On the Boards

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia

, has elected

Jane Palmieri

and

Chris McIsaac

to its board of trustees to serve three-year terms. Palmieri is business president of Dow Building & Construction at the Dow Chemical Co. McIsaac is managing director of planning and development at Vanguard.

The Alzheimer's Association Delaware Valley Chapter in Philadelphia has named Cathy Rossi, vice president of public and government affairs at the AAA Mid-Atlantic, to its board.

Ballard Spahr partner and former DuPont general counsel Tom Sager has been named to the advisory board of DirectWomen. DirectWomen is a national nonprofit that works to increase the representation of female lawyers on corporate boards and serves as the organization's primary governance body, overseeing strategic direction, fund-raising, and programming.

Lloyd Kern, Jedidiah Weller, and Melissa Gurmankin have been elected to the board of Kitchen Cred, a nonprofit that strives to empower at-risk youth in Greater Philadelphia by helping them to cultivate life skills via cooking, nutrition knowledge, and kitchen competency. Kern had served as CFO for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia; Weller is the cofounder and chief developer of Webjunto, ; and Gurmankin is the owner of More Thyme For You Personal Chef Service.

Ludo Scheffer has been elected chair of International House Philadelphia. He is a teaching professor in Drexel University's department of psychology and director of Drexel's undergraduate studies program in psychology. He is also chair of Drexel University's Faculty Senate.

Bryant M. Greene, owner/administrator of Always Best Care Senior Services of Philadelphia, Bucks and Delaware Counties, and Jacqueline M. Keenan, chief financial officer for the investment management unit and a broker dealer for SEI Investments, were appointed to the board of the Overbrook School for the Blind.

William T. Dudeck, a shareholder of Doylestown-based Eastburn & Gray P.C., had been appointed to the board of the Upper Bucks Chamber of Commerce.

John C. Fenningham has been appointed a member of the St. Mary Medical Center board of directors. He is a transactional and commercial litigator who is managing partner of the law firm Fenningham, Stevens, Dempster & Coval L.L.P.

Habitat for Humanity of Bucks County, Doylestown, has named the following board members: Chuck Breder, division president of Toll Brothers Inc.; Susan Eckert, director of human resources at Parx Casino; Mike Keim, senior executive vice president, chief financial officer of Univest Corp.; John Richardson, project engineer at Dumack Engineering; and Karl Schmidt, engineering fellow at Villanova University and retired vice president of risk management at Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain.

- Mike Zebe