Activities of the Friends

MEETINGS

Meeting on February y. The Mid-winter meeting of the
Friends of the Columbia Libraries was held at the Men's Faculty
Club of Columbia Universit) at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
February 5, 1964.

-Mr. Hugh J. Kelly, Chairman of the Friends, presided. 1 le ex¬
plained that by action of the Frustees in June, 1963, the Council
of the Friends was made an Advisory Council. 1 his places our
governing group on the same basis as that of the Advisory
Councils in other parts of the Universit\. Appointments are for
a three-year term, the appointments being made b)- the Trustees
upon recommendation of the President. .Mr. Kelly said that he
had appointed a committee of the Council, chairmaned by Mrs.
Franz T. Stone, to study the changes in the Constitution and
By-laws which would be needed. In the absence of Mrs. Stone
he called on Lewis Leary, a Committee member, who outlined
briefly the revisions and who reported that the Council of the
Friends had approved them. Upon a motion duly seconded the
members adopted the amendments. The revised Constitution and
By-laws will either be printed in the .May issue of Columbia
Library Columns or will be included as a separate insert.

Program. Mr. Kelly said that the purpose of this meeting of the
Friends was to honor the gift of the V. K. Wellington Koo Col¬
lection, comprising the diplomatic papers of Dr. Koo who is a
Columbia alumnus, a Nationalist Chinese statesman, and Justice
on the International Court at the Hague. The papers are housed
in a special office in the East Asian Library in Kent where they

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