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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Harvard T.H. Chan School of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Beth Pfeiffer and John Foster Wendy Shattuck and Samuel Plimpton Executive Director David Tebaldi and the Board of Directors WGBH Educational Foundation of Mass Humanities invite you to the 2016 Governor’s Awards Dinner to support the public humanities in Massachusetts.

Sunday, November 6, 2016, 6:30 pm SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES All sponsors receive recognition on the Mass Humanities Web site and in printed materials, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY displays, and announcements at the event, according to sponsorship levels. McKIM BUILDING 700 Boylston Street, Boston $40,000 Laureate > Front-of-house table (up to ten seats) > Center spread program ad The 2016 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities will > Program cover recognition be conferred upon: $20,000 Visionary > Front table Frieda Garcia > Full-page program ad & cover recognition

$10,000 Luminary Atul Gawande > Front table > Full-page ad

Lia Poorvu $5,000 Champion > One table in recognition of their public actions, grounded in an > Half-page ad appreciation of the humanities, to enhance civic life in the $2,500 Benefactor Commonwealth. > Half table (up to five seats) > Quarter-page ad Mass Humanities is a private, nonprofit organization that uses history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities Proceeds support programs that reach underserved disciplines to enhance and improve civic life throughout the communities, such as the Clemente Course in the Commonwealth. For more information, go to: Humanities and Family Adventures in Reading. www.masshumanities.org. The deadline for ad submissions is October 9. Contact Carolyn Cushing, [email protected] 413-584-8440, extension 107.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS DINNER COMMITTEE ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR Glynda Benham Michael Pappone CO-CHAIRS Ben Birnbaum Ingrid MacGillis Nancy Netzer Lauren Cohen Marisa Parham Ellen Berkman David Bryant Cullen Murphy Elliot Bostwick Davis Thomas Putnam Ronald Hertel John Burgess Martin Newhouse VICE CHAIR Alice DeLana Hilda Ramirez John Dacey John Regan James Burke Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello Margaret Shepherd John Dacey Ellen Dunlap Laura Roberts Alfred Griggs David Harris TREASURER William M. Fowler, Jr. Bianca Sigh Ward Robert Strassler Jeffrey Musman Susan Winston Leff Jeffrey Musman Alfred Griggs Ronald Slate Cynthia Terwilliger Andrew Helene Kathleen Stone Nancy Netzer James Lopes Ronald Hertel Kenneth Vacovec Michael Pappone CLERK Kathleen Stone Ellen Berkman Frederick Hurst Perry Wu Lindsey Kiang Bianca Sigh Ward EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR David Tebaldi

masshumanities.org Mass Humanities will confer the 2016 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities upon three individuals whose public actions have been grounded in an appreciation of the humanities and enhanced civic life in the Commonwealth.

In addition to highlighting the important role of the public humanities in our society, the goal of the awards is to inspire all of our leaders and institutions to advance the values expressed in the mission of Mass Humanities by spotlighting the achievements of a few.

Frieda Garcia is a tire- Atul Gawande Lia Poorvu has worked less activist and leader who has champions humanism in as a teacher, volunteer, and or- worked to ensure equal oppor- healthcare through his ganizer to improve dozens of tunity and access to programs work as a surgeon, writer, cultural institutions in and that educate and inspire. A na- and public health research- around Boston. She taught tive of the Dominican Republic, er. He practices general French for 40 years, the last she was the founding director and endocrine at 25 at Tufts University. She of La Alianza Hispana in 1971 Brigham and Women’s chaired the Friends of both the and became president of United Hospital. He is a professor in the Depart- Wellesley College and Harvard South End Settlements in 1981. For the next ment of Health Policy and Management at libraries. She has been a proponent of pres- twenty years, she oversaw development of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ervation of historic collections at the Bos- new programs in adult education and train- Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor ton Public Library, the Schlesinger Library ing, housing services, computer technology of Surgery at . He at Radcliffe, and the Massachusetts Historic and cultural enrichment. is also executive director of Ariadne Labs, Society. At Facing History and Ourselves, a joint center for health systems innovation, the French Library, the Jewish Historic So- Garcia has contributed to countless efforts and chair of Lifebox, an organization mak- ciety, the Museum of Fine Arts, and WGBH, to improve civic life in the City of Boston, ing surgery safer globally. as well as several small classical music orga- most notably as board member and chair of nizations, she has encouraged the preserva- The Boston Foundation and life trustee of Gawande has been a staff writer for The tion and interpretation of our culture. the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has has served on over 70 non-profit boards, in- written four Times bestsell- As a trustee of Wellesley College, Poorvu has cluding as a founding director of the Mass ers: Complications, Better, The Checklist championed its commitment to the humani- Humanities board from 1974-1976. Manifesto, and most recently, Being Mor- ties as part of a strong liberal arts curriculum tal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. for women. She was decorated twice by the As chair of the Friends of the Harriet Tub- Since 2003, hospital workers participating French Government for connecting Boston man Park on Columbus Avenue, she over- in Mass Humanities’ Literature & Medi- public school students in exchanges with the saw the park’s redesign in 1999, including cine program have read his essays from the Council of Europe and Boston’s sister city, the first statue to a woman on City of Bos- Annals of Medicine and , Strasbourg. For 10 years, she was president ton property—a 10-foot sculpture of Har- as well as excerpts from his books. Among of the Adolescent Consultation Services. riet Tubman. Among her many other awards other awards, Gawande has won two Na- and honors, in 2013 a new park at Claren- tional Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fel- Poorvu draws inspiration from her idol, don and Stanhope streets was named Frieda lowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for Eleanor Roosevelt, whose life she works to Garcia Park. Writing about Science. commemorate.

The Awards Dinner follows the Mass Humanities 2016 Fall Forum:

The Politics of Hope: Four Historians Take on the Obama Presidency

In the BPL’s newly-renovated Rabb Auditorium 4:30 – 6:30 PM / Free and open to the public.

Ellen Fitzpatrick, political historian, University of New David Greenberg, journalist; professor of history, Rutgers Hampshire; author of The Highest Glass Ceiling: University; author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History Women’s Quest for the American Presidency of the American Presidency

Annette Gordon-Reed, historian and law professor, Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history, ; author of “Most Blessed of the Boston College; author of To Make Men Free: A History Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the of the Republican Party Imagination

Meghna Chakrabarti, host of WBUR’s acclaimed weekday show Radio Boston, will moderate the forum.

PHOTO OF LIA POORVU BY KRIS SNIBBE