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THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 24, 1955 , COLUMN ONE Boyd Raeburn Band Teamed With Brown BY J E R E R E AL I'Tlic other (lay a radct lo whom I WHS talkinfe .made the statement that he would have applied for a co-tiiin scholarship it it had not been for ail of the application blanks that he had to fill out. This was said in jest, but it docs point up a situation that exists at the present time with regard to scho-larships that are available. There afc hundreds of available scholar-ships to various countries, schools, and for various sums of money that cach year Ro unnoticed and unap-plied for. This can be explained in several ways. One answer is that the students just do not realize that many of them arc available. Another explanation is that there may be a certain a.spect of schola'- ship missing in many college grad-uates in the United States today. Still another reason could be the fctry uncertain position held by all of the male graduates with regard to' service in the armed forces. While all of these are possible explanations they still do not ac-cdunt for the vast number of funds that go untouched every year. I was talking to a cadet who had ap-plied for a scholarship by the Ro-tary Clubs of America. He inform-ed me that there were only three people in the state of New York that had applied for the scholar-ship. I will have to admit that I only learned of these .scholarships last summer my.self in a conversa-tion with my father. %he point is that if a senior in collefie desires lo continue his edu-cation the chances arc pretty good that lie wll be able to Ret .some sort of scholarship, fellowship, teaching a.ssistantbhip, or other form of aid. The American way of life that ' we all iicar so much about is cer Vainly a complex one no matter low you look at it. Kven in the "usiness world of today the man "vith tlie most education is the man hat is sout-ht after, whether it i correct guide to his, probable sue ?ss or not. IJndcr the.se circiimstnnces it bid prove very helpful to many f this year's graduates it they had perhaps a Ma.ster's degree at least If any of the First Classmen that plan on doing extra academic work iftcr their graduation from the In-ftitute would investigate, they vould probably bo very surprised t the opportunities that are pre-ent. I am sure that any faculty nember in any department would ic more than glad to help anyone •crested in post-graduate work finding the scholarships that he .nijBht be interested in and to aid the student in applying and per-tisps obtaining one of them. This i a matter that should be consid-ered and decided upon early in the ast academic year. The prepara-ion for these awards is certainly Worth the trouble if one is inte-rested in furthering his education )n advanced study. Due to the fact that Hal Mc- Intyre has had an engagement ex-tended he will not be able to appear at the Institute to play for Ring Figure with Les Brown. In his stead the Hop Committee Busl-iss Manager, J. T. Witt, has pro-red Boyd Raeburn and his Cava-liers. The Cavaliers will feature Ginnie Powell as vocalist. Before appearing at V. M. I.. Raeburn will play at several col-leges around the country. Among them are Columbia University, Queens College, University of Con-necticut, Dartmouth, Michigan State, Penn State, Yale, and Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. Fordham University, N. V". U., Upon completion of his perform-ance at V. M. I. Mr. Raeburn and his Cavaliers will journey to Blacksburg to make music for the Hokies. Later he will visit both in Massachusetts and New York re-spectively. About thirty five years ago, Boyd Raeburn saw the light of day on a ranch in South Dakota. Coming from a well to do family, Boyd Raeburn was given the ad- Amherst College and lona College vantages of excellent schooling and graduated, with honors, from the University of Chicago, in Chicago. 1 1 1 . Boyd formed his orchestra while a college student and went through every phase of music—from Klling ton to Stravinsky—to finally arrive at the conclusion that the best band is the band that crcates musi( for dancing plasurc. While in thi Stravinsky phase, Boyd recorded INewiiiaiis Plan For Keligioiis ' Youth Week ' Uniting their efforts with seven million youths throughout Amer-ica, the Newman Club prepares for participation in the fifth Na- \ tional Catholic Youth Week, Oct- Jjcr 30 to November 6. Sponsored by the National Coun- 1 of Catholic Youth, the week to emphasize the importance of luth, encourage our generation „ J be mindful of our capacitie.s, r " V I" 'lispluy the talents, abill-ies, and resources of our youth, particularly in the i>piritual vein. I His Holiness Pope Pius Xll, Pres- ',! ident Kisenhower, the Cardinals, the Archbishops, and Bishops of many dioceses, tiie Uuvornors and Mayors tin ougliDut the country re- L'qgniw Natioual Catholic Youth Week. Willi "Youth — Our Hope" as its theme, the Catholic Youth week is planning an intense and varied program. Pageants and pa-rades, radio and television pro-grams, athlelii' and social events shall be spiiiisored as well as spiri-tual observation by Masses and Holy llourb. Cultiiiiic cadets are encouraged to enter into the letter of this movement and appreciate and real- 120 the xigiiificance o£ National I CatlHiliv Voutb Week, 10 of his famous originals, which he uses for jazz concerts only—namely: "Boyd Meets Stra-vinsky", "The Man with The Horn", "Yerxa" and "Dalvatore Sally" among others. For the pleasure of the dancers, the orchestra of Boyd Raeburn and His Cavaliers now plays predomi-nantly what the people in the music busine.ss describe as "sweet, lush music.' This type of sweet styling typifies the orchestra of Boyd Raeburn and His Cavaliers as it is at the present time. Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra was a band favorite for many years in Chicago, but Boyd, being restless, decided to stretch his wings and cover more territory. The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra has traveled from coast to coast and up into Canada, pleasing the audiences throughout the country. During a recent New York engagement, his band was called the best in the nation. Boyd's orchestra was given many top honors, among which were the Esquire Award, Look Ma-gazine, Downbeat, and Metronome awards. Boyd's orchestra has featured from time to time, the most fa-mous instrumentalists in the world . . . Johnny Bothwell; Oscar Petti-ford; Trummy Young; Dizzy Gil Icspie; Tommy Pederson; Dodo Marmarosa; Hal Schacffer (coach for Marilyn Monroe); Ray Lynn; Lucky Thompson (who now has •his own orchestra and records for Decca Records); Roy Eldridge; Don l,amond, and the late Sonny (Cjontinued on page 3) Gen. Richard Marshall Portrait of Gen. R. J. Marshall To Be Unveiled Soon In 1U52, permission