Working for CURE

Many of Boston’s biggest philanthropists were at the MFA last night for Boston Benefit for CURE. (CURE is an acronym for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy.) The event, chaired by Bank of America’s Anne Finucane, her husband, Mike Barnicle, and CURE founder Susan Axelrod, wife of presidential adviser David Axelrod, drew a bevy of boldfacers. The guest list included former Hill Holliday honcho Jack Connors, Suffolk Construction’s John Fish, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Putnam Investments president Bob Reynolds, Pats owners Robert and Myra Kraft, Boston Culinary Group kahuna Joe O’Donnell, NSTAR’s Thomas May, Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca, Gerald and Elaine Schuster, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.