Selection and Scheduling Committee - Minutes of Meetings and Correspondence, 1957

Box 43 contains files relating to the Selection and Scheduling Committee of the Gordon Research Conferences. The Selection and Scheduling Committee held great power which it could exercise in several ways. First, it decided which conferences would be scheduled and where they would be held. Second, when controlled by “activist” members, it could alter the entire thrust of Gordon Research Conferences by voting to drop outmoded conferences and replace them with conferences devoted to more cutting edge topics. (To chart the subsequent growth of the conferences, see Series IV. Attendee Lists.) Lastly, as a result of the Selection and Scheduling Committee’s deliberations, individual conferences could, and did, secede from Gordon Research Conferences supervision to set up shop on their own or under rival groups.)