Word: claussen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard Eisenhower Club rejected the application for membership of Frederic P. Claussen '59 at a meeting of the general membership last night. The rejections followed the announcement by the HEC of a membership drive...
...Claussen had previously been rejected by the Membership Committee of the HEC. Although no explanation was offered for last night's action, the Membership Committee has stated in a letter to Claussen that he is inadmissable because of his "expressed hostility" to the "purposes and continued existence of the club...
Commenting on his rejection, Claussen, who is vice-president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said, "they must live in a continual state of fright to be afraid of one applicant in a club of thirty members...
...Claussen would be admitted to the HEC if he would "repent of all his conservative beliefs" and become "more liberal," Bernat claimed. Claussen called this stand "quite strange, since I am vice-president of an organization chartered by the Republican Party, of which Eisenhower is the leader. It is paradoxical that any club supporting Eisenhower should reject my application for membership." Like most of the HEC's 30 members, Bernat supports the Stalker-Peterson faction of the HYRC, while Claussen is a member of the Dawson group...
Bernat denies that the conflicts within the HYRC have been carried over to the Eisenhower Club. Claussen will be reconsidered when he decides the HEC "is not as bad" as he presently "thinks...