VMI Cadet. September 25, 1959

              Bradley And Burgess Visit Institute
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VOLUME XLX VnOINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VmCINIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1959 NU)«il!ll 1
Gen. Milton To Retirie In June
Superintendent Sees
Objectives Fulfilled
Major General William H. Milton, Jr., today announced hii?
retirement as Superintendent of the Virginia Military Insti-tute,
effective next June 30.
He submitted his resignation to the VMI Board of Visitors,
assembled here this week end for its fall meeting, after noti-fying
Governor Almond of his intentions.
General Milton, who has been© "
Distinguished
Visitors Take
Corps Revietv
This weekend VMI will be host
to two most distinguished person-alities,
who will take the review
at the parade on Friday. They are
General Omar Bradley and Mr.
Carter L. Burgess.
Boi^n in Clark, Missouri on 12
Feb. 1893, General Omar Bradley
was given his rather unique first
name, because his mother felt that
she had to do something drastic to
disrtinguish him from many Bradleys
in Missouri. He entered West Point
in 1911, lettered in football and
baseball, amd graduated in 1915,
together with his classmate Dwight
D. Eisenhower, whom he succeeded
32 years later as U. S. Army Chief
of Staff. Having accepted a regular
commission in the U. S. Army In-fantry
Bradley advanced rapidly. He
was graduaited from the Infantry
Advanced School in 1925, from Gen-eral
Staff College in 1929, amd the
Army War College in 1934. In 1938
while he was commandant of the In-fantry
School at Fort Benning he
was promoted to the rank of Bri-gadier
General.
Only 48 years old at that time,
Bradley was the first of his West
point class to have reached General
rank.
During World War n General
Bradley was the commanding officer
of the 2nd U. S. Corps of General
George S. Patton's 7th Army. Dur-mg
the Normandy campaign of
1944, he commanded the 12th army
group in France, Belgium, Holland,
Luxemburg and Germany. At the
end of thei'war he became head of
the Vetenams Administration and in
December 1947 was named succes-sor
to General Dwight D. Eisen-hower
as U. S. Army chief of Staff
(1948-1949). In August 1949 Gen-eral
Bradley became the first per-manent
chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff - the highesit mili-tar>'
post in the United States.
Promoted_ip general of the Army
in 1959, he retired from the board in
1953 to become chairman of the
Board of Bulova Research and
Development Labs, Inc.
Among General Bradley's deco-rations
are the Distinguished Ser-
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MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM H. MILTON. JR.
Institute Receives New
Hardaway Scholarship
Institute Receives
Mason Bequest
The Virginia Military Institute
has received a $5,000 bequest from
the estate of the late Mrs. Pauline
White Mason, of Abingdon.
The bequest will be used to
establish a scholarship fund in
memory of her father, Dr. William
Y. C. White, Washington County
physician who was graduated froni
VMI in 1856. When income from the
fund is sufficient a $200 annual
scholarship will be awaided a cadet
studying pre-medicine, with pre-ference
being given to a resident
of Washington County.
Mrs. Mason died in Abington on
August 25, 1957.
The VMI Foundation, Inc., today
announced receipt of a gift of $50,
000 from the Hardaway Foundation,
of Columbus, Ga., to establish a new
scholarship fund for Virginia (Mili-tary
Institute cadets.
The gift wias made by Benjamin
Hurt Hairdaway, Jr., of Columbus,
through the Hardaway Foundation,
which is a foundation started and
subscribed to by the Hardaway Con-tracting
Company. Mr. Hardaway is
head of the Hardaway Foundation
and is chairman'of the board of the
Hardaway Contracting Company. He
is a 1913 graduate of VMI.
His gift will be used to establish
the Hardaway Scholarship Fund.
Eventually four scholarships will be
awarded annually under provi'sions
of the fund, with the first award be-ing
made for the 1960-61 school year.
Initial awards will be for $500 each,
with the expectation that the value
of the scholarships may be inc-creased
in the future.
"We are particularly pleased and
gratified," said Major General Wil-liam
H. Milton, VtMI superinten-dent,
"to seceive this generous
donation from Mr. Hardaway through
the VMI Foundation and establish
the Hardaway Scholarship Fund. It
will provide a substantial and valu-able
enlargement to our academic
scholarship offerings."
