Fine arts dealer and consultant John Christofferson...

Fine arts dealer and consultant John Christofferson has been appointed to the Fine Arts Board of the city of West Hollywood. The nine-member board will advise and promote music, dance, theater and other fine arts programs and activities sponsored by the city. Christofferson has participated in such charity projects as Art for AIDS at the SPARC Gallery in Venice and the La Brea Art Walk.

Elliott Feinman, president of Jon Douglas Affiliates, has been appointed to the Beverly Hills Family Y board of directors. Feinman has served as a member of the boards of directors for both the Beverly Hills Maple Center and the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. He is past president of the Beverly Hills Board of Realtors.

Heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey has been selected as the first recipient of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Theodore E. Cummings Prize for his contributions in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. He will receive the $25,000 award at a special ceremony Wednesdayat 11 a.m. at the medical center. The award was funded by Suzanne Cummings as a memorial tribute to her late husband, former U. S. ambassador to his native Austria and chairman of Cedars-Sinai’s board of directors.

Dr. Tomas Ganz, assistant professor of medicine at UCLA, has been appointed director of the Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Laboratory at the UCLA School of Medicine, the school’s dean, Kenneth I. Shine, announced. Ganz’s research in pulmonary medicine has focused on such lung diseases as emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome.

Santa Monica attorney Jerry Gordon has been appointed chairman of the newly organized municipal affairs committee of the Santa Monica Bay Cities branch of Americans for Democratic Action. Gordon’s committee will monitor the Santa Monica City Council and keep the more than 400 members of the organization informed on the issues.

Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Hollywood Reporter, has been named 1987 Woman of the Year by the Hispanic Women’s Council, according to council President Diane Silva. She will be honored at a banquet Thursday at the Bonaventure hotel. Kassel is a member of the board of directors for American Women in Radio and Television, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the Film Industry Council and Mayor Tom Bradley’s Latino Community Committee.

Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mann has donated prints of many of his motion pictures and television programs to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, according to archive director Robert Rosen. Awarded a Best Director Oscar for “Marty” in 1955, Mann has donated prints of “Separate Tables,” “The Bachelor Party,” “That Touch of Mink,” “A Gathering of Eagles,” “Quick Before It Melts” and “Kidnapped.” Mann, who was staff director at NBC from 1949 to 1955, worked on many of the top TV shows of the period, including, “Producer’s Showcase,” “Playhouse 90” and “Philco-Goodyear Playhouse.”