Huntington Library Names Financial Officer

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Alison D. Sowden, a certified public accountant, has been named chief financial officer of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.

Sowden previously was director of personnel and administrative services at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

* John T. Morris of San Marino has been named that city’s representative on the Metropolitan Water District’s board of directors. Morris, director of engineering and planning for Irvine Ranch Water District, replaces Preston B. Hotchkis, who served for three years.

Morris also serves as vice chairman of the resources division of the California-Nevada section of the American Water Works Assn. and is southern regional chairman of the California Water Pollution Control Assn.

* Mary Lou Wigley, deputy director of the Thousand Oaks Public Library, has been named city librarian in South Pasadena.

She succeeds Linda Katsouleas, who resigned to become director of the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System.

* Dr. Rudolf L. Brutoco, founder and chairman of Life-Savers Foundation of America, will discontinue his general pediatric practice in Covina to focus on the foundation.

Brutoco established the foundation after his wife became ill with leukemia and a donor was found for a successful marrow transplant. The foundation arranges blood testing of potential donors and registers them with the National Marrow Donor Program. It also raises money to pay for the blood tests.

Life-Savers was involved in the search for a donor for Anissa Ayala, an 18-year-old Walnut High School senior suffering from leukemia. No unrelated donor was found for Anissa, and her parents’ conception of a new child to donate marrow became national news. The Ayalas’ healthy baby girl was born last week.