VMI Cadet. March 21, 1955

              Vorman Harris Elected
As 1955 Valedictorian
For Finals Exercises
At a recent meeting of the first class, Norman Harris
was elected to address the graduates and friends at finals
as valedictorian of the class of 1955. This honor comes not
only as a r e s u l t of academic
Valedictorian '55
NORMAN HARRIS
Engineers Confer
On Management
The eighth year of the Virginia
Industrial Managertient Conference
was held March 18th on the V.M.I,
and W&L campuses. The general
purpose of the past conferences
has been to develop relationships
among Virginia's industries, and
the specific topic of this Confer-ence
was the increased emphasis
on individuality in the treatment
of employees.
The meeting was attended by
approximately 300 delegates, about
250 of whom were Virginia indus-trialists
and another 80 who were
college delegates for W&L, VMI,
Hampden - Sydney, the University
of Virginia, VPI, and William and
Mary. The members of the first
class engineering sections attend-ed
all or parts of the meeting.
The Conference was opened with
a welcoming address by General
Milton stressing the importance of
successful employee relations. Sev-eral
other distinguished speakers
were presented during the confer-ence,
among whom were Dr. D. J.
Moffier, head of the Psychology
Department at North Carolina
State; Dr. K. Brantley Watson, Di-rector
of Human Relations at the
McCormick Company; and Dean F.
Byers Miller of the University of
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Weir^Zitz, And Weintroh Newly Appointed
To Outstanding Posts On V,M,L Turnout
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New Editors
achievement but also for service
to his class during the past four
years. The criterion at VMI is not
necessarily just success in acade-mics,
as it is at most other schools,
but more a guestion of "all-rounded-ness."
Since valedictorian is elect-ed
by the class, this over all ability
is a major factor in the selections.
During his four years, Norman
has held many positions of im-portance
and responsibility both in
his class and in the Corps as a
whole. When a Rat he stood fourth
in his class academically and has
worn stars ever since. He was chair-man
of the class of 1955 Ring Fig-ure
committee and was chosen by
his fellow classmates to serve on
the Honor Court. In his second
class year he served his class again
as a member of the Honor Court as
well as being president of the Bap-tist
club. He served on the reli-gious
coucil also—the glee club
has had his services as a first bass
for four years, and he now is vice
president of this organization. Nor-man
is at present, president of the
VMI Honor Court, a position in
which he has shown the greatest
devotion and has served with dis-tinction.
Until recent makeovers at
which time he was appointed batta-lion
S-4, he held the rank of second
lieutenent in F Company. He re-signed
his post to devote more time
to his other various activities.
Editor-in-Chief George Weir
Selects Zitz Managing Editor;
Weintrob To Handle Business
The staff of the VMI TURNOUT for the 1955-'56 school
year was announced yesterday by George M. Weir, III who
has been chosen to head the staff during that period. Rounding
out the top editorial positions will
Kulp Chosen
Class Agent
Dutch Gen. Carp
To Address IRC
Major General W. Th. Carp,
GSC, Military Attache of the
Netherlands Embassy in Wash-ington,
will speak to the Inter-national
Relations Club this Fri-day,
March 25th. The meeting
will be held in the Preston Li-brary
Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
"The Netherlands," in general,
will be General Carp's topic. Two
films on Holland will be shown in
conjunction.
General and Mrs. Carp will ar-rive
Friday afternoon in time for
him to take the Dress Review in
his honor.
All members of the Corps,
faculty, and the interested pub.
lie are invited to attend General
Carp's address.
Next year's TURNOUT Editors look over plans for the '55-'56
publication. Left to right are Jim Weintrob, Business Manager; George
Weir, Editor-in-Chief; and Stan Zitz, Managing Editor.
Sportsmen^s Cluh To Convene
For Annual Business Meeting
This Saturday the VMI Sportsmen's Club will meet for
their annual Spring conclave in Jackson Memorial Hall.
The President, M. P. Watkins, '25, will call the meeting
to order at 11:00 a.m. and present
his speech of welcome and annual
business report. The nominating
c o m m i t t e e , with Worthington
Faulkner, '24 as chairman, will pre-sent
for election: George G. Phil-lips,
'25, President; Elmon T. Gray,
'46, 1st Vice-President; Woods G.
Talman, '31, 2nd Vice-President;
and H. A. Jacob. '09, Secretary-
Treasurer. The new President is
expected to offer to the audience
Monogram Fete
Set For Sat. Night
Next Saturday night, March 26,
the Monogram Club is having an
informal dance in Cocke '94 Hall.