Mr. Haixiway, who received a
bachelor of science degree upon
graduattion from VMI, later Afas
awarded a Civil Engineering degree
by the Institute. He subsequently
received a doctor of science degree
al the University of Alabama. He
served as a major in the Army in
World War n. He has been an active
supporter of VMI for many years.
His son, Benjamin H. Hardaway, III,
was graduated from VMI in 1940.
The VMI Foundation is the
alumni-sponsored organization devot-ed
to furthering the academic wel-fore
of the Institute.
Electricals Get
New Equipment
An elaborate set of electrical
engineering laboratory equipment
has been presented to the Virginia
Military Institute by the Westing-house
Educational Foundation.
Known as a generalized machine
laboratory set, the equipment pro-vides
a single unit representing
both the newer theoretical concepts
of electro mechanical energy con-version
or the conventional study
of alternating and direct current
rotating machinery*.
The set was presented to VMl's
electrical engineering department
by C. H. Rice eletrical utility sales
manager of Westinghouse Electric
Corporation, Philadelphia, and R.
H. Greame, managers of Westing-house's
Richmond branch.
The donation is part of a nation-wide
pi-ogram under which the
foundation is giving laborator>
equipment valued at more than
$500,000 to accredited electrical
departments of colleges and univer-siities
throughout the United States.
superintendent since 1952, told the
board in a statement that the five
major objectives he set upon taking
office will have been accomplished
by his retirement date. With this
done, he said he felt a "fresh point
of view and a renewed enthusiasm"
will be in the best interest of the
Institute. General Milton will be
60 next March.
The Board of Visitors accepted his
resignation effective next June 30th
with regret and appointed a com-mittee
of the Board composed of
Scott S. Huger, of Lexington, Va..
past president of the Alumni As-sociation,
General WiUiam M.
Sl.<dcc3, J iv of Lj-nchburg. and Giles
H. Miller, Jr., of Culpeper, to screen
and recommend to the Board a
suitable replacement.
Harry A. deButts, - president of
the Board, said, "Under General
Milton's able leadership the Insti-tute
has made steady progress and
today it is in excellent condition.
It is with sincere regret that I leam
of his decision to retire."
The Superintendent said he has
made definite plans foe his activi-ties
after his retirement.
General Mkon listed the five
major objectives set when he became
superintendent as:
1. Hie firming up and establish-ment
of a sound academic program,
which included developments of a
strong facult>- and proper recogni-tion
of the faculty, improvement of
academic standards of the Institute
and improvement of admissions
standard, 2. Re-establishment of
discipline and performance in the
Corps of Cadets at least to a pre-
World War II standard; 3. Putting
the MI physical plant into proper
condition, with development of a
long-range plan for the Institute,
and placing the operation of the
Institute under sound business
policy; 4. Placing of extracurricular
activities — and particularly the
major sports, of which football is
foremost — in their proper per-spective,
and the establishment of
a firm athletic and grant-in-aid
policy; and 5. To attain a proper
balance among the academic mili-tary
and athletic activities which
contribute to the Corps of Cadets,
He paid tribute to the faculty
and staff for their work in making
accomplishment of his objectives
possible.
General Milton took office afl
VMI's eighth superintendent o«
August 1, 1952, and was officially
inaugurated in May, 1953. He suc-ceeded
Major Genesial Richard J.
Maisihall, who served six years as
superintendent before his resigna^
ton in 1952.
A native of Roanoke, General
Milton was graduated from VMI ia.
1920 and 'served 32 years with the
General Electric Company befo»e
returning as superintendent. He waJ9
a GE vice president and subsequent-ly
was general manager of the c<Mn-pany's
Knolls Atomic Power Lafoo.-
ratory at Schenectady, N. Y.
Earlier he served as administrator
of the Hanford, Wash., Atomic
Energy Plant when GE took over
operation of the plant in 1946 for
the Federal govermnent. He came
to VMI from his position at the
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
He served in the Marine Corps in
World War I.
He is maiTied to the formed liCia^?
Lois Preston, of Athen, Pa. They
have four children.
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