VMI Cadet. September 28, 1962

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VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, LEXINGTON, VIRr.INIA, SEPTEMBER 28, 1962 NUMBER t
VMI Matriculates
358 New Cadets
GENERAL GEORGE R. E. SHELL (front row,
center) is shown with members of the faculty
who joined the staif or returned from ieaves-of-absence
this year and'the newly-assigned officers
of the Army and Air Foirce ROTC Departments.
Faculty Has New
Look This Year
Twelve new members have been
appointed to the faculty of the
Virginia Military Institute, ac-cording
to an announcement Tues-day
by Maj.-Gen. George R. E.
Shell. VMI superintendent.
Four of the new members were
named assistant professors while
seven were appointed instructros.
One was named a lectorer. All ap-pointments
are effective Sept. 1.
Appointed assistant professor
were: Allan A. Brockman and
Chester F. Burgess, both in Eng-lish;
Thomas A. Daigle in modern
languages, and James W. Varda-man
in history.
Those appointed instructors in-cluded:
Asa O. Bishop. Jr., in elec-trical
engineering; Albert L. Deal,
III, and James C. Mercer, both in
mathematics; Rufus S. Dunham,
Jr., in German; John C. Ellers. in
chemistry; Jon M. Lilge in physics,
and Bill Watson in drawing. Abel
A. Valente was named a lecturer
in civil engineering.
Brockman is a graduate of Wof-ford
College and has taught at the
Universities of- Mar>'land and
Pentisylvania and was assistant
dean of men at Pennsylvania dur-
Below is this year's calendar of
graduate school exams in which
VMI cadets might be interested.
The dates- in parentheses are the
ones on which registration cloaes
for that particulai- test date.
Admission Test for Graduate
Study iu Business; $10 fee; No-vember
3 (Oct. 20), Februar> 2
(Jan. 19), April 6 (March 23),
July 13 (June 29.
Graduate Record Examinations;
$12 fee; November IT (Nov. 2),
January 19 (Jan. 4), March 2
(Feb. 15), April 27 (April 12),
July 6 (June 21).
Law School Admission Test; $12
fee; November 10 (Oct. 27). Feb-ruary
9 (Jan. 20), April 20 (April
6), August (July 20).
All test dates are Saturdays.
Any cadet desiring to take one or
more of these exams should con-tact
his Uepartmtnt head or fac-ulty
advisor for further infoniia-tion.
jng the past year. Burgess was
graduated ftom Yale University in
1945 and holds a master's degree
from Notre Dame University.
He has been a faculty member at
Yale and was a teaching fellow at
Notre Dame the past two years.
Daigle is a graduate of Southern
Louisiana University and received
a master of arts degree from Lou-isiana
State University where he
has also taught. He has been a
member of the faculties of Texas
A. and M. College and Montana
State University.
Vardaman was graduated from
Baylor University and received his
master's degree from the Univer-sity
of Minnesota and his doctor-ate
from Vanderbilt University.
He has been a member of the fac-ulty
at Texas Christian University
since 1958 and was named the uni-versity's
"Professor of the Year"
in May.
Deal holds degrees from the
University of ' North Carolina
while Dunham is also a graduate
of North Carolina.
Both Ellers and Mercer are
graduates of Fairmont State Col-lege
and received master's de-grees
from West Virginia Univer-sity.
Watson received his degrees
from Western Kentucky State Col-lege
while Bishop and Lilge are
VMI graduates.
Valente is a graduate of the Uni-versity
of Vermont and is a reg-istered
professional engineer.
Seven members of the faculty
will return to duty this fall from
leaves of absence. General Shell
announced.
Maj. William D. Badgett. assist-ant
professor of English and fine
arts, returns to VMI from Harvard
University where he has been en-gaged
in doctoral studies.
Maj. Daniel C. Brittigan, assist-ant
professor of mechanics, re-turns
to the VMI faculty from
S o u t h e r n Methodist University
where he received the master of
science degree in mechanical en-gineering.
Richard B. Minnix and Brews-ter
S. Ford are also returning
from graduate study. Minnix, as-sistant
professor of physics, has
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ROTC Officers
Jain Military Staff
Five officers, four Army and one
Air Force, have recently joined
the ROTC Instructor Groups at the
Virginia Military Institutife. Lt.
Col. Harold S. Head. Captains Rob-ert
L. Drudik and William M.
Stokes, III, and 1st Lt. Carlton A.
Mallory have been assigned as as-sistant
professors of military sci-ence;
Captain Richard W. Sat-terlee,
USAF, is an assistant pro-fessor
of air science.
Colonel Head, who will also be
assistant commandant of cadets, is
a native of Maryland; he was grad-uated
from the United States Mili-tary
Academy and holds a master's
degree from Harvard University.
He also attended the Army Com-mand
and General Staff College
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as
well as at the Army Language
School where he studied Japanese.
Colonel Head came directly to
VMI from Japan, where he served
as assistant training officer with
the U. S. Military Assistant Ad-visory
Group.
Captain Drudik, also a graduate
of the U. S. Military Academy, is
a native of Milwaukee. iWsconsin.
He attended the Infantry Officer's
Basic Course, Jump School, and
Ranger School immediately after
graduation; he was taken to Korea
for a thirteen month tour with
the 31st Infantry. While serving
as an instructor at the Ranger
School, following his tour' in Ko-rea,
Captain Drudik went through
tire Jungle School in Panama and
then the Pathfinder course at Fort
Benning. He was sent to VMI im-mediately
following his assign-ment
at the Ranger School.
Captain Stokes, who hails from
Lynchburg, Virginia, is a 1956
graduate of VMI. He was an Eng-lish
major and, during his first
class year, executive officer of C
Company. An airborne ranger.
