From left, John White Jr. and Elizabeth White, Irving and Carol Schneider, and Providence Mayor David Cicilline.

When the last Friday of July nears, it’s time for the groundskeepers at Johnson & Wales University to set up a giant stage, spotlights and lots of tables and chairs on Gaebe Commons.

The university’s 12th annual Pops in the City, in which the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra performs in downtown Providence under the stars, went off without a hitch. About 675 guests were there, and they helped bring in $50,000 for the Morris J.W. Gaebe Scholarship Fund.

The fund is named for Morris Gaebe, who in 1947 with his Navy buddy Edward Triangolo purchased the culinary college from Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales. The two women founded the school as a business school in 1914.