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A GREATER GETTYSBURG In June 1922 the new committee recommended that the number of alumni trustees be increased from six to eight and that each of four synods (Maryland, West Pennsylvania, East Pennsylvania, and Allegheny) be permitted to have two trustees. The Alumni Association and the synods would determine how to nominate their candidates for these positions; in all cases, the board would do the electing. If the alumni and the synods accepted the proposal, it would become effective as vacancies in the board occurred. As in the case of the action which made alumni trustees possible beginning in 1886, these changes would result from agreement with the bodies concerned, and not from charter amendment. After considering this proposal, the trustees moved to table it for one year, during which time they expressed their approval in principle and College officials discussed it with representatives of the synods. Formal adoption came in December 1923, but only after the trustees amended the resolution to require concurrence of the president of the College and the chairman of their executive committee in all synodical nominations. Since some synods declined to accept this latter stipulation, and since the trustees required the concurrence of all concerned bodies before any part of the proposal became effective, nothing came of this effort. In June 1927 the trustees repealed the resolution in its entirety. One more attempt to alter the College charter was made during the years covered by this chapter.18 In May 1932 the board, apparently acting now on its own initiative and with no recorded opposition, authorized a committee "to investigate the tenure of office of its members." This committee made the first of its several reports in December 1932. Following its guidance, during the next three years the board gradually increased the scope of its intention to revise the College's organic law. Finally, in June 1935 the trustees approved a new draft of ten of the eleven sections of the 1832 charter. Only the preamble and first section were left intact. While only a few words were changed here and there in many of the other sections, in an effort to clarify their meaning, the net effect of what the trustees 18The U.L.C.A. survey team made a number of recommendations concerning the Gettysburg board. Since in their opinion its size was too large, they urged that its numbers be reduced to no more than fifteen members. Believing that life tenure was "not in accord with best practice," they recommended that service be limited to no more than ten years. Gettysburg was one of only three Lutheran colleges whose trustees had life tenure. Also, the trustees should meet more often than twice a year. They should have by-laws, supplementing the regulations contained in the charter. The president of the college should be an ex officio member of the board, without a vote. Since the College would profit if board actions were more fully explained to the several constituencies, the authors recommended that the board issue regular reports, preferably in printed form. U.L.C.A. Survey, 1:131, 165-166. 42