Jan 29, 1996

Green Financial Corp.

Kirkland-based Green Financial Corp., providing employee benefits and financial planning, has added Steve Brown as a registered representative. Brown comes from a credit union where he was responsible for marketing financial products and services.

The Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers

Jim McGlashan has been appointed hotel manager of the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers. McGlashan previously served as a regional controller for Sheraton hotels in Hawaii and California. He has held controller positions with ITT Sheraton since 1973.

MCEI

The Seattle chapter of Marketing Communications Executives (MCEI), providing a forum for the area's practitioners in marketing and communications, has elected Richard C. Bendix president for a one-year term. Bendix is vice president of marketing for Lindal Cedar Homes. Before joining Lindal, he was executive vice president of Monterey Domes, a producer of "kit homes" based in Riverside, Calif. Also elected to serve on the 1996 MCEI board of directors are: Jim McFarland, director of programs; Wendy Townsend, treasurer; Anne Foster, director of membership; Valerie Winslow, director of hospitality; Jim Spicuzza, secretary;Ted Leonhardt, director of communications; and Phelps Fisher, Bob English, and Don Morgan, members at large.

The Pacific Institute

Ken Hatch has been named president of the Pacific Institute, an international business consulting firm based in Seattle and represented in 33 countries around the world. Most recently, Hatch was senior vice president of A.H. Belo Corporation. He formerly was president and chief executive officer of KIRO Inc.

Allied Arts Foundation

The Allied Arts Foundation, supporting artists and small arts groups in the Seattle area, has announced that the 1996 spring application deadline is March 29. Grants in the 1996 spring grant cycle range from $200 to $500 and the awards will be announced in late April. The fall 1995 grant cycle awarded 13 grants to groups including Art Space, Friends of Gas Works Park, Radost Folk Ensemble, Reflex Magazine, and ReAct Theatre, and to individual artists in the visual, written and performing arts. Applicants must be local residents. To receive an application, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Allied Arts Foundation, 105 South Main Street, Room 201, Seattle, WA 98104. Applications must be either postmarked or brought into the office by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 29.

Art Guide Northwest

Art Guide Northwest, a publication focusing on the fine arts scene in western Washington, has entered the World Wide Web. Now, anyone with access to the Internet can learn about the region's top museums, art galleries and its artists world via a on-line version of the magazine. Art Guide Northwest's web site features numerous items of interest to art lovers, including information not included in the magazine. The on-line version also lists every gallery and museum from Olympia to the Canadian border, as well as the Olympic Peninsula and San Juan Islands. The site can be accessed at http://www.artguidenw.com.

The Rockey Company

The Rockey Company, a public relations firm with headquarters in Seattle, and regional offices in Portland, Ore. and Spokane, has named Robert E. Hartley and John D. Hough as co-chief executive officers. The firm also promoted Arthur P. Merrick to executive vice president. Hartley spent more than 30 years in newspaper journalism before joining The Rockey Company in 1986. He was publisher of the Journal American in Bellevue, executive editor of the Toledo Blade and worked on newspapers in Illinois. Hough spent six years as executive vice president of First Interstate Bank of Washington prior to joining The Rockey Company in 1990. Earlier, he served as Northwest regional manager for ITT Corporation, principal regional officer for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and press secretary to Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus. Merrick rejoined the firm in a 1993 Rockey Company acquisition of the Pacific Northwest operations of Hill and Knowlton Inc. which Merrick directed for nine years. Before that, Merrick served as vice president and manager of corporate communications for Seafirst Bank following six years as a vice president and account executive with the Rockey Company.

Swedish Health Services

Seattle-based Swedish Health Services has hired Albert J. Alvarez as executive director of the Foundations - the fund-raising arm of the organization- and Lisa Anderson as vice president of human resources. Alvarez comes to Swedish with more than 20 years of experience in fund raising, development, marketing and public relations. For the past three years, he was president of university relations for Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Prior to that, Alvarez served in top-level executive positions at Northridge Hospital Foundation in Northridge, Calif. Anderson comes to Swedish from Careline Inc. of Seattle, where she has been director of human resources since 1992. She also has served as director of human resources management for Safeco Properties Inc., in Seattle.