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SPONSORS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1 Hertel & Konish Wealth Management Group John F. Kennedy Library Foundation John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The Lynch Foundation Smith College Executive Director David Tebaldi and the Board of Directors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP of Mass Humanities invite you to Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer, LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale The 2014 Massachusetts Governor’s and Dorr LLP Cooley Dickinson Health Care Awards in the Humanities New England Public Radio A Gala to Celebrate 40 Years of Support for the Public Humanities in Massachusetts SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES All sponsors receive recognition on the Mass HONORING CHAMPIONS OF THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES Humanities Web site and in printed materials, displays, and announcements at the event, Sunday, November 9, 2014, 5:30 pm according to sponsorship levels. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum $40,000 Laureate > Front-of-house table (up to ten seats) The 2014 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities > Center spread program ad > Program cover recognition will be conferred upon: $20,000 Visionary JILL KER CONWAY > Front table > Full-page program ad & cover recognition HUBIE JONES $10,000 Luminary > Front table J. DONALD MONAN, S.J. > Full-page ad $5,000 Champion MALCOLM ROGERS > One table > Half-page ad in recognition of their public actions, grounded in an $2,500 Benefactor appreciation of the humanities, to enhance civic life in the > Half table (up to five seats) Commonwealth. > Quarter-page ad Proceeds support programs for underserved audiences Mass Humanities is a private, nonprofit organization that such as the Clemente Course in the Humanities and promotes the use of history, literature, philosophy, and the Family Adventures in Reading. other humanities disciplines to deepen our understanding of the issues of the day, strengthen our sense of common The deadline for ad submissions is October 10. purpose, and enrich individual and community life. For Contact Carolyn Cushing, [email protected] more information, go to www.masshumanities.org. 413-584-8440, extension 107. BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADVISORY BOARD GALA COMMITTEE CHAIR jessie little doe baird James Lopes Johanna Branson Martin Newhouse CHAIR Ben Birnbaum Ellen Berkman Jeffrey Musman David Bryant Michael Pappone Jeffrey Musman Kathryn Bloom Thomas Putnam Bruce Bullen Alan Raymond VICE CHAIR Lauren Cohen Robert Pura John Burgess John Regan Ellen Berkman Nancy Netzer Javier Corrales Bianca Sigh John Dacey Laura Roberts Alfred Griggs Ellen Dunlap Ronald Hertel TREASURER Elliot Bostwick Davis Lisa Simmons Susan Roberts Michael Eizenberg Michael Pappone James Burke Alfred Griggs John Stauffer Ingrid Stadler Andrew Helene Kathleen Stone Charles Harak Robert Strassler Bianca Sigh Kenneth Vacovec CLERK Ronald Hertel Kenneth Vacovec David Harris Cynthia Terwilliger Perry Wu Lindsey Kiang Suzanne Frazier Wilkins Susan Winston Leff Thomas Trimarco Leila Kinney Ingrid MacGillis EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Cullen Murphy Lucia Knoles David Tebaldi masshumanities.org Jill Ker Conway’s Hubie Jones has be- distinguished career in- come an icon for social cludes such wide-ranging and racial justice informed highlights as being the by the humanities, with a first woman president of focus on Boston neighbor- Smith College, the board hoods. His leadership into chair of the Lend Lease investigations of exclusion In the early 1970s, when the Corporation, and the in the Boston public school National Endowment for the Humanities author of notable books system in the late 1960s led established the “Massachusetts Foundation including her memoirs, to the groundbreaking, first- for the Humanities and Public Policy” and The Road from Coorain in-the-nation enactments of two landmark sister organizations in each U.S. state and ter- and True North. Her more than 20 publica- laws in Massachusetts, known as the special ritory, it sought out community leaders who tions also include scholarly investigations education law and the bi-lingual education understood the crucial role the humanities of feminism and the role of women in his- law. In the years since, Jones has played key play in our democracy. The concept that a tory, autobiographies and memoirs of notable roles in forming, rebuilding, and leading doz- self-governed nation must ensure public ac- women from around the world, as well as the ens of organizations, in roles such as dean and cess to history, literature, philosophy, and the children’s book, Felipe the Flamingo. While at professor of the Boston University School of other humanities disciplines was not a new Smith, Conway championed the access of older Social Work, board president of the Roxbury