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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE tion, responsible to the dean of educational services. In 1984-1985 there were five persons who had elected to retain their faculty positions and eleven who were listed in the catalogue as coaches.251 Although there was much turnover in the forty years after 1945, the continuity in the health and physical education staff was the more notable phenomenon. Between 1928 and 1975 only three persons held the joint titles of professor and director of athletics: Clayton E. Bilheimer (1928-1953), Henry T. Bream (1953-1969), and Eugene M. Haas (1969-1975).252 Grace C. Kenney began a career in the department in 1948; by 1985 she was the senior College faculty member in years of service. In the latter year there were four men in the department with more than a quarter century of service: Robert T. Hulton, R. Eugene Hummel, Howard G. Shoemaker, and Gareth V. Biser. Romeo Capozzi ended a forty-four year career as College trainer when he retired in 1971. Four major and closely related questions about the College's athletic program arose during the 1960s and 1970s and demanded answers. The queries were far-reaching enough to involve several constituencies and controversial enough to have potentially harmful effects on the harmony which had long prevailed among them. The first of the questions was raised soon after Arnold Hanson became president in 1961 and, properly enough, began examining almost every existing College program. Clearly, he wanted to be certain that all of the moneys contributed for the support of individual athletes and their programs were channeled through the College treasury (in so doing, he was simply following the trustee action of December 1952) and he wanted to review critically the percentage of total financial aid for which student athletes were eligible (something which the 1954 Middle States team had recommended that presidents and trustees do). As the word of what was happening spread, many concluded that the new president was about to "deemphasize" the intercollegiate program, which they took to mean cripple it.253 251The 1980-1981 catalogue was the first to list coaches with the administration. The tenured faculty who elected to change status retained their tenure and faculty rank. The status of persons hired after 1979-1980 was determined by the duties of their position. 252A member of the class of 1924, Hen Bream began his coaching and teaching career at Gettysburg two years later. Gene Haas, a 1943 graduate, joined the faculty in 1954. The chairmanship of the department and directorship of athletics were separated in 1975. 253In December 1962 Hanson told the trustees that it was not his purpose to emphasize or deemphasize the athletic program, for which he said he had a real concern. At the same time, he insisted that "it was a legitimate question to explore the cost of the athletic program in the whole area of college expenditures." This question arose about the same time some were accusing the administration and faculty of trying to turn Gettysburg into another Haverford or Swarthmore. 94