Activities of the Friends

New Council Members

At the meeting of the Trustees of the Universitv on Monday,
December 6, two new members were elected to the Council of the
Friends: Mr. Donald S. Klopfer and Dr. Corliss Lamont (Ph.D.,
1932). Their terms extend to June 30, 1974. A\ ith this filling of
two vacancies, the Council of eighteen is at full complement.

Meetings

Fall Meeting. At the gathering of the Friends on November
3, the Columbia Libraries Citation for Distinguished Scrxicc for
1971 was presented to Dr. Jerome P. AA'ebster, and Louis S. Auch¬
incloss spoke on "Writers and Literary Agents in New York."
The 200 members and guests examine an exhibit of items from the
recent gift of papers from literary agent James Olixer Brown.

Winter Meeting on February i. The next meeting, will focus
on the recently acqiured Rockwell Kent Collection, part of which
will be on display. The principal address, on Kent as book illustra¬
tor and designer, will be given by Richard V. West, Curator of
the Bowdoin College .Museum of Art. Corliss Lamont will com¬
ment on Kent as artist and man. Dr. Morris H. Saffron, Chairman
of the Friends, will preside.

Bancroft Prizes Dinner on. Thursday, April 20. In\-itations for
this year's dinner will be mailed to members in March.
 

EXHIBniONS IX BUTLER LIBRARY, FEBRUARY  I-.MAY  3 I

The James Oliver Brown Papers:

Letters Written to the New York Literary .Agent.

Ulysses, 1922-1972:

The 50th Anniversary of the Publication of J ames J oyce's No vel.

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