was given by the Board of Visitors for a portrait to be made of General R. ,1. Mar-shall. Mr. David Silvette of Rich-mond was named as the artist. During the week of October 10 the first sittings for the painting be-gan. The portrait should now be completed. Upon approval of the Board of Visitors, the painting will be hung in Jackson-Memorial Hall alongside the portraits of his pre-decessors. A dedication ceremony for the unveiling of the portrait will take place, but no detailed plans have as yet been formulated. Mr. Silvette has recently com-pleted a portrait of the former Civil War Governors of Virgin John Letcher. Mr. Letcher, Whose home was in Lexington, wai member and president of the VMI Board of Visitors from I8fi6-1882 Letcher avenue, locatcd on the post, is named in IUK lionor. Seven Hundred Flock to InsUliUe to Attend JSinth Annual Virginia Highway Conference 'I'he ninth annual Virginia High-w'ay (Jonference will be held here November 2-4. More than 700 persons a.s.sociat-rd with highway building and de-velopment, traffic planning antf safety, and other phases of road de-velopment, traffic planning and safety, and other phases of road tran.sportation are expected for the three-day session which is spon- •sored jointly by the Virginia De-partment of Highways and Virginia Military Institute, in co-operation with thirteen other agencies. This year's conference, theme of which is "Road Progress Through Teamwork-Federal, State, and Lo-cal," will offer a number of the top national authorities in high-way engineering and safety. Both Governor Thomas B. Stan-ley and former Governor John S. Battle are scheduled to partcipate in the 1955 conference. Governor Stanley will preside at the general session November 3, while Battip will .serve in a like capacity at the banquet ineeting that night. The conference will be divided into three parts—a technical .ses-sion, general meelings, and a .series of panel di.scu.ssions. In addition there will be extensive exhibits of road construction and maintain-ance equipment and displays of •safety devices and associated de-velopments. The conference opens with the technical session the af-ternoon of November 1. Among the experts who will ad-drc. ss the opening meeting are Bur-ton W. March, director of traffic engineering and safety, American Automobile Association; Lowell E. Gregg, of the Highway Materials Research Laboratory, Lexington, Ky.; K. A. Stonex, of the General Motors Corporation's p r o v i ng ground section, Milford, Mich.; and D. W. Louzenhizer, of the United States Bureau of Public Roads Attending the conference will be officials and other representa tives of town, city, and county governments from throughout Vir ginia. Highway Department, em-ployees, and members of many road building equipment and ma terial firms. The agencies co-operating in stagng the conference are the Bu reau of Public Roads, the League of Va. Municipalities, the League of Va. Counties, United States For-est Service, Virginia Forest Ser-vice, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Gover-nor's Highway Safety Committee, Virginia Road Builders Associa-tion, Virginia Highway Users As-sociation, State Department of Ed-ucation, County and Local Plann-ing Boards, and the American Au-tomobile Association. V.M.I. Places Sixteen Seniors On National ^^Who's Who" List Prisoner Shot In Attempt To Flee from VMI Grounds Carl Holty, Noted Lecturer and Painter Will Address Cadets and Pidjlic Thursday Carl Holty, a noted lecturer and painter, will speak to the V.M.I. Corps of Cadets and the general public on Thursday night. Novem-ber 3rd. at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Holty will speak on the subject: "The Role of Art in Modern Society." There will also be a series of in-formal seminars conducted by Mr. Holty. These will be on: Traditions of Modern Art-Titian, Goya, Dela-croix; Cezanne-The New Person-ality; Rembrandt-Men of Con-science and Personal Responsib-ity; Art versus Art Activity-Patro-nage versus Collectorship; Art Education in our Collcge-A discus-sion of its purpose. These seminars will lie at 10 o'- clock and 2 o'clock on the 3rd of November and at 8 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the 4th. There will be a special schedule arranged to al-low all English majors to attend these seminars. Described as having an "encyc-lopedic" mind, Carl Holty's lec-tures do indeed cover a wide range of subjects. As one college presi-dent put it, "His mind works with lightning speed. We will long re-m e m b e r the stimulation he brought to our campus." After formally developing his artistic talents at the Milwauki-c Art School, Chicago Art Institute, and the National Academy of De-sign in New York, Carl Holty con-tinued his studies at the Royal Academy and Hoffman School in Munich. He Is a charter member of the Abstraction Creation Group of Paris, where his work was ex-hibited for three years, and is a founder member of the American Abstract Artists. He is reprei in important museums th out the United States. He i as visiting professor at tht versity of California and Corcoran Gallery taught at Washington Uni-versity, St. Louis; artist-in-resi-dence at the University of Georgia (two years) and the University of Florida in m.-j^-SS. ented ough-erved Uni- Eight English Majors Plan Tour For Siiiuiner of Current Year Eight English majors of the third class arc planning to tour Europe fur approximately s i x weeks next summer. The trip is planned primarily to familiarize the students with the greatest Eur-opean art centers in order that a first-hand view of these centers may be enjoyed. The trip has been planned by the studenU, with the help of Col. onel Herbert N. Dillard ai\(l Cap-tain Lewis J. Owen. The idea for the tour was conceived last spring, considerable work wa« done to fur-ther the project this summer, aiul this fall definite plans were set up for carrying out the detailed work that is nccessary for a trip of lliis scope. The men taking the trip arc: Staff Balderson, Tom Black, Don Cuthrell. Uill Harshaw, J im Moore, John Peters, Darrell Rice, Arnie Schossbcrg, Paul Sechtman, and Sam Wilt. Harshaw and Rice are biology majors. Going along to of-fer helpful guidance on what to see and hear are Col. Dillard and Capt. Owen. (continued on pai{e 6) JNOTICE The liiteruatiuiial KeUtiuus Club of V. M. I. will open its 1955 S6 bcricb uf activities with the shuwiug of liiree filiiib iu an upeu uieetiug touiurruw, Tues-day, Ocluber 25, 1955, In (lie auditorium of the Prestua Li-brary. These filimi are the first such preseutatiuus by the rlub thia year. The subjects will range from the Canadian Farlia-mentary kystiu tu the Air Korce (raining program iu Canada which currefepouds tu uur K. O. T. C. program iu some re»|>evts. The public and the eutire (continued on page 0) A young prisoner 'was seriously