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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Martin Winter tract. Two purchases totaling about sixteen acres, along the southern and southwestern edges of the campus, one in 1967 and the other in 1974, completed its growth in the forty years after 1945. At a total cost of $605,925, a far cry from the $27,400 which had brought in some fifty acres between 1904 and 1945, the College had added about eighty-seven acres to its main campus.105 The most immediate College need in the fall of 1945 was not acres of land for campus development, but facilities to handle a record enrollment. Many male students could and did find rooms in town, but the College felt a responsibility to provide for more of them on campus than the fewer than two hundred who could be packed into Old Dorm and McKnight, the only two men's dorms. By early 1947 there were seven barracks located along the south side of the 200- block of West Lincoln avenue, capable of housing more than two hundred students, including some with families. By the same time there was also a second infirmary, attached to the existing facility on West Lincoln avenue. The older building was used for women and the one recently acquired, for men. When fire seriously damaged the S.C.A. building in November 1946, the College secured a recreational building and placed it between Glatfelter Hall and Plank Gymnasium. Finally, late in 1947 a one-story annex with four classrooms was attached to the west side of Glatfelter Hall. All of these structures were government-surplus property, made available to the College at no cost.106 Unlike the men, women students were not permitted to room where they pleased. The catalogue prescribed 105For further information on the campus land, see Gregory J. Landrey, "A History of the Gettysburg Campus," (Gettysburg College paper, 1977), pp. 40-51. During this period the College acquired a number of properties which were not contiguous to the main campus: the Bilheimer house at 109 West Broadway, purchased 1953 and sold 1955; the V.F.W. house at 249 Carlisle street, purchased 1954, sold 1958, and repurchased 1975; the Kramer house at 140 West Broadway, bequeathed in 1966; the Berkey house at 138 West Broadway, purchased in 1969; the properties at 400 and 412 Carlisle street, purchased in 1972; the property at 59 West Lincoln avenue, a gift in 1982 from Anne Keet Hanson and her husband, the president emeritus; and the property at 63 West Lincoln avenue, purchased in 1982 from Hood College. In 1959 the College sold the house at 143 Springs avenue which Lillie K. Aughinbaugh bequeathed to it in 1942. Several ofthe above purchases were made to provide accommodations, if only temporarily, for women students. Others, such as the ones in 1972 and 1975, were made in an effort to preserve the residential character of the campus perimeter at a time when there was a specific threat of commercial development. Not all of its neighbors were pleased at the prospect of student use of newly acquired off- campus College residences, regarding it as a threat to the residential character of the area. 106The barrack8, which the catalogue cheerfully called "temporary dormitories," were not removed until 1957. The recreational building, later used as the air science headquarters, survived until 1967; the Glatfelter Hall annex until 1969; and the old infirmary, which was last used as a women's dormitory, until 1970. 83