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SERVING THE CAUSE Although the College had long since taken control of the athletic program away from the students, in the fall of 1945 it was still not vested exclusively in the administration or faculty. A new constitution which the trustees approved for the Athletic Council in the preceding May assigned to that agency responsibility for the "organization, promotion and administration of the entire intercollegiate and intramural athletic program for the students of Gettysburg College." The 1947 catalogue resumed the prewar practice of listing the members of the Athletic Council by name: three alumni, three faculty, three students, one trustee, and two ex-officio (the president of the board and the president of the College). In 1941 the trustees had taken the important steps of assuming its indebtedness and incorporating its receipts and expenditures into the annual budget, but the council obviously retained a significant role in determining both policy and procedure. The first postwar order of business for the Athletic Council was to arrange schedules for resuming intercollegiate competition in as many existing sports as possible. The second was to make recommendations to the board of trustees for improving the entire athletic program. In December 1945 it presented a report which stressed the importance of "a comprehensive intramural program" as a way of fostering "leisure time interests" of postcollege years, which registered women's needs for program and physical facilities as well as those of men, and which made the assumption that the postwar program at Gettysburg should compare favorably with those "in the better Liberal Arts coeducational institutions" which have teacher education programs. The specific recommendations which the council made, after reviewing information gleaned from a questionnaire returned by twenty-nine institutions, called for improvements to existing and construction of new facilities, for further development of intercollegiate and intramural programs, and for enlargement of staff.246 Taken together, these recommendations involved much greater expenditures than the College could afford at the time, but the trustees did begin to appropriate funds to make possible a number of necessary improvements. In 1952 the trustees approved a major change in the administration of the College's athletic program, the initiative for which came from an unexpected source. At the last board meeting of the long Hanson era, in May of that year, Clarence Raby, who was trustee nus to identify with the college through the department in which he majored .... newsworthy events emanating from academic departments will always be infrequent even under the best of circumstances." 246The report recommended either a women's gymnasium (as a separate building or an addition to Huber Hall) or a field house for men, which would free Plank Gymnasium for use by women. 94