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...HDC non-Loeb productions had been unprofitable, and Loeb profits, such as they were, went to the University, which also financed all mainstage productions. The HDC's main source of funds -- the green-room Coke machine -- was unable to keep the HDC above water, and by the Fall of '64 the Harvard Dramatic Club was all but bankrupt...
Until then the HDC had been an admirable participatory democracy. There was a five-man executive committee, but it had no real power, and its operations were under the complete control of the whole organization. The HDC met en masse whenever there was an important question to decide. Plays were selected in much the same way as a party nominates its presidential candidate, only with less decorum...
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...