HINGHAM — 175 golfers took to the courses for the annual Golf Tournament and Auction to support of IMPACT Melanoma’s educational, support and advocacy programs. The golf tourney raised $250,000 and was held at both Boston Golf and the Black Rock Country Club on Monday, June 3, 2019. IMPACT Melanoma holds the golf tournaments because the risk of melanoma is high for golfers who spend hours out on the golf course unprotected, especially for men…

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PAINTING BY JANET LEE HARROLD, COPYRIGHT RESERVED. DORCHESTER — Today, June 3, 2019, marks the 55th anniversary of Bill Brett’s photographs appearing in the pages of The Boston Globe. And, he had a spread on Page B6 of his photographs from the South End Settlements’ gala. You can view them on this website or, in the Globe by clicking here. The team at BillBrettBoston.com is using Janet Lee Harrold’s beautiful painting of the old Globe…

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SOUTH END — 450 guests attended the United South End Settlements annual Neighborhood Gala that raised more than $380,000 to fund the 127-year-old nonprofit’s programs that support children and their families. Guests included actress and producer Eliza Dushku and her husband, the developer Peter Palandjian. The organization, which has as its core mission to unite the South End community to end the cycle of poverty, held the gala in the open space underneath the Southeast…

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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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