VMI Cadet. March 1, 1954

              Dean Hudson and Elliott Lawrence Will Play For Easter Dances
Series Ends
On March 4th
With Orchestra
The Rockbridge Education
Association is sponsoring, as
they have in the two years
past, a student concert by the
National Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Howard
Mitchell.
This concert will take place at
2 p.m. in the VMI Field House.
Cadets may purchase tickets from
Robert "Hurricane" H a n s o n in
Room 152 for $1.20.
The afternoon c o n c e r t will
feature:
Mozart - Haffner Symphony, 1st
movement;
Brtihms—Third Symphony, 2nd
movement; *
Grieg-Peer Kynt Suite, No. 1;
Prokoflefl — March from '"The
Love of Three Oranges"; Shosta-kovitch—
Polka from "The Age of
Gold"; Gliere—Sailor's dance from
"The Red Poppy"; and Gould-
Guaracha, South American Dance.
Evening Concert
That evening. The Rockbridge
Concert Theater Series will sponsor
Howard Mitchell and the National
Symphony Orchestra in a concert
to be given in the VMI Gym.
This program will include;
Handel—Suite from the Water
Music arr., Harty;
Moussorgsky—Picture at an Ex-hibition;
and Beethoven — Sym-phony
no. 7 in A Major.
This concert is for the Series
patrons. There will be no tickets
sold at the door to Cadets.
Will Give Concert Here
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HOWARD MITCHELL
Lipscomb Is Made
Summer School Head
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur M.
Lipscomb, associate Professor of
English, has been appointed as
Director of the VMI Summer
School for its 44th session (1954),
the Superintendent announced last
week.
Colonel Lipscomb is Faculty
Representative for the VMI Foun-dation,
Inc., and a member of the
athletic council.
State Appropriates
Augmented Funds
For VMI Usage
VMI was tagged for $160,000 in
extra state funds at a meeting of
the Hou^ Appropriations Commit-tee
last Tuesday over and above
the amount which it had been
slated to receive by the Battle bud
get.
Two-Thirds of Request
The amount constituted two-thirds
of the additional funds
which General William H. Milton
had said top-priority needs made
essential, yet this constituted the
largest amount give to any state
school in extra funds.
The sum was to include $40,000
for land, $70,000 for equipment,
and $50,000 to help build an addi-tion
to the engineering buildings.
VPI received $157,420 in extra
money which would go primarily
for agricultural purposes. The
school was denied money for a
new dormitory.
$25,000 for Jackson Home
In another move, the committee
earmarked an extra $10,000 to be
added to the $15,000 already ap-proved
for the state's contribution
towards the purchase of the Stone-wall
Jackson home here.
Fulgham, Ridgely Head
1955 Hop Committee
NOTICE
The Armed Forces Club will
meet Thursday night, the 4th of
March. Capt. Tyson Wilson will
speak at this meeting. On the
11th of March the film "Guadal-canal
Diary" will be shown in
the library auditorium.
Sullins Choir
Joins VMI
In Concert
The Sullins College Choir will
be the guests of the VMI Glee
Club in a joint concert in J - M
Hall on Saturday, March 13. The
concert, which will begin at 7:30,
will consist of selections by both
clubs separately, after which the
two clubs will combine to sing
Frank's "Psalm 150."
The Sullins College Choir, from
Bristol, Virginia, is directed by
Leon B. Fleming, Jr., who has re-ceived
a Master of Music degree
from the Westminster Choir Col-lege,
and has studied under Dr.
John Finley Williamson. The choir
will offer a varied program, in-cluding
selections by Praetorius,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Vic-tor
Herbert, and George Gershwin.
The choir is planning to cover
some 1,500 miles on its spring
tour, including in its itinerary
Roanoke, VPI, Richmond, Bethes-da,
Maryland, and Walter Reed
Hospital in Washington, D. C.
After the concert on March 13,
the VMI Glee Club and the ASCE
will give a square dance from 9:30
to 12:30. The entire Corps is urged
to attend the concert and square
dance; guests and dates are wel-come.
Dr. Edward C. Fuller, Educator, Will Give
Series of Lectures at Institute This Week
Dr. Edward C. Fuller, educator
and proponent of the correlation
of science and human values, will
give a series of lectures to Virginia
Military Institute cadets here next
week.
Dr. Fuller's series, which is
scheduled for Monday and Tues-day,
March 8-9, will include talks
to at least eight separate groups
of cadets in various academic de-partments.
His lectures will be
centered around the connection be-tween
man's material and scienti-fic
advances and his cultural
achievements. Dr. Fuller's appear-ance
at VMI Is sponsored by the
arts program of the Association
of American Colleges. '
A member of thp faculty of
Beloit College, Dr. Fuller is a
former president of Bard College
He voluntarily gave up the college .
presidency to return to the class-room
because of his interest in
"integrated teaching of the natural
sciences and tue aevelopment of
new approaches to scientific edu-cation."
Dr. Fuller holds a bachelor of
science degree from Montana State
College, where he taught for three
years, and a Ph. D. from Columbia
University, where he again taught
for three years before he was made
a university fellow for chemical
research. He was an administrative
aide in the Manhattan District
atomic boml^ project of World
War It / : .
Bill Fulgham and Reggie Ridge-ly
have been elected president and
vice president respectively for
next, gear's Hop Committee. Marty
Bregman will hold down the busi-ness
manager's spot and Jim Hart
will be treasurer.
Fulgham, a Sergeant in Baker
Company, will be serving his third
year on the Hop Committee. He
is from Windsor, Virginia and is
majoring in History.
