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Cabet Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, October 29, 1965 •%1/ifZ.- Governor Harrison Guest Speaker Addresses State Highway Meeting The nineteenth Annual Highway Conference was held at VMI on the 28th and 29th of October and featured as its main topic for dis-cussion "Highways and Outdoo'' Recreation." Representatives from the state highway departments and neighboring state highway depart-ments began the conference at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday with an address by the Honorable Alber-tis S. Harrison Jr. in Jackson Mem-orial Hall. Other speakers at the morning session were the Honorable Doug-las B. Fugate, Highway Commis-sioner of the Department of High-ways; the Honorable Rex ^I. Whit-ton, Federal Highway Administra-tor of the Bureau of Public Roads; and Senator Fitsgerald Bemiss, Chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission. After luncn in William Cocke '94 Hall, tihe three afternoon panel sessions began at 2:00 p.m. in Mal-loiy Hall and Preston Library. Subjects for discussion were Con- C A N O N G U E l i N , n o t e d C h u r c h of E n g l a n d s p e a k e r , w i l l p r e s e nt a s e r i e s o f s e r m o n s t o a r e a s t u d e n t s n e x t w e e k . H i s g e n e r a l t o p ic w n i be " R e l i g i o n a n d M o r a l s i n t h e 2 0 t h C e n t u r y ." Canon Green Will Speak To Cadets A man referred to as "the best orator in the Church of England" will speak on the three area cam-1 puses next week. Canon Bi-yan Green will give three addresses per day on three consecutive days, Nov. 2-4. The first address each day will be given at Southern Seminary at 11 a.m. followed later in the day by, addresses in Lexington at VMI's Jackson Memorial Hall from 4 to 5 p.m. and at Washington and Lee's Lee Chapel from 8 to 9 p.m. The Canon's general topic for the series of sermons is "Reli^'ion and Morals in the 20th Century," and the first address will be on "Sex Morality for the 20th Cen-tury." The speaker is sponsored in his visit to the area by the University Christian Association at Washing-ton and Lee, and Dr. David W. Sprunt, advisor; t'n^ Religious Council and Chaplain'^ R. K. Wil-liams, Commander, USN, ret., at VMI; and 'by invitation of the presi-dent, Russell H. Robey, at South ern Seminary. The visitor is a 64-year-old Bri-ton who was ordained to the priesthood in Southwark Cathed-ral, England, in 19^4. For four years after ordination he held a curacy in London and afterwards spent four more years traveling throughout Great Britain making addresses to young people, taking (Continued on page 3) Homecomiiie; Game On Nov. 6 Queen To Be Chosen By Corps ViMI's annual Homecoming will begin with a pep rally on Fri-day, Nov. 5. The Homecoming game will be played Saturday aft-ernoon and an infoimal dance will be Satu. day night. P e p R a l l y T o D i f f er The Friday night pep rally will be different from the standard p&p rallies. At this rally, the company represenitatives for Homeccming Queen will be crowned. The girl Honors Program Gives Opportunity To Gifted English, Biology Majors In the past when e.xceptional student.'-- seemed to need opportu-nities to exploit their creative abilities, specific instructors en-couraged this avenue of expression in a particular course. Ultimately the plan has been to make such opportunities more widely avail-able through the introduction of the Honors Program. This year two departments have established such a program, the English Department and the Bio-logy Department. E n g l i s h H o n o rs As an opportunity to develop a comprehensive view of his whole field of study as well as to under-take independent work in an area beyond regular course offerings, the superior student is invited to participate in the Honors Program in English. A First Cla.ssnian ac-cepted in this program takes in his first term En 407- Thesis and in his second En 434—Literary Cri-ticism. At the end of the year he takes a comprehensive examination written and oral, over the whole field of his major. There are two members of the class of 1966 en-rolled in the program. Lother P. DeTeiuple is preparing a paper "Manifestations of the Conflict between Life and the Artist in the Works of Poe," while David S. Dunkle is researching the theme (Continued on Page 5) T h e ViVil Ca<lel Statement of ownership, man-agement, etc., required by the Acts of Congress of .\ugust 29. 1861, of THE VMI CADET, pub lished weekly at Le.xington, Va., for October, 1962. 1. Names and addre.sses of the Editor and Business .Manager are Editor, Robert W. Watson Jr., Bo.\ 7, Lexington, Va.; Business Man ager, James Szymanski, Box J, Lexington, Va. 2. That the owners are: same a.s above). ' 3. That the average number of ! copies of each issue of the publi i cation sold or distributed through I the mails, or otherwise to paid I subsrcribsrs during the twelve I months pieceding the date above was 1200. ROBERT W. WATSON, JR. JAMES G. SZYMANSKl Jorge R. Piercy, Notary Public My commission expires 1 September 10, 1966. selected for Hoimecoming Queen will also ibe announced. This will be the first time in recent years that VMI has had a Homecoming Queen. V M I M e e t s U . o f R. Saturday afternoon finds the Big Red piitited agains't the Spiders from the 'University cf Richmond. At halftime a Drum and Bugle Corps and Silent Drill Team, from the United States Maiine Corps will present an 18 minute exhibition. J a y a n d t h e A m e r i c a n s P l ay A t D a n ce An informal dance will be held Saturday night in Cocke Hall. 