Dancing from 9 to 12 to the music
of Jim Caldwell's band.
The dance is part of this year's
big Sportsman's Day. It will climax j his forthcoming plans for the new
the day's activities which include
the Spring football game. All alum-year.
Don Kulp has been chosen Agent
of the Class of 1955 at the recent
meeting held by the class. His job
deals with the compilation and con-densation
of all news about mem-bers
of his class to be printed in
the Alumni Review throughout the
coming years. Also important 1 tor, has been active with the TORN-among
his many duties as agent is, QUT staff for many years. He is
the collection of contributions for I aigj, co-Sports Editor of the VMI
uch worthy causes as the VMI cADET. Stan is a Sergeant in Easy
Foundation, Sportsmen's C1 u b, | company.
be Stan Zitz as Managing Editor
and Jim Weintrob as Business Man-ager.
George Weir is a native of Fort
Benning, Georgia and is presently
a Private in Charlie Company. He
was recently appointed Art Editor
of the BOMB and elected Vice-
President of the VMI Hop Commit-tee.
He has been active on the staff
of the TURNOUT since his Rat
year.
Stan Zitz, the new Managing Edi-scholarships,
etc. Don's job, in a
word, deals with keeping in touch
Jim WeintroD is a native of Har-risburg,
Pennsylvania. He will as-with
all his classmates and keep-1 ^^^^^ ^^ Business Man-mg
tabs on what they are doing and ^ successful stint in the
why. During his four years as a | circulation Manager,
cadet, Don was a member of the ^^ ^ ^ble Company
Glee Club for two years, manager ^^^ ^ jj^^^^er of the VMI Reli-ef
the baseball squad for the past
four. President of the Roanoke m addition to the principle titu-
Club as well as being Distinguish heads of the Business and Edi-ed
Military Student. For the past announced his
few years he has served nobly as, ^^^ managerial appoint-party
chairman (self appointed and I ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^
avocated) of the class of 1955 ^^^^ promoted and graduated staff
and was one of the members of the ^^ ^^^ Editor for
Monogram Minstrel. He prides him-; ^^^^ ^e Pete Lynch,
self on being in CE-3 for four ^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ t^e
years and is a member of the TURNOUT for several years. The
A.S.C.E. Upon graduating, Don
hopes to either enter Flight School
or begin a career with the De-quesne
Light Company of Pitts-burgh
as a mechanical engineer. In
the Corps of Cadets he has been a
corporal, sergeant, and 2nd lieuten-ant,
and at recent makeovers was
appointed Regimental Adjutant.
Upon being questioned about
plans for the future, Don had them
in advance: "I feel that in order to
further the brotherhood
Literary Editor will be Bob Wag-ner.
Jim Hannay will act as Feature
Editor and Rufus Morrison as
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Frank Lo Elected
As Newman Prexy'
The VMI Newman Club, the or-ganization
of Catholic cadets, met
a n d Sunday evening, March 20, for the
friendships ni and visiting sports dignitaries; ^ater, at 12:15, Colonel Read everyone has establish- election of officers for next year.
as well as the Corps are invited to, will give a talk to the Corps on j ^^ past'years, we should Replacing Frank Walters as presi-the
events. 1 "VMI's First Sixty-Five Years in have class reunions at least every dent will be F. C. C. Lo. Jim Vita-
The uniform for the dance will
be class sweaters. The band led
by guitarist, Jim Caldwell, is the
same one which was so well ac-cepted
at the recent Class of '57
dance. Full hop-night privileges
will be available.
Glee Club To Sing In Staunton
For Virginia Music Federation
Last Wednesday night, a thirty
man group of cadets from the VMI
Glee Club journeyed to Natural
Bridge to entertain the delegates
for the 59th State Conference of
the Virginia Daughters of the
American Revolution. The group.
Captain Louis Owen directing, sang
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,"
"Dixie" and selectfons from Gil-bert
and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pina-fore."
After their singing, the cadets,
along with 19 convention pages
from the Southern Seminary, were
given a small reception and in-formal
dance in the hotel's lobby.
The dance soon removed the air of
formality seemingly produced by
the coatees and evening g o w ns
worn by the cadets and pages.
Both groups returned to their
respective schools late that night.
Staimton Trip
Next Thursday afternoon and
evening the entire VMI Glee Club
under the direction of Colonel Dil-lard
will appear as the only male
chorus at the Virginia Federation
of Music Choral Concert to be held
in Staunton. The concert which will
take place at the new Robert E.
