Carol Kunicki has joined Field Dynamics Marketing Research, Los Angeles, as vice president.

Carol Rahn has joined Maritz Marketing Research Inc.’s Performance Measurement Group in Minneapolis as research manager. David Porozok has joined the Performance Measurement Group office in Iselin, N.J., as account manager. At Maritz headquarters in St. Louis, Dan Lockhart has joined as director of the company’s new Marketing Sciences Department. Jack Sorrentino has been named group vice president of information systems for Mafitz Marketing Research Inc.

David M. Tugend, vice president of client services at Doane Marketing Research, Inc., St. Louis, was appointed chair-elect for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics, which helps plan the Census of Agriculture. Tugend represents the American Feed Industry Association, where he serves on the Economic and Market Research Committee.

The Matrix Group, Lexington, Ky., has promoted Molly Sweazy Burlew to vice president and Michelle Leugers to field coordinator.

Elrick and Lavidge, Atlanta, has announced a number of staff additions: in the New York office, David Rauch has been added as vice president, and Bob Adair and Barbara Brown have been named account director; in the Atlanta office, Marsha White has been named account director and Rhonda Storms and Jason Sherman have been named project manager; in the Kansas City office, Michael Johnson has been named project director and Terri Catlett has been named account executive; in the Chicago office, Pushp Kamai has been named manager, analytical services, and Rosalyn Ryan has been named account director. The firm has also announced the following promotions: June WestHolland to senior group leader and Bonnie Breslauer to account director in the Atlanta office; and Holly Drayton to site director at the Atlanta data collection center.

Linda Shea has joined Opinion Research Corp., Princeton, N.J., as associate director of the Customer Satisfaction & Retention Practice of ORC-Princeton Group.

Karen Hendricks, president and CEO of Baldwin Piano & Organ Company, has been appointed to the board of directors of ACNielsen.

Joseph Plummer has joined Audits & Surveys Worldwide, New York, as vice chairman.

St. Louis-based Aragon Consulting Group’s research division has added Tiejun (Tom) Tang as senior research analyst.

Bill Gramley has joined Targetbase Marketing, a division of The M/A/R/C Group, Dallas, as senior vice president.

Eileen Wolford has been appointed senior vice president of the Angus Reid Group.

Debra Alexander has been named senior associate, VP, at the new Chicago office of Seattle-based Northwest Research Group, Inc.

Gloria Williams-Elias and Dave Taber have been named vice president of Market Development, Inc., San Diego.

Darin Krantz has joined Marketeam/Doane, St. Louis, as research analyst. In addition, Mark Golde has been named research associate.

Diagnostics Plus, Inc., State College, Pa., has promoted Michelle Hostetler to director of quality and operations.

Data & Management Counsel, Inc., Chadds Ford, Pa., has named Philip Rosenberg as vice president, business development.

Todd Myers has been promoted to director of the telephone center at Response Analysis Corp., Princeton, N.J. The firm also has appointed Steven Marks as account executive. In addition, Subhra Ghosh has joined the firm’s telecommunications group as senior research director.

Daniel Sammartino has joined the TeleSession Corp., New York, as account director in the promotional division.

MarketVision Research, Inc., Cincinnati, has named Jon Pinnell to the new position of vice president, marketing sciences.

The Delahaye Group, Portsmouth, N.H., has named James Beakey head of its Survey Research Group.

Market Facts, Inc., has promoted Joann Schaumann to vice president in its Arlington Heights, Ill, headquarters. Jan Hodes has been promoted to vice president in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Leslie Wheeler will head the new Market Facts office in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Robin Craven and Nancy Massey have been named research associate at CB&A Market Research, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Pat Sabena (Sabena Qualitative Research Services, Westport, Conn.) has been reelected as 1996-97 president of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association, Inc. (QRCA), New York. Other newly elected officers are: vice president Alice Rodgers (Rodgers Marketing Research, Canton, Ohio); secretary Linda LaScola (LaScola Qualitative Research, Washington, D.C.); and treasurer Maryanne Pflug (MKP Research, Steubenville, Ohio). Suzette de Vogelaere (Concepts & Strategies, Mill Valley, Calif.) was elected to the board of directors.

Herron Associates, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., has promoted Sue Nielsen to vice president, Paul Jorgensen to director of data collection and Kelli Rouse to director of marketing.

Polaris Marketing Research, Atlanta, has promoted Lucy Ackermann Klansner to vice president.

Sheila Walsh has joined Cramer-Krasselt, a Chicago communications firm, as research manager.

Tim Huberty has joined The Loring Partnership, a Minneapolis marketing consulting firm, as research director.

Behavioral Analysis Inc., Tarrytown, N.Y., has appointed three new assistant vice presidents: Alison Munsch, Laura Piezzi and J.B. Rawlins.

Quality Controlled Services, St. Louis, has promoted Bob Smith and Kim Kardenetz to senior project director. Mark Schmitz has joined the firm as manager, Trained Consumer Services.

Dan Coates has joined Burke Marketing Research, Cincinnati, as a senior account executive.

Charles Obusek, vice president of brand and marketing information for Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., has been named to the Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Master of Science in Marketing Research degree program.

David Spievack has joined Walker Information’s Walnut Creek, Calif., office as vice president of business development.

Donna Closterman, Betty Fraley and Michael Kuhn were re-elected to three-year terms on the board of directors at Burke, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. Jim Roberts, the firm’s vice president of marketing services, was elected for the first time.

Janice Bleyaert has joined ConwaylMilliken & Associates, Chicago, as account group director. In addition, Matthew Mack has been named account manager. Sharon Swanson has been promoted to account group director.

Daniel Murphy has been named vice president and general manager of the new Winston-Salem office of Diagnostic Research International, Los Angeles.