FENWAY — 500 guests attended the special reception to honor Emmanuel College President Sister Janet Eisner of Notre Dame de Namur, the country’s longest-serving woman college president currently in office. Since her inauguration in 1979, she has led Emmanuel through a time of exceptional innovation, achievement and growth. The party was held in a tent on the college’s Fenway campus. The gala co-chairs were Leslie F. McCafferty ’76 and Margaret L. McKenna ’83 and the…

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SEAPORT DISTRICT — 500 guests attended the Cardinal Cushing Centers’ annual Springtime Gala, which raised $675,000 for the organization that is an intergenerational community where people live full and meaningful lives at home, at work, at school and at play. The event was held on May 30, 2019 at the Seaport Hotel. Among those who walked in the evening’s fashion show were: Jim Dunphy, president and CEO of South Shore Bank; Jeff Bellows of Blue…

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BOSTON — 150 guests joined author Ben Mezrich in the launch of his 20th book, “Bitcoin Billionaires,” at a party at the Mandarin Oriental Boston hotel on May 29, 2019. In the non-fiction book, which was released on Tuesday, Mezrich writes about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. At the center of this tome are bigtime Bitcoin investors the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who readers first met in Mezrich’s “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook,” and…

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BOSTON — More than 300 guests attended the first night of Stand Up for Pits Foundation’s fundraising event at Laugh Boston. A second night of fundraising was scheduled for Wednesday, May 29 at 7 p.m. The event was organized by Rebecca Corry. The area Pittie Stop and Pittie Love Rescue also participated.The Stand Up For Pits Foundation is nonprofit dedicated to educating, advocating and saving the lives of pit bull “type” dogs and has been…

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SEAPORT — 350 guests attended the Bay Cove Human Services‘ Changing Lives Gala on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in the Seaport District. One of Massachusetts’ leading human services organizations, Bay Cove honored former Governor Michael Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, with the 2019 Changing Lives Award for their collective efforts and impact in shifting the public conversation about mental illness and addiction. As an author and social worker, Kitty…

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