The Boston Public Library Foundation Annual Fall Gala took place on Friday, November 16, 2012. The theme for this year’s gala was Celebrating Boston Sports Temples,  themed around the  Boston Sports Temples exhibition. The exhibition, open through May 2013, showcases Boston’s most historic sports venues – including Fenway Park, the Boston Garden, Suffolk Downs and Braves Field – transforming the Johnson lobby into a home for Boston sports fan, past and present. Highlights of the event included:

• Cocktail reception in the Johnson lobby exhibition space
• Dinner in the magnificent McKim building’s Bates Hall
• Program hosted by Bill Littlefield, of NPR’s Only A Game
• A live auction
• Dessert and dancing in the Johnson lobby to local award-winning band Soho

 

 

2012 Sponsors:

Lead Sponsor

Fidelity Investments

Co-Lead Sponsor

Jeffrey B. Rudman & Susan V. Fried

Room Sponsors

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

CVS Caremark

John Hancock

Raytheon Company

Bates Circle Sponsors

BNY Mellon

McKinsey & Co.

Price Waterhouse Cooper

Red Sox Foundation

State Street Corporation

McKim Circle Sponsors

Boston Private Bank and Trust

Lewis Burleigh, Dechert LLP

Olive Darragh, Zolio Inc.

Karalyn Cleary

Deloitte Services LLP

Ernst & Young LLP

Jeff & Christa Hawkins

The Highland Street Foundation

David Hosp, Goodwin Procter LLP

The Leventhal Family

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Natixis Global Asset Management

Verizon Foundation

Roberta and Steven Weiner

Johnson Circle Sponsors

Arnold Worldwide

Bernstein Global Wealth Management

Helen and Brian O’Rourke

Kristin and Tobias Welo

Patrons

Howard Cox

John and Diddy Cullinane

Elizabeth L. Johnson

Paul LaCamera

David and Ann McKay

Robert and Judith Melzer

NSTAR

Amy E. Ryan

Holly Safford

Contributors

Zamawa Arenas and Murray Forman

James and Barbara Malerba

Rebecca Nordhaus and Will Curry

Carl and Beth Prindle

Kevin Phelan

Vivian and Lionel Spiro

 

Grateful Thanks:

In-Kind Sponsors

Aramark

Be Our Guest Party Rentals

The Catered Affair

LifeFusion Photography

Suzanne Lowell Lighting

BJ’s

  

Gala Committee

Michael Ewald

David Hosp

Paul and Amy Kraft

Ronald P. O’Hanley

Cheryl Swanson

Kristin and Tobias Welo

 

Boston Public Library Staff

James Meade, Superintendent of Facilities

Mary Frances O’Brien, Chief of Public Services, Manager of the Central Library

Gina Perille, Chief of Communications & Strategy

Beth Prindle, Manager of Exhibitions & Programming

Emily Tokarczyk, Events Manager

Meghan Weeks, Exhibition Associate

BPL Facility Trades and Maintenance Staff

BPL IT Department

 

The Catered Affair Staff

Karen Byrne

Pierre Prat

Eliza Rafferty

Holly Safford

 

Special Thanks

Back Bay Guitar Trio

Charles Bailey-Gates, Auctioneer

Boston Society of Young Philanthropists

Music Management

David Miranda, Vision Design Group

Soho

Joe Trudeau, Smart Source