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A GREATER GETTYSBURG Frederick H. Knubei (1870-1945) CJass of 1893. Trustee, 1914- 1945. President of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1918-1944. (U.L.C.A.).417 The first president of the new body was Frederick H. Knubei, an 1893 graduate of the College and a trustee since 1914. He served as president of the U.L.C.A. until 1944 and as trustee of the College until he died a year later. The constitution of the board of education in the new church authorized it "to prepare general surveys of educational standards" for member institutions and to determine which colleges and seminaries "shall receive aid from its funds." The constitution specified that, in order to qualify for such aid, an institution had to "be organically connected with a Synod or Synods of the United Lutheran Church; or ... be authorized by The United Lutheran Church; or ... by charter provision perpetually have at least two- thirds of its board of directors or trustees members of The United Lutheran Church."4,B The board of education immediately accepted Gettysburg as a U.L.C.A.-related institution; it more than met the third criterion. The standards which the board announced in 1922 it intended to follow in evaluating U.L.C.A. colleges were the very ones which the American Council on Education and accrediting agencies had recently adopted and were beginning to apply.419 417See E. Clifford Nelson, ed., The Lutherans in North America (Philadelphia, 1975), pp. 373-377, for a brief explanation of why and how this reunion occurred when it did. More than one-fourth of the synod presidents in the new church were Gettysburg graduates. 418Minutes of the U.L.C.A. (1920), p. 257. For additional qualifications which the board wished to require of institutions seeking aid, see p. 260. 4190n May 16, 1921 the College secured an amendment of three words (those italicized below) to its charter, so that now three-fourths of the trustees would have to be members of The United Lutheran Church in America. Adams County Miscellaneous Book D, p. 197. As already noted, when the trustees secured a major revision of the charter in 1935, they reduced the required percentage of Lutheran trustees from the three-fourths set in 1894 to the two-thirds minimum now specified by the national church. 70