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The Urban League of Philadelphia, a nonprofit civil rights and community-based movement, elected Otha "Skip" Spriggs 3d chairman of the board. He is senior vice president of human resources for Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, and president of the Cigna Foundation.

Jeffrey M. Schweitzer joins Montco Lands Trust.
Jeffrey M. Schweitzer joins Montco Lands Trust.Read more

The

Urban League of Philadelphia,

a nonprofit civil rights and community-based movement, elected

Otha "Skip" Spriggs 3d

chairman of the board. He is senior vice president of human resources for Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, and president of the Cigna Foundation.

Michael Pagano

was appointed as a member of the

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

(FINRA), a Washington organization that oversees the regulatory activity in major U.S. equities markets and the securities firms that operate within the markets. The first academic to join FINRA, he is associate professor of finance at the Villanova School of Business.

Steven L. Chung

was appointed to the board of the Philadelphia

Trial Lawyers Association

, a professional organization. He is a trial lawyer with Lundy Law, Philadelphia.

AmeriGas Propane Inc.

, Valley Forge, a general partner of AmeriGas Partners L.P., elected

Marvin O. Schlanger

to its board. He is a principal in Cherry Hill Chemical Investments L.L.C., Drexel Hill.

UGI Corp.

, a Valley Forge distributor and marketer of energy products and services, named

M. Shawn Puccio

to its board. She also was elected to the board of UGI Utilities Inc. Puccio is senior vice president, finance of Saint-Gobain Corp., the Valley Forge North American business of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, Courbevoie, France.

Michael Amarosa

was elected chairman of the E9-1-1 Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides administrative and policy support to the congressional

E9-1-1 Caucus

, which promotes public education and awareness of E9-1-1 and emergency-communications issues. He is senior vice president of public affairs at TruePosition Inc., a Berwyn provider of wireless location technologies and services and a subsidiary of Liberty Media Holding Corp.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc.

, a Malvern maker of semiconductor and electronic components, elected

Ronald M. Ruzic

to its board to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of director

Mark I. Solomon.

Before retiring in 2003, Ruzic had been executive vice president of BorgWarner Inc., Auburn Hills, Mich., since 1992 and group president of BorgWarner Automotive Inc. since 1989.

Jeffrey M. Schweitzer

was elected to the board of

Montgomery County Lands Trust

, a Lederach nonprofit land-conservancy organization. He is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania, Souderton.

The

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation

, a Philadelphia private, nonprofit foundation supporting local arts and cultural organizations, appointed two new officers and four new directors to its board:

Elizabeth Sayre

, an ethnomusicologist, is vice chair.

Helen Shannon

, chairwoman of museum education, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, is secretary.

Evelyne Laurent-Perrault

is a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora Studies at New York University.

Wendy Osterweil

is assistant professor in the Art and Art Education Department at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Kathryn Petersen

is artistic associate with The People's Light & Theatre Company and assistant professor of theater at Arcadia University, Glenside.

Angela Watson

is founder of Camara Arts, Philadelphia.

Thomas A. Masterson Jr.

was elected president of the

Radnor Township Board of Commissioners

. He is a senior trial attorney with Lundy Law, Philadelphia.

- Mike Zebe