• Crowe Chizek and Co. LLC has promoted several individuals. Assurance and Financial Services: Brian Murray and Paul Smith, assurance executives; Financial Institutions: Troy La Huis, AML executive; Performance: Cullen Hunter, business and innovative solutions executive; and Tax: Jason Brinks, private tax executive, and Lisa Pohl, state and local tax executive.
  
  
• Beene Garter LLP has promoted Lisa Hiller and Pat Machiela to manager, employee benefit services.
  
  
• James Manning, tax leader of Plante & Moran's real estate group, has been named a partner.

ARCHITECTURE

• URS Corp. has welcomed Brian K. Craig, education practice leader for the College and University Business Line.

ARTS

• The Public Museum has appointed Dale A. Robertson president and CEO. Museum director Mary Esther Lee will report directly to the president. Chairperson of the Friends Foundation Dan Gaydou has been serving as volunteer president since July 2006 and will continue to serve as chair of the Friends of the Public Museum Foundation.
  
  
• Jeff Idelson, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has opened the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum's new feature exhibit "Born to Play Ball," which will run until Jan. 4, 2009.

ASSOCIATIONS

• Phillip E. Johnson, deputy executive director, Kent County Department of Aeronautics, Gerald R. Ford International Airport, has been elected president of the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives from August 2008 to August 2009.
  
  
• The AD2 West Michigan 2008-09 board of directors are: president, Emily Lautenbach; executive chair, Elizabeth Ratliff; vice president, Marquay Smith; public service chair, Suzanne Freye; events chair, Michelle Collins; creative chair, Ray Cashbaugh; membership chair, Aaron Korodan; and public relations chair, Amy Sawade.
  
  
• Garan Lucow Miller PC attorney Aaron L. Belville has been elected community outreach coordinator of the Young Lawyers Section of the Grand Rapids Bar Association.
  
  
• The Ad Club of West Michigan 2008-09 board of directors are: president, Clare Wade, Clare Wade Communications LLC; vice president, David Kramer, WGVU Public TV/Radio; treasurer, Ken Kelly, Wines of Distinction; and immediate past president, Buzz Baker, Francis Marketing. Board members include: Laura Cochran, Brian Cole, Michelle Covington, Gretchen DeVault, Wendy Hickey, Stephan Hokanson, Don Kalisz, Steve Laninga, Pam Patton, Gina Porcaro, Geoff Shirley and Damion Van Slyke. Julie Metsker serves as executive director.

AWARDS

• Jennifer A. Puplava, a member of Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones PLC, was selected by the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Western Region for its Outstanding Member Award. Also, Puplava was elected president of the Humane Society of Kent County board of directors.
  
  
• C.D. Barnes Associates Inc. has received the ABC Platinum Safety Training and Evaluation Process Award.
  
  
• URS Corp. is ranked among the Fortune 500 for the first time, ranking No. 449 on the list.
  
  
• The Michigan Association of Chiropractors has received a Certificate of Appreciation from Michigan surgeon general Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom in recognition of the association's valuable contributions to Phase I of the Michigan Steps Up program.
  
  
• Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith attorney Scott H. Hogan has been named a Super Lawyer in the 2008 Michigan Super Lawyers publication in the bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights area.
  
  
• The National Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. Safety Committee has awarded Vos Glass Inc. with a Safety Training and Evaluation Process Platinum Level Achievement Award.
  
  
• The West Michigan Shores Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication has awarded Van Andel Institute an Award of Excellence for its 2007 Van Andel Research Institute Scientific Report. Also, Van Andel Institute has won a Bronze 2008 Telly Award in the category of Best Corporate Image TV for its television commercial featuring Senior Scientific Investigator Dr. Nicholas S. Duesbery.
  
  
• Robinson Cartage Co. has been honored by Affinity Insurance Ltd. with a Risk Control Score Award for promoting workplace safety.

EDUCATION

• Calvin College has been included in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's annual college guide Best 368 Colleges.
  
  
• Chris Plouff has been named Grand Valley State University's James R. Sebastian Endowed Chair in Engineering Cooperative Education and Educational Development. Also, GVSU has named Charlie Standridge assistant dean of the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing; and Toma Hentea director of the School of Engineering.

HEALTH

• Hospice of Michigan has named Patricia Laug marketing representative, Muskegon; and Deirdre Toeller-Novak grants and foundation relations associate, Grand Rapids.
  
  
• Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services has announced that psychiatrists Eric Achtyes, Jeffrey Vrielink and Nadia Al-Guboori have achieved diplomate status with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Also, psychologist Nicole A. Ware Spencer has joined the Pine Rest Campus Clinic at 300 68th St. SE, Cutlerville.
  
  
• Helen DeVos Children's Hospital has welcomed pediatric plastic surgeon Robert J. Mann to its staff.

LEGAL

• Miller Johnson has hired Lance R. Hartman, director of marketing and business development.
  
  
• William E. Westerbeke has joined McShane & Bowie as an associate attorney in the firm's corporate and estate planning practice areas.
  
  
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP has welcomed attorney Charles M. Denton, a partner who will lead the environmental law department's efforts in Michigan and Northern Indiana.

MANUFACTURING

• ADAC Automotive has named Douglas Evans chief operating officer.
  
  
• Stiles Machinery Inc. has promoted Russ Suor to vice president, technology.
  
  
• SoundOff Signal has promoted Mark Litke to president and Michael Walma to engineering manager.

SPORTS

• Kuyper College has appointed Stan Jesky head coach of the Kuyper College Cougars men's basketball team.

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