funded in a reported escape at-tempt at a road work project on tl>c VMI grounds Monday morning. Albert Coleman Oglesby, 20 of North Charleston, S. C., received two shotgun bla.sts in the back af-ter reportedly failing to heed the shouts of guard R. W. Cofey. He was said yesterday to be im-proving but still in critical condi-tion in Stonewall Jackson Hospital where he underwent surgery Mon-day night and where he was kept under close guard. Dr. Jefferson Sebastian was the attending sur-geon. The youth, who i s serving a six-year sentence for grand larceny was working in a roadway project behind the Physics and Library buildings. The work gang was from state convict Camp No. 10 near Greenville. The prisoner is reported to have run from the group behind the jihysics building in the direction of the path which leads to Letcher Avenue. The shooting occurred about 11 o'clock Monday morning. Buck shot from the blasts dam-aged the cars of Jerry Beaty, Maj. R. E. Welch and Conrad Steele which were parked behind the phy-sics building. A stray shot was la-ter found to have broken a window in the second story apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Beaty in the house next to the physics building. Camp Supt. E. T. Burnett re-ported the guard shot Oglesby from about 45 yards after warnings to halt. He added the guard was completely within his rights. Guard Coffey said he looked to see whether there was anyone in the immediate area before he fir-ed. A Kcwictv: 'Don Pascjualc' Is Successful In Rockbridge Series Premier By FRANK KLINE Last Tuesday evening subscrib-ers to the Rockbridge Concert Theater Series attended the first event of tjie 1955-56 season, a pres-entation of Donizetti's "Don Pas-quale." This entertaining and ly-rical comic opera was presented by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Thea-ter to an attentive and pleasantly fiurprised audience. Mr. Goldov-sky ascended the stage prior to the to the opening curtain and opolo-gized for the lack of proper scen-ery, as the limited facilities of the lexington High School Auditorium would not permit the stage crew to arrange the scenery as it usu-ally docs. However, Mr. Goldov-sky certainly did not have to make any apologies for the fine per-formance which his group put on for the Lexington music lovers; the good singing and acting and the sparkling music from the full orchestra which accompanied the stage action makes one feel that even had there been no scenery at all, the performance would have been most enjoyable. Mr. Goldovsky's excellent idiomatic English translation added to the enjoyment of the opera as so often a great deal is lost in translation. The cast included: James Joyce, Bass, as a most enjoyable "old and crusty" Don Pasquale; Robert Gay, Baritone, as Doctor Malatesta, the sly physician and family friend; John McCollum, Tenor, as Ernesto, and Jacquiiine as Nor-ina, his lover. The plot, set in the early 1800's, revolves around Ernesto's attempts to persuade his rich, old Uncle Don Pasquale to allow him to mar-ry Norina, a charming young wi-dow with whom he is very much in love. The old man is adverse to the suit and refuses to grant per-mi. ssion, declaring that he is going to disinherit his nephew - heir and marry a young girl to whom he .shall leave his estate. Dr. Malates-ta and Ernesto persuade Norina to pose as the Doctor's young in-nocent sister, Saphronia, who has just emerged from a covenant. The old Don is smitten by the lovely young creature and begs her hand in marriage. A friend of the Doc-tor's poses as a notary and a phony marriage contract is signed. No sooner is the couple married than Norina begins a shrewish career of making the poor old man's life miserable. By evening she has made life so unbearable and spent so much of his fortune that he is more than glad to be let out of his bargain. He finds the young lady holding a tryst in the garden with Ernesto. After the ruse is ex-plained to him, he gives his con-sent to the marriage of his two young lovers. All join in the Fin-ale, which emphasizes the moral of the story, " I t is sheer madness for an old man to take a young wife." The composer was born in Ber-gamo, Italy, in 1797, and died there in 1848. His music reflects the lightness of the Roccoco period in which he lived and resembles that of Rossini, the man whom he chose as his model. Don Pasquale was first performed in Paris, Janu-ary 4, 1843. Donizetti's other well known works are Lucia di Lama-moor, and L'Elisir d'Amour; from the former comes the most beau-tiful "Sextet." The next event in the series will be on November 21sti U was announced last Saturday to the Cadet that sixteen VMI First Classmen have been chosen by the Who's Who Com-mittee to appear in the 1955-1956 edition of Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. This publication is put out annually to include all of the prominent students in vari-ous activities on the campuses of American schools. Academic standing is definitely 1956, a member of the Superin-tendent's Advisory Committee, a Distinguished Military Student, a member of the Virginia Academy of Scince, a member of the 1956 Ring Committee, and 1st Lt. in E Company. Another Distinguished student in the pre-med. dept. is Dick Fencel, who is also a member of the IRC, a member of the Honor Court, Co-Captain of the basket-ball team, member of the New. man Club, the Recreational Com-mittee, and the Athletic Council. Dick is a private in Charlie Com-pany. I J im Foster, 1st Lt. of Able Company, is a member of the foot-ball team, the baseball team, the ASCE, the Superintendent's Advis-ory Council, and the General Com-mittee as well as serving as His-torian of the Class of '56. Both a Distinguished Student in the civil engineering dept. and a Distinguished Military Student. Jerry Hale is a member of the 1956 Bomb staff, an officer in the Southwest Virginia Club, a mem-ber of the ASCE, and serves as 1st Lt. of D Co. The President of the First Class is Thomas Massie who also is a member of the Superintendent's Advisory Council, the ASCE, the Monogram Club, the General Com-mittee. Tom is Co-Captain of the Wrestling team this year and is a Private in E Company. ^ ^ Pete McCrary a physics major, is a member of the AIP, the Mono-gram Club, the Armed Forces Club, apd served as Student Repre-senatative lo the National Associa-tion of Manufacturer's Convention in New York. Pete is both a Diii> tinguished Student and a Distin-guished Military Student as well as being a Private in Fox Co. Joe Mack, a Private in F Com-pany, is a Distinguished Student in the elcctrical engineering ma-jor course. A member of the AIEE, the VMI Cadet staff, and the Deep South Club. Bill Mears is the President o£ the Honor Court, Batallion Com-mander of the 1st Batallion, and is a member of the Virginia Aca-demy of Science, the Armed Forces Club, and the