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The Sixty-Second Annual Meeting
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The Sixty-Second Annual Meeting

Saturday, April 18, 2009
11:30am - 1:30pm
The Edward Heller Hellman Reading Room
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

11:30am		Registration & Reception
12:00pm		Luncheon
1:00pm		Business Meeting
		Presentation of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award to the Lane Family for Sunset magazine
		Presentation of Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships and Prizes

About the Annual Meeting

Each spring the Friends host an annual meeting, open to all members of the Friends and their guests. The luncheon gathering, often held in The Bancroft Library Reading Room, includes a business meeting with reports from the Director of The Bancroft Library, the Chair of the Council of the Friends, the Friends' Treasurer and the Chair of the Friends' Nominating Committee.

The Hubert Howe Bancroft Award, as well as various Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships and Prizes, are also presented.

The Hubert Howe Bancroft Award

Presented by the Friends of The Bancroft Library, the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award honors individuals for their "significant achievements in support of historical research and scholarship and in the preservation of ephemera and memorabilia." The Hubert Howe Bancroft Award is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of The Bancroft Library and recipients are presented with a proclamation and a miniature bust of Hubert Howe Bancroft.

The resolution passed by the Friends of The Bancroft Library to establish the award reads, in part,

Whereas, it is appropriate for the Friends of The Bancroft Library to recognize significant achievements in support of historical research and scholarship on California and the American West, in the preservation of primary and secondary source materials, and in the interpretation and imaginative re-creation of its history, and,

Whereas, Hubert Howe Bancroft was an exemplary figure in the field of historical scholarship, in the collection of primary source materials, and in the scope and depth of his historical writings, and,

Whereas, Hubert Howe Bancroft was the founder and namesake of The Bancroft Library, now,

Therefore, be it resolved, that an appropriate award is hereby authorized and created to recognize from time to time contributions to history and its preservation consonant with the tradition established by Hubert Howe Bancroft, and,

Be it further resolved, that this award be named the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award.

Distinguished Recipients

2009 The Lane Family, Sunset magazine
2008 Malcolm Margolin, Founder and Publisher of Heyday Books
2007 Isabel Allende, Writer
2006 Joan Didion, Writer
2005 Kevin Starr, Historian and California State Librarian
2004 William Barlow, Book Collector, Bibliographer, Bibliophile
2003 Bernard M. Rosenthal, Book Seller and Scholar
2002 John L. Heilbron, Historian of Science and Vice Chancellor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
2001 Willa Baum, Oral Historian
2000 J.S. Holliday, Historian and Author
1998 Jean Stone, Editor and Philanthropist
1997 Michael Harrison, Collector of Western Americana

Past Annual Meeting Speakers

2008 "The Guest of the Flower Flag: The Chinese American Experience in the 20th Century"
Charlie Chin, Artist-in-Residence, Chinese Historical Society of America

2007 "Trouble with Miracles in The Bancroft Library: A Mexican Episode"
William Taylor, Professor, U.C. Berkeley

2006 "The Bancroft Library: One Hundred Years of Helping California and the West Understand Itself"
Kevin Starr, State Librarian Emeritus and University Professor, University of Southern California

2005 "Abigail Williams and the American Revolution"
Lynne Withey, Director, University of California Press and author

2005 "Poetry and Peace"
Maxine Hong Kingston, author and poet

2003 Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Havana Bay, December 6, and other novels.

2002 Thomas Sánchez, author of Rabbit Boss, Mile Zero, Zoot-suit Murders, and Day of the Bees.

2001 "Biography of a Biography: The Chief: William Randolph Hearst"
David Nasaw, Professor of History, City University of New York

2000 "California Literature in the Twenty-first Century"
Moderator, David Krasny; Panelists: Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, and Al Young

1999 "Remarks on Literature"
Amy Tan, Author

1998 "The Bancroft Library and UC: California's Best Idea of Itself"
Kevin Starr, California State Librarian

1997 "Reflections on My Years at Cal"
Chang-Lin Tien, Chancellor, U. C. Berkeley

1996 "A Poetry Reading"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

1995 "Twenty-first Century Bancroft"
Arthur Quinn

1994 "The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick and the Birth of California"
Arthur Quinn

1993 "A Victorian Affair in Two Centuries: Harriet Martineau as Collected by Reinhard S. Speck"
Elisabeth Arbuckle, Professor

1992 "Montezuma's Dinner: Hubert Howe Bancroft and the Debate over the Nature of the American Indian in Nineteenth Century America"
Wilcomb E. Washburn, Head, American Studies Program, Smithsonian Institution

