maryland.He has 19 years of civil engineering expertise and was formerly the principal of Tribett Co. Inc., a land development services firm.

George A. Brugger was elected president of the Greater Laurel Beltsville Hospital Foundation in January. He succeeded Alfred H. Smith Jr. of Citizens Bank of Maryland and A. H. Smith Associates.Mr. Brugger began serving on the board as its vice president when it was formed in 1991.As president he will oversee all foundation board meetings and will be responsible for the management and direction of the business of the foundation.A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. Brugger is president and senior partner of Fossett and Brugger, a law practice concentrating in real estate development throughout the Baltimore and Washington corridor.

Hemophiliacs in the United States are dying at the rate of one a day.For years, they say, the National Hemophilia Foundation told them that contracting AIDS from blood-clotting medicines was an unavoidable tragedy, caused by the lack of early knowledge about the disease.Now, a deposition and other documents related to a class-action lawsuit against the foundation and four drug companies show that foundation executives understood as early as 1982 that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, likely was a blood-borne virus, that it could be transmitted to others through blood and that there was a potential for an epidemic.

Jan Ferguson has been appointed to the Anne Arundel Community College Foundation's board of directors.The foundation develops endowments for college scholarships and raises money for college building projects.Ms. Ferguson, an Anne Arundel Community College graduate, is president of Jan Ferguson Inc., an Annapolis interior plantscaping company.She and foundation member Marge Teel will lead the foundation's Special Events Committee, which coordinates fund-raising events.

* Chektec of Baltimore and Forensic Technologies of Annapolis won Best of Show awards at the Philadelphia Mid-Atlantic Venture Fair.Public service* Donald E. Wilson, M.D., was named chairman of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Dr. Wilson is dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.* The Maryland Hall Foundation board of trustees selected the following officers for the coming year: C. Fred Delavan, secretary; Allen C. Shay, treasurer; Robert W. Hoffman, annual fund drive chairman; Ruth Dukkony, nominating chairman; Maria Baker, major donor reception chairman; and Carole C. Cochran, fund-raising event chairman.

The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday blocked a company's payment to the embattled Baltimore City Foundation, and the city comptroller called for a halt to all donations to the private nonprofit group amid questions about how it oversees spending. Later in the day, Mayor Sheila Dixon called for an outside consultant to recommend new oversight procedures for the city-controlled foundation, her strongest response since a Baltimore Sun investigation revealed questionable transactions by public employees using charity money.

Foundation board adds Doetsch, O'Guinn Missy Mattey, executive director of the Howard Community College Educational Foundation, has announced the addition of two members to the organization's board of directors: Chip Doetsch and Rhonda O'Guinn. Doetsch, president and chief executive officer of Apple Ford, has more than 20 years of experience in automotive sales. He helped establish the Apple Ford franchise in Columbia. O'Guinn is a member of the Creig Northrop realty team with Long and Foster Real Estate Inc. She is a member of local, state and national associations of real estate professionals and the International Association of Home Staging Professionals.

The Anne Arundel County Public Library system is establishing a foundation that would raise money to build special collections, enhance old programs and add new ones. Funds raised by the foundation would supplement the annual $17 million budget that allows the library system to provide basic services. "Current library funding doesn't provide us the means to make our libraries exceptional," said Marion Francis, library administrator for the county public library for the past five years.

Geiermann selected for foundation board Annie L. Geiermann, senior vice president of the Citizens National Bank's Business Banking Group, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Columbia Foundation. The appointment was announced by Glenn L. Wilson, president of the bank. She will serve two three-year terms on the 31-member board. Geiermann replaces Joseph E. Pipetone of Citizens National, who has served on the board for five years. Citizens National, with headquarters in Laurel since 1890, is wholly-owned by Mercantile Bank Corp.

It was almost like Publishers Clearing House when the Carroll County Public Schools Education Foundation presented its first monetary awards for 18 programs at 14 schools around the county. Big smiles, heartfelt thank yous and congratulations were the order of the day as the Star Patrol school bus made its rounds, sometimes catching teachers in the classroom, giving their students a chance to share the goodwill. Winning teachers or administrators received a red, white and silver star-shaped balloon bouquet, corsage and an oversized check for a special project for their students.

New AAC Web site wins design, content awards Anne Arundel Community College has won four awards for its Web site, www.aacc.edu, since the revised site debuted in June. Web developers in the Information Services Department received the American Association of Webmasters "Gold Award" last month for "excellent design and layout of the Web site with quality content and informative information." The Web site also received the Literate Internet Site Award last month for a well-written, comprehensive Web site.

Howard Hospital announces foundation board members Robert A. Altieri, president and CEO of Carrollton Bank and Carrollton Bancorp, has joined the Howard Hospital Foundation board of trustees for a one-year term. Also new to the board are Barry M. Hart, Peter F. Hibbard, Richard M. Lombardo, Janet I. Oken, David R. Powell and Glenn Wilson. Hart is the new president of the Howard County General Hospital's Volunteer Auxiliary and will serve as an ex-officio board member. Hibbard is a founder of Columbia Benefits Consultants Inc. and National Partners Group Inc.; Lombardo is chief operating officer of Harkins Builders Inc.; Oken has been an active volunteer for the Howard Hospital Foundation and other groups; Powell is vice president of sales and marketing for Federal Business Council Inc.; and Wilson is chairman, president and CEO of Citizens National Bank.

Ann Ramsay of Havre de Grace is serving as chairwoman of the Harford Community College Foundation Board of Directors. Ramsay received her first college degree in 1964 from what was then known as Harford Junior College. "Even though I have earned additional degrees," she said in a statement, "I feel the strongest ties to our community college. I was privileged to serve two terms as a trustee from 1990-2000. After 2001, I remained active with the foundation to further serve" HCC. Ramsay is serving a three-year term as foundation chairwoman.

Howard Community College welcomed two new trustees last week, bringing the school's governing board back to its full strength of seven trustees plus the college president. Katherine K. Rensin, a retired speech and language pathologist and vice president of the college's educational foundation board, is filling a seat vacated in June last year by Joan Athen. Athen left to take a position as community college specialist with the U.S. Department of Education. Louis G. Hutt Jr., an accountant, lawyer and partner with Bennett, Hutt and Co., will complete the term of David A. Rakes, who left the board in September to successfully pursue a seat representing District 2 on the Howard County Council.

Hospice names two new members to foundation board Mark Anders of Baltimore and Mary Ann Treger of Annapolis have been elected to Hospice of the Chesapeake's foundation board of directors. Anders has served as a chief executive officer at Bank Annapolis and Sterling Bank & Trust Co. Treger, a free-lance writer, is a contributing editor for Style magazine and contributing writer for Chesapeake Life magazine.