Activities of the Friends

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Bancroft Awards Dinner. On Thursday, April 9, the members of
rhe Friends, historians, and other guests of the University—num¬
bering approximately three hundred in all—assembled in rhe Ro¬
tunda of Low Alemorial Library for the annual Bancroft Awards
Dinner. Dr. Alorris H. Saffron, Chairman of the Friends, presided.

President Andrew W. Cordier announced the winners of rhe
1970 awards for works published in 1969, which a jury deemed to
be the best in the fields of American history, American interna¬
tional relations, and American diplomacy. The works were as fol¬
lows: Scottsboro; A Tragedy of the American South, by Dan T.
Carter; Charles Willson. Peak, by Charles Coleman Sellers; and
The Creation of the American Republic, i-j-j6-i-]8-!, by Gordon
S. Wood. The President presenred ro each of rhe winners a $4,000
award from funds provided by the Bancroft Foundation.

The publishers which issued these books each received a cer¬
tificate which was presented by the Chairman of the Friends. The
representatives of the companies of the books listed above were:
Mr. Charles East, Director of rhe Louisiana State University Press;
iMr. Charles Scribner, Jr., President of Charles Scribner's Sons;
and Air. Laniberr Davis, Director of the University of North
Carolina Press.

A special pleasure, was the attendance of Dr. \Mlliam J. AlcGill,
the president-elect of the University. He had come to New York
from the Pacific Coast where he is Chancellor of rhe University of
California at San Diego.

All seemed to enjoy this occasion yliich honored the three
writers for their eminently successful authorship. Airs. Francis
Henry Lenygon and Mrs. Arthur C. Holden comprised the
Bancroft Dinner Committee.
 

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