VMI Cadet. December 1, 1961

              Cabell, A% n
VOLUME U VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, DECEMBER 1, 1961
Gen. Daltoii^
1912, Dies
Major General Joseph N. Dal-ton,
USA Ret., whose death took
place Friday in Walter Reed Hos-pital
following a month's illness,
• was well known to Lexington where
he had visited frequently since his
graduation from VMI in 1912. As
^ director of personnel. Army Service
Forces, • during World War II, he
was concerned with the Special
Services School operated at Wash-ington
and Lee and was often here
to inspect it. Further, he main-
<tained a close connection with VMI
after his graduation, by serving
as a member of the executive com-mittee
of the VMI Alumni Associa-tion
and working with other alumni
organizations including the VMI
Foundation.
In his cadet days, General Dal-ton
was president of his class and
first captain. After graduation, he
servisd for a time as commandant
at Sewanee Military Academy in
Sewanee, Tenn., and was appointed
a second lieutenant in the Army
in 1916. His World War duty in-cluded
service with the American
Expeditionary Forces in France and
with occupation troops at the war's
end. After the war, he served
* in various posts in this country and
was adjutant general of the Puerto
j Rican Department when World
; War II began. He was recalled to
Washington by General Brehon
Somervell, chief of Army Service
Forces, and as General Somervell's
"right-hand man'' was responsible
for an immense program of per-sonnel
procurement, training, ed-ucational
and specialized activities.
He retired in 1946.
General Dalton held many medals,
including the Distinguished Service
Medal and the Legion of Merit.
Parents Council Project
Dr. Arey Heads
Drive For Funds
Dr. Donald Lurton Arey of Dan-1 lege and the Jefferson Medical Col-ville,
Virginia was recently elected lege of Philadelphia. He has served
chairman of the VMI Parents', for three years on the Danville
Council Fund Committee. The pur-, City Council and is fiow vice-mayor
pose of this group is to supply of the city. He is on the Trustee
funds for faculty graduate study. Board of Averett College, is the
Solicitations have only recently be- { Director of the Danville Industrial
gun, but great strides are being Development Corporation; and is a
made. This drive is being made member of the Board of Deacons
on a regionally organized basis, j of Danville's First Presbyterian
with parents in different sections | Church. His son, Donald L. Ai«y,'
of the state and the country tak- j Jr., is a First Class Biology major
ing the initiative in seeking these, who plans to follow his father's
solicitations. These include Mr.: profession. He is the treasurer of
this year's Hop Committee. Dr.
Arey has three other children, all
J. H. VanDeventer of Roanoke, Mr.
Willis 0. Jones of Richmond, Julian
L. Carr of Atlanta, and Brigadier j daughters.
General C. 0. Bierman of Lafayette , Ail funds contributed towards
Hill, Pa. These men are making a! the Faculty Graduate Study Fund
tremendous effort, but more par-ents
are needed and wanted to
will be matched by the State of
Virginia, thus doubling the avail-
Dr. Donald Lurton Arey of Danville, Virginia, recently elected
chairman of VMI's Parents Council Fund.
Bunting To Attend
SCUSA Meeting
On December 6-9, Cadet Josiah lectures on foreign policy. In the
Bunting III will visit the United' past, speakers have included Sec-
States Military Academy at West j retary Dean Rusk and Governor
Point, New York, as VMI's repre-; Nelson Rockefeller. The conference
sentative to the Student Conference • will then be broken up into round
assure the success of this operation.! able amount. This year, for the
Dr. Arey is a Danville physician second time, faculty members are
and has practiced there for the on leave to do graduate study paid
past twenty-five years except for a for by the fund,
four year tour in the Air Force | The Parents Council, sponsoi^d
during World War H. He was dis-1 by the VMI Foundation, is a body
charged as a major in 1946. A na- composed of approximately fifty
tive of Baltimore, Md., Dr. Arey parents of cadets, proportionately
New Legislators
Inspect Institute
On Wednesday, 29 November,
the Virginia Military Institute was
visited by twenty-five new mem-bers
of the Virginia Legislature.
This visit was one of several made
to stale schools in a general orien-tation
of state institutions being
given these men.
The VMI host group, which met
and stayed with the new legisla-.
tors tlu-oughout their tour, includ-ed
Giles H. Miller, Jr., and Scott
S. Huger of the Board of Visitors,
Senator Collins and Delegate
Locher, VMI's representatives in the
Legislature, Mr. Tice, representing
the Alumni Association, and Gen-eral
Shell, General Davidson, and
Colonels Hanes, Lipscomb, BarkS'
dale, and Harper of the staff.
