Activities of the Friends

The Bancroft Prize Dinner. On Thursday, March 29, members of
the Friends, historians, publishers and editors, university officials,
and their guests assembled in the Rotunda of Vow .Memorial Li¬
brary for this annual event. Mr. Gordon N. Ray, Chairman of the
Friends, presided.

President A\'illiam J. .McGill announced the winners of the 1973
awards for books published in 1972 which a jury deemed to be the
best in the field of American history, American international rela¬
tions, and American diplomacy. Awards were made for the fol¬
lowing books: The United States and the Origins of the Cold
War, by John Lewis Gaddis; Booker T. Washington, by Louis R.
Harlan; and Fire in the Lake, by Frances FitzGerald. The Presi¬
dent presented to each of the winners a $4,000 award from funds
provided by the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation.

The publishers of the award-winning books received certificates
which were presented by the Chairman of the Friends. The repre¬
sentatives of the companies were: iMr. Robert G. Barnes, President
and Director of the Columbia University Press (which published
the Gaddis book); Mr. James Y. Huws-Davies, President of the
Oxford University Press (which published the Harlan book); and
Mr. Joseph T. Consolino, General Manager of the Trade Division
of Little Brown & Company (which published the FitzGerald
book).

Mrs. Francis Henry Lenygon was Chairman of the Bancroft
Prize Dinner Committee.

The Fall Meeting. The Fall .Meeting will be held on Wednesday
evening, November 14.

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American Women Authors:

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