VMI Cadet. April 16, 1956

              THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE- LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, APRIL 16, 1956 NUMBER 23
Religioufi Council
Elects Officers
For '56-^7
The Religious Count ! met on
Tuesday, April 10, for the purpose
of electing officers for the forth-coming
year. Tho.sc elected were:
S. E. Nichols, president; J. Emme-rick,
vice president; J. E. Snead,
secretary; B. D. Dunseth, clerk; R.
J. King, Jr., Treasurer, and Arnold
Schlossberg, Jr. as Prototii Ma
The Religious Council is com-posed
of repre.scntatives from all
the various religious clubs of the
Institute. Its objectives are to pro-mote
religious interest among the
cadets, to coordinate activities of
Timmiiis Club Holds Annual
Banquet At Robert E. Lee Hotel
Last Thursday evening at Robert
E. Lee Hotel the Timmins Music
Scoiety held its annual banquet
which was attended by Mrs. John
W. Timmins who established the
Music Room in the Preston Library
five years ago in memory of her
son, the late Lt. John W. Timmins,
Jr. of the class of 1949 who gave
his life for his country and the
United Nations in the Korean War.
The function was attended by thir-teen
out of the fifteen members of
the society and also by faculty
members and friends from the In-stitute.
Mrs. Timmins of Dallas, Texas
laid that she was most gratified to
the various religious clubs, and to ; know that the memorial room is be-make
plans for the Religious Em- i jng ^j^^d frequently and that it
phasis Week which is observed an- , k^pt in good condition. In re-nually.
In cooperation with the In- ! spon^p to Mrs. Timmins address an
st.tutc, It also conducts the picnic : annual report on the achievements
for new cadets which is held at the the society was made by Frank
completion of their five-day orien- LQ „ho mentioned that during this
tation period at the beginning of
their rat year.
The new president, S. E. Nichols,
Is a pre-medical student from Rich-mond,
Va. He is. a distinguished
student, and a .sergeant in Band
Company. He is also a member
the Newman Club, and this ye
has written the column "Religious
Viewpoint" for THE CADET. He
has been a member of the Cadet
staff for two years.
J. W. Emmerich is a Civil En-gineering
major from Buechel,
Kentucky. He is a private in Band
Company, and has been a member
of the Cadet staff for two years.
year the music society had amend-ed
the constitution of the organlM-tion.
installed a new machine, do-nated
the 78's to the Music Depart-ment
of Lexington High School and
secured very complete glossaries
of musical terms for the use of
cadets.
It was estimated that approxi-mately
1400 hours had been spent
on the five machines sincc the be-ginning
of the academic year, and
eighty-five 33 1/3 new disks were
added to the collection. At the con-clusion
of the banquet Colonel A.
L. Lancaster, faculty advisor or
the Timmins Music Society, was
given a "going-away" present and
a wish for a "bon voyage" to Eur-ope
this summer. The new officers
for next year were made known
and Tom Powell was to succeed
Frank Lo as president, Ronald
Kaye replaced Larry Bowen as
vice-president. Bill Dick and Staff
Balderson were to serve as secre-tary
and director of music room
respectively.
Corral Is Scene For Riding
Games; Prizes To Be Given
Sunday afternoon the VMI Rid-ing
Club will present its exhibition
and Gymkanah to the Corps and
Institute Staff; this will be the
first official appearance of the
group at the Institute. The Corral
will be the scene of the festivities
which will begin at 2:15 p.m.
Starting the program will bi
The new .secretary, J. E. Snead, ] presentation of the group followed
!B also a Civil Engineering major
from Colonial Heights, Va. He is
also a private in Band Co., and
also a member of the Cadet staff.
He has worked for the paper for
three years, and Is active in var-ious
other organizations at the In-stitute.
Filling the post of Clerk for the
coming year is J. F. Dunseth, still
another Civil Engineer. He is a
private in C Company, and has
1«!CD .very active J n the Religious
Council this year.
Elected from the third cla.ss as
respective Treasurer and Promo-tion
Manager for the coming year
are R. J. King, a Biology major
from Lynchburg, Va., and A. Sch-lossberg,
Jr., an English major
from Roanoke, Va. There men have
not held posts this year, and this
will be their first experience as
executive members of the Council.
Arnie Schlossberg will take over
the column "Religious Viewpoint"
from Stu Nichols for the coming
year. He is a corporal in Able Com-pany.
by an exhibition of mounted .squad
drill. The Club will finish Its part
of the program with an exhibition
of jumping by Bob Black, Tom
Undercoffer, and Ken Marklewicz.
The rest of the afternoon will
consist of various mounted games
and events. Planned are: Musical
Chairs, a bare-back w r e st 1 i n g
tournament, a package race (for
members of the Tac-Staff), a pick-
Marshall Portrait Dedicated
III J . M. Hall Last Friday
-a.st Friday afternoon at 12:30
Icdication ceremony was held in
I the Jackson Memorial Hall, at
which a painting of General Rich-ard
J. Mar.shall, the .seventh Super-
Intendenl of the Virginia Military
Institute was unveiled. This paint-ing,
which was comml.ssioned by
the InslituU' a short time ago dur-ing
Ihe Kali, is the work of a well-known
artist of Virginia. Mr. David
Sylvct'.c.