Captain Stokes served with the
2nd Armor Cavalry before being
assigned to VMI.
Lt. Mallory, a native of Tifton,
Georgia, is a 1960 graduate of
VMI. He is also an airborne ran-ger.
and served as executive of-ficer
of C Company? while a first
classman at the Institute. Before
being assigned to the ROTC In-structor
Group, Lt. Mallory served
with the 101st Airborne Division
at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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An entering class of 358 new
cadets arrived here for registers-tion
as the Virginia Military In-stitute
began its 124th academic
year.
The new cadets spent a five day
orientation period before the start
of their classes on Sept. 12. The
returning upperclassmen register-ed
Sept. 12 and began classes two
days later. .
The orientation period for the
new cadets covered a variety of
subjects. The new class members
met with faculty advisers and aca-demic
department heads.
The new cadets also had a gen-eral
picnic at Cave Mountain Lake
Sunday, Sept. 9.
Maj. Gen. Georg^R. E. Shell,
VMI superintendent, addressed the
new cadets at an assembly in Jack-son
Memorial Hall Friday after-noon
(Sept. 7). Brig. Gen. Lloyd
J. Davidson, dean of the faculty,
and Lt. Col. Jeffrey G. Smith, com-mandant
of cadets, also spoke to
general meetings of the new class.
A cadre of some 80 upperclass
cadets, who assisted with the ori-entation
period, reported back to
the Institute on Labor Day for a
short indoctrination period of
their own before the new cadets
arrived.
During the five days before clas-ses
started, the new cadets also
learned about VMI customs and
traditions and had meetings with
members of the Honor Court and
other organizations.
The new class represents 30
states in addition to Virginia, as
well as the District of Columbia
and two foreign countries. Fifty-four
new cadets are sons of VMI
alumni.
Two new cadets. Visarn Chana-ratna
and Burl Montrivade, re-ceived
Thai Army scholarships to
attend a military college in the
United States. Visarn and Buri
both studied at the same military
school in Thailand and finished,
one, two respectively in their
class. Visarn comes from Singora,
Thailand where his father is in
the Civil Service. Buri comes frotn
Dhonburi in the lowlands of Thai-land.
Both of the new Thai cadefcs
had English grammar in high,
school but have only been speak-ing
the language for a little over
4 months.
Patrick Chang Lo, another new-cadet
from the east, lives in the
British Colony of Hong Kong. He
and his parents fled their home ia
Shanghai on the communist main-land
for, in Patrick's own words
"a better life." Patrick Chang Lo
found out about VMI through
some friends of his that had come
to VMI and through University of
Virginia professors who lived next
door to him in Hong Kong. Patrick,
learned his English while attend-ing
one of the many Englisb.
schools in Hong- Kong.
Two other new cadcts Juliw
Volgyi Jr. and Lothar P. de Tem-ple
are originally from eastern.
Europe and their fathers could
very well have fought against each
other in the Second World War
since Julius' father was a Hun-garian
officer and Lothar's father
was an officer in the Germaa
Army.
Julius' family fled their home in
Pjpest, Hungary, because of the
communist takeover there, follow-ing
the war. They lived on the
Austro-Hungary border for seve-
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Col. Douglas and Sgt. Major Anderson
Visited Mdl ROTC School Recently
On Wednesday, 19 September
the Deupty Corps Commander and
Sergeant Major of the XXI Corps
visited the Virginia Military In-stitute.
Colonel Robert H. Doug-las
and Sergeant Major Anderson
traveled to Lexington on a leg of
their thousand-mile journey to all
of the ROTC schools from Indian-ton
Gap. Pennsylvania, to Bristol.
Tennessee.
Colonel Douglas, a West Point
graduate, seemed impressed with
the V. M. I. system. Though some
people think of the Institute as
"The West Point of the South," he
believed that we might speak of
the school on the Hudson as "The
V.M.I, of the North." The Deputy
Commander, noted however, that
a rigid course schedule gives the
Military Academy a greater aca-demic
discipline than the one
foimd at the Institute, where ca-dets
may choose their fields of
major study. -
Colonel Douglas shifted the con-versation
to the changes that are
taking place in the Army. A self-styled
product of the "Old Army,"
the Deputy Commander believes
that rapid progress is being made
in molding our forces for future
challenges. He pointed to the evo-lution
of the old Coast Artillery to
anti-aircraft protection to present
guided missile interception as one
field in which the Army has stayed
abreast of the times. But Colonel
Douglas still believes that in this
age of mechaniaztion, there will
be an enduring need for the gra-vel-
crunching foot soldier to take
and hold ground anywhere in tha
world.
Sergeant Major Anderson met
with the enlisted men and NCO's
while Colonel Douglas talked with
General Shell and Colonel Smith.
The Sergeant Major expressed his
admiration of the V.M.I. "Rat Sys-tem."
He believes that the V.M.L
way of life is unique in its owa
right, since cadets accept it with
free will, paying their own tuition.
He also said that the new rats were
well orientated into their new way
of life after having been exposed
to military discipline for such a
short period.
Sergeant Major Anderson, «
twenty-one year veteran, backed
up Colonel Douglas's view of the
changing Army. He believes that
the average soldier is much better
off now than he was twenty years
ago. Financial and dependent
benefits are better for the soldier
of '62, as compared to those of the
G. 1. of '42. Sergeant Major An-derson
underscored the idea of
change in these words: "the mod-ern
soldier has to change^ or else
he is left behind." The Twenty-
First Crops Sergeant Major, like
Colonel Douglas, sees the modern
U.S. Army fully capable of meet-ing
changing demands throughout
the world, while maintaining its
prime responsibility of guarding
national security.