Activities of the Friends
 

Winter Reception. Nearly two hundred Friends and their guests,
members of the Hornick family, and poets and artists attended the
reception on March 6 to open the exhibition "Kulchur Queen and
Kulchur Books: Lita Hornick and the Poets She Published." The
first editions, manuscripts, and photographs in the exhibition were
selected from the extensive collection presented by Mrs. Hornick;
also on view are drawings and photographs, some lent by Mrs.
Hornick, including work by artists Joe Brainard, Alex Katz, Les
Levine, Gerard Malanga, Paula North, and Andy Warhol. In addi¬
tion to Mrs. Hornick's own books, there are in the exhibition first
editions of books of poetry by Helen Adam, Ted Berrigan, Tom
Clark, Charles Henri Ford, John Giorno, Kenneth Koch, Richard
Kostelanetz, Rochelle Owens, Aram Saroyan, and Anne Waldman,
among others. The exhibition will remain on display through
June 28.

Bancroft Awards Dinner. Mr. Frank S. Streeter, Chairman of the
Friends, presided at the annual Bancroft Awards Dinner in the
Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Wednesday evening, April 3.
University Provost Jonathan R. Cole announced the winners of the
1991 awards for distinguished books in American history and diplo¬
macy: Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in
Chicago, I919-19S9, Cambridge University Press; and Laurel
Tha.tcheT Ulnch, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based
on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Alfred A. Knopf Provost Cole presented
to the author of each book a $4,000 award from funds provided by
the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation; Mr. Streeter pre¬
sented citations to the publishers.

Future Meetings. The fall exhibition reception will be held on
Wednesday afternoon, December 4; the winter exhibition recep¬
tion will be held on March 4, 1992; and the Bancroft Awards
Dinner is scheduled for April 1, 1992.
 

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