Ridgely is from San Diego, Cali-fornia,
and is a Chemistry major.
Reggie is a Sergeant in "C" Com-j
pany and has had two years ex-perience
on the Hop Committee.
Bregman is from Alexandria,
Virginia, is a Sergeant in Dog
Company, and was a committee
member this year. Hart, Supply
Sergeant of Able Company, of
Roanoke, was also on this year's
Hop Committee.
New Members Elected
At the meeting in which the
officers were elected ten new mem-bers
were voted in. Billy Nolley,
Roby Thompson, Casey Jones, Jim
Atkinson, Bill Maddox, Jim Suther-land,
and Wesley Rhodes, were
elected from the second class.
J. T. Witt, C. C. Schoen, and
G. M. Weir of the third class
round out the committee except
for two from the fourth class
which will be elected later.
Next Year's Plans
The committee aims to' provide
the best possible music for next
year's dances. They are consider-ing
a plan in which the season
tickets will be made available
again next year. The committee
is negotiating with top bands but
no definite plans have been an-nounced.
Taxi Fare Increases
Become Effective Soon
Taxi fares for single riders
went up in Lexington today for
Billy's, Clayon's, Fred's, Frank's,
Gene's, and Pete's customers.
Increased operating costs were
given as the reason for the price
rise, which will not effect groups
of two or more riding in the cabs.
The prices will be 35 cents for
each single fare but wlU remain
the same for from two to four
passengers. This <:}i«ag« i« M'
pected to effei^t,, VKfl
cadBtfl raEdy ride sioi^.
Eldridge Receives
Chemistry Award
For 1st Semester
Cadet R. B. Eldridge of the
Fourth Class has been awarded
a prize donated by the Chemical
Rubber Company for the outstand-ing
gfade average among Chemis-try
majors for the first semester.
Book of Tables
The award that is to be given
Cadet Eldridge is a Handbook of
Physics and Chemistry that con-tains
many valuable tables and
other information that will be use-ful
in his work as a Chemistry
major during his four year stay
at VML
The Chemical Rubber Company
presents this award each year as
an incentive to cadets interested
in chemistry and as a guide to be
used to the cadets advantage.
Highest Average
The handbook is a valuable prize
for the Chemistry major who
achieves this coveted distinction
of holding the highest average in
the department.
The Chemical Rubber Company
conceived of this idea last year
and this is the first year that it
has actually been presented. It is
not a single award though, and is
intended to be continued for an
indefinate length of time.
Cadet Eldridge will receive his
prize within the next month.
Miss Easters
To Be Chosen
At Spring Hop
"America's New Look In
Dance Music," Dean Hudson,
and VMI's favorite, Elliott
Lawrence, will serve up the
music for Easter Hops—April
25-26.
Elliott Lawrence, his piano
and orchestra, gave those who at-tended
the '52 Ring Figure a night
of five music that none have for-gotten.
He has been a consistent
favorite for years, both at college
dances and at appearances in the
country's finest night spots. Elliott
will provide the music at the Sat-urday
night dance and in addition
will give a concert Saturday after-noon.
Ann Lorain Featured
Dean Hudson's orchestra will be
on the stand Friday night, render-ing
the music which has brought
him fame throughout the country.
Featured with Dean will be Ann
Lorain, vocalist, whose talent gain-ed
her recognition as Miss Radio,
1952. Lenine Love and Sam Noto
are featured on piano and trumpet,
respectively, while Love also does
the arranging for the band. On the
"Dixieland Six," Hudson has a
band within a band. His capella
choir rounds out the entertainment
line-up.
The Dean Hudson Orchestra has
been packing in the crowds at the
Surf Club of Virginia Beach, the
Meadowbrook in New Jersey, and
the Roosevelt Hotel in New Or-leans.
The band played at this
year's W&L Fancy Dress, where
he pleased all who attended.
The rising star of Dean Hudson
has been supplimented by his radio
ANN LORAIN
program, "A Date with Dean,"
and by his numerous television ap-eparances.
His was the first band
to be on the coast to coast TV hook-up.
His recordings of "Stormy
Weather" and "Moon Over Miami"
have enjoyed popularity. Dean, a
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Poll Taken of Cadets' Hobbies
Shows Interest in Craft Shop
The CADET conducted a poll in
the barracks this week to deter-mine
the amount that would be
shown in a hobby shop, if such
facilities were to be established
by the Institute. A representative
group from all three lower classes
was polled, and the results dis-closed
a surprising amount of in-terest
in a variety of forms of
constructive diversion.
Although some cadets felt that
they wouldn't have sufficient time
to pursue a hobby here at the
school, many others felt that they
would like to develop an interest
in one, if the facilities were avail-able.
Interests ranged from collecting
tropical fish' to building "hot
ro<^/' and though it would be im-possible
tp provide facilities ade-qi|>
tB (W .aU the varied interests
in- the ^ i t M , there seemed to b«
sufficient interest shown in hobbies
such as model airplane construc-tion
and woodworking to assure
the use of a shop established for
this purpose.
The results of the poll were as
follows:
SECOND CLASS
70% have a hobby of some sort.
40% have hobbies requiring a
shop.
65% would use hobby facilities
if provided.
THIRD CLASS
70% have a hobby of some type.
35% have hobbies requiring a
shop.
50% would use hobby facilities
if provided,-
RAT CLASS
75% have a liobby of some sort.
45% have hobbies requiring a
shop.
I 50% would use if provided.