Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This probably would have continued indefinitely, but for the HDC's impending financial ruin. To avoid complete bankruptcy, HDC leaders realized they needed at least a small share of Loeb proceeds. It was suggested that the HDC become co-sponsor of every Loeb production, and that HDC benefit performances be scheduled when necessary. This was unacceptable to the Loeb's administration, which looked with disfavor on the process of assigning mainstage slots by vote of the HDC's whole membership...
...come through Harvard in years. Anderson and Lithgow suggested that the executive committee become self-perpetuating--that it choose its own new members--and that it alone be entrusted with selecting plays for mainstage production. In return for this concession to Faculty feelings (Chapman's in particular), the HDC was to pass on all Loeb productions, and its finances were to be regularly replenished through benefit performances...
...most amazing part of Anderson and Lithgow's proposal was their method for choosing the first new executive committee. They simply suggested that, together with Laura Esterman '66 and David Maynard '67, they would become the executive committee. This, understandably enough, aroused the fury of many HDC members...
Predictably the HDC meeting at which the whole formula was unveiled turned into a bloody, no-holds-barred battle. The main opponent of the new proposal was Charles Ascheim '66, and the meeting finally adjourned having only decided to give Ascheim a chance to speak with Chapman -- to see if he would accept an elected executive committee...
Chapman stated unmistakably that he would not. When the HDC met the following week, even Ascheim reluctantly supported a plan for a self-perpetuating committee...