Superinten-dent'^ Advisory Committee. Bill is also,a Distinguished Military Stu- (continued on page H) General Pate, '21, Suceeds Shepherd, '17, As Top Marine Lt. Gen. Randolph McCall Pate, an adopted .son of Norfolk and a graduate of V.M.I., 21', was select-ed as the 21sl commandant of the Marine Corps last Monday. The selection was approved by Presi-dent Ei.senhower, and General Pate will assume his new duties at the first of next year. General Pate succeedes General Lemuel C. Shepherd, VMI, '17, another Norfolkian who has held the top position for the last 4 years. General Shepherd and (Gen-eral Pate's lives have been quite siiniliar. Besides their being from Norfolk and graduates uf V.M.I., both graduated from Norfolk's Maury High School and were of-ten stationed together during their early years in the corps. To top these simiiiaritics off, they are distant cousins. Upon assumption of his new command. General Pate will be promoted to a 4 star general. The S7 year old seasoned veteran said that he wai> " . . . Very much ex-cited, quite humble, and scared. ." when told of his new appointment. He had been fourth on the list of top Marine generals, but his ex-cellent record undoubtedly gave him the boost he needed. General Pale was a leader in his high school class, president of his class for four years at V.M.I, and First Captain at VMI. Fol ing his commission in the Marine Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1921 General Pate was stationed at many Far Eastern posts and in the Second World War, led the first Marine Division on Guadal canal fur which be received a Le-gion uf Merit, Later he received a gold star for service at Iwo Jima and Okina Since the Second World War, ho has been connected with the Ma-rine Training operi^tions and has commanded the 1st and 2nd Ma rine Divisiuns. At present he ii assistant Commandant uf the Ma rine Corps, in the selection of these nominees. Along with this goes the indivi-dual's per.sonal activities both in one of the necessary qualifications campus organizations and athletics. While it is not required that a candidate be outstanding in all of these endeavors he should be dis-tinguished in one of them. The various colleges nominate a cer-tain number of students to be con-sidered for inclusion in the pub-lication. This quota is set up by the Who's Who office. It varies with each school according to the number of enrolled students. In the case of VMI the quota is fourteen, but two extra nomina-tions above the quota are allow-ed, and thus VMI received six-teen representatives in this year's selection. The men thai have been selected for inclusion in this year's book are Creed W. Abeil, Staunton, Vir-ginia; Lawrence H. Bowen, Lynch-burg, Virginia; James N. Brawner, Atlanta, Georgia; Richard M. Fen-cel, Lancaster. Pennsylvania; James H. Foster, Buena Vista, Virginia; Jerry W. Hale, Wythe-ville, Va.; Thomas Massie, Lynch-burg, Va.; Peter McCrary, Fall Church Va.; Joe B. Mack, Atlanta, Ga.; Wm. W. Mears, Collingswood, New Jersey; Marshall Mundy, Roa-noke, Va.; Robert Jere Real, Jack- •son, Mississippi; C h a r l e s C. Schoen, Atlanta, Ga.; Fred N. Steven.son, Sarasota, F l o r i d a; Charles R. Thomas, Strasburg, Va.; and Frank C. Wilson, Fort Monroe, Va. Creed Abell is a Private in Dog Company and a chemistry major. He is President of the Religious Council, President of the American Chemical Society, and a member if the Virginia's Synod's West-minster Fellowship Council. Creed has also been on the varsity tennis team for two years. Larry Bowen, another chemistry major, is co-editor of the 1956 Bomb, a member of the Honor Court, a Distinguished Student, Music Society, a member of the ACS, as wel las having served as the Chairman of the 1956 Figure Committee. Larry is a Private in C Company. J im Brawner is a Distinguished Student in the biology dept., s member of the General Commit tee. Vice President of the Class of Musketeers Invade Maryland; Seek to Revenge Appomattox On the 29th and 30lh of October, the Cadet Musket Team will go to Fort George G. Meade to partici-pate in the 12th North-South skir-mish. The team is composed of eight cadets who will wear the uni-form of the Corps of 1861 and will fire the .58 caliber rifle-musket of the Civil War. Mr. William Mark Simpson has provided the team with a replica of the New Market battle flag which will be carried in the parade after the shoot. The North - South Skirmishes started in the Spring of 1950 when a Confederate team from Norfolk, Va., invited a group of union rifle-men to a shooting match. This was held at Berwyn, Maryland. Octo-ber of that year saw the second skirmish held at Richmond, Vir-ginia, in the old Seven Pines bat-tlefield area. The same two teams, the First Virginia Greys, of Nor-folk, and the Washington Blue Rifles, of Washington, D. C. shot it out in the same direction of fire, and were joined by an artillery denmnstration group from Con-cord, North Carolina, armed with a bronze six pounder. The Third skirmish was held at Norfolk, Va., at the occasion of the final reunion of surviving Confederate Veterans, June 1951. There were two new teams then, from Richmond, Va., and Port Huron, Michigan. The Yanks, ironically enough won that one, their first. At this shoot the teams drew up the Skirmish Rules, which are still the governing rules for all the skirmishes and partici-pating teams. The eventJ have been held semi-annually ever since, Spring and fall. The event outgrow the small civilian ranges in 1953 and have been fired on military ranges since, at Quantico, Va., Ab-erdeen, Md., Fort Lee, Va., and now Fort Meade, Md. To date the Southerners have won 7 times and the Yanks have won 4 times. Each firing unit is known as a company and is composed of eight men dressed in uniforms of the Ci-vil War period, color being of the side that most appeals lo thiiii. These men are armed with original rifle-muskets of the Civil War per iod as well as leather equipnictit and accoutrements. The Souther-ners all have their uniforms made at costumers based on the Army Regulations of the Confederacy- The Northerners use a lot of exist-ing original uniforms as well a:- some of modern maiuilacture, though based on the old regula-tions. The shooters make their own ammunition completely, mo.tly paper cartridges wrapped in tlie old regulation manner, although many are using a faster loading cardboard tube cartridge. .Siiooting is improving with each skirmish. Although the teams are dressed in the uniforms of the North and the South, there are only friendly feelings between all the shooters, many of them being fast persunal friiyids who see each other twice a year. All shoot in the same direc-tion and there is never any at-tempt to bold a "sham battle." The purpose of these skirmishes is purely for fun and recreation.
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Title | VMI Cadet. October 24, 1955 |
