On the Boards

West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, a nonprofit that focuses on improving literacy in children by opening previously shuttered libraries in public elementary schools, has named the following officers: Keith J. Richardson, managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority Development Corp., president; Ruth Brader, retired assistant general counsel in Wells Fargo & Co.'s legal division, vice president; Siobhan A. Reardon, president and director of the Free Library of Philadelphia, secretary; Heather Farber, senior director, communications and affinity partnerships, Northeast Retail Division, NRG Energy, treasurer, and Stephen Mygatt, principal of Mygatt Legal Services L.L.C., immediate past president.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, named the following resident trustees: Robert Friedman, chair of the private-client services group at Cozen O'Connor; Susan Hendrickson, partner at Dechert L.L.P., Philadelphia; Jonathan Newman, CEO and chairman of Newman Wine and former chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and Richard Snowden, owner and president of Bowman Properties and president of Cotiga Development Co., Williamson, W.Va.

Valentino D. Carlotti, partner and head of the Securities Division Institutional Client Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Ro King, an editor, author and photographer and founding partner of Quaero, were named national trustees.

Anjali N. Baxi, an associate at Archer & Greiner's Princeton office, was named secretary of the Health Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Glenn Barenbaum, senior manager at Ernst & Young, was named to the board of Riverbend Environmental Education Center.

Attorney Prince Altee Thomas has been named co-chair of the Fox Rothschild L.L.P. Diversity Committee.

The Library Company of Philadelphia, a nonprofit, independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries, named to its board Louise Scheide Marshall, former curator of maps and prints at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass.; Daniel K. Richter, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols professor of American History and the Richard S. Dunn director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Edward M. Waddington, managing director of Smart Devine & Co. L.L.C.

Gov. Corbett has appointed Integra Realty Resources senior managing director Joseph Pasquarella to the Pennsylvania State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers.

The Riddle Hospital medical staff has elected William H. Ayers Jr. president of the staff. Ayers, a general surgeon, serves as campus chief of the department of surgery at Riddle Hospital and is medical director of the Riddle Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center.

Other elected physicians include Pierre Y. Ghayad, vice president; Trina L. Bradburd and Sean A. Wright, at-large representatives to the medical executive committee of Main Line Health; Ashima Lall, Neerav R. Mehta, and Brian S. Wojciechowski, at-large representatives to the medical operations committee of Riddle Hospital.

Flaster Greenberg shareholder Bernard Eizen has been named chair of JEVS Human Services, a Philadelphia nonprofit. SSH Real Estate president Jeff Seligsohn has been named a board member.

Stephen J. Scherf, president of Asterion Inc. of Philadelphia, was named to the Nominations Committee of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Cathleen M. Devlin has been appointed a Division VI director within the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation. She is a partner at Saul Ewing L.L.P., Philadelphia.

Adam V. Orlacchio has been elected secretary of the Litigation Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. He is an attorney at Blank Rome L.L.P.

The Village (formerly Presbyterian Children's Village), Rosemont, has elected the following officers: Paula Bedi, an independent organization development and strategic planning consultant, chair; Andrew Nehrbas, senior vice president of investments and branch manager at Janney Montgomery Scott, Bryn Mawr, vice chair; Joanne Markman, is a Spanish teacher at the Gateway School, Gladwyne, secretary; Maris Ogg, president and a founder of Tower Bridge Advisors, West Conshohocken, treasurer, and John Sundquist, president of Breakwater Ventures L.L.C., assistant treasurer.

Elected to the board were Paul Bergsteinsson, retired vice president and assistant treasurer, Cigna Corp.; Melissa Englund, senior administrator of student services at Drexel University; Susan Lea, a faculty and mentoring coordinator at the Penn Literacy Network; Polly Shaffer, retired attorney and independent scholar and lecturer; and Robert Whalen, financial adviser, Tower Bridge Advisors.

Rick Coe, a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath L.L.P., was named to the boards of the National Veterans Legal Service Program and Trinity Cooperative Daycare Nursery.

Sarah Corley, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare Information Systems L.L.C., Horsham, has been named vice chair of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association.

- Mike Zebe