Activities of the Friends
 

Fall Reception. The exhibition "'To Praise the Music': Poems and
Writings of William Bronk" opened with a Friends reception on
Thursday, October 14. Mn Bronk, who has published more than
twenty books of poetry and prose, received the National Book
Award for Life Supports: New and Collected Poems. The Exhibition
includes correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs,
hterary reviews, etchings, chapbooks, broadsides, greeting cards,
and many hmited editions. Prior to the reception, the novelist
Richard Elman presented a tribute to the poet. The reception also
served to welcome to Columbia the new Director of the Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, Jean Ashton. Ms. Ashton, who has
been director of the New-York Historical Society Library, is
returning to Columbia twenty-three years after receiving her
Ph.D. in American literature at the University. The Bronk exhibi¬
tion will remain on view in the Kempner Exhibition Room of the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library through January.

Future Events. A reception on Wednesday afternoon, March 2,
1994, will open the spring exhibition in the Kempner Exhibition
Room, and the annual Bancroft Awards Dinner will be held in
the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Wednesday evening,
April 6, 1994.
 

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