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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE featured two pieces of good news: the conditional pledge of the General Education Board and the fact that $60,000 had already been raised. Second, it persuaded the board of trustees to enlarge the committee to include "members from all the principal centers of Gettysburg influence." Third, it turned, as the College had done so often in the past, to Lutheran synods (this time to six), asking them to pass resolutions commending the campaign and inviting canvassers into their congregations. Fourth, it secured the services of at least four members of the staff to assist the president in performing the crucial task of visiting hundreds of people and asking them for money.30 By June 1912 half of the $180,000 was given or pledged; by December, $130,000; and by March 1913, $155,000. On March 28, 1913 the College met one of the conditions of the General Education Board when it paid its last remaining debt from the building and renovation program of the 1880s and 1890s: a $30,000 mortgage dated June 27, 1889. A jubilant President Granville announced on June 10, 1913 that, one month ahead of deadline, the College met a second condition by obtaining $256,200 in acceptable cash and pledges. "This means," he told the trustees, "that there has been accumulated for Pennsylvania College during this movement a total larger than has ever before been collected in the Lutheran Church in America in a single financial campaign for any purpose whatever." Some eighteen hundred donors had participated. Excluding the General Education Board pledge, the average subscription was about $110. Satisfied that the College had in fact met all of the conditions of its pledge (including the one that subscriptions must be honored by July 31, 1917), the General Education Board paid the College in full on February 9, 1918. "This completes the campaign for payment of the $30,000 debt which rested on the College," the president told the board a few months later, "and the addition of $200,000 to our Endowment Fund." Granville summoned the College to its third fund-raising effort in June 1913, using for that purpose the same report to the trustees in which he announced the successful completion of the second. "Let no one suppose that because the task of raising over $250,000 has been successfully accomplished that we may now rest content on our oars," he proclaimed. "On the contrary, this is only the beginning; still greater things remain to be done." 30The brochure, which had no title of its own, was issued as Volume 2, Number 1 of the GCB. Its three parts described the campaign plans, gave facts about the College, and explained the "fundamental importance of the Christian College to the Church and the Nation." The four staff members who assisted in the campaign were Samuel F. Snyder, Charles H. Huber, Charles F. Sanders, and Abdel Ross Wentz. 43