Activities of the Friends
 

On Tuesday, October 3, the Friends were hosts at a reception on
the occasion of the opening of an exhibit of books and manuscripts
from the Engel Collection, which was presented to the University
by Mrs. Engel and her late husband, Solton Engel. The occasion
also marked the publication of a catalogue of the Collection, and
a specially-bound copy of the catalogue was presented to Mrs.
Engel by Dr. Richard H. Logsdon, Director of Libraries, in the
Social Room of Butler Library before some 75 members of the
Friends and guests of Mrs. Engel.

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the artist and illus¬
trator Arthur Rackham, the Columbia Libraries opened an exhibi¬
tion in the Faculty Room of Low Memorial Library on Tuesday,
November 2 8, of original drawings and watercolors selected from
the collection presented to the University over the years by
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol. The artist's daughter, Mrs. Barbara
Edwards, was the guest of honor at the opening, which occasion
was also the Fall meeting of the Friends attended by over two
hundred members, their guests, and university officials. A cata¬
logue of the Berol Collection, compiled by Roland Baughman,
was also published on that date and will shortly be mailed to the
membership of the Friends. The exhibition will remain on view in
the Faculty Room until December 15, and after that date (until
February 15) in the third-floor exhibition area of Butler Library.
 

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