Friends Annual Meeting: April 19, 2003
(Left to right) Charles B. Faulhaber, James D. Hart Director of The Bancroft Library, presents the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award to Barney Rosenthal. |
On Saturday April 19, 2003, members and guests attended the 56th annual meeting of The Friends of the Bancroft Library in the Heller Reading Room. On a perfect Berkeley afternoon, the Friends gathered to celebrate a number of accomplishments and honor a select group of award winners. The day’s events began with refreshments and a viewing of the current exhibition, “Then and Now: Student Photographs of the Berkeley Campus,” a photographic display that documents campus life from the late 1800s to today. The myriad images included views of fraternity life from yesteryear and statements of contemporary culture and politics, as exemplified in a photo of a young woman leaning by Sather Gate with her lip ring and an environmentally friendly coffee mug. |
(Left to right) Bill Brown, Associate Director for Public Services with Hill-Shumate Award recipients Danielle Peterson (first place) and Anabel Odisho (second place). |
Following the luncheon, Charles Faulhaber, the James D. Hart Director of The Bancroft Library, and Tom Woodhouse, Chair of the Friends of The Bancroft Library, convened the business meeting. In his report, Charles Faulhaber acknowledged the support and hard work of many members of the Friends and highlighted a few Bancroft acquisitions and activities during the past year. He also outlined the plans to renovate and enhance the Doe Library Annex, home to The Bancroft Library, and the fundraising effort needed for this crucial project.
The presentation of the Hill- Shumate Prize, for undergraduate student book collecting, followed. Bill Brown, Associate Director for Public Services, presented cash awards to Cal students Danielle Peterson (first place), for her collection relating to the poet, John Ashbery; Anabel Odisho (second place), for his collection of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology books; and, in absentia, to Mai Der Vang (third place) for her books on the Hmong culture of Southeast Asia.
(Left to right): Ellie Hahn and Professor Roger Hahn admire an early view of Berkeley, California, one of many images on display in Bancroft’s Exhibit Gallery. |
Chair of the Friends of The Bancroft Library, Thomas E. Woodhouse offers his comments on the activities of the Friends. |
The meeting concluded with the presentation of the sixth Hubert Howe Bancroft Award, to noted bookseller and scholar Bernard M. Rosenthal. This year’s recipient, known as “Barney” to his many friends, was recognized for his distinguished career as a bookseller, for his continuing support of The Bancroft Library, and for his years of meritorious service to the Friends. Barney reminisced about his long and storied career as a bookseller and scholar, and recalled many amusing anecdotes. With predictable modesty, Barney minimized his many contributions to Bancroft and to the Friends, but those in attendance enjoyed the opportunity to acknowledge his decades of service to both organizations.
(Left to right) Orville Schell, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism; featured speaker, novelist Martin Cruz Smith; and James D. Hart Director of The Bancroft Library Charles B. Faulhaber prepare to entertain the audience gathered at Wheeler Hall. |
Tom Woodhouse delivered the Treasurer’s Report, in the absence of Peter Frazier, and Chair of the Nominating Committee John Briscoe introduced the new slate of candidates and acknowledged outgoing council members. At the conclusion of the business meeting, members and guests traveled next door to Wheeler Hall, to enjoy a presentation, “Martin Cruz Smith: A Conversation,” moderated by Orville Schell, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Smith, novelist and author of such noted works as Gorky Park (1981), Red Square (1992), Rose (1996), Havana Bay (1999) and December 6 (2002), discussed his works and the process of writing novels to an enthusiastic crowd. |
—Bill Brown
Volume 123
Fall 2003
Table of Contents
Rare Pahlavi Texts Now at Bancroft
From the Director: A Bancroft Library for the 21st Century
Moving The Bancroft Library: 1950
Towards Estimating the Demand for California Wine: 1870–1920
Collecting Baedeker Travel Guides
Friends Annual Meeting: April 19, 2003
“A beautiful dream and vividly real” New Mark Twain Notebook, Letters, and Other Items
Bancroft Partners with Zazzle.com
Irving Stone’s Lust for Learning
The Bancroft Library–KQED Radio Lecture Series, 2003
Math Majors Chill with Rare Editions
