Activities of the Friends

Meetif2gs

Fall meeting on October 28. The program at the Fall Meeting on
October 28 is one to which we all look forward, for on that occa¬
sion the Libraries and the Friends will have a newly established
way to honor some of the foremost donors to the Libraries. This
is a new award which the Trustees have created, upon recommen¬
dation of the Council of the Friends and of the Ditector of Li¬
braries: the Columbia Libraries Citation for Distinguished Service.

A committee of the Council recommended that, based on the
scope and range of the research materials presented, the first per¬
sons to be cited should be the following: for 1969, Professor Allan
Nevins; for 1970, Mr. Alfred C. Berol. The awards will be pre¬
sented by Air. Warren J. Haas, the Director of Libraries, at the
Fall Meeting on the above-indicated date.

Winter meeting on March 5. At the "Winter Meeting the Friends
plan to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the
association. Details will be sent later to our members.

Finances

In the November issue, we print the annual statement about the
gifts from the Friends—both monetary and "in kind"—made dur¬
ing the twelve-month period ending on Alarch 31. In 1969-70 the
general purpose gifts were ,'514,422, the special purpose gifts
$20,490, making a total of $34,912—the highest one-year total
since the founding of the association in Alay, 1951. Cash gifts since
that date now total $334,922.

An explanatory word: the special purpose funds, which are re¬
ferred to above, were given to enable the Libraries to purchase
specific items or collections—John Alasefield letters, George San¬
tayana manuscripts, incunabula, or other unique books or manu-

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