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SERVING THE CAUSE since the College came into existence; it was in fact a new organic document. After a brief preamble which retained a few phrases from the 1832 version, the new charter followed the form recommended for nonprofit corporations. "The purpose of Gettysburg College," it declared, "is to serve the cause of liberal education in changing times, by providing a community of learning committed to the discovery, exploration, and evaluation ofthe ideas and actions of man, and to the creative extension of that developing heritage." The College continued "under the management, direction, government and control" of its board of trustees, whose number could not now exceed thirty-nine, including three ex officio members: the presidents of the College, the Central Pennsylvania Synod, and the Maryland Synod. The new charter was less than half as long as the one it replaced. Obviously, it left much to whatever guidance the bylaws might provide. Under new Pennsylvania procedures which fuHS fPfc^^pH d ■ J* p$l r'"lH BRf '■Jrw^lr v EPCKrri W& ft M *: i' 1 It a%- ■ <::"j§ 1 J - a V'i fTj It jR m' ML MS • ■■■an LI ^B-„. s t.' ' ?fH (•■w *^^9 KJ b£JI ^H w HS?4&1|M H£ ' 9 ^mWSBk:': This photograph ofthe trustees appeared in the College edition ofthe Gettysburg Times on September 20, 1956. Front row, left to right: Rice, Paul, Hanson, Beerits, Sandlas. Second row: Taylor, Wills, Apple, Duncan, Gingerich, Van Doren. Third row: Keller, Felienbaum, Ports, Garman, Baker. Fourth row: Patrick, McCollough, Sieber, Simonton, Gentzler, Gerberich. Fifth row: Weiser, Fisher, Whitcraft, Rhoads, Wilde, Hendley. 75