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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Clyde B. Stover (1873-1948) Member of the chemistry department (1896-1943) and College registrar (1912-1943). After his retirement, the faculty recommended that he be granted an honorary degree in recognition of his long and faithful service. Wilbur E. TiJberg (1884-1977) Dean from 1927 to 1955. Active in many community and church affairs. The College awarded him an honorary degree in 1966. evident that he could have continued serving in that capacity, perhaps indefinitely, had he not suffered a stroke in August 1925. When it became apparent that he would not be able to resume his administrative duties, which appear to have consisted mainly of conducting chapel services, the board approved Jerome C. Jackson (1896-1927), Assistant Professor of Education and Philosophy, to succeed him, with the title dean of men. His tenure in office was short; he served from September 1926 until he died during the following March. In the fall of 1927 Wilbur E. Tilberg (1884-1977) began his duties as dean of men. His title was soon shortened to dean; beginning with the 1953 catalogue, it became dean of the College. A native of Iowa, Tilberg was a graduate of Bethany College and the University of Kansas. After serving for twelve years (1913-1925) as professor of history and dean at Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska, he pursued graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, which awarded him a Ph.D. degree in 1927. After twenty-eight years at Gettysburg, he retired at the end of the 1954- 1955 year. As Wilbur Tilberg began his work at Gettysburg, the directors of the U.L.C.A. survey were concluding that the dean of a college 48