The ceremony was marked by the
of the Philippines, highe.sl militarr
award of the Commonwelath. He
received an oak loaf cluster to the
Distinguished Service Star of the
Philippines for war service.
•Shortly before the outbreak of
war in the Pacific in 1941 General
Mar.shall became Deputy Chief of
Staff to General MachArthur. He
served in this capacity as Com-mand
General, USASOS, and Chief
of USAFKE until June
1 he became Deputy Chief
f the U. S. Arm? Forces
:lfic. His principal duties
of Staff
1945 whci
of Staff (
of the Pa-through
the war '
and admlnlstratli
the Pacific. For
ilorious service
of the war he
vere with logii
in of our force
?xceptionally mor-
In the early day.s
received the Dis-
Pictured above is General Richard J. Marshall as he posed for the painting by Mr. David
Silvette. The painting is shown in the the center. This particular picture was made in .>Ir.:
Silvette's studio during the time when General Marshall was sitting Tor the portrait.
d Service Medal, with the
ster for service as Com-ig
General. USASOS, *fld
i)f Staff. USAFFE. He re-the
Legion of Merit for
with the Bataan Echelon
[?ral MacArthur's Staff,
ral Marshall accompanied
I MacArthur when the latter
d a portion of his staff
Drug Store.
It is hoped that the Corps will
support this event as it should be
interesting both to the participants
and the .spectators. The Riding
Club emphasizes the fact that you
don't have to be a horseman to
ride in the events, which will not
require any great skill at riding.
Any member of the Corps who is
interested in riding in any of the
events is cordially invited to come
out. There will be no entry fees or
any cost to the participants as the
horses arc being furnished by the
Club.
Men intere.sted in riding in any
of the Gymkanah events or having
any questions regarding the Gym-kanah
are asked to contact any | Officer
member of the Riding Club. And, ! Corps.
Colonel Gilbert S. Butler Appointed New V. iVLL
Commandant; Siu'ceeds Col. Henry (1 Kei liii
In an order released last Satu the PAS&T f
day, Lt. Colonel Gilbert Butler was 1 years,
named as the succe,ssor to Colonel | as is
Henry C. Kerlin as Commandant of , Butler
the Corps of Cadets of the Virginia
Military Institute.
The announcement followed
many weeks of speculation on the
part of persons at the Institute as
to who the next Commandant would
be. This appointment follows in
the tradition of alternation between
an Army officer and an Air Force
Commandant of
up race, a hat-grabbing race, and ' any men who will be Ba cks
mounted prisii
be given to the wir
ious events. The ai
donated by "Jabo's,
Brown's Sport Shoj
bas' Prizes will
ers of the var-irds
are being
the P.X., Pres i
and McCrums
Sunday, regardless of whether or
not they wish to ride, who would
like to spent an enjoyable after-noon
are invited to attend in the
capacity of spectators.
Courses Available
Al U. of Viemia
The University of Vienna Sum-mer
School at St. Wolfgang, Strobl.
Au.stria, will offer courses open to
American students from July 15 to
August 25, 1956, it was announced
yesterday by Kenneth Holland,
President of the Institute of Inter-national
Education 1 East 67th
Street, New York 21, New York.
Closing date for admission in
June 15, 1956. Closing date tor
competition for eight scholarships
is April 15, 1956.
Designed to promote better un-derstanding
between Europ e a n s
and Americans, the curriculum fea-tures
beginning. Intermediate and
advanced German courses and cour-ses
in Austrian art and music, the
formation of the Modern European
mind, and the history of Middle
Europe. Psychology, political sci-ence
and low are also offered .Cour-ses
other than German will be con-ducted
in English. To be eligible
for entrance to the three or six-week
courser, American applicants
must have completed at least two
years of collegc work by June.
An opportunity for summer
btudy combined with outdoor vaca-tion
life at a mountain lake the
school is held on a Urge estate on
the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, in
Austria's Salzkammergut district.
Miss Easter, '56, Crowned;
Jean Stephens Year's Queen
.fiom the usual afternoon picnics
to the scheduled concert of the
Saturday night orchestra. Ralph
Marterle and his "downbeat" or-chestra
presented a spirited con-cert
of a variety of musical types at
the afternoon program. That even-ing
the orchestra continued in its
own inimitable style for the second
of the weekend dances. The crowds
again a.s.sembled in Cocke '94 Hall
•for the hop of the evening. From
nine until twelve the building rock-ed
to the rythms of the dancers
and the orchestra.
Following the dance the cadets
and their dates adjourned to var-ious
cla.ss parties that were being
held in Lexington and the vicinity.
Despite the rainy weather of the
weekend the cadets and their dates
were not lo be drowned out In
A last look at Miss Easters of their "spirited" activity as were
I95B is offered by the CADET, many of the Sunday afternoon
The Queen, Miss Jean Stephens, picnics.
escorted by Marshall Munday of, The attendance at the Hops of
the First Class was crowned by this weekend was better than in
General William H. Milton in the previous dances this semester.