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Full Text Search | THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 24, 1955 , COLUMN ONE Boyd Raeburn Band Teamed With Brown BY J E R E R E AL I'Tlic other (lay a radct lo whom I WHS talkinfe .made the statement that he would have applied for a co-tiiin scholarship it it had not been for ail of the application blanks that he had to fill out. This was said in jest, but it docs point up a situation that exists at the present time with regard to scho-larships that are available. There afc hundreds of available scholar-ships to various countries, schools, and for various sums of money that cach year Ro unnoticed and unap-plied for. This can be explained in several ways. One answer is that the students just do not realize that many of them arc available. Another explanation is that there may be a certain a.spect of schola'- ship missing in many college grad-uates in the United States today. Still another reason could be the fctry uncertain position held by all of the male graduates with regard to' service in the armed forces. While all of these are possible explanations they still do not ac-cdunt for the vast number of funds that go untouched every year. I was talking to a cadet who had ap-plied for a scholarship by the Ro-tary Clubs of America. He inform-ed me that there were only three people in the state of New York that had applied for the scholar-ship. I will have to admit that I only learned of these .scholarships last summer my.self in a conversa-tion with my father. %he point is that if a senior in collefie desires lo continue his edu-cation the chances arc pretty good that lie wll be able to Ret .some sort of scholarship, fellowship, teaching a.ssistantbhip, or other form of aid. The American way of life that ' we all iicar so much about is cer Vainly a complex one no matter low you look at it. Kven in the "usiness world of today the man "vith tlie most education is the man hat is sout-ht after, whether it i correct guide to his, probable sue ?ss or not. IJndcr the.se circiimstnnces it bid prove very helpful to many f this year's graduates it they had perhaps a Ma.ster's degree at least If any of the First Classmen that plan on doing extra academic work iftcr their graduation from the In-ftitute would investigate, they vould probably bo very surprised t the opportunities that are pre-ent. I am sure that any faculty nember in any department would ic more than glad to help anyone •crested in post-graduate work finding the scholarships that he .nijBht be interested in and to aid the student in applying and per-tisps obtaining one of them. This i a matter that should be consid-ered and decided upon early in the ast academic year. The prepara-ion for these awards is certainly Worth the trouble if one is inte-rested in furthering his education )n advanced study. Due to the fact that Hal Mc- Intyre has had an engagement ex-tended he will not be able to appear at the Institute to play for Ring Figure with Les Brown. In his stead the Hop Committee Busl-iss Manager, J. T. Witt, has pro-red Boyd Raeburn and his Cava-liers. The Cavaliers will feature Ginnie Powell as vocalist. Before appearing at V. M. I.. Raeburn will play at several col-leges around the country. Among them are Columbia University, Queens College, University of Con-necticut, Dartmouth, Michigan State, Penn State, Yale, and Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. Fordham University, N. V". U., Upon completion of his perform-ance at V. M. I. Mr. Raeburn and his Cavaliers will journey to Blacksburg to make music for the Hokies. Later he will visit both in Massachusetts and New York re-spectively. About thirty five years ago, Boyd Raeburn saw the light of day on a ranch in South Dakota. Coming from a well to do family, Boyd Raeburn was given the ad- Amherst College and lona College vantages of excellent schooling and graduated, with honors, from the University of Chicago, in Chicago. 1 1 1 . Boyd formed his orchestra while a college student and went through every phase of music—from Klling ton to Stravinsky—to finally arrive at the conclusion that the best band is the band that crcates musi( for dancing plasurc. While in thi Stravinsky phase, Boyd recorded INewiiiaiis Plan For Keligioiis ' Youth Week ' Uniting their efforts with seven million youths throughout Amer-ica, the Newman Club prepares for participation in the fifth Na- \ tional Catholic Youth Week, Oct- Jjcr 30 to November 6. Sponsored by the National Coun- 1 of Catholic Youth, the week to emphasize the importance of luth, encourage our generation „ J be mindful of our capacitie.s, r " V I" 'lispluy the talents, abill-ies, and resources of our youth, particularly in the i>piritual vein. I His Holiness Pope Pius Xll, Pres- ',! ident Kisenhower, the Cardinals, the Archbishops, and Bishops of many dioceses, tiie Uuvornors and Mayors tin ougliDut the country re- L'qgniw Natioual Catholic Youth Week. Willi "Youth — Our Hope" as its theme, the Catholic Youth week is planning an intense and varied program. Pageants and pa-rades, radio and television pro-grams, athlelii' and social events shall be spiiiisored as well as spiri-tual observation by Masses and Holy llourb. Cultiiiiic cadets are encouraged to enter into the letter of this movement and appreciate and real- 120 the xigiiificance o£ National I CatlHiliv Voutb Week, 10 of his famous originals, which he uses for jazz concerts only—namely: "Boyd Meets Stra-vinsky", "The Man with The Horn", "Yerxa" and "Dalvatore Sally" among others. For the pleasure of the dancers, the orchestra of Boyd Raeburn and His Cavaliers now plays predomi-nantly what the people in the music busine.ss describe as "sweet, lush music.' This type of sweet styling typifies the orchestra of Boyd Raeburn and His Cavaliers as it is at the present time. Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra was a band favorite for many years in Chicago, but Boyd, being restless, decided to stretch his wings and cover more territory. The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra has traveled from coast to coast and up into Canada, pleasing the audiences throughout the country. During a recent New York engagement, his band was called the best in the nation. Boyd's orchestra was given many top honors, among which were the Esquire Award, Look Ma-gazine, Downbeat, and Metronome awards. Boyd's orchestra has featured from time to time, the most fa-mous instrumentalists in the world . . . Johnny Bothwell; Oscar Petti-ford; Trummy Young; Dizzy Gil Icspie; Tommy Pederson; Dodo Marmarosa; Hal Schacffer (coach for Marilyn Monroe); Ray Lynn; Lucky Thompson (who now has •his own orchestra and records for Decca Records); Roy Eldridge; Don l,amond, and the late Sonny (Cjontinued on page 3) Gen. Richard Marshall Portrait of Gen. R. J. Marshall To Be Unveiled Soon In 1U52, permission was given by the Board of Visitors for a portrait to be made of General R. ,1. Mar-shall. Mr. David Silvette of Rich-mond was named as the artist. During the week of October 10 the first sittings for the painting be-gan. The portrait should now be completed. Upon approval of the Board of Visitors, the painting will be hung in Jackson-Memorial Hall alongside the portraits of his pre-decessors. A dedication ceremony for the unveiling of the portrait will take place, but no detailed plans have as yet been formulated. Mr. Silvette has recently com-pleted a portrait of the former Civil War Governors of Virgin John Letcher. Mr. Letcher, Whose home was in Lexington, wai member and president of the VMI Board of Visitors from I8fi6-1882 Letcher avenue, locatcd on the post, is named in IUK lionor. Seven Hundred Flock to InsUliUe to Attend JSinth Annual Virginia Highway Conference 'I'he ninth annual Virginia High-w'ay (Jonference will be held here November 2-4. More than 700 persons a.s.sociat-rd with highway building and de-velopment, traffic planning antf safety, and other phases of road de-velopment, traffic planning and safety, and other phases of road tran.sportation are expected for the three-day session which is spon- •sored jointly by the Virginia De-partment of Highways and Virginia Military Institute, in co-operation with thirteen other agencies. This year's conference, theme of which is "Road Progress Through Teamwork-Federal, State, and Lo-cal," will offer a number of the top national authorities in high-way engineering and safety. Both Governor Thomas B. Stan-ley and former Governor John S. Battle are scheduled to partcipate in the 1955 conference. Governor Stanley will preside at the general session November 3, while Battip will .serve in a like capacity at the banquet ineeting that night. The conference will be divided into three parts—a technical .ses-sion, general meelings, and a .series of panel di.scu.ssions. In addition there will be extensive exhibits of road construction and maintain-ance equipment and displays of •safety devices and associated de-velopments. The conference opens with the technical session the af-ternoon of November 1. Among the experts who will ad-drc. ss the opening meeting are Bur-ton W. March, director of traffic engineering and safety, American Automobile Association; Lowell E. Gregg, of the Highway Materials Research Laboratory, Lexington, Ky.; K. A. Stonex, of the General Motors Corporation's p r o v i ng ground section, Milford, Mich.; and D. W. Louzenhizer, of the United States Bureau of Public Roads Attending the conference will be officials and other representa tives of town, city, and county governments from throughout Vir ginia. Highway Department, em-ployees, and members of many road building equipment and ma terial firms. The agencies co-operating in stagng the conference are the Bu reau of Public Roads, the League of Va. Municipalities, the League of Va. Counties, United States For-est Service, Virginia Forest Ser-vice, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Gover-nor's Highway Safety Committee, Virginia Road Builders Associa-tion, Virginia Highway Users As-sociation, State Department of Ed-ucation, County and Local Plann-ing Boards, and the American Au-tomobile Association. V.M.I. Places Sixteen Seniors On National ^^Who's Who" List Prisoner Shot In Attempt To Flee from VMI Grounds Carl Holty, Noted Lecturer and Painter Will Address Cadets and Pidjlic Thursday Carl Holty, a noted lecturer and painter, will speak to the V.M.I. Corps of Cadets and the general public on Thursday night. Novem-ber 3rd. at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Holty will speak on the subject: "The Role of Art in Modern Society." There will also be a series of in-formal seminars conducted by Mr. Holty. These will be on: Traditions of Modern Art-Titian, Goya, Dela-croix; Cezanne-The New Person-ality; Rembrandt-Men of Con-science and Personal Responsib-ity; Art versus Art Activity-Patro-nage versus Collectorship; Art Education in our Collcge-A discus-sion of its purpose. These seminars will lie at 10 o'- clock and 2 o'clock on the 3rd of November and at 8 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the 4th. There will be a special schedule arranged to al-low all English majors to attend these seminars. Described as having an "encyc-lopedic" mind, Carl Holty's lec-tures do indeed cover a wide range of subjects. As one college presi-dent put it, "His mind works with lightning speed. We will long re-m e m b e r the stimulation he brought to our campus." After formally developing his artistic talents at the Milwauki-c Art School, Chicago Art Institute, and the National Academy of De-sign in New York, Carl Holty con-tinued his studies at the Royal Academy and Hoffman School in Munich. He Is a charter member of the Abstraction Creation Group of Paris, where his work was ex-hibited for three years, and is a founder member of the American Abstract Artists. He is reprei in important museums th out the United States. He i as visiting professor at tht versity of California and Corcoran Gallery taught at Washington Uni-versity, St. Louis; artist-in-resi-dence at the University of Georgia (two years) and the University of Florida in m.-j^-SS. ented ough-erved Uni- Eight English Majors Plan Tour For Siiiuiner of Current Year Eight English majors of the third class arc planning to tour Europe fur approximately s i x weeks next summer. The trip is planned primarily to familiarize the students with the greatest Eur-opean art centers in order that a first-hand view of these centers may be enjoyed. The trip has been planned by the studenU, with the help of Col. onel Herbert N. Dillard ai\(l Cap-tain Lewis J. Owen. The idea for the tour was conceived last spring, considerable work wa« done to fur-ther the project this summer, aiul this fall definite plans were set up for carrying out the detailed work that is nccessary for a trip of lliis scope. The men taking the trip arc: Staff Balderson, Tom Black, Don Cuthrell. Uill Harshaw, J im Moore, John Peters, Darrell Rice, Arnie Schossbcrg, Paul Sechtman, and Sam Wilt. Harshaw and Rice are biology majors. Going along to of-fer helpful guidance on what to see and hear are Col. Dillard and Capt. Owen. (continued on pai{e 6) JNOTICE The liiteruatiuiial KeUtiuus Club of V. M. I. will open its 1955 S6 bcricb uf activities with the shuwiug of liiree filiiib iu an upeu uieetiug touiurruw, Tues-day, Ocluber 25, 1955, In (lie auditorium of the Prestua Li-brary. These filimi are the first such preseutatiuus by the rlub thia year. The subjects will range from the Canadian Farlia-mentary kystiu tu the Air Korce (raining program iu Canada which currefepouds tu uur K. O. T. C. program iu some re»|>evts. The public and the eutire (continued on page 0) A young prisoner 'was seriously funded in a reported escape at-tempt at a road work project on tl>c VMI grounds Monday morning. Albert Coleman Oglesby, 20 of North Charleston, S. C., received two shotgun bla.sts in the back af-ter reportedly failing to heed the shouts of guard R. W. Cofey. He was said yesterday to be im-proving but still in critical condi-tion in Stonewall Jackson Hospital where he underwent surgery Mon-day night and where he was kept under close guard. Dr. Jefferson Sebastian was the attending sur-geon. The youth, who i s serving a six-year sentence for grand larceny was working in a roadway project behind the Physics and Library buildings. The work gang was from state convict Camp No. 10 near Greenville. The prisoner is reported to have run from the group behind the jihysics building in the direction of the path which leads to Letcher Avenue. The shooting occurred about 11 o'clock Monday morning. Buck shot from the blasts dam-aged the cars of Jerry Beaty, Maj. R. E. Welch and Conrad Steele which were parked behind the phy-sics building. A stray shot was la-ter found to have broken a window in the second story apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Beaty in the house next to the physics building. Camp Supt. E. T. Burnett re-ported the guard shot Oglesby from about 45 yards after warnings to halt. He added the guard was completely within his rights. Guard Coffey said he looked to see whether there was anyone in the immediate area before he fir-ed. A Kcwictv: 'Don Pascjualc' Is Successful In Rockbridge Series Premier By FRANK KLINE Last Tuesday evening subscrib-ers to the Rockbridge Concert Theater Series attended the first event of tjie 1955-56 season, a pres-entation of Donizetti's "Don Pas-quale." This entertaining and ly-rical comic opera was presented by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Thea-ter to an attentive and pleasantly fiurprised audience. Mr. Goldov-sky ascended the stage prior to the to the opening curtain and opolo-gized for the lack of proper scen-ery, as the limited facilities of the lexington High School Auditorium would not permit the stage crew to arrange the scenery as it usu-ally docs. However, Mr. Goldov-sky certainly did not have to make any apologies for the fine per-formance which his group put on for the Lexington music lovers; the good singing and acting and the sparkling music from the full orchestra which accompanied the stage action makes one feel that even had there been no scenery at all, the performance would have been most enjoyable. Mr. Goldovsky's excellent idiomatic English translation added to the enjoyment of the opera as so often a great deal is lost in translation. The cast included: James Joyce, Bass, as a most enjoyable "old and crusty" Don Pasquale; Robert Gay, Baritone, as Doctor Malatesta, the sly physician and family friend; John McCollum, Tenor, as Ernesto, and Jacquiiine as Nor-ina, his lover. The plot, set in the early 1800's, revolves around Ernesto's attempts to persuade his rich, old Uncle Don Pasquale to allow him to mar-ry Norina, a charming young wi-dow with whom he is very much in love. The old man is adverse to the suit and refuses to grant per-mi. ssion, declaring that he is going to disinherit his nephew - heir and marry a young girl to whom he .shall leave his estate. Dr. Malates-ta and Ernesto persuade Norina to pose as the Doctor's young in-nocent sister, Saphronia, who has just emerged from a covenant. The old Don is smitten by the lovely young creature and begs her hand in marriage. A friend of the Doc-tor's poses as a notary and a phony marriage contract is signed. No sooner is the couple married than Norina begins a shrewish career of making the poor old man's life miserable. By evening she has made life so unbearable and spent so much of his fortune that he is more than glad to be let out of his bargain. He finds the young lady holding a tryst in the garden with Ernesto. After the ruse is ex-plained to him, he gives his con-sent to the marriage of his two young lovers. All join in the Fin-ale, which emphasizes the moral of the story, " I t is sheer madness for an old man to take a young wife." The composer was born in Ber-gamo, Italy, in 1797, and died there in 1848. His music reflects the lightness of the Roccoco period in which he lived and resembles that of Rossini, the man whom he chose as his model. Don Pasquale was first performed in Paris, Janu-ary 4, 1843. Donizetti's other well known works are Lucia di Lama-moor, and L'Elisir d'Amour; from the former comes the most beau-tiful "Sextet." The next event in the series will be on November 21sti U was announced last Saturday to the Cadet that sixteen VMI First Classmen have been chosen by the Who's Who Com-mittee to appear in the 1955-1956 edition of Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. This publication is put out annually to include all of the prominent students in vari-ous activities on the campuses of American schools. Academic standing is definitely 1956, a member of the Superin-tendent's Advisory Committee, a Distinguished Military Student, a member of the Virginia Academy of Scince, a member of the 1956 Ring Committee, and 1st Lt. in E Company. Another Distinguished student in the pre-med. dept. is Dick Fencel, who is also a member of the IRC, a member of the Honor Court, Co-Captain of the basket-ball team, member of the New. man Club, the Recreational Com-mittee, and the Athletic Council. Dick is a private in Charlie Com-pany. I J im Foster, 1st Lt. of Able Company, is a member of the foot-ball team, the baseball team, the ASCE, the Superintendent's Advis-ory Council, and the General Com-mittee as well as serving as His-torian of the Class of '56. Both a Distinguished Student in the civil engineering dept. and a Distinguished Military Student. Jerry Hale is a member of the 1956 Bomb staff, an officer in the Southwest Virginia Club, a mem-ber of the ASCE, and serves as 1st Lt. of D Co. The President of the First Class is Thomas Massie who also is a member of the Superintendent's Advisory Council, the ASCE, the Monogram Club, the General Com-mittee. Tom is Co-Captain of the Wrestling team this year and is a Private in E Company. ^ ^ Pete McCrary a physics major, is a member of the AIP, the Mono-gram Club, the Armed Forces Club, apd served as Student Repre-senatative lo the National Associa-tion of Manufacturer's Convention in New York. Pete is both a Diii> tinguished Student and a Distin-guished Military Student as well as being a Private in Fox Co. Joe Mack, a Private in F Com-pany, is a Distinguished Student in the elcctrical engineering ma-jor course. A member of the AIEE, the VMI Cadet staff, and the Deep South Club. Bill Mears is the President o£ the Honor Court, Batallion Com-mander of the 1st Batallion, and is a member of the Virginia