Lee High School auditorium will
feature, besides the VMI g r o u p,
choruses from many women's col-leges
in Virginia. At present the
number and names of the schools
are undetermined because some
Spring vacations conflict with the
concert's date. The choruses will
combine and sing Randel Thomp-son's
"Allelulia" under the direc-tion
of Dr. John Williamson. He is
the director of the Westminster
chorus from Westminster School
of Music in Princeton, New Jersey.
The groups will also sing indivi-dually.
Solo numbers for the VMI
contingent will be "O Magnify the
Lord With Me" and Thompson's
"Last Words of David."
Future tripn for the VMI Club
include Richmond, Norfolk, and
Washington. Next year the Fed-eration
concert will be held in Lex-ington.
U.Va. Astronomer
Gives Address
On Stellar Spectra
The A.S.C. met last Wednesday
evening, March 16, in the lecture
room at Mauroy-Brooke Hall. The
group was addressed by Dr. Ed-ward
Dryer of the University of
Virginia Department of Astrono-my.
Dr. Dryer's talk was on the
"Analysis of Stellar Spectra." The
doctor gave the chemists and phy-sists
a brief outline of the methods
employed by the astronomer in in-terpreting
the information he ob-tains
through photographs of the
light from stars, and other objects.
The light is passed through a
prism fastened to the telescope and
recorded on a photographic plate.
From this photograph the astron-omer
can determine the composi-tion,
mass, magnitude, and other
valuable information about stars,
nebulae and even our own sun.
Questions and Answers
The Doctor illustrated his lec-ture
with slides and graphs. Mem-bers
met informally with the Doc-tor
for questions in tJw Hunter-
Pendleton Library over ice-cream
and cookies.
Team Athletics." I five years.'
Howard Mitchell To Conduct
Orchestra Here Wednesday
The National Symphony Orches-tra
under the baton of Dr. Howard
Mitchell will appear in a concert
at 8 p.m. Wednesday evening,
March 23, in Cocke '94 Hall. The
concert is the final event of the
'54-'55 Rockbridge concert theater
series.
Established in 1931, the Orches-tra
for many years has been famed
as one of the top major symphony
orchestras in the United States.
Dr. Mitchell has been its perman-ent
conductor since 1943 when he
succeeded the organization's foun-der,
the late Dr. Hans IKndler.
Dr. MitcheU
Dr. Mitchell, the conductor, was
born in Nebraska. He studied mu-sic
at the Peabody conservatory in
Baltimore, and the Curtis School
of Music in Philadelphia. He is a
cellist and was a pupil of the
master Felix Salmond. He has been
with the orchestra since 1933 when
he was engaged by Dr. Kindler as
first cellist. He is one of the few
artists in musical history to rise
from the ranks of a major sym-phony
orchestra to assume its
leadership.
Under Dr. Mitchell's leadership
the National Symphony has become
one of the leading groups in the
nation. The orchestra gives over
100 performances anually, includ-
Howard Mitchell
ing over 30 "tour performances."
Following a policy established ear-ly
in the National Symphony's his-tory,
the orchestra annually un-dertakes
extensive tours to pre-sent
its full concert ensemble to
music lovers at many points along
the Atlantic Seaboard and in sev-eral
southern states.
American Music
Dr. Mitchell is an advocate of
American music and each season
presents humorous works by Am-erican
composers. Recently the or-chestra
recorded some disks for
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gliano will succeed Tony Russo as
vice-president. Charlie Schwendin-ger
will be secretary in place of
Marty Fischer.
Frank Lo outlined his policies
and plans for the coming year.
Frank hopes to obtain greater co-operation
from the Institute in al-lowing
cadets of the Catholic faith
to participate to a larger extent in
the activities of their church on
Holy Days, and other special oc-casions.
Afternoon Concert
The National Symphony Or-chestra
will give a matinee con-cert
in the Field House on Wed-nesday,
March 23 from 1:30 to
2:30 p.m. This afternoon concert
has become quite popular and
last year the audience was esti-mated
at three thousand. The
evening concert on the same date
is open only to those who have
memberships in THE ROCK-BRIDGE
CONCERT-THEATER
SERIES. However, the concert
at 1:30 Is open to ALL. Admis-sion
is fifty cents. Tickets may
be purchased at Weinberg's
Music Store or at the F i e ld
House before the concert. The
program is as f<^ows:
Beethoven—Overture to "Eg-mont"
Tchaikovsky—Waltz.
Dvorak — Finale from "The
World SymiAony."
Copland — Two dances froM
"Rodeo."
Saturday Night umI Hoe Dewn.
Borodifr-Danees from "rrlace
Igor."