The group arrived at the Ins-titute
at 1230 and ate lunch at the
officers mess hall. After a brief
explanation of the tour by the Su-perintendent,
the party was divided
into small groups of four or five
to be escorted around the post by
miBinbers of the host group. The
tour included the library, the vari-ous
academic buildings, a demon-straaon
room in barracks, and
Jackson Memorial Hall. The visit-ing
party also viewed a guard
mount on th^ parade ground.
Upon completion of the tour the
party was given a briefing by the
Superintendent, and each visitor
was supplied with a fodder identical
to that given to the Govemoif's
Advisory Committee to supplement
remarks given by G«neral Shell.
The legislators left the Institute
a»>und 3 o'clock.
of United States Affairs. This will i tables catagorized under four major
be the conference's 13th annual'
meeting.
In early December of every year,
representatives and delegates from
sixty to seventy men's and women's
colleges, the majority of which are
located in the East, attend the four
day conference to become acquain-ted
with aspects of and problems
facing the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. This will be VMI's
first participation ther^. Although
headings: (1) The military aspects
of the North Atlantic Community
(2) The Economic aspects of the
North Atlantic Community (3) The
Political aspects of the North At-lantic
Community, and (4) The
Community and the Developing
Nations. An advisor at each round
table will suggest problems and
facts overlooked by the students,
but it is hoped that the latter will
provide the initiative needed for
it is customary for each institution I d^cussion. At the final
to send t«'o representatives. Cadet! S^^'^ay. all participants
will hear the conclusions reached
by all four areas.
Cadet Bunting has-selected the
Military Area in his participation
at SCUSA. He is particularly quali
Bunting will be the only VMI dele-1
gate. However, it is hoped that, in
the future, one man from each of
the two upper classes will attend.
was educateCt ai Wake Forest Col-
Ambassador Will
Address Corps
On Thursday, December 14,
VMI will be the recipient of a visit
by the Spanish Ambassador to the
United States, Senor Mariano de
Yturralde. Ambassador Yturralde's
arrival will be accompanied by a
ceremony executed by the new
guard detail, the entire Regimental
Band, and a salute detail.
It is anticipated that Senor
Yturralde's visit at VMI will extend
from mid-morning to early after-noon
Thursday, December 14. As
fhe highlight of the tour, the Am-bassador
has been invited by Gen-eral
G.R.E. Shell to address the
Corps of Cadets on the subject
"Spain and the Free World."
representative of all classes in bar-racks
and of the various regions
from which cadets come. The major
purposes of the Council are to es-tablish
a forum for the interchange
of ideas and information between
parents and VMI officials, to create
an organization to formulate and
administer plans and projects to
bring all parents of cadets into
closer association and better undesr-standing
of VMI, and to aid in the
development and growth of the
VMI Foundation. Mr. Virgil D.
Bradley of Lynchburg is this year's
Parents Council" president.
The /Faculty Graduate Study
Fund is only one of the many pro-jects
being carried on by the Coxm-cil.
But it is one of the most im-portant
and worthy of these as it
j will not only provide cadets with
i better prepared instructors, but
will do much to strengthen parent-
Institute relations.
The purpose of SCUSA. is three-; f^^d. because he served in the Sixth
Marine Reg|inent of the Fleet
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Monogram Minstrel
IRC Engages In
fold: it is the conference's aim (1)
to produce an informative examina-tion
and discussion of the national
security policy of the United States;
(2) to provide an outstanding group
of college students with an ap-preciation
of the complexiMes of: y a r w d A c t i v l t i ss
government policy formulation;,
(3) to broaden the student's con- i By Charles Peckham
tact with their contemporaries in The VMI International Relations
an academic endeavor. Conferees! Club has begun another year of
may wish to attempt to arrive at
some conc«te recommendations as
to those courses of action which
can best contribute io the solution
of the problems confronting the
Atlantic Community and thereby
the attainment of United States
goals. The value of the conference
operation that promises to be, by
far the most active in its history.
The IRC was founded in order that
those members of the Corps in-terested
in world affairs must be
provided with a common source of
information and perspective.
Among the means used to
ing formulated at the round-table
discussions.
A welcoming address will be
delivered by General Westmore-land,
the Superintendent of West
Point, followed thereon by several
keynote addresses and specialized
lies in an analysis and understand-1 complish these purposes are visit-ing
speakers, trips to various col-leges
around the state for round
table discussions and lectures, joint
meetings with clubs from other [
colleges, national conferences, and
educational trips to nearby cities of
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Pictured are the "girki" appearing in last week's Monogram
MinHtreL Their act proved amusing and there was evidence of de*
of talent in their performance.