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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE tenure documents approved in 1984 and 1985 finally eliminated term appointments, but recognized the president's authority to invoke what were called institutional criteria in cases where it was determined that certain nontenured positions should be retained. In 1979 the College began making it financially and otherwise possible for faculty to obtain early retirement, and this helped bring the percentage of tenured faculty down to 69 for 1984-1985.89 In the fall of 1945 there were three emeritus faculty members, all of whom had attained that status by procedures based on custom rather than on any formally promulgated rules. During the next ten or twelve years the number of retirees remained small. In 1957-1958 there were still only three, excluding President Hanson and Dean Tilberg. The latter, at the time of his retirement in 1955, explained the meaning of his new title. E, he said, meant that you're out, while meritus meant that you deserved it. By the middle years of the second Hanson administration most veteran faculty of the prewar years who had survived to the age of seventy (at least eight had not) had retired. In 1968-1969 the catalogue listed fourteen professors emeritus. Only Henry Bream, Lester Johnson, and Parker Wagnild remained as active teachers to tell people firsthand what it was like at Gettysburg College before 1945. By virtue of a career-process document which the trustees adopted in 1968, faculty colleagues now shared formally with the president and trustees in the granting of the customary retirement honor. Beginning in 1968 all faculty, no matter what their rank at retirement, who were given the title of emeritus were also given the rank of professor. In 1984-1985 the catalogue listed a record number of thirty-six emeritus faculty and administrators.90 As of the fall of 1945, Gettysburg College had no faculty salary schedule. In fact, it had never had one. All of the professors, except one who had not yet earned his Ph.D., were paid $3,700. With a few exceptions, associates received $3,000 and assistants, $2,800. The salaries paid the instructors, two of whom were part-time employees, varied widely, but this fact did not reflect a schedule for that rank. The trustees approved a 20 percent increase beginning with 1946-1947 and raised salaries beginning in 1949-1950 to $5,000 for professors, $4,000 for associates, $3,500 for assistants, and 89In 1984-1985, in spite of faculty and board efforts as early as the Langsam administration to reduce it, the official retirement age was still seventy years. 90In October 1966 the executive committee sent to the president a document proposing procedure for determining who should receive the title of emeritus. More than a year later, after the committee approved the president's suggestion that all faculty who qualify should retire as professor emeritus, the faculty was given an opportunity to consider the document and the trustees approved it in 1968. 81