Word: hec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution provided for the dissolution of the HEC on January 1, 1960, and the foundation of a political education committee comprised of its executive staff and three members of the HYRC. To assure complete unity, the committee members must also be members of the HYRC. Furthermore, the HYRC will provide no funds to the subgroup until it has exhausted the Eisenhower Club treasury...
Executive committees from each club began behind-the-scenes negotiations early in October to bring about this incorporation. Several resolutions were proposed, but until Tuesday night the HEC felt its concern over membership, funds, and the date of dissolution were not satisfactorily relieved...
Christopher T. Bayley '60, president of the HYRC, suggested last night that the HEC has become "a Republican entity" devoted to political education. Since it drifted away from its original function of supporting the President's 1956 election, the Eisenhower Club's activities have included taking preference polls, voter research projects, campaign work, and endorsing candidates...
...splinter off the HYRC-controlled "Students for Eisenhower" in 1956, the Eisenhower Club today claims 35 members, only eight of whom are "activists." Though the HEC has "bitterness of its own," according to president Eliot Bernat '60 it provides "a Republican alternative to the factionalism which dominates all the state-chartered political groups" at the College. Because of its limited membership, the HEC is not "frightfully active," and finds itself "unable to draw a decent audience" for its speakers...
Dawson said the State Committee, which had refused HEC applications three times previously, relented this summer because "it is granting charters to nearly everybody who asks for one between now and November in an effort to maintain party unity until the election...