VMI Cadet. May 13, 1966

              New Market Day May 15,1864 -1966
Volume LIII
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Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, May 13, 1966 Number 28
Rep. Downing Speaks
On World Sea Power
Graduate Attacks
Naval Weaknesses,
Cites Soviet Tlireat
"The Free World won't be free
unless it controls the seas." This
was one of the topics discussed last
Monday when Thomas N. Down-ing,
representative to the Congress
of the United States from the First
District of Virginia, spoke to inter-ested
cadets in JM Hall. Downing,
a' 1940 graduate from VMI, added
that the question of the "High
Seas" could be a "Sleeping Dog
Political Issue" in the 1968 Presi-dential
Eletcion. He stated that the
war of the future wouW probably
be the limited nuclear war in
which the United States is now in-volved.
One of the foremost wea-pons
to combat this means of war
is sea power. The nation's defenses
he noted, would deteriorate with-out
the aid of seapower.
Merchant Marine Weakness
The Merchant Marine, called by
Downing the "Soft Underbelly" of
the United States' defensive
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Monday ^s Parade Honors
VMI New Market Cadets
Cadets See VAS
I
Elect Carpenter
New Secretary
,The Virginia Academy of
Science held its forty-fourth an-nual
meeting from May 4-7 at
Madison College and elected Col.
D. Rae Carpepter, Professor of
Physics at VMI, as its secretary for
the coming year. The meeting, at-itepded
by a delegation from the
VMI Virginia Junior Academy of
Science, heard the presentation of
a paper by Col. William Sauder,
also of the physics department at
VMI, on a "Classical Calculation
for Thermalizations of Low Ener-gy
Positronium Atoms."
Those attending from VMI's
Virginia Junior Academy of
Science were: Jim Fromm, Tom
iHaneock, Steve McElroy, Bill Mc-
Hargue, George Sanborn, and Mel
Wright. The group was accom-panied
by the chapter's adviser,
iDr. Dean Foster, who was chair-man
of the section of psychology
for the meeting.
Col. Carpenter was chairman
for one section of astronomy, ma-thematics,
and physics. This sec-tion
of the meeting was attend-ed
by a group of the First and
Second Class physics majors.
At the Virginia Academy of
Science Assembly, on Friday
night, the cadets heard a lecture
'by Alfred S. Homer, Professor of
Comparative Zoology at Harvard
UoiversLty and President of the
American Association for the Ad-vancement
of Science.
A TRADITIONAL CEREMONY will highlight
the observance of the lO^ud anniversary of the
battle of New Market Monday. The Corps will
parade and then pass ih review before the
statue of Virginia Mourning Her Dead, around
which are buried six of those who fell at New
Market.
Sportsman's Day:
Football Climaxes Sportsmen's Day
New Coach Promises Better Year
iLast Saturday, May Gth, the
18th annual Sportsmen's Day was
held at VMI. Ceremonies began
at 10:30 a.m. with a meeting of
the Board of Governors of the
Sportsman's Club in Smith Hall,
at which the financial status of
the club was discussed. Following
this, a general meeting was held
in Jackson Memorial Hall, at-tended
by all members of the club
able to return to VMI for the oc-casion.
Officers Elected
Primarily, the meeting was held
for the election of officers for
the coming year. Members of the
club, appreciative of the work
done by this year's officers, un-animously
re-elected them for the
1966-67 term. These officers, all
graduates of the Institute, are:
President, H. Paul Farley, Laurel,
Va., Class of '31; Vice Presidents,
E. W. Williams, Richmond, Va.,
Class of '35; M. G. Ramey, Rich-mond,
Va., Class of '22 and Charles
C. Parkins, Norfolk, Va., Class of
'43. After a short acceptance
speech on behalf of the officers,
Mr. Farley then introduced the
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CE's Capture
Major Awards;
Inspect Plants
The VMI Chapter of the Ameri-can
Society of Civil Engineers won
all the major awai'ds this past
week of the annual Virginia ASCE
Student Conference held at Nor-folk,
Virginia. It was also attended
by Old Dominion, West Virginia,
University of Virginia and VPI.
Preiident Ed Romm accepted the
first annual Robert Ridgeway
Award given to the single most
Outstanding Chapter of the ASCE.
VMI was also awarded its 36th Cer-tificate
of Commendation given to
the outstanding chapters in the
nation. CE Buddy Green won the
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Tmditional Review
Highlights Annual
New Market Day
The Annual VMI New Market
Day Parade and Ceremony will be
held Monday during Military
iDuty. It honors the participation
of 241 cadets in the Battle of New
Market on M^y 15, 1864.
The cadets, under the command
of Confederate General Breckin-ridge,
aided in the defeat of Union
forces under General Siegel. They
suffered ten killed and forty-seven
wounded.
New Market Medal
This year's oibseivance marks a
return to the traditional cere-mony.
Last year Senator Harry
Byrd of Virginia received the VTMI
New Market Medal and delivered
a speech to the Corps.
After the Corps forms on the
parade ground, a roll call will be
'held for the ten cadets who were
killed or died as a result of in-juries
sustained in the battle. A
prayer by Chaplain Wilson will
follow.
Virginia Mourning Her Dead
Floral wreaths will be placed
on the six graves located behind
'the statue of "Virginia Mourning
'Her Dead." Cadet First Captain
William Talman will place a
wreath at the base of the statue.
The statue is the work of Sir
Moses Ezekiel, a participant ia
•the battle.
Following a salute by a cadet
firing squad, the Corps will pass
in review down Letcher Avenue
^before the statue. In case of in-clement
weather, the ceremony
will be conducted in JM Hall.
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1967 Class Treasury:
Ring Figure Magazine
Presents $1,000 Gift
The Class of 1967 received a gift
of $1,000 from the staff of the
class's Ring Figure Magazine this
week. Jack Cowart and Andy An-derson,
the magazine's editor and
business manager, respectively, pre-sented
the money to Bob Randolph,
class president, on Wednesday.
The magazine staff' donates the
money to the class treasury with
no restriction, and disposition of
the money is up to the class.
It will be used as a partial re-fund
to those members of the class
who went though Ring Figure,
Randolph said.
It is customary for the magazine
to donate money to the class, but
this year's sum was greater than
in recent years. Anderson attribut-ed
the success of the magazine to a
new style of content and layout,
and said much of the credit should
go to his editor, Cowart.
The Ring Figure Magazine has a
dual purpose. It serves as a pro-gram
and a remembrance, for the
weekend, and also as a means of
making money for the class.
Cowart said that by printing
more pages of ads and by printing
a boosters' page the magazine was
able to bring a much better re-turn
this year. Also change in
printing methods, from letterpress
to offset, resulted in a lower bill
from the printer.
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ROBERT RANDOLPH (left), President of the Class of 1967, ac-cepts
a $1000 check from the 1967 Ring Figure Magazine's Editor
Jack Cowart (center) and Andy Anderson, Business Manager. Part
of the gift will be used to defray expenses incurred by those parti-cipating
in the 1967 Ring Figure.