Activities of the Friends

Bancroft Awards Dinner. On Thursday evening, April i, mem¬
bers of the Friends, historians, publishers and university officials
assembled in the Rotunda of Low iMemorial Library for the an¬
nual Bancroft Awards Dinner. Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Chairman of
the Friends, presided.

President William J. McGill announced the winners of the 1976
awards for books published in 1975 which a jury deemed to be the
best in the fields of American history and diplomacy. Awards
were presented for the following: The Problem of Slavery in the
Age of Revolution, i'j-jo-i82^, by Da\id Brion Davis, published
by Cornell University Press; and Edith Wharton: A Biography,
by R. W. B. Lewis, published by Harper & Row. The President
presented to the editors of each book the award and certificate
provided by the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation. The
principal speaker for the occasion was Dr. Flenry F. Graff, Pro¬
fessor of Llistory, whose topic was the American presidency.

Fall Meeting. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the
Friends will be celebrated at the fall meeting, Thursday evening,
November 4, to be held in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library.
 

EXHIBITION IN BUTLER LIBRARY

The Faces of JJncoln

Portraits Presenred by Morton Pepper

iVIay 17—September 29