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Boston Public Library Foundation

Events

Fall Gala 2012

 

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