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SERVING THE CAUSE fellow-trustees that the College should use the recently acquired lot at the corner of West Lincoln and College avenues to build a new dining hall. Four years later, as its chairman, Rice presided when the board authorized the administration to proceed with a facility designed to serve up to 750 persons at a time. Construction began late in 1956 and the dining hall was first used in February 1958, at a cost of $468,877.11* The General's first report to the board of trustees in December 1956 was a clear summons for it to enter upon one of the most concentrated periods of building in the College's history. "We are working now in a space situation built for about one-half of our strength," he declared. Even while waiting for the completion of a master plan, the College should move immediately to construct a women's dormitory, faculty housing, an infirmary, a recreation building, a fourth men's dormitory, and a new classroom building. Now having access to several million dollars in federal funds for income-producing facilities, an unprecedented largess, the trustees responded with alacrity to his call.113 Within the next two years they authorized construction of five buildings: two women's dormitories, one more men's dormitory, a student union building, and an infirmary. Construction of two women's dormitories, placed between Huber and Hanson Halls, and each designed to house about 130 persons, was begun in the early fall of 1957. They were ready for occupancy in the fall of 1958, at a total cost of $1,002,516. Ground for the new men's dormitory, located at the southeastern corner of West Lincoln and Constitution avenues, was broken in June 1958. Dorm D, as it was called, was first occupied by students in September 1959. Construction costs amounted to $350,313. One of the women's dormitories was formally named the Emma G. Musselman Hall in April 1960, while the other, first called North Dormitory, was named Patrick Hall, in memory of William H. Patrick, Jr., in June 1969. Dorm D was formally christened Apple Hall, in honor of John A. Apple, in September 1967. As late as June 1955, College infirmary facilities consisted of two connected buildings on West Lincoln avenue, one of which was a converted house moved to the spot almost thirty years before and 112The completion of the dining hall made possible conversion of the now unused space in Huber Hall into rooms for women students. The cost was $94,395. 113The federal funds, it should be remembered, were in the form of loans and, to secure them, colleges and universities had to advance some of their own money for each project. In the case of Gettysburg the advance amounted to about 10 percent. Since the interest rate was 3 percent or less, since forty years were scheduled for repayment, and since there were strict rules to be followed to insure that payments were made on schedule, the arrangement was most advantageous for the institutions which secured the loans. 83