Aca-demy of Science, the Armed Forces Club, and the Superinten-dent'^ Advisory Committee. Bill is also,a Distinguished Military Stu- (continued on page H) General Pate, '21, Suceeds Shepherd, '17, As Top Marine Lt. Gen. Randolph McCall Pate, an adopted .son of Norfolk and a graduate of V.M.I., 21', was select-ed as the 21sl commandant of the Marine Corps last Monday. The selection was approved by Presi-dent Ei.senhower, and General Pate will assume his new duties at the first of next year. General Pate succeedes General Lemuel C. Shepherd, VMI, '17, another Norfolkian who has held the top position for the last 4 years. General Shepherd and (Gen-eral Pate's lives have been quite siiniliar. Besides their being from Norfolk and graduates uf V.M.I., both graduated from Norfolk's Maury High School and were of-ten stationed together during their early years in the corps. To top these simiiiaritics off, they are distant cousins. Upon assumption of his new command. General Pate will be promoted to a 4 star general. The S7 year old seasoned veteran said that he wai> " . . . Very much ex-cited, quite humble, and scared. ." when told of his new appointment. He had been fourth on the list of top Marine generals, but his ex-cellent record undoubtedly gave him the boost he needed. General Pale was a leader in his high school class, president of his class for four years at V.M.I, and First Captain at VMI. Fol ing his commission in the Marine Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1921 General Pate was stationed at many Far Eastern posts and in the Second World War, led the first Marine Division on Guadal canal fur which be received a Le-gion uf Merit, Later he received a gold star for service at Iwo Jima and Okina Since the Second World War, ho has been connected with the Ma-rine Training operi^tions and has commanded the 1st and 2nd Ma rine Divisiuns. At present he ii assistant Commandant uf the Ma rine Corps, in the selection of these nominees. Along with this goes the indivi-dual's per.sonal activities both in one of the necessary qualifications campus organizations and athletics. While it is not required that a candidate be outstanding in all of these endeavors he should be dis-tinguished in one of them. The various colleges nominate a cer-tain number of students to be con-sidered for inclusion in the pub-lication. This quota is set up by the Who's Who office. It varies with each school according to the number of enrolled students. In the case of VMI the quota is fourteen, but two extra nomina-tions above the quota are allow-ed, and thus VMI received six-teen representatives in this year's selection. The men thai have been selected for inclusion in this year's book are Creed W. Abeil, Staunton, Vir-ginia; Lawrence H. Bowen, Lynch-burg, Virginia; James N. Brawner, Atlanta, Georgia; Richard M. Fen-cel, Lancaster. Pennsylvania; James H. Foster, Buena Vista, Virginia; Jerry W. Hale, Wythe-ville, Va.; Thomas Massie, Lynch-burg, Va.; Peter McCrary, Fall Church Va.; Joe B. Mack, Atlanta, Ga.; Wm. W. Mears, Collingswood, New Jersey; Marshall Mundy, Roa-noke, Va.; Robert Jere Real, Jack- •son, Mississippi; C h a r l e s C. Schoen, Atlanta, Ga.; Fred N. Steven.son, Sarasota, F l o r i d a; Charles R. Thomas, Strasburg, Va.; and Frank C. Wilson, Fort Monroe, Va. Creed Abell is a Private in Dog Company and a chemistry major. He is President of the Religious Council, President of the American Chemical Society, and a member if the Virginia's Synod's West-minster Fellowship Council. Creed has also been on the varsity tennis team for two years. Larry Bowen, another chemistry major, is co-editor of the 1956 Bomb, a member of the Honor Court, a Distinguished Student, Music Society, a member of the ACS, as wel las having served as the Chairman of the 1956 Figure Committee. Larry is a Private in C Company. J im Brawner is a Distinguished Student in the biology dept., s member of the General Commit tee. Vice President of the Class of Musketeers Invade Maryland; Seek to Revenge Appomattox On the 29th and 30lh of October, the Cadet Musket Team will go to Fort George G. Meade to partici-pate in the 12th North-South skir-mish. The team is composed of eight cadets who will wear the uni-form of the Corps of 1861 and will fire the .58 caliber rifle-musket of the Civil War. Mr. William Mark Simpson has provided the team with a replica of the New Market battle flag which will be carried in the parade after the shoot. The North - South Skirmishes started in the Spring of 1950 when a Confederate team from Norfolk, Va., invited a group of union rifle-men to a shooting match. This was held at Berwyn, Maryland. Octo-ber of that year saw the second skirmish held at Richmond, Vir-ginia, in the old Seven Pines bat-tlefield area. The same two teams, the First Virginia Greys, of Nor-folk, and the Washington Blue Rifles, of Washington, D. C. shot it out in the same direction of fire, and were joined by an artillery denmnstration group from Con-cord, North Carolina, armed with a bronze six pounder. The Third skirmish was held at Norfolk, Va., at the occasion of the final reunion of surviving Confederate Veterans, June 1951. There were two new teams then, from Richmond, Va., and Port Huron, Michigan. The Yanks, ironically enough won that one, their first. At this shoot the teams drew up the Skirmish Rules, which are still the governing rules for all the skirmishes and partici-pating teams. The eventJ have been held semi-annually ever since, Spring and fall. The event outgrow the small civilian ranges in 1953 and have been fired on military ranges since, at Quantico, Va., Ab-erdeen, Md., Fort Lee, Va., and now Fort Meade, Md. To date the Southerners have won 7 times and the Yanks have won 4 times. Each firing unit is known as a company and is composed of eight men dressed in uniforms of the Ci-vil War period, color being of the side that most appeals lo thiiii. These men are armed with original rifle-muskets of the Civil War per iod as well as leather equipnictit and accoutrements. The Souther-ners all have their uniforms made at costumers based on the Army Regulations of the Confederacy- The Northerners use a lot of exist-ing original uniforms as well a:- some of modern maiuilacture, though based on the old regula-tions. The shooters make their own ammunition completely, mo.tly paper cartridges wrapped in tlie old regulation manner, although many are using a faster loading cardboard tube cartridge. .Siiooting is improving with each skirmish. Although the teams are dressed in the uniforms of the North and the South, there are only friendly feelings between all the shooters, many of them being fast persunal friiyids who see each other twice a year. All shoot in the same direc-tion and there is never any at-tempt to bold a "sham battle." The purpose of these skirmishes is purely for fun and recreation. |