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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Wilbur E. Tilberg (until 1955) Seymour B. Dunn (1955-1960) Basil L. Crapster (1966-1970) James D. Pickering (1970-1975) Leonard I. Holder (1975-1979) David B. Potts (1979-1986) Six of the men who served as dean of the College between 1945 and 1986. the faculty by about 10 percent, as was the administrative committee during its year in office. However, enrollment was also moving upward during these four years. When General Paul assumed the presidency, there were 77 faculty members and a student body of about 1,400 persons. Quickly determining that the student-faculty ratio had actually been increasing during the preceding four years (he thought it had reached seventeen to one), he persuaded the trustees in December 1956, only three months after taking office, to commit themselves to increasing the size of the faculty by ten members each year for four years, beginning in 1957-1958. Even though the trustees later permitted him to take a year or two longer to add forty new faculty, they declared that in so doing they were not retreating from the goal. Probably the General would have preferred to appoint some of the new persons to 80