Activities of the Friends

Bancroft Awards Dinner. The annual Bancroft Awards Dinner,
sponsored by the Friends, was held in the Rotunda of Low Me¬
morial Library on Thursday evening, April 3. Dr. Gordon N.
Ray, Chairman of the Friends, presided. President A\'illiam J.
McGill announced the winners of the 1980 awards for books pub¬
lished in 1979 which a jury deemed of exceptional merit and dis¬
tinction in the fields of American history and diplomacy. Awards
were presented for the following: Robert Dallek, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, i<)^2-if4j, published by
Oxford University Press; Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The
Transformatio7i of JVork and Co'im/iunity in Lowell, Massachu¬
setts, 1826-1860, published by Columbia University Press; and
Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the ip^os,
published by Oxford University Press. The President presented
to the author of each book a $4,000 award from funds provided
by the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation, and Dr. Ray
presented citations to the publishers.

Future Meetings. Meetings of the Friends during 1980-81 have
been scheduled for the following dates: Fall meeting, Thursday
evening, November 6; Winter Exhibition Opening, Thursday
afternoon, February 5; and the Bancroft Awards Dinner, Thurs¬
day evening, April 2.