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SERVING THE CAUSE pose a policy which would make the principal criteria in recruitment competence in teaching, "together with a sincere commitment to some religious tradition." It had the advantage of being more honest than past policy with regard to current and future faculty, more in keeping with the 1832 charter of the College, and more in consonance with its liberal-arts character. If only because it contained a recommendation that compulsory chapel be eliminated, neither the General nor the trustees were prepared to accept this report, and the old policy remained in effect. During the early years of the Hanson administration, the faculty executive committee returned to the subject of religious expectations when it was preparing a document prescribing procedure for teacher recruitment. Hanson presented the 1959 statement to the faculty for its reaction, and the executive committee's report early in 1962 contained a three-paragraph statement in spirit very similar to the one presented three years earlier, but which went on to state that one of the marks of Gettysburg as a church-related institution was "a faculty that is predominantly Protestant, with a significant number of Lutherans." Subsequent revisions of the recruitment document resulted in one which in 1985 described Gettysburg as "a liberal arts college in the Christian tradition and....related to the Lutheran church, but....not church-controlled," but which said nothing about expectations which that character placed upon individual faculty members. In 1985 a small minority of administrators and faculty were members of Christ or St. James Lutheran church in Gettysburg, or of some other Lutheran congregation. A somewhat larger number belonged to one of the other churches, Protestant or Catholic, in Gettysburg. In the fall of 1945 four faculty members were women. One, not included in the count used in this chapter, was the dean of women who also held the title of assistant professor of education. A second, an assistant professor of philosophy, taught sociology and also held a seminary position. The remaining two were instructors, one in hygiene and the other in English. Walter Langsam found six women faculty members, four of whom were instructors, when he arrived in the fall of 1952. Recruitment of two women Ph.D.'s, one as dean of women and the other as head of the new sociology department, probably tipped the scales in favor of American Association of University Women approval of the College a year later, but in his farewell message he warned that "if Gettysburg is to remain on the approved list of the American Association of University Women, it will be necessary to increase the proportion of women on the Faculty." The board responded to this admonition in December 1955 by urging that "full consideration be given to the desirability of increasing the number of women members of the faculty as the need for 80