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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Members of Kappa Delta Rho honor Eisenhower as he reaches seventy-five years of age in October 1965. century later, as soon as World War II ended, President Hanson invited Eisenhower to deliver the address to the 1946 graduating class and receive the first of many honorary degrees. In 1951 the Eisenhowers purchased a farm in Cumberland township and soon thereafter established their legal residence in Adams county. As already noted, as president of the United States Eisenhower sometimes used the College president's office in Glatfelter Hall during his recuperation from a 1955 heart attack. In the spring of 1956 he suggested Willard S. Paul as a candidate to succeed Walter Langsam, and three years later accepted the General's invitation to deliver the main address during the convocation initiating a major fund- raising campaign. Since General Paul had vacated the president's residence at 300 Carlisle street soon after his marriage in the summer of 1958, the trustees offered to lease the building to the General Services Administration for use by Eisenhower as an office when he retired from the presidency in January 1961. In the following June they elected him to the board of trustees. Eisenhower continued to use the office and be a trustee until he died in March 1969. While occupying the facilities at 300 Carlisle street, he wrote several books, periodically issued statements which attracted national attention, and conferred with American and world leaders. There was a tacit understanding that persons associated with the College would respect his privacy and not burden him with requests, but this did not prevent them from extending occasional invitations to make brief remarks at some student gathering. There was also an understanding that Eisenhower would not be expected to serve on trustee committees or attend all board meetings, but this did not prevent him from accepting the hon- 99