Activities of the Friends

Meetings

Bancroft Awards Dinner. As we go to press, plans arc being com¬
pleted for members of our association and guests to assemble on
Thursday, April 24, in the Rotunda of Low .Memorial Library for
the dinner at which the Bancroft Prizes for 1969 will be publicly
announced. Dr. .Morris II. Saffron, Chairman of the Friends, will
preside.

The winners of this year's awards, for works published in 1968,
are White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro,
1^^0-1812, by Winthrop D. Jordon; Woodrow Wilson and
World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution, by
N. Gordon Levin, Jr.; and The Brains Trtist, by Rexford Guy
Tugwell. Acting President Andrew W. Cordier will present to
each of the winners a $4,000 award from funds provided by the
Bancroft Foundation.

The publisher of each of the prize-winning books will be pre¬
sented with a certificate, presented by the Chairman of tlie Friends.
The publishers in the order of the listing above are: University of
North Carolina Press, Oxford Univensitv Press, Inc., and The
Viking Press, Inc.

A highlight of the evening is the part of the program in which
each of the three prize-winning authors makes a short response.
Mrs. Francis Henry Lenygon and Mrs. .\rthur C, Holden com¬
prised the Bancroft Dinner Committee.

The Chairman of the Friends has commented about the great
benefits wJiich come to a private institution through such a far-
sighted bequest as that of Frederic Bancroft, a gift which has made
the Columbia Libraries pre-eminenr in .•\inerican history and
related fields.
 

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