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Barbara Wadsworth, Main Line Health senior vice president and chief nursing officer, has been named to the governing board of the Gift of Life Donor Program. Since 1974, Gift of Life has coordinated more than 37,000 lifesaving organ transplants and more than 550,000 tissue transplants, and serves as the link between donors and patients awaiting transplants.

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Barbara Wadsworth

, Main Line Health senior vice president and chief nursing officer, has been named to the governing board of the

Gift of Life Donor Program.

Since 1974, Gift of Life has coordinated more than 37,000 lifesaving organ transplants and more than 550,000 tissue transplants, and serves as the link between donors and patients awaiting transplants.

The Center City Proprietors Association, a nonprofit member organization for small businesses, has elected the following officers: Linda Karp, president of Karp Marketing, president; Joe Wolf, owner of Lupine Retail Consulting, vice president; Eric Marzluf, a partner at Caesar Rivise P.C., secretary; and Suzette Mahoney, owner of the restaurant R2L, treasurer. Board members include: Laura Burkhardt, publisher of MVP Philadelphia (Where magazine); Eric Elmore, chief marketing officer of Drucker & Scaccetti; Gail Marcus, owner of GMarcusLaw; and Susanne Spinell Shuster, principal, director, accounting services, at Shechtman Marks Devor P.C.

Katherine L. Vaccaro, a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox L.L.P., Bala Cynwyd, has been named to the board of the Chester County SPCA.

Barry M. Berkowitz has been appointed to a two-year term as chair of the Pennsylvania State Board of Accountancy. Berkowitz is a partner at MHM in the firm's Philadelphia office.

Bill Ziegler, principal of Pottsgrove High School in Montgomery County, has been named president of the Pennsylvania Principals Association, Summerdale.

Econsult Solutions Inc., Philadelphia, has appointed Terry Gillen a member of its senior advisory board. She had been director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and spent much of her career in public service in Philadelphia, serving under Mayors Ed Rendell and Michael Nutter in positions strategic to the revitalization of the city.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va., has elected Mark A. Coblitz as a trustee. He is a retired senior vice president of strategic planning for Comcast Corp. and director and founding partner of the social-media education company Venly.

Katayun I. Jaffari, a partner in the business and finance department at Ballard Spahr L.L.P., Philadelphia, has been named to the national board of directors of the nonprofit Scleroderma Foundation.

Christian A. Davis has been named president of Kids' Chance of Pennsylvania, a nonprofit that helps teens needing assistance for college or vocational education because they have parents killed or injured in work-related accidents. He is a partner at Weber Gallagher, Philadelphia.

The Committee of Seventy, a nonpartisan government-watchdog group in Philadelphia, has appointed the following board members: Jay Goldstein, president of Univest Corp.'s Green Valley Bank division and a cofounder and former CEO of Green Valley, Mount Airy; Christopher Hanson, a director at Navigant Consulting in Philadelphia; Susan Jacobson, president of Jacobson Strategic Communications; Jeffrey E. Mack, cofounder of Radnor-based Smith Mack & Co. in 1984 and, since its acquisition by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in 2012, executive managing director for the Philadelphia region at NGKF; Gregory P. Montanaro, associate vice president, executive director of federal affairs, and senior adviser to the president for external affairs at Drexel University; John Nelson Jr., chairman and CEO of the design/architecture/engineering firm Nelson; Lori F. Reiner, partner in charge of the Philadelphia practice of the accounting firm Eisner Amper; and Joyce Wilkerson, a special adviser for community relations and development at Temple University. - Mike Zebe