John Buchanan, Dede Wilsey, Dr. Zahi Hawass

We really enjoyed the coverage that the Chronicle’s Carolyne Zinko and Janny Hu gave of the glamorous opening night for the beautiful King Tut exhibit at the de Young. If you haven’t read it yet, just follow this link to sfgate.com

Photos from the first opening night, the “Tut Director’s Gala,” can be seen here, featuring some of the Fine Arts Museum’s most generous donors. Our museums are funded, in large part, by the kind of people that you see here, who have a true passion for the arts, and for the enrichment of San Francisco culture. There is no doubt but that the quality of life of our great City would suffer without the arts and their supporters. We salute them!

Trevor Traina and John Traina

Jay Xu (of the Asian Art Museum) with Katherine Matsuura, Jennifer Biederbeck and Doug Biederbeck

Kate Chung and David Chung

Dr. David Silverman and Dr. Renee Dreyfus, curators of the exhibition

Cheryl Menoufy

Thelma Schnitzer, Gilbert Schnitzer, Dorothy Saxe, George Saxe

Gilbert and Thelma Schnitzer

Lisa Stevens (of Wells Fargo) and Robert Gallo

Trevor Traina with Keith Scott (of Cartier)

William Obendorf and Susan Obendorf

Belva Davis and William Moore

Richard Essey, Denise Fitch, Lucy Jewett

Bill Bacigalupi (of KGO), and Marilyn Bacigalupi

Consul General Hesham Elnakib, His Excellency Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Ambassador to the US

Egyptian Consul General Hesham Elnakib, Dede Wilsey

Dean Osaki (of Target), and Diane Nomura

Mike Sangiacomo and Mary Sangiacomo

Mr. & Mrs. John Wilcox

Lisa Sardegna and David Carrillo

Trevor Traina and Alexis Traina

Cynthia Gunn, John Gunn

John Buchanan, Jeanne and Sandy Robertson

Paul Violich, Lonna Wais

Barnaby Conrad and Dr. Zahi Hawass

Lucy Buchanan, John Capizzi (of Neiman Marcus)

David Blanton, Lindy Sherwood-Coombs, Steve Bell

Tim Simon, Anne Simon

Marianne Peterson, Joan Danforth

Dagmar Dolby and Ray Dolby

Gretchen Kimball

Photos: Drew Altizer