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Accounting

Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman hired Ericka L. Loften as marketing director.

Profile

JOHN FEDERICO Job: Director of development, City Theatre Age: 41 Ambitions: To foster the types of relationships with donors that will enable City Theatre to be recognized and respected as an artistic home for the development of new plays. First job: Selling newspapers on a street corner in Philadelphia when I was 12. Hardest job/why?: Director of development/executive director for the National Corporate Theatre Fund in New York because it was nearly impossible to show prospects and donors the actual product we were representing. Biggest work challenge ever: Executing a fund-raising campaign to stabilize and recapitalize Pittsburgh Opera, because it was the largest fund-raising program I'd ever participated in and all of the staff charged with leading the campaign were newcomers to Pittsburgh. Favorite stock/mutual fund: Tie between TIAA-CREF Social Choice Mutual Fund and Michaels Arts & Crafts Stores. Away from work I: Read, listen to music, bowl, cook. Dream vacation: More than one week anywhere near the ocean alone with my wife, a pile of new CDs and a pile of old books. Favorite book: "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby. If I won the Lottery, I'd: Support my wife, kids and family in a manner to which they've never had the opportunity to become accustomed.

Alpern Rosenthal hired in the accounting and audit department C. Joseph Assid and James K. McCardle, semi-senior accountants; and Patricia R. Giudici, James P. Hoga, and Holly N. Osche, staff accountants.

Advertising

Blattner Brunner hired David Kwasnick as creative director.

Architecture

Perkins Eastman promoted Trese Lomperski to associate and assistant director of operations, and Lee Pellegrino to associate; and it hired Jennifer Ray, marketing coordinator, and Christina Szejk, knowledge resource team coordinator.

Brian A. Dipietro joined the professional staff at WTW Architects.

Associations/Organizations

Donald E. Bowers, vice president/general manager, Mon Valley Petroleum, was named to the board and will be chairman of the motor fuels/convenience store committee of the Pennsylvania Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association.

Joseph A. Macerelli, shareholder/member, Grogan Graffam, named a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Health Care Task Force.

Springer Bush & Perry said Shawn N. Gallagher was elected a council member of the environmental law section and Timothy J. Bish was elected vice chair of the municipal and school solicitors section of the Allegheny Bar Association.

Banking, Finance

Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania appointed Michael D. Jones vice president of media relations at the bank's Western Pennsylvania headquarters.

Mellon Financial Corp.'s Human Resources & Investor Solutions hired Jay Lewis as principal at its Pittsburgh office.

First National Bank of Pennsylvania appointed Todd Puleo branch manger of its new branch in Seven Fields.

Consulting

Desbrow & Associates said Brian Lee Campbell, executive vice president and chief creative officer, is an equity partner in the firm, and Kim Randig is new senior account supervisor, account team.

Rick Swegan joined Right Management Consultants as vice president of client services.

Economic Development

International Economic Development Council elected Ronnie L. Bryant, president and chief operating officer, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, its vice chairman.

Education

Andrew Surloff was appionted assistant principal at Quaker Valley High School.

Elsewhere

Sean C. O'Brien, formerly of Penn Hills, was promoted to consultant by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., which he joined in McLean, Va., in January.

Health and Medicine

Linda Diamond was named operations manager of the Masontown and Uniontown offices of Albert Gallatin Home Care & Hospice.

Butler Memorial Hospital appointed Ahmet Toparli to its staff. He joined Butler Medical Associates and opened his practice in Mars.

Christine Meier joined The Children's Institute staff as a pediatric social worker.

Law

Cohen & Grigsby hired Mihir A. Munshi, associate, business group; Alicia M. Passerin, associate, intellectual property group; Amy L. Schuchman, associate, labor and employment group; and Sabrina M. Sudol, associate, litigation group.

Kenneth S. Kornacki joined Metz Lewis as an associate in the commercial litigation practice.

Thomas C. Welshonce joined Hull McGuire as a corporate associate.

Manufacturing

Berry Metal Co. promoted George J. Koenig to president.

Alcoa promoted Alan Cransberg to president, Alcoa Primary Metals North America and Geoffrey Cromer, president, Primary Metals USA.

Professional Services

Deloitte Consulting LLP appointed Patrick Howard and Chandrashekhar Sathe partners and Gary Matthis, director; Deloitte Tax LLP appointed Clint Emerson to firm director.

Public Relations

Ketchum hired Leslie Altemus as an account executive in the Pittsburgh office.

Real Estate

Howard Hanna Real Estate Services promoted Susan Sadowski to senior vice president of corporate relocation and business development of Hanna Holdings Inc.

Sales

Trombino Piano Gallerie appointed Larry Pietropaoli as director, house of worship division.

Technology

The Haley Enterprise Inc. hired Chris Gormley as vice president of strategy and business development, Tom Murray as vice president of marketing and Faramarz Farhoodi as managing director of professional services.

Tier1 Inc. hired Michael Markiw III as an Oracle technology consultant.

Ralph P. Massaro was named general manager of new product line, BugScan at LogicLibrary.

