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Around the QuadsCAMPUS BULLETINSLeadershipThe Columbia College Fund will host its second annual leadership conference on Saturday, September 13, to acknowledge and brief all College Fund volunteers including Class Agents; members of the Board of Visitors, CCAA Board of Directors, and 2004 Reunion Committees; Parents Fund volunteers; Hamilton Associates; and members of the Senior Fund. The conference will kick off the College’s fund-raising efforts for the 250th anniversary year and will include updates from senior administration as well as an opportunity to brainstorm about future initiatives. Invitations will be mailed this summer. For more information on joining the Class Agent Program, please contact the College Fund, (212) 870-2288. JournalismPresident Lee C. Bollinger announced in April that Nicholas Lemann, the Washington, D.C., correspondent for The New Yorker, would become dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, starting in September. Lemann, 48, a Harvard graduate and former president of The Harvard Crimson, has been a reporter and editor at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post. He also has published a number of books, including The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999) about the SAT exams. The dean’s post has been vacant since Tom Goldstein stepped down last June after five years. After halting the search for a new dean last summer, Bollinger spent more than six months leading a review of journalism education with a task force of 34 journalists, educators and others. Lemann was a member of the task force, and he helped plan a two-year journalism program that would give students a chance to study history, law and politics. The present program is 10 months. BancroftThe 2003 Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy have been awarded to two authors for books dealing with the impact of slave trade among Native Americans in the American South and Southwest. President Lee C. Bollinger acknowledged recipients James F. Brooks and Allan Gallay at a dinner on April 9. Brooks won for his book Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (University of North Carolina, 2002), and Gallay won for The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717 (Yale University Press, 2002). Brooks’s book studies the origins and results of the captive exchange economy among Native American and European American communities from the era of Spanish colonization to about 1900. He is a member of the research faculty at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, and an adjunct associate professor of history at UC Santa Barbara. Gallay’s work is the first to focus on the traffic in the Indian slave trade during the early American South. He is a professor of history at Western Washington University, Bellingham. Seniors Enjoy Festive DinnerOn April 28, in a packed tent on South Field, more than 950 members of the Class of 2003 gathered for a blowout party to celebrate their approaching graduation. Hosted by the Alumni Office, the sit-down dinner was a chance to have a great time with friends and classmates, as well as administrators and alumni.
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