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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Groundbreaking exercises in 3950 • for the addition to Brua. ■ I wam Stevens and Huber Halls. By accepting the challenge, even before the veterans appeared in full force on the campus, the league had embarked on a postwar career which, without superseding its original commitment to the religious program, quickly transformed it into a general fund-raising agency for the College. The following is a summary of the developing league stewardship, as reported to the conventions which met between November 1945 and November 1984: 1. Religious program (1945-1984). This was the first and most persistent league concern. In 1953 it gave the College for inclusion in the restricted endowment bonds with a book value of $19,935.59, the income to be used for the chaplain's salary. This was the remaining balance from the effort begun in 1928 to create an endowment whose income would help pay the salary of the S. C. A. secretary and maintain Weidensall Hall. Through 1962 small annual grants were made to the S. C. A. Beginning in 1963 they were used to support segments of the expanded religious program as administered by the chaplain. In the postwar period these grants amounted to less than 5 percent of league gifts. Total: $39,455.59. 2. Christ Chapel (1945-1979). After having met its $25,000 pledge for a window and the organ by February 1945, the league was called upon to go a second mile and make further major gifts: a supplemental organ pledge, a concert grand piano, and such other things as choir robes and hymnals. Total: $34,890.65. 3. Refurnishing dormitories (1946-1948, 1974, 1984). Long after raising money to help prepare the two women's dormitories for civilian occupancy after heavy use by wartime cadets, the league was called upon in the 1970s and 1980s to help refurnish other campus dormitories. Total: $17,633.33. 4. Scholarships (1947, 1982-1984). In 1947 the York subleague raised $2,500 as an endowment in memory of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Baker, both of whom had recently died. He was a longtime College trustee and she had been league president. The income was to be used for a student taking music courses. In 1981 the league pledged to raise money for general scholarships. Total: $15,833.34. 97