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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE 1923-1959 Robert Fortenbaugh (1892-1959), history 1923-1940 Bertram H. Saltzer (1901-1956), engineering 1924-1950 Rasmus S. Saby (1881-1950), economics, political science 1924-1959 lohn B. Zinn (1888-1979), chemistry 1924-1954 G. Saylor Warthen (1900-1954), English 1925-1966 lohn G. Glenn (1896-1985), Latin 1925-1965 Francis C. Mason (1900-1971), English 1926-1969 Henry T. Bream, physical education 1927-1968 C. Allen Sloat, chemistry 1928-1953 Clayton E. Bilheimer (1887-1971), physical education 1928-1956 George R. Larkin (1890-1956), economics 1928-1959 William D. Hartshorne (1889-1983), Romance languages 1929-1960 William C. Waltemyer (1889-1970), philosophy, Bible 1930-1971 Lester O. Johnson (1902-1973), education 1931-1963 Albert Bachman, Romance languages 1931-1962 W. Frederick Shaffer (1903-1962), Greek 1931-1949 Dunning Idle (1904-1980), history 1935-1968 Earl E. Ziegler (1898-1972), mathematics, physics 1937-1976 Parker B. Wagnild, Bible, music 1939-1965 Earl Bowen (1899-1965), biology 1939-1964 William K. Sundermeyer (1894-1975), German135 Although as early as 1905 the board of trustees recommended that the professors visit colleagues in other institutions at least every three years to study "their methods of work," almost twenty years passed before a serious attempt was made to implement such a policy. At the very beginning of the Hanson administration, in December 1923, the board asked all professors either "to spend a week at some Institution conspicuously strong" in their fields or "to attend the annual convention of their respective general bodies." An annual grant of $50 for these purposes encouraged compliance with this request. The new president gave the program his wholehearted support. The accounts of faculty visits to other schools and attendance at professional meetings which appeared in the Gettysburgian during the next ten years are testimony of the extent to which the professors responded, as well as of the extent to which their response was considered to be important campus news. In January 1927, upon the recommendation of President Hanson, the board of trustees approved a sabbatical leave program for professors, leaving to the president and faculty the task of working out 135The 1904 faculty continued in office through the years indicated: Coover(1905), Dryden (1906), Hefelbower (1910), Klinger (1912), Himes (1914), Nixon (1916), Stahley (1920), Breidenbaugh (1924), Bikle (1925), and Stover (1943). In a few instances, the tenure of the post-1904 faculty was interrupted for a year or two of graduate study. The dates given are the years of first appointment with faculty rank, and not necessarily the years of first College service, perhaps as a laboratory assistant. Twenty-four of the thirty-three persons listed eventually held the rank of professor. 50