one. It was present at the founding of the women of limited means to higher education, Community College Foundation, and special nation. But this was the first time the federal and launched the Ada Comstock Scholars pro- assistant to the chancellor for urban affairs government made a concerted effort to place gram. She holds thirty-nine honorary degrees at UMass Boston—to name a few. In 2003, the humanities in the public domain. from North American and Australian colleges Jones built from the ground up the Boston and universities. Conway is the recipient of a Children’s Chorus, which is currently com- The NEH’s grassroots attempt at attracting 2012 National Medal in the Humanities from posed of 500 singers from 12 choirs in five local champions for this cause has flourished President Barack Obama. Also in that year, she locations around Boston. Jones served on the over the years. In keeping with its mission to was titled Companion of the Order of Austra- board of directors of Mass Humanities from use the humanities to enhance and improve lia, her native land. 1977-1979. civic life throughout the Commonwealth, Mass Humanities has supported and con- J. Donald Monan, Malcolm Rogers ducted thousands of excellent programs S.J., over his record-long became Director of the Mu- that have reached hundreds of thousands seum of Fine Arts, Boston of people. More than $12 million has term as president of Boston College (1972-1996), led (MFA), in September 1994, been awarded in small matching grants. a position later endowed as In addition, in a state rich in colleges and that institution’s transfor- mation from a financially- the Ann and Graham Gund universities, libraries, museums and his- Director. Now approaching torical societies, and other humanities- challenged local univer- sity to a position of strength his 20th year at the interna- related institutions, Mass Humanities has tionally renowned Museum, found a special niche in reaching those and prestige in American higher education. A scholar Rogers is the longest-serving who still have limited access to the pleasure director in MFA history. Having announced and power of the humanities. of Aristotelian ethics, Fr. Monan has exampled in his leadership of Boston College, and in his future plans to retire, Rogers will leave his many contributions to the common good a legacy of “opening doors” to the Boston To celebrate its 40th year, Mass in Massachusetts and beyond, his early com- community and global audiences. He has ex- Humanities will confer the 2014 mitment to studying the nature of a “good panded the museum’s encyclopedic collection, Massachusetts Governor’s Awards life” and—as a teacher and leader—to mak- presented innovative exhibitions, enhanced in the Humanities upon four ex- ing such a life available to others. As a Jesuit arts education programs, enlarged the MFA’s emplary individuals whose public educator, he has also drawn inspiration from campus and renovated and expanded the mu- actions have been grounded in an what was first known, during the Italian Re- seum’s historic building. His commitment to appreciation of the humanities, naissance, as studia humanitatis, the study of art, art history, and public engagement with and have enhanced civic life in the what it means to be an ethical, articulate, and the humanities can be seen in every corner of Commonwealth. concerned human being, which has been an the Museum. Rogers’ initiatives are driven by aspect of Jesuit education for more than 450 the MFA’s mission: to serve a variety of people In addition to highlighting the important years. His rooted, wise, and principled style of through direct encounters with works of art. role of the public humanities in our soci- engagement has propelled him into national This has included renovating and reopen- ety, the goal of the awards is to inspire all leadership roles in higher education, with the ing both of the museum’s historic entrances, of our leaders to advance the values ex- Boston Public Schools during desegregation, eliminating admission fees for children 17 and pressed in the mission of Mass Humani- in studies of the state judiciary, and in suc- younger, extending the museum’s hours to ties by spotlighting the achievements of cessful diplomacy from Boston to El Salvador, 7-days a week, and instituting a series of free a few. among other work. Fr. Monan served on the community days and cultural events. Approxi- committee convened by the NEH that led to mately 1 million visitors a year are exposed the establishment of the Massachusetts Foun- to infinite possibilities for education and in- dation for the Humanities and Public Policy spiration at the museum. The 2010 opening in 1974—today known as Mass Humanities. of the Art of the Americas Wing was a mile- stone achievement for Rogers, the MFA, and Massachusetts. A trip to the MFA has been incorporated into the art history curricula of the Dorchester and New Bedford Clemente Courses in the Humanities, the flagship pro- gram of Mass Humanities..