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SERVING THE CAUSE Until other facilities were available, some students lived in Plank Gymnasium in 1946-1947. that, except for Gettysburg residents, women were "required to room under dormitory supervision" and board in Huber Hall. To handle the overflow from Stevens and Huber Halls, the College used the Aughinbaugh house on Springs avenue and a rented house, called Myrtle Terrace, on Carlisle street. Even so, the number of women students dropped from 241 in 1944-1945 to 175 in 1949-1950. At its meeting in May 1945, several months before the Pacific war had ended, the board of trustees authorized appointment of a planning committee "to consider immediately a proposed new field house," or modernization of the Plank Gymnasium, and "the necessity of an infirmary." Apparently as something of an afterthought, the committee was also asked to "consider further post-war building and curriculum expansion." Until this committee ceased to function several years later, from time to time it presented the board with lists of needed buildings, to each of which a priority was assigned. For example, in December 1947 a new chapel was rated first, a women's dormitory second, and the field house was now third.107 At the same time, the committee counseled that there be no building until prices dropped and the results of the current financial campaign were known. A year later, in December 1948, the trustees themselves arranged the priorities, placing the women's dormitory first, the chapel second, and the field house third. By the time Henry W.A. Hanson left office in 1952, one of these buildings was already in use and the second was under construction. 107In documents of the time young men were often called boys and young women girls. It was a girls' dormitory which was rated second. The author is convinced that use of these words was not an attempt to be demeaning. 83