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A GREATER GETTYSBURG of its contract with the General Education Board and soon thereafter received the last installment of the latter's $150,000 pledge.36 The fifth fund-raising effort was intended to be part of the College's celebration of its first one hundred years of existence. In May 1928 plans were announced for raising $1,000,000 for the two staple items: endowment and physical plant. At the request of the College, several synods endorsed the proposed campaign. The United Lutheran Church in America gave its encouragement, at least indirectly, by urging all of its related institutions to conduct fund-raising campaigns during 1930, the year in which the Gettysburg effort was to be pressed to completion. The committee in charge engaged a New York firm to conduct the canvass, but the onset of the Great Depression prompted the trustees in December 1930 to order what most at the time believed would be a temporary delay. The fifth fund-raising effort was never resumed. Eventually, College books showed that some $5,560 had been credited to the Centennial Fund. The sixth and final fund-raising effort of this period began in June 1939 after the trustees committed themselves to raising money for a new chapel. Since here was a goal with strong appeal for many in the College constituency, it did not seem necessary to organize this campaign as thoroughly as some of the previous ones. As of June 30, 1945, the balance in the Chapel Fund was carried on the College books at $140,965.10. Because of the war, construction of the building had to be postponed.37 36In June 1922 President Granville told the trustees that only about $89,525 would remain uncommitted when the campaign was completed. He arrived at this figure by deducting from $1,000,000 amounts for estimated shortfall ($100,000), expenses of the campaign ($55,000), endowed scholarships ($10,000), annuities ($31,000, the principal of which would be available eventually), constructing a Y.M.C.A. building and the memorial dormitory ($176,000), repairs already completed ($25,700), endowment ($450,000), and other purposes ($62,775). A statement of the Endowment and Expansion Fund for the period January 22, 1920-May 25, 1926 listed contributions actually received from all sources at $669,937.05. Financial statement dated June 30, 1926 in GCA. 37What might be regarded as another campaign to raise funds for the College began in June 1934, when the president reported to the board that, after "a careful survey of funds received by Liberal Arts Colleges in America," he was "increasingly of the opinion that the chief source of income has been through bequests payable at the decease of the donor." This observation, whose essential correctness should have been evident for a long time to every experienced student of American higher education, resulted in the formation of a bequest committee in June 1935. Although the latter began formulating long-range plans to encourage testamentary giving within a wide constituency, after 1937 other matters diverted the attention of the trustees from this critical task. The committee did come up with a slogan: Let your will be good will for Gettysburg College. 43