As a first step toward reducing the board's size, 29 senior trustees resigned, including the men who had dominated the school for the past two decades.
The former trustees briefly contested their removal, but then resigned.
Following the Board's vote, nine trustees resigned from the board.
Thirteen trustees, including Macartney, refused to do so and resigned in 1936.
After a number of legal battles, the trustees resigned and management was re-organized.
Almost the entire faculty and 9 trustees resigned in the next two years and enrollment fell by two thirds.
But in the last week, the board and Mrs. Procope have become the focus of attention, with the faculty urging all 22 trustees to resign.
By 1998, the trustees, each of whom were being paid between $800,000 to $900,000 annually, had voluntarily resigned or been permanently removed by the state.
A trustee may, in the prescribed circumstances, resign his office by giving notice to the court (s 298(7)).
The club's trustees resigned at this point.