• The Children’s Home Society of Florida has named its board of directors and the board officers for 2002-03. The new board members are Andy Hogshead, Jeanne Maron, Alan C. Sheppard Jr., Rob Sweeting and John Milton. The board officers are Wilson Z. Carley Jr., chair; Richard Lewis, first vice chair; James Griffith, second vice chair; Michael Fisher, secretary Kathy Miller, treasurer; and Charmaine Chiu, assistant treasurer.
• Sherwin L. Burman has been named interim chief financial officer for the Jacksonville Airport Authority. Burman has served as director of finance for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and partner and manager of Deloitte & Touche.
• Diane Alcorn has been named vice president of e-learning development at Steel Beach Productions. She is responsible for developing new corporate strategies, expanding company technologies and programming and creativity.
• Dr. Lew Klechak, immediate past chair of the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission Mayor’s Film & Television board, has been elected vice chair of the Florida Film & Entertainment Advisory Council.
• Jonathan Lever has been named executive director of the newly-formed Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, Inc. Lever comes to the center from Boston, where he specialized in philanthropy law with the firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.
• The Rotary Club of South Jacksonville has donated $42,000 to 11 local charities. The donations were highlighted by a $15,000 contribution to the Nemours Organ Transplant Foundation and $15,000 to The Webb Center. Other receiving donations include Theatreworks, the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Mental Health Association of Northeast Florida, Children’s Health Organization Relief and Educational Services, Jacksonville Children’s Chorus and Ronald McDonald House.