Apr 13, 2001

Kibble & Prentice

Tamara Reece has joined the personal insurance division of Kibble & Prentice, a Seattle-based financial services firm. Reece joins the firm as an account manager. She was formerly with AON Risk Services in Seattle.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Foster Pepper & Shefelman announced that Reese Solberg and Jennifer Scully have joined the firm as associates in the Seattle law office. Solberg focuses his practice on intellectual property and trademark law with emphasis on intellectual property licensing. Scully focuses on intellectual property with an emphasis on trademark matters.

Bartell Drug

Bartell Drugs has announced store manager changes at two locations. Don Charnholm, formerly the manager at the Kingsgate store in Kirkland, will manage the Houghton location in Kirkland. Laura Rodewald is the new manager of the Kingsgate store. She was formerly the manager at the Houghton location.

Seattle Public Library

The Ackerley Group, a Seattle-based media company, announced a $1 million gift to the Seattle Public Library Foundation. Additionally, the Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation announced a $42,000 grant to underwrite Seattle Public Library's annual Children's Book Week celebration for the next three years. The $1 million gift is one of the Ackerley Group's largest grants to a non-profit organization and will support the foundation's Campaign for Seattle Public Libraries.

Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines has announced the appointment of Terri Maupin to staff vice president/finance and controller, and Michael Lee to the newly created position of director of e-ventures. Maupin will be responsible for accounting and financial reporting at the airline. Lee will be responsible for consumer marketing on the airline's Web site and will handle Web site promotions, partnerships and traffic.

City of Kent

Kent Mayor Jim White has appointed Mike Martin interim chief administrative officer, effective May 14. Martin started with the city in January as deputy chief administrative officer. His primary responsibilities have been oversight of the public works and community development functions, including Kent's new one-stop permit center

Apr 12, 2001

Returns Online

Returns Online, a Seattle-based provider of returns management solutions for retailers, and Altura International, a Monterey, Calif.-based architect and builder of online catalog shopping malls, have formed an alliance. The agreement introduces Returns Online's services to Altura's custom mall sites and its flagship catalog shopping mall, Catalogcity.com (http://www.catalogcity.com). Altura will recommend Returns Online's services to its merchant client base.

Seattle Art Museum

Four new members have been elected to the Seattle Art Museum's board of trustees: Brad Davis, who oversees corporate, retail and local marketing for Washington Mutual; Dipti Mathur, who owns the venture capital company Skyblaze Ventures; Elizabeth Roberts, who has worked in governmental affairs for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and, Daphne Tang, an active member of the Chinese American community.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Willard Hatch, retired partner of Seattle law firm Foster Pepper & Shefelman, was recently awarded the first annual Sidney C. Volinn Memorial Award of Merit. The award recognizes service to the bankruptcy bar and to the greater community. Hatch, whose law practice has spanned 53 years, was one of the early bankruptcy lawyers in Seattle, where his work consisted of reorganizations, bankruptcies, real estate, estate work and corporate work.

Public Relations Society

The Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America announced that seven members recently passed their accreditation exams and now hold the title of accredited in public relations (APR). The new APRs include Adam Bashaw, Washington Credit Union; Kathy Budinick, Weyerhaeuser; Linda Elliott, city of Tacoma; Barbara Fenster, Children's Home Society; Karin Munger, Safeco; Joe Rothrock, Safeco; and, Catherine Sweeney, IDX Systems.

Badgley, Phelps and Bell

Badgley, Phelps and Bell, an investment management firm with offices in Seattle and Portland, announced the appointment of Charles Waibel as portfolio manager. Waibel will be responsible for managing portfolios for private capital clients in the Portland office. He comes to the firm from Sigma Investment Management in Portland where he also served as portfolio manager.

Highline Community College

The Washington State Senate approved Governor Gary Locke's appointment of Arun Jhaveri as a member of the Highline Community College board of trustees. Jhaveri has been involved with the Association of Energy Engineers, the Northwest Council of Climate Change, the Trade Development Alliance and the U.S. Department of Energy. He is one of five members of the board. His term expires Sept. 30, 2003

John L. Scott

Kathy Estey returned to John L. Scott Real Estate as branch manager of the firm's Bellevue Place office. Estey worked as a Scott sales associate from 1977 to 1987, then at four other real estate firms, in management posts at some, before she became an Internet marketing consultant for Homes.com last year. A Scott announcement of her hiring, like others, said the firm's commitment to using Internet technology contributed to why she "returned home."

Four new sales associates joined the firm's Magnolia office: Oksana Skrypka, Julian McCarthy, Sherry Moody and Erin Larsen. These four bring the office to 18 agents.

Network Financial Services

Kelly Wilson became a loan originator for Network Mortgage Services in Lynnwood, responsible for King and Snohomish counties.