Contracts

Point Security Co. is security provider for The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy at Fallingwater.

CommuniTech LLC will develop and implement marketing initiatives for Keystone Therapeutics Inc., Pittsburgh, which designs, develops, markets and maintains Web-based solutions for the management of patients with chronic health conditions. CommuniTech will help market its most recent product, DoseResponse Home Testing, which gives patients a palm-sized finger-stick testing device that supports the management of Coumadin anticoagulant therapy within the privacy of patients' homes.

Mind Over Media has contracts with Amcom Office Systems, Highmark YMCA and Union Switch & Signal.

Giant Ideas was named agency of record by the Omaha Lancers Hockey Team for a comprehensive advertising, marketing, sales promotion and public relations campaign to promote its 2004-2005 season.

Cuddy Roofing Co. was awarded a roofing contract award for the Chevron Building, University of Pittsburgh, by general contractor Massaro Co.

Sewickley Graphics & Design Inc. was contracted to design and develop Web sites for Crown Coal & Coke Co., Harmony Casting/Tpi and St. Alexis Parish.

Lincoln Property Co. awarded a contract to Mascaro Construction Co. LP to construct a 216,000-square-foot, mixed-use residential and retail building at the corner of Seventh Street and Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Downtown. The project is the result of an extensive preconstruction phase that involved The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Lincoln Property, HKS Architects Inc., Astorino and Mascaro.

JLG Industries Inc. was awarded a three-year, $21 million Army contract for the reconditioning an estimated 350 All-Terrain Lifter Army System vehicles and 350 predecessor models.

Informatics Studio received a contract from the U.S. State Department to create the International Visitors Leadership Program Web Portal.

VAI FUCHS, a daughter company of VAI, has three contracts for electric arc furnaces and auxiliary equipment by U.S., Guatemalan and Iranian steel producers.

Underground Solutions Inc. said it has a joint agreement with McElroy Manufacturing Inc., of Tulsa, Okla., to develop a new line of specialized PVC fusion equipment for use on Underground Solutions' pipe and conduit products.

General Industries is contructing the Druzak Medical facility within the Center Place Plaza complex, Center Township. The 52,000-square-foot renovation of the existing Center Township Shopping Plaza features an 11,000-square-foot, second-floor expansion, which will soon be the new corporate headquarters for Druzak Medical Inc.

Dividends

Alliance Financial Bancorp declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share on its common stock, payable Oct. 15 to stockholders of record Sept. 30.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. declared a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share on its common stock, payable Oct. 29 to shareholders of record Oct. 15.

Eureka Financial Corp. declared a quarterly cash dividend of 30 cents per share, payable Oct. 31 to stockholders of record Oct. 15.

First Commonwealth Financial Corp. declared a third-quarter dividend of 16 cents per share, payable Oct. 15 to shareholders of record Sept. 30.

Slippery Rock Financial Corp. declared a quarterly cash dividend of 15 cents per share, payable Oct. 13 to shareholders of record Oct. 6.

Bankruptcies

J. Asher Inc. fdba JJ's Craft Mall fdba JJ's Craft Gallery, 4684 Route 8, Allison Park. Chapter 7.

Quintain Resources Inc., 151 West Fourth Ave., Tarentum. Chapter 7.

Beckim Computer Services Co., 2114 West St., Munhall. Chapter 7.

Auto Tech and Pro Finishes, 4220 Glades Pike Inc., Somerset. Chapter 11.

RAXWAY L.L.C., P.O. Box 362, New Alexandria, Chapter 11.

Focaccia Grill Inc., 1141 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh. Chapter 11.

Leases

Massaro Properties represented Auberle in the leasing of 4,470 square feet of space at 716 Long Run Road, McKeesport. Massaro's Linda Fisher represented the tenant. Ray Orowetz, Raymond Charles & Associates, represented the landlord, Rost Investment Group.

Business Notes
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University joined the Forte Foundation, an international consortium of top business schools, major corporations and nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in the business world. The result will be scholarships, networking and mentoring opportunities for women at Tepper and increased efforts to recruit women to pursue an MBA at Carnegie Mellon. More information on the school and its programs can be found at www.tepper.cmu.edu.

Awards/Honors

The Pittsburgh office of Reed Smith selected Danielle Nicole Ducre as a recipient the Reed Smith Fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year. It is awarded annually to a first-year law student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law who has surmounted economic or social adversity in pursuit of a law degree. While an undergraduate at Spelman, Ducre founded the school's Community Relations Board and its Student Philanthropy Council as means of enhancing the school's positive impact on the social and economic ills of Atlanta.

Barbara E. Johnson, patent attorney and partner, The Webb Law Firm, is a 2004 recipient of the Jack Kennedy Memorial Alumni Achievement Award in the field of law. The award is presented annually by the Grove City College Alumni Association to graduates who have achieved exemplary levels of success.

CommuniTech won a 2004 American Graphic Design Award for its recently launched "Our Marketing Rocks!" campaign. The competition, sponsored by Graphic Design USA in New York City, honors outstanding graphic design, advertising and marketing.

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