Article: Wolf Trap Founder May Break With Center;Catherine Shouse Upset by TV Special Cancellation

Catherine Filene Shouse, who founded Wolf Trap 20 years ago and has exercised strict supervision ever since, reportedly is on the brink of a rupture with the organization because of an executive committee decision last month to pull the plug on a planned 20th-anniversary television special.

The 94-year-old Shouse resents the executive committee's balking at the expense of the show, according to some of her fellow board members. Sources say Shouse blames the cancellation on board Chairman Najeeb Halaby and may want to unseat him at the annual meeting next Tuesday. That attempt appears certain to fail, according to other board members.

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