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The Nationalities Service Center, a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps immigrants and refugees participate fully in U.S. society, has named Alicia Roch chair and Kate Rivera secretary. Roch is chief financial officer and human-resources director for Meyer, a commercial architecture and interior-design firm. Rivera is a project director for the WorkReady program at the Urban Affairs Coalition.

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The Nationalities Service Center, a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps immigrants and refugees participate fully in U.S. society, has named Alicia Roch chair and Kate Rivera secretary. Roch is chief financial officer and human-resources director for Meyer, a commercial architecture and interior-design firm. Rivera is a project director for the WorkReady program at the Urban Affairs Coalition.

Susan Buehler, executive vice president of Bellevue Communications Group, Philadelphia, has been elected to serve on the board of governors of the trade association Philly Ad Club.

Min S. Suh, a partner in the labor relations and employment law department at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel L.L.P., has been named to the board of the Homeless Advocacy Project.

Maria E. Bermudez has been elected to serve as a Zone 1 delegate to the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates for a three-year term. She is a Social Security and long-term disability attorney at Martin L.L.C., Philadelphia.

Crossroads Programs, a South Jersey charity operating group homes and providing support for a wide network of therapeutic foster-care homes as well as community care and outreach, has named the following officers: Tony Klym, manager, utility business development at ARI, Mount Laurel, president; Denise Hollingsworth, deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey, vice president; Jeff Ramsey, a parole board officer in Trenton, secretary; and Justin Ackerman, vice president of business development at Conner, Strong & Buckelew, Philadelphia, treasurer.

The Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, Camden, said Raymond L. Lamboy had been named chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board of Southwest New Jersey. Lamboy is president and chief executive officer of the Latin American Economic Development Association Inc.

Cooper's Ferry Partnership, a nonprofit economic-development corporation that facilitates long-range policy and infrastructure projects for the Camden waterfront and surrounding neighborhoods, has named William M. Varley to its board. He is president of New Jersey American Water and New York American Water.

Campbell Soup Co., Camden, has elected Marc B. Lautenbach to its board, which now has 16 members. Denise M. Morrison, Campbell Soup president and chief executive officer, is the only member of management on the board. Lautenbach is president and chief executive officer of Pitney Bowes Inc., and had been managing partner for global business services in North America at IBM.

The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia has elected Phillip E. Wilson Jr. to its board. He is a shareholder at Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia.

The National Association of Corporate Directors Philadelphia Chapter has named Terence J. Connors president. Connors is a senior audit partner in KPMG's Philadelphia office, where he serves as the Pennsylvania business unit's professional-practice partner.

WSFS Financial Corp., the Wilmington parent company of WSFS Bank, said WSFS executive vice president and chief commercial banking officer Rodger Levenson had been appointed chairman of the Delaware Bankers Association, a not-for-profit private trade association founded in 1895.

St. James School, an Episcopal middle school for students in the Allegheny West neighborhood of North Philadelphia, has named as board members Gordon B. Fowler Jr., president and chief executive officer of Glenmede and a director of Glenmede Trust Co. N.A; and the Rev. Marie Z. Swayze, co-founder of the Clinic, Phoenixville, and assisting priest at St. Mark's Church on Locust Street.

- Mike Zebe