'Doc' Dillard, chairman of the Hop Committee, announced that Jay and the Americans will be the featured band. struct'on and Landscape, Moderat-ed by W. S. Scott, ConstruotioR Engineer for the Virginia Depart-ment of Highways; Urban and Traffic, moderated by John T. Hanna, Traffic Engineer for the City of Richmond; and Secondary Roads, moderated by George R. Long, Executive Director of the League of Virginia Counties. The afternoon discussions were concluded for a Regimen-tal Re-view by the Corps. Thursday night supper and a social hour for relaxation were held at the Natural Bridge Hotel. The Confreence was concluded Friday morning at the last panel discussion on Highway Design for Safety, Economy, Recreation, and Natural Beauty. The Honorable Howard S. Ives, State Highway Commissioner for the State of (Continued on page 8) AFROTC Cadets Received Grants Widely Applauded Army Field Band To Appear Here The U. S. Aimy Field Band of Washington, D. C., whii-h is sched-i uled for a conceit appearance at| the Virginia Military Institute, ha:i received high praise during its t C L i r s throughout the world. The 100-piece band will present a concert at VMI this Sunday, Oct. 31 at 2:30 ip.m. in the VMI gymna-sium. The program will be open to the puiblic without charge. The band has received acclaim I in Italy, England an in small ' cities and towns in this country j following its concert appearances. I Johnny Green ,a noted composer ' and the general music director for I one of Hcllywood s largest studios, ! has said, " . . . a wondeiful organi- I zation with musicianship of the highest order." Composed of carefully selected j musicians, the band has a reper- I loire designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences. (Contiiuiod on page 8) The Professor of Air Science, Col. M. O. Anderson, has an-nounced the ten VMI Second Classmen who are recipients of the AFROTC Financial Assistance Grants. This grant is a full schol-arship for two years, and is simi-lar to the Navy's Halloway Plan. John Burgess, Richard Davis Bill Hoofnagle, Tom Jenks, Bill A" c H a r g u e, Burt Nance, Pat O'Brien, Wharton Ramsey, Jake DeSteiguer, and Bob Ward are the ten who are participating in the program. A d d i t i o n a l C o m m i t m e nt By being selected for the grant, each man incurs an additional ser-vice committment. In return, how-ever, the USAF pays the cost of tuition, books, fees, supplies, plus a monthly retainer pay of $50. The grants were authorized bv the recently enacted "ROTC Vita-lization Act of 1964." This year there are thousands of students in the program. The Air Force plans to increase this to 5500 by the fall of 1968. Kasis For Selection Selection is based on three things; score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test, academic grade average for all college work and assessment of a scholary re-view board. The board consists of VMI AFROTC Detachment, and members and representatives from (Continued on page 8) Ernest Lindley To Speak At VMI Founders Day ' Ernest K. Lindley, noted writar and government official, wild de-liver the address at the annual Founders Day program of the Virginia Military Institute on Nov. 11, Maj. Gen. George R. E. Shell, VMI superintendent, announced today. The address wiM be given at noon on the day which will mark the 126th anniversary cf the founding cf the Institute. Mr. Lindley has served as a special assistant to the Secretai-y of State and as a member of the State Department's planning coun-cil since 1901. A native of Indiana, I he was gracl'uated from the Uni- I versi'.y of Idaho and Oxford Uni-versity where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He started his journalism car-eer whil e still in college and has been associated with newspapers in Kansas and New York City. In 1937 he was named chief of the Washington 'bureau for "News-week" magazine, a position he held until his appointment to his present post. He also wrote a nationally syi-dicated column and has been a ccmmcntator on various radio and iCinlinued on page 7) l . l . C O l . . K. L I N D I . EY
Object Description
Repository | Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Collection | VMI Cadet Newspaper |
Title | VMI Cadet. October 29, 1965 |
Issue Date | 1965-10-29 |
Volume/Number | Volume 53, number 6 (Volume 53 used from academic years 1963-64 to 1966-67) |
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 |
Rights | Materials in the VMI Archives Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use and may be used for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Military Institute Archives Digital Collections is required. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information. |
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Cabet
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, October 29, 1965
•%1/ifZ.- Governor Harrison Guest Speaker
Addresses State Highway Meeting
The nineteenth Annual Highway
Conference was held at VMI on
the 28th and 29th of October and
featured as its main topic for dis-cussion
"Highways and Outdoo''
Recreation." Representatives from
the state highway departments and
neighboring state highway depart-ments
began the conference at
10:00 a.m. on Thursday with an
address by the Honorable Alber-tis
S. Harrison Jr. in Jackson Mem-orial
Hall.
