Featured speaker and novelist Thomas Sanchez spoke to the Friends on his life as a writer.

On Saturday April 27, 2002, the Friends of The Bancroft Library gathered in the Heller Reading Room to celebrate its fifty-fifth Annual Meeting. Some ninety members of the Friends and their guests enjoyed a preview of Bancroft's new exhibit, "The Foundations of Anthropology in California, 1901-1960," a tribute to the key figures and events in the development of anthropology here at Berkeley.

Ellie Hahn, Louis H. Heilbron, and Professor Roger Hahn enjoy a toast.

John Heilbron, Professor of History Emeritus received the fifth Hubert Howe Bancroft Award. Professor Heilbron, a native of San Francisco, received both this undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Berkeley and has served the university in several capacities including a faculty member in History, chair holder, Chairman of the Academic Senate, and Vice-Chancellor. As a graduate student Professor Heilbron was instrumental in the organization of the Archive for the History of Quantum Physics with his mentor Thomas S. Kuhn, and he engaged with critical discernment in the practice of interviewing significant scientists to record their historical recollections. His support proved crucial to the development of the Rare Books Collection of The Bancroft Library, with particular emphasis on Western European natural philosophy, and source for much of his scholarly writing, including the epoch-making Electricity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1979).

Charles B. Faulhaber accepts a wonderful 14th-century manuscript from Saragossa acquired in his honor by the Friends. This unique volume is a key source for the religious history of medieval Spain.

In collaboration with his Berkeley colleague, Professor Roger Hahn, Heilbron created the History of Science and Technology Program at The Bancroft Library, now one of the major repositories for the personal papers of scientists in the nation. Heilbron founded the Office for the History of Science and Technology at Berkeley, which has a proud 30-year history of collaboration with The Bancroft Library. The organizations regularly sponsor exhibits, colloquia, and publications.