Staff Members

Members of the Staff

100 Years of Dedicated Service to the Betterment of Greater Cleveland

Allen T. Burns was the first employee of the Cleveland Foundation. He began work as the director of research shortly after the foundation’s establishment on January 2, 1914. Well into the 1960s, a director and a secretary (for many years, the indispensable Dorothy Ruth) comprised the foundation staff. As the endowment grew and grantmaking increased, professional program and support staffs were assembled. The modernization of the foundation’s operations in the 1980s required additional staff with expertise in financial management, human resources, information technology, marketing, communications and asset development. In appreciation for their dedication to advancing the foundation’s mission of improving the quality of life in Greater Cleveland, the names of 325 of the men and women who have worked for the Cleveland Foundation over the past century are listed alphabetically here. See biographies and portraits of the current members of the foundation staff.

A

Thomas Albert
Roberta Allport
Goldie Alvis
Tammi Amata
Barbara Anderson
Paula Anderson
Kristi Andrasik
Juliane Anielski
Timothy Armbruster
Margaret McGrath Armour
Kate Asbeck

B

Ani Bagdasarian
Marvelous Baker
Mary Bartos
Karen Bartrum-Jansen
Richard Batyko
Dibri Beavers
Nelson Beckford
Donna Bell
Carmela Beltrante
Liz Benson
James Bickel
Michelle Blackford
Nancy Bloom
Suzanne Bloomfield
Lyz Bly
Lisa Bottoms
Caprice Bragg
Angeline Brlas
Bernita Brooks
Monica Brown
Annabel Bryan
Marcia Bryant
Martha Burchaski
Yvette Burrucker
Valarie Butler

C

Margaret Caldwell
Denise Campbell
Janet Campbell
Marjorie Carlson
Janet Carpenter (Ubel)
Charlotte Carr
Leyton Carter
Marlene Casini
Joan Cerne
Kathleen Cerveny
Gloria Chatman-Anderson
Ya-Mei Chen
Helen Chew
Susan Christopher
Alicia Ciliberto
Jennifer Cimperman
Mary Clink
Rennae Coe
Tiffanie Colston
Barbara Compton
Constance Conwell
Marie Coone
Kara Keating Copeland
Judith Corey
Anne Coughlin
Carl Curtis
Janice Cutright (Miller)

D

Heidi Daniels
Joyce Daniels
Beth Darmstadter (Volz)
A.W. Davey
Diana Davis
Edna Deal
Barbara Deerhake
George Delgado
Mary Clare Donnelly
Dennis Dooley
Traci Douglas
Darlene Downs
Patricia Jansen Doyle
Kathleen Drake-Smith
Leslie Dunford

E

Susan Lajoie Eagan
Brooks Earnest
Terri Eason
Stacey Easterling
Robert Eckardt
Darlene Eden
Linda Estacion
John Everett

F

Ann Fairhurst
Jennifer Farquhar
Michele Fast
Maureen Floyd
Maureen Forrest
Linda Fousek (Puffenberger)
Cathy Crabtree Fowler
Judith Fredrichs
Dwayne Freed
Joan Freese
Kristina Fretter
Michelle Fritz

G

Harold Garling
Pamela George
Linda Gersten
Florence Ghosn
Michele Gilbert
Evon Glass
Cathy Gleason
Janet Gleason
Lynn Gordon
Julianne Goss
Dee Groynom
Michael Grzesiak
Gita Gulati

H

Mary Louise Hahn
Kathleen Hallissey
Marla Hammel
Danielle Hanna (Obloy)
Teri Hansen
Angela Harris
Lois Hayes
Carol Hellyar
Helen Hendershott
Patrick Henry
Dorothy Highsmith
Michael Hinders
Michael Hoffmann
Elizabeth Honold
Karen Louie Hooi
June Howland
Julie Hrabak
Joseph Huston
James Hyman

I

Ellen Ivory

J

Shawn Jackson
Pamela Jaffe
Laura Jasinski
Tara Jefferson
Donna Johnson
J. Kimball Johnson
Roland Johnson
Ciba Jones
Lavetta Jones
Muriel Jones
John Joyce

