On the Boards

The Franklin Institute elected Daniel J. Hilferty to its board of trustees. Hilferty is president and chief executive officer of Independence Blue Cross.

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Lannett Co. Inc., a Philadelphia manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals, said Jeffrey Farber, vice chairman of the board, had been named chairman, succeeding Ronald A. West, who is relinquishing the chairman position because of health reasons, but who will remain on the board. Farber is president and owner of Auburn Pharmaceutical, a national generic pharmaceutical distributor.

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The board of directors of City Trusts appointed Omar T. Woodard to the Girard College board of managers. He was also appointed a director of the Girard College Development Fund. Woodard is a principal at Venture Philanthropy Partners in Washington, D.C.

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University of the Sciences board of trustees elected Aminta Hawkins Breaux and Dominic A. Marasco as at-large members, and named Richard Hall an alumni representative. Hawkins Breaux is vice president for student affairs at Millersville University. Marasco is executive vice president of business development for inVentiv Health. Hall is director of research and development and portfolio management information at GlaxoSmithKline.

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Emilie R. Ninan was named president of the North American South Asian Bar Association. She is managing partner in the Wilmington office of Ballard Spahr and responsible for its public finance department.

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The Philadelphia Black Public Relations Society named the following officers to a two-year term:

Darisha K. Miller, director of media relations for Ross Associates Inc., is president.

Shalimar Blakely, president of A Peace of PR and immediate past president, will serve as chair of the PBPRS advisory board.

Vincent Thompson, principal of Thompson Mediaman Communications, is vice president.

David Brown, vice president sales and community relations at United Healthcare Community Plan, is immediate past chair.

Members include:

Nichole Badger, an attorney at the law office of Nichole Badger L.L.C.

Anita T. Conner, a CPA at Anita T. Conner & Associates P.C.

Bruce Crawley, president and principal owner of Millennium 3 Management Inc.

Anita Lewis, legislative program manager of Health Partners.

Lorina Marshall-Blake, president of the Independence Blue Cross Foundation.

William R. Miller IV, founder and CEO of Ross Associates Inc.

Jamila Patton, senior manager of corporate communications at Comcast Corp.

Dawn Angelique Roberts, managing partner and co-founder of KD Communications.

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The American Society of Appraisers, a Reston, Va., professional association, elected Susan M. Golashovsky to its board of governors representing Region 1. Golashovsky is an accredited senior appraiser and a personal property appraiser and consultant in the Philadelphia area.

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Kimberly Van Haitsma, director of the Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, was named a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

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Walter I. Hofman, the Montgomery County coroner, was elected secretary of the Montgomery County Medical Society.

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Duane Morris partner James Ferrelli was reappointed to the New Jersey State Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee. Ferrelli focuses his practice on business litigation, products liability and class actions in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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Stephen H. Frishberg, a partner at the law firm Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich, was elected to a second term as president of the Golden Slipper Club and Charities of Philadelphia, a nonprofit multi-service agency founded in 1922.

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Walter Borginis 3d was elected treasurer of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. He is executive vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia.

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Mark B. Anderson was appointed chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Einstein Health Network's Regional Cardiothoracic Surgery Program. He was chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery, and professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine.

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Mariell Jessup, associate chief — clinical affairs, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and medical director of the Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center, was named president-elect of the American Heart Association.

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Stephen S. Tang was elected to the board of the Team Pennsylvania Foundation, a private, nonprofit partnership with the state. He is president and CEO of the University City Science Center in Philadelphia.

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MusicWorks, a nonprofit Havertown music therapy service provider, named JB Braun to its board. He is the publisher of Main Line Today Magazine.

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The Germantown Branch of Settlement Music School appointed Charles S. Marion to its board. He is a partner at Pepper Hamilton L.L.P., Philadelphia.