Activities of the Friends

MEETINGS

Bancroft Awards Dinner

On Tuesday, April 21, approximately 300 members of our or¬
ganization and their guests met for the culminating event of the
academic year—the Bancroft Awards Dinner which was held in
the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library. Mr. Hugh J. Kelly,
Chairman of our association, presided.

During the program. President Grayson Kirk announced the
winners of the prizes for the three books judged by the Bancroft
Prize Jury to be the best published in 1963 in the fields of
American History, American Diplomacy, and International Re¬
lations of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New
Deal: 1^^2-1^40, by William E. Leuchtenburg, Power, Freedom,
and Diplomacy, by Paul Seabury, and The Liberator: William
Lloyd Garrison, by John L. Thomas. He presented a $4,000
check to each of the authors, who responded with short addresses.
Mr. Kelly presented certificates to Mr. James M. Cron of Harper
and Row, to Mr. Charles D. Lieber of Random House, and to
Mr. Earned G. Bradford of Little, Brown and Company, the
publishers, respectively, of the three award-winning books.

The Bancroft Awards Dinner Committee was made up of
Mrs. Francis Henry Lenygon, Chairman, and IMrs. Arthur C.
Holden.

The prizes are provided by funds from the Bancroft Founda¬
tion. The Friends take pleasure in helping to enlarge public
knowledge of these awards.
 

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