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A GREATER GETTYSBURG plans for the extension of their work for the benefit of Pennsylvania College, and the organization of similar new Leagues in new locations." Within a month, representatives ofthe existing leagues, joined by several local women, met in Gettysburg and made plans to effect a general organization later in the year. In the meantime, they vowed to establish as many new leagues as possible. On November 2 and 3, 1911 some forty women gathered in Brua Chapel to organize what came to be known as the Woman's League of Gettysburg College.400 The delegates represented the seven then- existing subleagues (as they shall subsequently be called): York (1908, reorganized 1911), Pittsburgh (1908), Harrisburg (1909), Gettysburg (1911), Philadelphia (1911), Chambersburg (1911), andShip- pensburg (1911).401 The reported membership of these seven subleagues was 467. Mrs. Stuckenberg was elected president. One of the first two vice presidents was Elizabeth Painter Hanson, of Pittsburgh, whose husband became president of the College in 1923. Between 1911 and 1945 the history of this new organization falls easily into four periods: 1911-1915, 1915-1922, 1922-1935, and 1935- 1945.402 During the four years between 1911 and 1915, the number of sub- leagues increased from seven to nine and the number of members almost doubled, going from 467 to 885. The report of the second convention which appeared in the Gettysburgian for November 13,1912 contained the first substantial statement of the purpose of the new organization: to develop general interest in educational work in all Lutheran homes, to promote Lutheran parents' support of Gettysburg College by making financial contributions and by sending it their children, to raise such annual sums for Gettysburg "as women are able to give," and to help in keeping "a high moral and cultural spirit" in all Lutheran educational institutions. In trying to carry out these purposes, each subleague undertook its own project. Several continued to provide much of the salary of the Y.M.C.A. secretary. One committed itself to the ambitious task of raising an amount 400The name used in the charter which the Adams county court granted on January 21, 1922 was the Woman's General League of Gettysburg College. Adams County Miscellaneous Book F, p. 375. Some early accounts refer to the Women's League. 401The Gettysburg subleague was organized in February 1911 by members of the College Ladies Aid Society of Gettysburg, which for several years had been preparing and serving the meals which the College offered the Alumni Association during commencement week. 402Beginning in 1913 the College each year devoted one issue of its published bulletin to the minutes and reports of the annual league conventions. In addition to these excellent sources, there were occasional special publications (for example, in 1922 and 1936) of value in following its activities. 69