VMI Cadet. April 7, 1967

              Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, Friday, April 7, 1967 Number 23
olin Wilson To Speak
onight in Le j eune Hall
oren Eiseley At W&L
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COLIN WILSON
Mr. Colin Wilson, prominent
] English lecturer and author, will
_ I speak in Lejeune Hall ait 8:15 this
evening.
The Outsider
Mr. Wilson, writer-in-residence
at Hollins College for 1966-67, has
written twemty-three books and has
published seventeen. His firs.t book
in 1956, The Outsider, an aou-te
analysis of contemporary society,
was a best seller in Eniglamd and
America.
Born in Leicester, England in
193'1, the writer left school at 16.
His first interest was in the
sciences, but after meeting T. S.
Eliot and reading the latter's
poetry, he began writing essays,
fiction and poetry.
Wilson's work including five
novels, sociaJ critiqties and an auto-biograipihy
have been translated
into fifteen languages. He is
the suibjeot of a biography.
The WorW of Colin Wilson, by Sid
ney Campion.
Beyond The Outsider
The author's mos't recent book is
Beyond The Outsider: The Philo-sophy
of The Future, an extension
of his personal philosophy. Two of
his recent works. The Glass Cage
and Introduction to the New Ex-istentialism,
were released in the
United States in February.
Mr. Wilson is currently working
on a new novel. In the fall, he will
ibecome a visiting professor at the
University of Seattle.
Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, a profes-sor
of anthropology and the his-tory
of science at the University
of Pennsylvania Graduate School,
will speak at W&L Friday evening.
Dr. Eiseley will speak on "The
Inner Galsxy: A Prelude to Space"
at 8:15 in Lee Chapel. The lecture
is sponsored by the seminars in
literature program and the depart-ments
of English, Physics, and
Chemistry.
The lecture is open to the pub-lic.
MIKE MILEY was elected this week by his classmates as Vale-dictorian
of the Class of 1967.—photo by Pat King
ROTC Inspectors
Evaluate Corps
The Annual General Inspection |
of the Army HOTC detachment i
was made yesterday, 6 April 1967.
Making the inspection was a five-man
team consisting of four of-ficers
and one NCO. Col. Connell,
P\LS at Canisius College, Buffalo,
N. Y., was the senior officer in the
team.
Observe Several Areas
The inspection was especially
concerned with four major areas:
training, administration, logistics,
and appearance and knowledge of
Cadets. A iprograin ihad been set
up to give the team an oppoi tunity
to make observations in all four
areas.
SynipJiony To
Visit in April
"That the city of Washington
has achieved the stature as one
of our nirtion's leading centers of
cultural activity is attributable in
good measiure to Howard .Vlitehell.
Under his devoted leadersihip, the
National Symphonv has moved to
the froHit rank of American or-chestras.
His .sei'vlces to the com-munity
and to the cause of Am-erican
music have given added vi-tality
and brought wide recogni-tion
to the National Symphony."
These words of the late Presi-dent
John F. Kennedy on the oc-casion
of Howard .Mitc'heU's 15th
anniversary as conductor of the
Washington Naticmal Sj-mphony
luve been echoed by Presidents
Eisenhower and Tiuman and
Set* SYMPHONY Page 5
After breakfast in the Officers
Mess, the team was briefed by the
Professor of Military Science Col.
Leech. Following this briefing the
morning was spent observing MS
classes, barracks and post facili-ties.
.\lso during the morning, the
Board President had a short meet-ing
with Col. Leech and Col. Mor-gan.
Parade Ends Tour
Following lunch the team ob-served
a formal guard mount on
the Hill and then returned to the
MS building to complete their in-spection.
Cadets Doug Mills, Mike Bag-nulo,
and Pat Breland were inter-viewed
by Col. Conell.
The ihighlight of the tour was
the inspection and review parade
in the afternoon which formally
terminated the insipection.
The results will not be known
for several weeks; however, L. C.
Hammond, Assistant Professor of
Military Science, stated that VMI
has received very complimentary
reports in the past and expects
that we will be rated highly again
this year.
Glee Club Plans
Weekend Trip
The glee club of the Virginia
Military Institute will appear in a
pair of concerts this weekend in
Norfolk and Hampton.
Friday night the cadet glee club
will join with the chapel choir of
Hollins College in a concert at
Norfolk's Granby High School.
Each of the groups will present a
number of works ,and then they
will join for a performance of
"Magnificat," by Johann Sebastian
Bach, and "Carmina Burana," by
Carl Orff. Other pieces will be
works by Mozart, Bach and Kod-aly.
The VMI glee club will appear
alone in the concei-t Saturday night
in the Hampton High School audi-torium.
The cadets will sing a number
of pieces, ranging from Bach to
VaughanWillianis, and will in-clude
a presentation of the ori-ginal
work, "The VMI Blues." A.
G. Biester, instructor in modern
languages, is the director of the
VMI glee club.
The Norfolk and Hampton chap-ters
of the VMI Alumni .Associa-tion
are assisting in the arrange-ments
for the two concerts.
Mike Miley Elected
1967 Valedictorian
Charles E. ^liley III, a first class
biology major fron\ Berryville, Vir-ginia,
has been elected Valedictor-ian
of the 1967 gradauting class.
Mike's accomplishments at VMI are
numerous and greatly varied; he
has maintained academic stars all
four years at VMI, is the first rank-ing
biology major in his class. Edi-tor
of the VMI Cadet, a member
of the Honor Court, and is cur-rently
enrolled in the biology hon-ors
program. His popularity among
his brother rats stems from their
respeot for his personal abilities,
and his mild, amicable manner.
The University of Virginia has
ipromised liim a scholarship
next year, and Mike intends to
work in the University hospital
during the summer. Though he has
no preference in his study of Me-dicine
thus far, he has been in-vestigating
the effect of insulin
on the genetic development in
eggs in his honor's project. He
claims that no "real progress" has
been made towards the thesis ot
liis project, but that it has proved.
to be an invaluable learning pirO"
cess .
As Editor of the Cadet this year
Mike set out to impart a "profies-sional"
attitude to the paper staff
and to improve the quality of 'e-fpoi-
ting and story writing. His sue-cess
is evident in the "controver-sy"
the paper has stiiTed this
yeaa-. It has become more than just
a V;MI calendar of events, it is a
true reflection of the attitude o?
the Corps, and an effective means
of expressing constructive opio.-
I ions.
Editor -Miley's thoughts about
I the Rat System, and .Academic sit-i
uation at VMI have been well ex-i
pre.-sed in his editorials through-out
the year. He has ahva>-s ad-vanced
liberalizing tlie science cur-riculum
to give Cadets a chance
to escape the "isolated" educa-tional
atmosphere of VMI and b£>
See V.\LLEDICTORIALN Page 7
Buffet Liiiieheoii
Saturday 15 April
Le jeune Hall
(^ost:
§1.50 per Person
Marshall Library
To Receive Grunt
The Louis D. Beaumont Founda-tion
of Cleveland. Ohio, has made
a grant in the amount of $5,000 to i
the George C. Marshall Research
Foundation in Lexington, Va., Gen-|
eral of the Army Omar N. Brad-1
Icy, Marshall Foundation Presi-!
dent announced today. General
Bradley said the gift will be ap-plied
to funds received in a cuii-
See -Marsliall Librai-y Page 3 '
COl.O.XEL COXEI.I., from Canisius CoUeaie in Buffalo. N. Y. in-spectd
Re4(imeatal Adjutant Pen-> N. Kitenoiir in Thursday's aa^
uual ROTC iuspetnion.—Photo by Fat Kiu,5