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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 (Contiiuied on Page 2) 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 (continued on page 4) 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.
Object Description
Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. December 1, 1961 |
Issue Date | 1961-12-01 |
Volume/Number | Volume 51, number 10 (vol. # 51 duplicated 1961-62 academic year) |
Publisher | Virginia Military Institute |
Publication History | The Cadet (originally the Keydet), VMI's student newspaper, began weekly publication in the fall of 1907. Not published 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46 |
Frequency | Weekly during academic year, except during examinations and vacations |
Subject |
Virginia Military Institute -- Publications. Virginia Military Institute -- Cadet life. College student newspapers and periodicals -- Virginia -- Lexington. |
Digital Publisher | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
VMI Archives Records Group | Publications |
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Issue Date | 1961-12-01 |
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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-
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