The Newberry Library Spring Benefit

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.

2008 Benefit Invitation image

The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610

Abby McCormick O'Neil and D. Carroll Joynes, Event Chairs

6:00 p.m. - Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and live musical entertainment in the Lobby

7:15 p.m. - Dinner and program, including presentation of The Newberry Library Award in the Regenstein Reading Rooms

Attire: Cocktail attire

Caterer: George Jewell Catering

Tickets:

$10,000

Benefactor table of 10


$5,000

Patron table of 10


$400

Individual ticket


$250

Individual ticket, 35 years old and under, please

Honoree: Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University and one of the most distinguished and influential cultural historians writing today. His many publications include The Footnote (Harvard University Press, 1997), Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press and Penguin, 2000), and Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (Harvard University Press, 2006).

If you have questions please contact Jo Anne Moore, Associate Director of Development Events at (312) 255-3556 or at moorej@newberry.org.

 

 

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