Comings and Goings

Every Monday on 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.

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The government's first performance-based organization, the Education Department's Office of Student Financial Assistance, now has its first chief operating officer. Greg Woods, deputy director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, will take the post.

President Clinton has appointed Randy W. Deitering as executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He has served on the staff of the board for eight years, and has been acting executive director since 1995. Deitering has more than 23 years experience as a foreign intelligence officer, primarily with the CIA. The board has the power to review all United States intelligence activities.

John Kolodziej, who retired from the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center, Miss., in 1981, has come out of retirement. Kolodziej is helping out with the Environmental Protection Agency's Gulf of Mexico program. The program's managers called on Kolodziej's wealth of experience as a submarine officer for 20 years through the Senior Environmental Employment Program.

G O I N G S

Karen Hinton, acting assistant secretary for public affairs at the Housing and Urban Development Department, is off to South Dakota. She will direct a home-building project on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Hinton will be replaced by Ginny Terzano, former press secretary for Vice President Al Gore.

Paul Schwab, deputy administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, has retired after 32 years of federal service. Schwab took a job as executive director of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.