The Penn Museum’s biennial Golden Gala was held on Friday, November 11, 2022 in celebration of the opening of the re-imagined Eastern Mediterranean Gallery, a dramatic 2,000-square-foot space that explores one of the greatest crossroads of culture in history—today’s Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and their cultural exchange in the ancient world with Crete, Cyprus, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. Gala guests were among the first to view the gallery’s nearly 400 extraordinary artifacts spanning thousands of years of human history.
Penn President Liz Magill and Museum Director Chris Woods welcomed guests during a cocktail reception in the Museum’s grand Sphinx Gallery, which was followed by dinner in the majestic Chinese Rotunda. The enchanting evening concluded with dessert and dancing alongside artifacts from Pharaoh Ramses II in the Egyptian Gallery.
The 2022 Golden Gala Co-Chairs were Cason Crane & Fran McGill and Alice S. Sachs, CW69, & Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR. Proceeds from the Golden Gala support our work of ongoing excavations and research, educational and public programming, and stewardship of our world-renowned collections.
Proceeds from the Penn Museum Golden Gala support our work of ongoing excavations and research, educational and public programming, and stewardship of our world-renowned collections.
2022 Golden Gala Co-Chairs
Alice S. Sachs, CW69, & Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR
Cason Crane & Fran McGill
Golden Gala 2022 Benefit Committee
Ann B. Brownlee, Ph.D., and David B. Brownlee, Ph.D.*
Meredith Dwyer Burke and Arthur J. Burke, C89, W89
David T. Clancy, W70, and McCarroll Sibley Clancy*
Joanne H. Conrad, C79, and William L. Conrad, PAR
David Crane and Isabella de la Houssaye
Cason Crane and Fran McGill
Anand Desai, C96, W96, and Erica Desai, C96*
Kathleen Fernberger and Ted Fernberger, Jr., W71*
Lily Ferry and Peter C. Ferry, C79, G21, PAR*
Steven J. Fluharty, Ph.D.*
The Forney Family Foundation
Asma Furniturewala and Irfan M. Furniturewala, WG01, PAR*
Elizabeth S. Gephart, CGS79, and George W. Gephart, Jr., WG79, PAR*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon, PAR*
Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, and Robin M. Potter, WG80*
Ghislain Gouraige, Jr., C80, and Marjorie P. Gouraige, PAR*
Donald C. and Ingrid A. Graham*
Ina Heafitz and Lewis Heafitz, W58
Barbara D. Kowalski and Michael J. Kowalski, W74, PAR*
Diane von Schlegell Levy and Robert M. Levy, WG74*
Elizabeth Magill, J.D.*
Frederick J. Manning, W69, and Gail P. Manning, PAR*
John J. Medveckis, PAR, and Marina Kats, Esquire
Amy Mishra and Arnab Mishra, W96*
Andrew R. Moelis, C10 and Ms. Rosa Levitan Moelis*
Zoë S. Pappas
Barbara and Tom Riley*
Adam Rosen and Perry Silverman Rosen*
Alice S. Sachs, CW69, and Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR*
Katherine S. Sachs, CW69, PAR95
Alexandra Schoenberg and Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR*
David A. Schwartz, M.D., and Stephanie Schwartz*
Trudy and Laird Slade
Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, and Susan Drossman Sokoloff, M.D., C84, PAR*
Matthew J. Storm, C94, WG00, and Natalia Storm*
Gregory A. Weingarten*
Jeffrey Weiss and Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR*
