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SERVING THE CAUSE given during the forty years between 1945 and 1985 was in excess of $7,800,000. The 1984 and 1985 drives achieved participation from about 37 percent of the alumni. In recognition of the facts that for many years nonalumni contributed heavily to this campaign and that alumni could demonstrate their loyalty to the College in ways other than by contributing money to it, in 1982 the name was changed to the Annual Fund.279 The College has always depended in many ways upon its alumni, sometimes acting through their association, but more often acting individually. From criticism of their alma mater there often emerged useful suggestions for improvement. In ways that changed as times changed, the College relied heavily on alumni to help recruit promising students. During the years between 1945 and 1985 about three of every four trustees, those persons who were finally responsible for governing the College, were alumni. It came to be taken for granted that committees chosen to deal with major matters, such as the choice of a president, would include one or more nontrustee graduates. In every postwar drive to raise funds, the College called upon its alumni for major contributions of their own and for their help in attracting support from other sources. During the first century of the College's existence, it was both possible and practical for the faculty member who was serving as Alumni Association secretary or, after 1929, for the alumni secretary to maintain a reasonably accurate summary of the numbers of graduates who had entered each of about a dozen careers. On a number of occasions, including the 1932 centennial, the College proudly published such a summary as an evidence of its accomplishment as an institution of higher education. After World War II, as the numbers of graduates and careers mushroomed, and as career mobility increased, while it was still possible to summarize as before, it was less and less practical to make the attempt. The 1982 sesquicenten- nial passed without any statement similar to the one featured in so many publications half a century before. One thing was certain: while some graduates were still going into the ministry, law, medicine, and teaching (at all levels), most of the post-1945 alumni pursued careers in business, using that term in the broadest sense. By 1985 there were at least thirteen names to add to the list of graduates who had been presidents of institutions of higher learning and who were named in preceding chapters: Harry F. Baughman 279Not all College publications reported the same Loyalty Fund totals. Those used here were taken from the July 1953 alumni bulletin, the report submitted to the Ford Foundation in 1962, and annual giving reports published in the alumni bulletin beginning in 1963. In the spring of 1985 there were still a few alumni who had contributed to every Loyalty Fund drive, beginning with 1933. 96