1991 "The Legacy of James D. Hart"
J.S. Holliday, Historian

1990 "It's Healing Time on Earth"
David Brower, Environmentalist

1989 "Kipling Discovers America in 1889"
Thomas Pinney

1988 "Cultural Diversity and Academic Excellence in California Today"
Vilma S. Martinez, Regent, U.C. Berkeley

1987 "Asian American Writers"
Maxine Hong Kingston, Author

1986 "Nineteenth Century Illustrations of California Sights and Scenes"
John Berggruen, Lawrence Dinnean, Joseph Goldyne, and Therese Heymann

1985 "The Mark Twain Papers Celebrates Huck Finn's 100th Birthday"
Alan Dundes, Victor Fischer, Robert Hirst, and Wright Morris

1984 "Culture and Politics"
Stephen Spender

1983 "The Internal Millennium"
Jonathan Miller

1982 "Picking up a Pen"
Jessamyn West

1981 Art Hoppe

1980 "My Life in Photography"
Ansel Adams, Photographer

1979 "Sir Francis Drake As Seen by His Contemporaries"
David B. Quinn

1978 "The California Woman"
Joan Didion, Author

1977 "Reading is Writing"
William Saroyan, Author

1976 "California: Representing a Nation in the United States Senate"
U.S. Senator Alan Cranston

1975 "The Native Californian: Centennial Views of the American Indian"
N. Scott Momaday, Professor of English, Stanford University

1974 James Thorpe, Director, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California

1973 "Research and the Library"
Charles J. Hitch, President, University of California

1972 "The Dead-Pan on Huck Finn"
Henry Nash Smith, Professor of English, U.C. Berkeley

1971 "Bernard De Voto: The Historian in the Marketplace"
Wallace Stegner, Professor of English, Stanford University

1970 "Historical Attitudes toward the California Environment"
George R. Stewart, Professor of English, U.C. Berkeley

1969 "A Century of Dynamic Journalism: The Colorful Growth of California's Newspapers"
William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Publisher

1968 "California's Place in the Growth of the Nation"
U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel

1967 "Great Photographers of California - Eadweard Muybridge, Watkins, Edward Weston and others"
Ansel Adams, Photographer

1966 "Sierra Nevada"
Francis Peloubet Farquhar

1965 "Frederick Jackson Turner, The Making of a Historian"
Ray A. Billington

1964 "California Pictorial History and the Honeyman Collection"
Paul Mills, Curator of The Oakland Art Museum

1963 "The Years of Neglect"
John W. Caughey, Professor of History, UCLA

1962 "The Scholars' Ally for Progress: The Bancroft Library and Inter-American Studies"
Harry Bernstein, Professor of History, Brooklyn College

1961 "Rose, or Rose Thorn?"
Susanna Bryant Dakin, Author

1960 "What is Happening to the California Landscape"
Newton B. Drury, Chief of the Division of State Parks in California

1959 "The Changing Responsibilities of a United States Senator"
U.S. Senator William F. Knowland

1958 "Landscapes and Bookscapes"
Lawrence Clark Powell, Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Librarian, UCLA

1957 "California Background: Spanish or American"
John D. Hicks, Professor of History, U.C. Berkeley

1956 "Materials for the Diary of a Great People"
Edgar Eugene Robinson, Professor of History, U.C. Berkeley

1955 "The Bancroft Library: Whence -What-and Whither"
Carl I. Wheat, Distinguished Lawyer and Writer

1954 "What Did the Forty-Niners Read?"
James D. Hart, Professor of English, U.C. Berkeley

1953 "Some Neglected Archives of Europe, with Special Reference to the Hudson's Bay Company"
W. L. Davis, S.J., Professor of History, Gonzaga University

1952 "In the San Joaquin after Bancroft"
Frank F. Latta, Director of the Kern County Museum

1951 "A Visit to the Prince of Wied and the Archives at Schloss Neuwied, Germany, in June, 1950"
Herbert M. Evans, Director of the Institute of Experimental Biology, U.C. Berkeley

1950 "Fooferaw and Honeydew from Taos Town to the Oregon"
Carl P. Russell, Superintendent of Yosemite National Park

1949 "California and South Africa"
Charles L. Camp, Professor of Paleontology, U.C. Berkeley

1948 "Reminiscence of The Bancroft Library"
Herbert E. Bolton, Director of The Bancroft Library