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The 12th Annual Gala took place on Thursday, November 13, 2008. Over 375 people attended this exceptional evening to celebrate the services that the Library offers our borough's 2.5 million residents. This year's Honorees were:
Russell Simmons, Chairman & CEO, Rush Communications
Lucille C. Thomas, Trustee & Immediate Past Chair, Brooklyn Public Library
Andrea Davis-Pinkney & Brian Pinkney, award-winning husband and wife author/artist team
Brooklyn Public would like to thank all of the 12th Annual Gala sponsors and in-kind contributors for their support and generosity to the Library and the Brooklyn community.
2008 Gala Sponsors
Lead
Bloomberg
Citibank, N.A.
Janet and David Offensend
Xerox Corporation
Benefactor
Baker & Taylor
BFC Partners
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
K. Backus & Associates
Betty and Stephen Kahn
Miriam Katowitz and Arthur J. Radin
Maimonides Medical Center
Contributor
Con Edison
HarperCollins Publishers
Hilb Rogal & Hobbs of New York LLC
Disney.Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide
Jackson Lewis
JFK & M Consulting Group
Muss Development LLC
Overdrive, Inc.
Pfeiffer Partners Architects, PC
Random House, Inc.
Rush Philanthropic
Hon. Alice Fisher Rubin and Lowell M. Rubin
Sheila Scharfman
Scholastic
Dr. Lucille C. Thomas
Thor Equities, LLC
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Gala Patron
3M Library Systems
ACS, Inc.
Andrea R. Bozzo and John G. Martinez
Bob Buckholz and Lizanne Fountaine
Anthony W. Crowell
Carol and Robert Linn
Dionne Mack-Harvin
Gideon Rose and Sheri Berman
VIM Jeans
John Vitali
2008 Gala Contributors
Live Auction
Brooklyn Cyclones
Sheryl Buchholz
Cirque du Soleil
Joyce Cumberbatch
Jamie Newman
Mutale Nkonde
Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
Danny Simmons
Gala Gift Bags
Baker & Taylor
Better World Books
Bloomberg
Disney.Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of MacMillan
HarperCollins Children's Books
HarperCollins Publishers
Howard Smith
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Penguin Group USA
Random House, Inc.
Workman Press
Gala After Party Gift Bag
Vogue Publications
Beverages
Brooklyn Brewery
Pernod Ricard USA
Svedka
Special thanks to the New York City Parks Department and New York City Police Department for their assistance in helping to make the gala a great success.
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