K

Mae Karim
Diane Kaszei
Molly Keating
Shilpa Kedar
Sarah King
Gloria Kish
Cynthia Klug
Mary Frances Knuth
Anne Marie Kollander
Adrienne Koppenhaver
Terri Coleman Kovach
Lois Kowalski
Henry Kubach
Lillian Kuri
Brenda Kuvin

L

Jean Lang
Marcia LaRiche
Laura Lash
Lisa Laureano
Christine Lawson
India Pierce Lee
Terrie Leggett
Katherine LePar
Rose Marie Ley
Qi Li
John Love
Marci Lu
James Lubetkin
Jeffrey Lydenberg

M

Deanne Machen
Michael MacIvor
Susan Margaret Maloney
Roberta Mancini
Muhammad Mansur
Vicki Marty
Karen Mastney
Carlton Matson
Megan McAllister
Terri McBride
Nancy McCann
SyMone McClain
Lisanetta McDade
Kevin McDaniel
Anna McDonald
Bob McDowell
Jamie McGuire
Connie McHenry
Elizabeth McIntyre
Carolyn McKendry (Groth)
William McKersie
Greg McLaughlin
Kay Meier
Viena Melton
Kimalon Meriweather
Tamara Millard
Mary Mink
Steven Minter
John Mitterholzer
Ginger Mlakar
Raymond Moley
Marie Monago
Valerie Moreland
Charlotte Morosko (Palmison)
Amber Morris
David Mueckenheim
J.T. Mullen
Ann Mullin
Michael Murphy

N

Helen Nacey
Cindy Naegele
Asira Nazarova
Bruce Newman
Richard Ngoku
James Nichols
Mariam Noland
James Norton
Michelle Norton
Arline Nosse
Erin Novak

O

Lillian Oakley
Alida Oatman
John Olsen

P

Shari Pachinger
Kathy Parker
David Patterson
Jill Paulson
Rose Pavlik
Terry Pederson
Sylvia Pérez
Celene Petkash
Marilyn Potting
Paul Putman

R

Barbara Rawson
Jane Reisinger
Ronald Richard
Kaye Ridolfi
Robert Risberg
Ann Rittenhouse
Carmen Rizzo
Loretta Roman
Betty Roode
Stephen Rowan
Bill Rudman
Jennifer Rudolph (Bulloch)
Dorothy Ruth
Martha Rutkie

S

Kimberly Sabo
Judy Salm
Rikki Santer
Lynn Sargi (Andreas)
Karen Sayre
Sheri Scanlon
Carol Scheuer
Joyce Schneider
Suzanne Schneider
Laura Schubert
Donna Schuerger
Cynthia Schulz
Jo Ann Schwartz
Kathy Segatta
Holly Selvaggi
Diane Seskes
Timothy Simmerly
Ardine Simon
Carol Simonetti
Judith Simpson
Seymour Slavin
Debra Slocum
Eleanor Slys
Martha Snowden
Gail Stachnik
Bryan Stauffer
Kathleen Stecky
Barbara Steiner
Lemuel Stewart
Linda Stewart
Georgette Stier
Maggie Stiffler
Patricia Stiles
Kendra Strother-Awwal
Richard Stuebi
Vance Sullivan

T

Patty Takacs
Jay Talbot
Beverly Taliaferro
Donna Tan
Cindy Tausch
Joyce Taylor
Jennifer Teeter
Scott Tennant
Debra Thornsberry (Sabol)
Philip Tobin
Richard Tompkins
Edna Tyler

U

Denise Ulloa
Shirley Ulstad

V

Elise Van Bergen
William Von Alt

W

Homer Wadsworth
Marcus Walton
Kathy Wanneke
Lois Weber
Dorothy Weiss
Joanne Wirtz
Toni White
Bradley Whitehead
Leslie Wiesenberger
Carol Willen
Carl Williams
Helen Williams
Joyce Wilson
Megan Wilson
Pieretta Wingfield
Clare Woidke
Joan Wood
Lynne Woodman
Juanita Worthy
Carolyn Wright
Nelle Wright
Walter Wright

Y

Victor Young

Z

Mary Zins
Pamela Zoltowicz