Coronation ceremony at the dance I w i t h the Easter weekend now be-on
Friday night.
The 1956 Easter Hops closed as
they opened Sunday night with
cadets returning from a variety of
activities brought on by the week-end
festivities. The weekend was
marked by the annual crowning of
the Easier Queen at the dance on
Friday night. This dance, with
upplied by the or-my
Sedlar was only
the very compactly
of activities of the
hind them the members of the
Corps of Cadets can only look long-ingly
for the few remaining weeks
to the big Final Hops which are
just around the corner and repre-sent
the gigantic finale to the so-cial
activities of the year at the
Institute.
music being
chestra of Jin
the opening I
scheduled list
weekend.
In the Friday ceremonies which
occurred after the dance was well
under way, the Superintendent of
— i VMI, Major General William Ham- NOTKIK mond Milton crowned Miss Jean
I , ' Stephens of Hollins College as the
The luteruativual Kelatiuns Club Easter Hop Qutien. Miss Stephens
will present the following films was chosen by the vote of the corps
Klurliug this week. Place and time ' of Cadets from a bevy of beauties
uf showing will be announced. The in the annual contest. She was es-muvles
and "Cyprus U An Island," corted to the Hops by Mr. Marshall
"Fight in Malaya, • "Turkey, Key Mundy of the First Class. Marshall
Tu The Middle East" and "Struggle ; is an English major at the Institute
for Oil." The club will present and is from Roanoke, Virginia. The
Spiders' liig Inning
Drops Key dels, 7-3;
Heatheote looses
Richn Spiders d 6,
one film per weekeii
uge ruiuting time of
minutes. These
with the topics in i
natiuual affairs.
the aver-ich
film is
ovles deal
rent inter
crowning was earned
flurry of trumpet fanfare
orchestra.
Saturday was mi
usual weekend acti
ked
id
I runs in the first inning and
on to down the Keyets 7-3,
! weekend contest played ii
I Capital City.
I Keydet pitcher Jimmy Fosi
. lowed the Richmond club
' run after the first inning
damage had already beer
VMI collected 8 hits (2 e
Bobby Hoss and Chuck Mcl
but could manage only 3 runs
against the pitching of Lee Whit
man and Carl Carnes.
amidst a ' H was VMl's second loss in s
: from the | row and evens their Si
' Conference record at 3-3.
by the . Hig Six record at present, h-ranking
| is U-2.
uthei
The
Colonel Kerlin, who has beei
the Commandant lor the past twi
years following the departure o
Colonel Pancake, who was as
to the War College, has ser
PMS&T for the past four yi
Colonel Buiier, who has
Ariiiislead Speaks
Oil Keseareh
hi Maliory Hail
On Thursday, .-.prll 13, Dr. F
Armistead, director of the Virginia
Institute for Scientific Research
delivered a lecture lo cadets In
Maliory Hall. The subject of hi.-
lecture was the Research Institute
its background
pose.
The Virginia Ini
tific Research beg;
such in I94S). It \
private corporatio
Virginia business
lists, with the ei
the Virginia A<
The Institute «
definite purpos
purpo.se In mit
Tu conduct r»
science and
talent.
The Institute
profit organizat
port from spon.s
government. Its staff is small
bering at this lime only fo
scientific and techn
Each .scientist who
Institute is allowed
own field of resear
search on any phase
theoretical or experlini
he desires. With this system in ef
feet, the Institute personnel have
made tremendous advancemenlt
into hitherto unexplored realii
science.
.said previously
non-profit orga
As has be.
Institute is
Hon. It doe
does not go
application .
been shown
tu find appli
in the pies has Invariably resulted
I deviation from research Re.so
jster al-1 are thrown into this applici
nly one I and a setback lo research ii
but the ' counlcded. This, the InstituK
I done.; found, occurs much more ofli
ach by large corporations, and Iher
n) I is expanding itself slowly. In i
ins . that as it increases it will
sight of its primary object
Research m corrosion,
p l a t i n g , catalysis, photograph
image formation, and crystal grow- ;
ing is being directed by Dr Hen-ry
Leidhelser. foniierly with Pro
fessor Allan T. Gwathmey al the [
University oi Virginia. Dr
Likes Is .supervising rest
characterization of proti
means, of uitiacentrifugal, electro
phorelic and chromaographic ap-paratus.
Another Held of research
Is that of .solid state physics, under
Dr. Wayne G. Clark. Research by
this department is .so far in mag-netics,
crystal growing, and seml-co'iiducling
and refractory crystals
Mr. Boring is chairman of the
•s of pail
Impressionistic ones reminis-of
Cezanne and Van Gogh to
Cubism of the earlier Picasso
works. One of the paintings is re.
produced for the Cadet in Ihit. ar-tide.
It is of tlie Cubist tradition.
In addition lo these personal
works there are as well some very
,e prints of the impre.ssionistic
Inters to color the once dull
lis.