Other speakers at the morning
session were the Honorable Doug-las
B. Fugate, Highway Commis-sioner
of the Department of High-ways;
the Honorable Rex ^I. Whit-ton,
Federal Highway Administra-tor
of the Bureau of Public Roads;
and Senator Fitsgerald Bemiss,
Chairman of the Virginia Outdoor
Recreation Study Commission.
After luncn in William Cocke
'94 Hall, tihe three afternoon panel
sessions began at 2:00 p.m. in Mal-loiy
Hall and Preston Library.
Subjects for discussion were Con-
C A N O N G U E l i N , n o t e d C h u r c h of E n g l a n d s p e a k e r , w i l l p r e s e nt
a s e r i e s o f s e r m o n s t o a r e a s t u d e n t s n e x t w e e k . H i s g e n e r a l t o p ic
w n i be " R e l i g i o n a n d M o r a l s i n t h e 2 0 t h C e n t u r y ."
Canon Green Will
Speak To Cadets
A man referred to as "the best
orator in the Church of England"
will speak on the three area cam-1
puses next week.
Canon Bi-yan Green will give
three addresses per day on three
consecutive days, Nov. 2-4. The
first address each day will be
given at Southern Seminary at
11 a.m. followed later in the day
by, addresses in Lexington at VMI's
Jackson Memorial Hall from 4 to
5 p.m. and at Washington and
Lee's Lee Chapel from 8 to 9 p.m.
The Canon's general topic for
the series of sermons is "Reli^'ion
and Morals in the 20th Century,"
and the first address will be on
"Sex Morality for the 20th Cen-tury."
The speaker is sponsored in his
visit to the area by the University
Christian Association at Washing-ton
and Lee, and Dr. David W.
Sprunt, advisor; t'n^ Religious
Council and Chaplain'^ R. K. Wil-liams,
Commander, USN, ret., at
VMI; and 'by invitation of the presi-dent,
Russell H. Robey, at South
ern Seminary.
The visitor is a 64-year-old Bri-ton
who was ordained to the
priesthood in Southwark Cathed-ral,
England, in 19^4. For four
years after ordination he held a
curacy in London and afterwards
spent four more years traveling
throughout Great Britain making
addresses to young people, taking
(Continued on page 3)
Homecomiiie; Game On Nov. 6
Queen To Be Chosen By Corps
ViMI's annual Homecoming will
begin with a pep rally on Fri-day,
Nov. 5. The Homecoming
game will be played Saturday aft-ernoon
and an infoimal dance will
be Satu. day night.
P e p R a l l y T o D i f f er
The Friday night pep rally will
be different from the standard p&p
rallies. At this rally, the company
represenitatives for Homeccming
Queen will be crowned. The girl
Honors Program Gives Opportunity
To Gifted English, Biology Majors
In the past when e.xceptional
student.'-- seemed to need opportu-nities
to exploit their creative
abilities, specific instructors en-couraged
this avenue of expression
in a particular course. Ultimately
the plan has been to make such
opportunities more widely avail-able
through the introduction of
the Honors Program.
This year two departments have
established such a program, the
English Department and the Bio-logy
Department.
E n g l i s h H o n o rs
As an opportunity to develop a
comprehensive view of his whole
field of study as well as to under-take
independent work in an area
beyond regular course offerings,
the superior student is invited to
participate in the Honors Program
in English. A First Cla.ssnian ac-cepted
in this program takes in his
first term En 407- Thesis and in
his second En 434—Literary Cri-ticism.
At the end of the year he takes
a comprehensive examination
written and oral, over the whole
field of his major. There are two
members of the class of 1966 en-rolled
in the program. Lother P.
DeTeiuple is preparing a paper
"Manifestations of the Conflict
between Life and the Artist in the
Works of Poe," while David S.
Dunkle is researching the theme
(Continued on Page 5)
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