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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...
Every revolution needs a leader, and the Spring '65 upheaval at the Loeb proved no exception. Power was fine, but there had to be someone on the newly enfranchised HDC executive committee to consolidate and exert it. That someone quickly became Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of Harvard G&S and one of the five self-appointed leaders of the new HDC hierarchy...
...Fall of '64, for the gargantuan sum of $8000, Mayer had mounted a dazzling production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited on the Loeb mainstage. He lost no time getting to the vital center of HDC politics...
Mayer's approach to HDC matters was a blend of fast talking and friends in high places. He made no attempt to hide personal likes and dislikes, which were legion. But he was always intelligent, almost always logical, and all to frequently right. Mayer might have been outclassed in the world of politics, but as a politician in the world of theatre, he was without peer...