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SERVING THE CAUSE Lakes College Association. After serving from 1969 to 1972 as associate dean and vice president for academic affairs at Albion College in Michigan, he became provost and vice president for academic affairs of the University of Richmond, the position which he was holding when he came to the attention of the search committee. Glassick was married in 1952 to Mary Williams, the mother of their five children. He was a member of the Methodist church. Arnold Hanson relinquished the presidency to his successor on August 1, 1977. The formal inauguration of Charles E. Glassick took place in the College Union Building on April 15,1978. He began his address in a way reminiscent of the opening theme of his predecessor sixteen years before, by calling attention to the long "stream of history of Gettysburg College" and then by affirming his commitment to its "history and heritage." Observing that no two people view the College in exactly the same way, he then proceeded to explain how it appeared to him. It was one of many spots on the globe where faculty and students come together "to shape the minds and values" of the future leaders of society. It shares with many other institutions serious problems, including increasing costs and a declining student population. The solution of these problems "will test our skills, test our commitment, and test our resourcefulness." Gettysburg College had made "an historic commitment to education in intellectual skills and intellectual processes" necessary to prepare students "regardless of the problems, issues and questions which they confront." As a college with a church connection, it had also made an historic commitment to "a continuing search for meaning in life," to a search for values. The existence of commitments to these two goals at Gettysburg, he concluded, together with the necessary resources to attain them, offered what Glassick saw, in spite of problems, as opportunity.70 Early in its deliberations the search committee had listed many personal qualities which the new president should have. He (or she) should be energetic, tactful, able to make decisions, outgoing, and capable of expressing the needs and aspirations of the College. In addition, he should find agreeable the task of making friends for Gettysburg. It became evident from the fall of 1977 that the new president had these qualities and was able to use them to good effect. Charles Glassick took charge of a college which was in generally good condition. After a year in office he announced his belief that it was better than it thought it was. Convinced that no college should be permitted to drift, he wanted to improve the performance of Get- 70Typescript of the inaugural in GCA. 80