Comings and Goings

A regular feature of GovExec.com, Comings and Goings announces the arrivals and departures of top federal managers and executives. To submit an announcement, e-mail it to webmaster@govexec.com or fax it to 202-739-8511.

C O M I N G S

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has selected Sam Winters as chairman of the board. He was vice chairman for the past two years and also held the chairman position from Jan. 1994 to Feb. 1996. In other Postal Service arrivals, former New York Metro Area Vice President John F. Kelly has been appointed vice president of expedited/package services. David L. Solomon takes over as New York Metro area vice president. Solomon was operations support manager for the area since 1994.

Dr. Michael L. Gentry, senior technical director and chief engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., will now provide his IT expertise to the state of Arizona. Gentry will serve on the Arizona Information Technology Authorization Committee, which oversees state government IT investments. Gentry has been with the federal government for 25 years and has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 1989.

The Washington area has a new deputy landlord. Annie Wiggins Everett has been appointed deputy regional administrator for the General Services Administration's National Capital Region. Everett will oversee a $1.7 billion operating budget and more than 1,800 employees, and preside over 73 million square feet of real estate, serving 305,000 tenants. Everett was promoted from the Public Buildings Service, where she was chief of staff for the commissioner.

The National Academy of Public Administration has elected its board of trustees officers. The new board officers are Chairman Jonathan Howes, professor of planning and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Vice Chairman Mary Jane England, president of the Washington Business Group on Health; Treasurer David S. C. Chu, director of RAND's Washington Research Department and vice president of Riso Associates; and Secretary Jane Pisano, dean of the school of public administration at the University of Southern California.

The Government Printing Office has named James C. Bradley as its main marketing man. As director of customer services for GPO, Bradley will pitch GPO services to other federal agencies. Since 1983, Bradley has served as a professional staff member of the Joint Committee on Printing. Prior to that, he held positions at the Energy Department and the Internal Revenue Service.

President Clinton has cast Andrew P. Scalzi as U.S Commissioner to the International Pacific Halibut Commission. An Alaska fisherman, Scalzi is a member of the North Pacific Fisheries Association and the United Fishermen of Alaska.

G O I N G S

Census Bureau Director Martha Farnsworth Riche announced this week she's calling it quits. Riche, who has served as census chief since November 1994, was heavily criticized by congressional Republicans for her support of the use of statistical sampling for the 2000 census.

Former Navy Rear Admiral Marsha Johnson Evans, who served as superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and commanded the Treasure Island Naval Station in California, is taking on a new set of troops: The Girl Scouts. Evans assumes command of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. as national executive director this month.

K U D O S

Col. Albert Arnold, III, project management officer for the Defense Travel System, and Richard McLane, chief of the information technology branch at DTS, were honored at a recent Association for Federal Information Resources Management luncheon. The Defense Travel System is expected to save more than $400 million a year, and will rely on electronic commerce and digital signatures to make it a quick and easy system to use. Undersecretary of Defense Alice Maroni presented the AFFIRM Leadership Award to the system's project management team.