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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE President and Mrs. Henry W. A. Hanson at the time of their retirement in 1952. for his "uniform kindness and sympathy" in dealing with individual faculty members.34 After presiding over his last commencement in June 1952, and after having been elected president emeritus, Henry W.A. Hanson, with his wife, left the White House and moved into their new home on Front street in Harrisburg, overlooking the Susquehanna river. He honored the promise made at his last faculty meeting, to continue working for a greater Gettysburg College, by returning to the campus for many special occasions. Until his death in 1962, following an illness of about six months, he was regular in attending board meetings. After funeral services in Harrisburg and Gettysburg, he was buried in Evergreen cemetery, as was his wife, who had died in 1956. 34It was at this meeting, in May 1952, that Hanson was asked, "as one of the last services that you can perform for the Faculty before your retirement," to transmit to the board of trustees requests for a salary increase "to meet the increased cost of living" and for a joint committee to consider "matters of general College policy." All or most of those responsible for these requests, which originated in the A.A.U.P. and whose intentions were clear enough, wanted to present them in a way which would be least embarrassing to the retiring president. 77